On their Retro Game Corps YouTube channel, Russ Crandall recently demonstrated the Analogue Pocket playing Genesis games including Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Mutant League Football, and just like with the SNES, they’ve provided links and easy to follow instructions on the Retro Game Corps website on how to add the unofficial Sega Genesis/Mega Drive MiSTer core (the open source project that uses FPGAs to accurately replicate retro console gameplay), developed by Eric Lewis, to the Pocket. If you can unzip files and copy them to a microSD card, you have all the technical skills required to pull this off.
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Unlike the Pocket’s SNES MiSTer core, the Genesis core is still in an early Alpha stage at this point, which means that in addition to random bugs, there are lots of games that simply won’t play on the Analogue Pocket yet, and save states don’t work. You’ll want to occasionally check back on Lewis’ GitHub page for updates on the Genesis core, which will slowly but surely improve support for the Pocket.