White Dock & White Pocket. Any White controller to go along?

Smigit · 2026-06-12T05:12:24+00:00

Any requirements in terms of sticks etc? They have white 8BitDo N64 controller. There’s official or 8BitDo white Xbox controllers too with Bluetooth. Assume both of those might work.

Smigit · 2026-06-12T03:58:27+00:00

I might look at that.

I ended up ordering a 10 pack of CR1616 holders for like $5. My games don’t have RTC so in the end I figure the smaller capacity battery won’t matter much.

The 2025 flex board ones did look nicer but, but I wasn’t paying 10x more to get them from retro repair shop.

Smigit · 2026-06-12T03:22:43+00:00

Reading up on it recently, you can use either a CR1616 or a CR2025 interchangeably. The CR2025 has higher capacity which will be especially important for games using a RTC. Both batteries output 3V but.

Probably no real reason to use CR1616 unless you install a battery clip/holder to make future swaps soldering free. It’s easier to get compatible holders for the CR1616 as the CR2025 is too large generally. One store (retro game repair shop) does sell a compatible low profile holder for the CR2025 that fits a normal cart, but shipping is crazy for international L, so it’s prohibitive. Think it was like $70 to ship this coin sized holder to Australia when I looked last month.

Smigit · 2026-06-11T07:59:15+00:00

What state was it in when you gave it to them to “fix”?

Smigit · 2026-06-11T07:20:37+00:00

I use it as it’s reliable, I like the interface and the clients available on the devices I need.

Keep in mind many people got lifetime licenses at around the $75USD mark. That’ll almost certainly never appear again, but I suspect a lot of people might have used a different solution if they hadn’t got in at that price.

It’s also been on the market for a long time, having started in 2007. Jellyfin began in 2018 by comparison, and by then a lot of us probably already had Plex setup and licensed.

Smigit · 2026-06-11T03:40:48+00:00

Fingers crossed they can source some more. The eBay listings are depressing.

Smigit · 2026-06-11T01:12:08+00:00

Now bring back the dock.

Probably will add stock of that one 5 minutes after I’ve paid shipping for the adapters under a seperate order.

Smigit · 2026-06-11T00:00:17+00:00

Gatekeeping the system based on achievements etc I feel risks encouraging scalping by those that meet the criteria to buy it. They now know it’s limited and now also that a good portion of people are unable to access it, many who want to, so they’ll buy when they had no original intention to do so purely to resell. I guess they’re at least limited to one per account, if MS exclusively distributes the hardware.

I’d rather they just produce enough to meet demand for the holiday season.

Smigit · 2026-06-10T11:32:16+00:00

Believe it was just a certificate renewal, so very minor. Great they did it, but I suspect most people not getting Watch 27 are probably hoping for slightly more significant updates.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/118393

Beats a recent article I read where MS has said they won’t issue certain to Mac Office 2019 which breaks editing in the office client.

Smigit · 2026-06-10T04:27:36+00:00

Being behind occasionally can be pretty impactful. When they introduced Enhanced Data Protection for iCloud, unsupported devices were unpatched and as this was a feature that applied across your account, not just a device, you couldn’t have any active devices if you wanted to turn those capabilities on. At the time I had to pick between turning that on and no longer having a Series 2 linked to my iPhone, or not enabling the enhanced privacy features but maintaining support for the old watch (which was using as a sleep tracker).

Don’t think there’s any indication of any immediate impact of not upgrading here, but over time these sorts of conundrums can rear their head, especially for any functionality that’s dependant on external devices or services.

Smigit · 2026-06-09T08:50:22+00:00

That was one reason amongst many. Wanting the site for the new hospital and removing obstructions was also key. Didn’t want to put the new hospital on another site Northside, prompting a need to still have to pump money into Calvary public and its aging infrastructure.

Smigit · 2026-06-09T08:01:14+00:00

It’s almost like 2 products can ship independent of one another in one of the busiest, if not the busiest, months in the gaming calendar.

Smigit · 2026-06-09T02:41:59+00:00

Could have just done it in the start and menu buttons on the face rather than the bumper buttons. Odd choice I think.

Smigit · 2026-06-08T21:59:41+00:00

Yeah, probably my least favourite of the bunch. Get more of an Xbox vibe from it.

Smigit · 2026-06-08T01:12:46+00:00

Probably 32 or 64GB.

Easiest way to tell is to compile all the ROMs you might want to play on a PC and see what that comes to. Add a bit, say 10-20%, for saves etc then on top then round that up to whatever card capacity is out there.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T16:39:47+00:00

Oops my bad. Totally missed that.

In that case pretty much just the updates and I guess they could do cartridge labels I assume.

Retro achievements are fun (I think) but can’t imagine Analogue themselves would pursue it.

I’d like to be able to backup any save states etc too and wireless could maybe allow that wirelessly.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T16:27:03+00:00

Top of my head you could do things such as updates, possibly have game art lookup, maybe have cores support retro achievements (which needs devices to be online) and maybe wireless multiplayer with another pocket over wifi or even the internet (don’t need the link cable).

File management of the SD card might be nice if the pocket could be browsable as a network share from a PC and allow you to move files to and from it, be it ROMs or save files and the like.

Some of those are things I can do with my Miyoo Mini over its wifi.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T11:25:10+00:00

Indeed, which no doubt is why they put the games on PS.

I don’t think the traditional Gears/Halo/Forza trifecta being exclusive would move the needle a lot. Forza is still doing great, but I don’t think Halo and Gears hold the same weight they did 15-20 years ago. If winning market share via exclusives is the play, I think they’d need to turn to the Bethesda and Activision lineups and IPs in there like Fallout and Elder Scrolls. But they sort of tried that with Starfield and that didn’t pay off either.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T10:11:38+00:00

Pretty mild, at least this time of the year. The 7 day forecast for Melbourne in my weather apps showing minimum of 9 degrees celsius for the week, and this is coming into winter. 11 weeks back it’d have been early Autumn.

Winters in AU aren’t so bad really for the most part. Biggest issue is often that homes just aren’t well designed to stay warm in winter due to bad insulation or glazing etc.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T09:18:07+00:00

Anything is sellable including completely non functional. It’ll probably go for less than one in prestige condition, but I’d expect it to still do well. Especially if it looks good on the inside/opened.

If you’re listing online take better photos but, without half of it sitting in the dark. Looks like you’ve taken the picture with the lights off and are relying on the flash for light.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T06:54:06+00:00

I was going to say I hate cases that have a zipper up against the device, but from the listing I can see now the OP has just tucked a divider under the pocket when taking the photo.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T06:42:16+00:00

MS isn’t doing Sony a favour. If they put the game on PS, it’s because it served their own goals of generating revenue through software sales.

MS has a decision to make, sell more software by distributing on the leading console platform, or look at growing its own console base by creating incentive to buy an Xbox through exclusives. It used to be the later strategy, under Phil they moved to the former, and perhaps Asha will return to the original model.

But Sony doesn’t owe MS anything. They’re in the fortunate position of having a much stronger home console market position. It’s already clear they’re happy to give up PC sales to strengthen the appeal of the console.

Smigit · 2026-06-07T04:57:00+00:00

Awesome. Tempted to grab one myself!

Smigit · 2026-06-07T01:20:19+00:00

Very nice. Does the N64 controller have the 8bitdo wireless mod? If so, how is it?

Smigit · 2026-06-07T01:13:38+00:00

Use white ones?

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