Analogue Pocket gets a long-awaited update — here’s what is and isn’t included

polygon.com:

A full half year after its intended January release date, a beta for the highly anticipated 1.1 release of the operating system that powers the Analogue Pocket is finally out. While it comes with support for additional controllers while docked, the Memories feature which stores savestates, and the openFPGA feature (which promises support for new consoles via third-party core development), the beta doesn’t include all of the expected features.

Notably absent is the full Library feature which populates game data when you insert a cartridge, and the screenshot feature which will also populate your save files under Memories. Less officially, but perhaps of most interest to Pocket owners, it’s unclear if this AnalogueOS 1.1 milestone has been what’s holding up the long-awaited jailbreak which, following all previous Analogue products, promises to replicate the built-in functionality while adding support for sideloading ROM files.

Upon release, the Pocket supported just a handful of 8BitDo controllers, along with the Switch Pro and PlayStation 4 DualShock 4 controller. The new 1.1 beta brings with it support for a host of new 8BitDo controllers, along with support for the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller. Notably absent is support for any Xbox controller. We’ve asked Analogue whether support for Xbox controllers is still planned.

The Memories feature works as promised. While the original Pocket release had support for savestates — D-pad up or down plus the Analogue button would save or restore a state while in game — it wasn’t possible to save those and move between games. Now, the Memories features, accessible from the home screen, can store up to 128 savestates for Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Game