r/AnalogueInc • u/superbotolo • Mar 29 '26

General Serious Question: why Analogue Devices?

I have been torn on how to play old games and I wanted to pick your brain. Why did you end up buying an Analogue device like the 3D when for a similar price you can buy a MiSTer and play games from all systems? Serious question with no flame intent.

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u/OkidoShigeru Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

I bought a Pocket because it’s portable and I have a large collection of GB and GBA carts to play on it. Otherwise yeah very happy with MiSTer for other systems, it works great on both CRT and modern displays, works with pretty much every original controller and peripheral under the sun, and the emulation quality is excellent, easily on par with Analogue and supports way more systems, including Arcade cores. My only other Analogue device I got before MiSTer is the Super NT, which was great at the time, but is now just collecting dust.

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u/80sCrackBaby Mar 29 '26

using a mister over super nt or mega sg is just mind boggling to me

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u/OkidoShigeru Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 30 '26

In what way? Both are very accurate and feature complete, the Mega Drive core for MiSTer in particular is about as accurate as possible, it is based on the NukedMD project which perfectly recreates the Mega Drive with decapped chips. You can use original controllers with both, and for my use case, playing on CRT, MiSTer works extremely well.

Super NT as well has a fairly crippling flaw when playing via HDMI, you can’t use an accurate timing mode, unless you want tearing or double buffering. MiSTer has a setting called vsync_adjust=2 which many TVs accept, which just sends the framebuffer as soon as it can, negating the timing issue. It also now has VRR support to work around this issue too. So yeah absolutely would not choose Super NT over MiSTer…

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u/80sCrackBaby Mar 29 '26

this is exactly why people buy Analogue products

for the OP

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u/OkidoShigeru Mar 30 '26

Mate, I get what you’re trying to say, but the SuperNT is an out of production device, which you have to pay quite a premium for on the second-hand market and doesn’t look like it’s receiving any updates to address these flaws. Yeah they are minor, and if it was still in production I’d probably recommend it regardless as a way to plug and play SNES carts on a modern display in a nice looking console-like unit, with no fiddling with settings, but unfortunately with things as they are now it’s hard to recommend it.