The Simpsons via Analogue Pocket
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
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How have you been liking the dock so far? I've been pretty hesitant to pull the trigger on it given its price (or rather given shipping and duties/taxes to add on top, hu).
(Also, interesting way to stand up the - I'm guessing modded? - OG Xbox vertically, haha)
The dock is ok, just wish it had more scaling and resolution options (I wanted to use it with the smaller display but that resolution is not 1080, so it looks too squished). It also lacks a lot in controller support. Otherwise it works well and does the job.
Yep it's the vertical stand from RetroFrog (model is on printables). And yes modded 1.1 og Xbox with 128mb ram, XboxHd+, and Stellar mod chip.
Yeah, it's pretty clear the Dock is only made for 16:9 displays, unfortunately :/
I'm not extremely hopeful Analogue will patch in enough features/fixes to make it absolutely worth it, as they don't have a great track record with their "accessories" (the under-saturation of the DAC's Composite/S-Video output not being directly fixed after so many years does not make me hopeful tbh).
Really nice setup :) I've been looking at the OG Xbox from afar, as the Series X is my first Xbox, so I have much to catch up on, but I'm really happy with the - admittedly very incomplete - backwards compatibility so far.
Yeah with Analogue you definitely need to go into their products expecting it will never be updated, and be pleasantly surprised if it does. I originally bought it just to play GB and GBA games via carts and everdrives, so OpenFPGA was a huge surprise when it was released (although my x7 didn't work until I replaced the filters, thanks Analogue for that incompatibility).
If you ever do decide you want a og Xbox (which honestly with the state of emulation, you probably don't need to), make sure it's working unless you want a potentially challenging repair. They are very susceptible to leaky caps and trace rot.
Yeah, I've learnt my lesson, haha, although I picked up a Pocket much for the same reason as you did (and OpenFPGA cores were barely getting talked about then, so I didn't have that many expectations in that regard) and my Super Nt has honestly been perfectly fine.
Cheers for the heads-up, I've been watching quite a few restoration videos on OG Xboxes and I've seen what those damned clock capacitors can do...
I'm actually leaning towards getting a 360, since it seems to have pretty good backwards compatibility, but most importantly (to me) the shmup catalogue is incredible on there.
Emulation is good enough, but my only PC is a Steam Deck, so that doesn't really cut it for Xbox and 360 atm.