Super Pocket Capcom Edition

For $60, you can do a lot worse gaming-wise than picking up the Capcom edition Super Pocket. It’s got a 4 hour battery life - and comes with a USB charging cable, but not with an actual charging brick or equivalent, so make sure you’re ready with one of those. To rate the quality of the actual console - it’s mostly good, albeit with a few quirks. Screen size is small - which is to be expected for a console so small to begin with, but there’s three screen formatting options, and unless you have eye problems, the screen should be sufficient for what it does. My biggest issue is with the controls - the front of the device has four buttons set in a PlayStation-styled cross pattern. These work perfectly fine. The D-Pad works well enough for fighting games - I tested Street Fighter II Hyper Fighting, and my Ryu could do fireballs, whirlwind kicks and dragon punches well enough. My issue lies with the back buttons. There’s four of them lined up in a straight line, as can be seen in other people’s footage of the device. There’s two bigger ones, and two smaller ones - tiny buttons hanging out on the edge of the console. For Street Fighter II, heavy punch and heavy kick are mapped to the L2 and R2 buttons - the tiny ones, which can be hard to use in the middle of a fight, the heavy punch especially, as you have to juggle using that with D-Pad movement on the same hand. Mapping these to L1 and R1 would have felt more natural. Sadly, there’s no way to remap the buttons, that I know of. The silver lining in this is that a majority of the games you play on the Super Pocket might not use more than 2 - 4 buttons, meaning this might be a rare problem to come across. Overall - it’s a tiny console, clearly meant to mimic the Game Boy in size and use, and it’s an Evercade console, meaning it’s compatible with the 70+ and growing cartridges that allow you to change what games you play. I got the Rare Collection 1, and have been able to have a blast clearing the turbo tunnel in BattleToads. I have the Legacy of Kain and Duke Nukem collections coming. If you want something more than a one-off device that gives you a dozen licensed games and calls it a day, and you miss the act of buying physical cartridges that work out of the box - Evercade seems to provide. If you just want a one-off because you love Capcom that much, this still might be for you! Overall - it’s a console that offers reasonable quality for a cheap price. I wish the button layout was a little different in the back, and it’s a tiny console. There are better handheld choices if you’re interested in the Evercade’s ecosystem. It’s still very playable though, and for the price of a modern game, I don’t think you’ll get much better quality than what’s on offer. This can work well as a budget buy, or as a way to have an easy to carry portable gaming choice to complement an Evercade home console, which I have ordered and coming soon. Evercade doesn’t offer the bells and whistles some companies, Analogue for example, offer, but they offer quality emulation for a reasonable price. As for the games packed with the device - I love Capcom, which drew me to this. Capcom’s repackaged these games a lot of times though, so it’s hard to be too excited about them. We don’t need five versions of Street Fighter II, but choosing Hyper Fighting and ignoring the Super games is a disappointing choice. Mega Man’s always a solid choice, but the Evercade EXP, a superior console to this one, albeit a more expensive and discontinued one, also included Mega Man 2 and X. The choice to include Bionic Commando Arcade and ignore the far superior NES game is dismaying. But it does have Captain Commando, Forgotten Worlds and a personal favorite, MERCs. Your mileage will vary here, but overall I’d say the game choices are decent, albeit not overwhelming.

what a great nostalgic, portable and fun system to own! the capcom games that came preloaded on the handheld system are awesome and most are classics. secondly, the price the system is attainable at makes it a no brainer to buy. the games are loaded into the hand held unit and comes with a yellow dummy cart to keep dust out of the unit. if looking to add to your library, be sure to get the data east cart, lots of great games at an affordable price. im impressed by the quality of the play on the screen, the navigation thru menus and the overall build of the unit. my only negatives on it would be when using other carts that you purchase separately, theyre white which doesnt match the handheld. additionally, i found its size to not be the most comfortable-i have large hands and find it difficult to use the back shoulder buttons effectively while using the buttons on the front simultaneously due to their placement in the lower half of the back vs having them up higher.

I got this super pocket because I was drawn to playing 1943, a favorite when I was a kid. The fact that it can take Evercade cartridges is really special too. (I’m waiting to getBitmap Brothers 2, which will be my first one.) I love not having to depend on WiFi or needing the internet or having to mess with AA or AAA batteries because this has a charging cable for the internal battery. (It can go for several hours without needing a recharge). Playing it is easy. You literally just turn it and it is ready. Nice bright screen and the speakers work well. The level of difficulty can be adjusted (easy and normal). You can use headphones with a standard headphone jack. A very cool selling point is the save states. You can literallly save the game at any specific moment you choose and go back to that exact spot at any time you wish. Very cool!!

