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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.

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v1605@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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.

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- any1th3r3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  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.
  
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