The Super Pocket devices are great, little handhelds with overall great build quality. You'll find the occasional display overlay that peels off in a corner, sure; but that's very rare. As for the games, they're wonderful. You know 'em, you love 'em.

Pros: Size: It fits in your pocket! Screen clarity: Awesome quality. Evercade cartridge compatibility: I can play a lot of retro games (especially Intellivison) to my hearts content. Battery: I've done a couple of days of casual playing, and I'm only down one of four bars of my battery from a full charge. Cons: Bumper button design. You can't really press them without pressure on the front of the chassis, so you can wind up accidentally pressing the D-Pad or action buttons a lot. It also seemed like the first choice was L2/R2 when implementing them in games, even though L1/R1 are far easier to press. Inability to remap controls: A lot of the games appear to be ports directly from the arcade ROMs, so they lack the ability to remap controls like home console versions did. A glaring example is SF2 Hyper. The heavy punches and kicks are hard-locked to L2 and R2 respectively, which are the two hardest buttons to hit without accidentally pressing something else. I'd remap them to Y and B in a heartbeat, expect I don't have the ability to do that since every control is hard-locked to whatever the developers decided. Audio: The front-facing speaker is 3.6 Roentgen. Not great, not terrible I mean, it's still 60 bucks for the base system, which is awesome. If at all possible to have a firmware update that allowed for button mapping (for at the very least, the onboard Capcom games so I could realistically have a shot in SF2 Hyper), it'd be a home run.

Fun for on the go gaming. Came with pre-installed games. Also plays a library of evercade cartridges

My son had a choice of another gameboy or this. He chose the Super Pocket! He loves it. No need to buy AA batteries It is rechargeable with usb c and the Battery lasts him all day. It has a nice bright screen and audio is fine. I do recommend getting a case to put it in to help protect it. You can by Evercade carts with multiple games on the cartridge to use with it to expand the game library. It's a win win.

Awesome games and it looks great and plays great too.

Buena consola: sencilla, pero con buenos acabados. Como fan de Capcom, poder comprar algo licenciado y oficial siempre aporta un plus. La selección de juegos que incluye está bien. Siempre podría ser mejor —cada uno tiene sus favoritos—, pero los que trae cumplen y son disfrutables. Lo mejor es que, al ser de Evercade, puedes usar otros cartuchos y jugar a muchos más títulos. La cruceta y los botones responden bien. El menú y las opciones son muy sencillos y básicos, pero cumplen su función: encender y jugar rápidamente, sin perderte en mil menús ni configuraciones rebuscadas. Como punto negativo, quizá los juegos que requieren pantalla vertical, como 1942, se ven algo pequeños.

Znakomita rozrywka retro. Bardzo dobra jakość.

I would love to give this a higher rating as I like the concept. Big minuses for me is that you can’t change the controls. You can only view their setup, and that’s it. Also, the unit is too small for an adult set of hands. Weird choice since the target audience probably is 40+ males who grew up with these games.

Excelentes juegos aún cuando el mando es complicado y los botones de atrás están muy juntos

This is the second device I’ve bought from Hyper Mega Tech/Evercade, the first being the Taito Super Pocket, and I am extremely happy with it. The device has great build, good design and a nice selection of capcom games for an amazing price. The build quality of the handheld is great. It feels solid in the hand, has a nice weight and it’s the perfect size for on the go gaming. It’s comfortable to hold during games and the buttons are nice and responsive, the D pad is very responsive and has a good feel. The only drawback I’d say is the buttons on the reverse of the device. They are not the easiest to use, but it’s fortunate that only a couple of games, as far as I can tell make use of these. The display is nice and bright, with good bowing angles and colors. Its small size has not bothered me at all considering how close you hold the device anyhow. It would be nice to have the option to change the brightness levels. Sound is pretty decent for a mono speaker and is nice and loud; I’d actually say I’d like it if the volume could go a little lower for night time gaming etc. at least there is a headphone jack. The battery life so far has been superb and as per the 4 plus hours claim. Your mileage may vary depending on the games played etc The game selection is superb considering the price point of the device and that all of them except mega man are arcade originals. Standouts for me include street fighter, final fight, strider, captain commando, ghouls and ghosts, and 1943. The only criticism is maybe some of the shoot ‘em up games are more suited to a taller screen… but there’s only a few of them and i really didn’t mind using the display options to stretch to full screen for these. It doesn’t look that bad and I think it makes them much more playable on this size of screen. The best thing regarding the games is that these are all fully licensed games… no downloading ROMs from dodgy websites and the developers get paid the money they deserve. It’s a win win. All in all it’s an awesome device for the price and I look forward to future releases of such devices from this company.