{"id":582965,"date":"2026-05-14T04:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582965\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:48:11","slug":"analogue-3ds-latest-update-makes-your-carts-look-colourful-in-more-ways-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582965\/","title":{"rendered":"Analogue 3D’s Latest Update Makes Your Carts Look Colourful In More Ways Than One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analogue<\/a> Image: Nintendo<\/p>\n

If you consider yourself to be a seasoned collector of N64<\/a> games, then you’ll be aware that not all of them came on the same grey plastic cartridges.<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong 64<\/a>, for example, came on a yellow cartridge in the West, while Zelda: Majora’s Mask<\/a> came on a gold one.<\/p>\n

The latest update for the Analogue 3D<\/a> embraces this quirk by allowing you to change the colour of the cartridges as they’re displayed in the console’s menu.<\/p>\n

As highlighted by Games Radar<\/a>, the new 1.2.6 update<\/a> gives the option for carts to be “Grey \/ Red \/ Green \/ Blue \/ Yellow \/ Gold \/ Black \/ Purple \/ Pink”, with colours “set by default based on their release”, which can vary from region to region (the aforementioned Donkey Kong 64 comes on a grey cart in Japan, for example, as does Majora’s Mask).<\/p>\n

Another update actually relates to the Advanced HDR<\/a> feature, which was enabled in last month’s 1.2.5 update.<\/p>\n

Analogue has now clarified in more detail what this feature does. “HDR (High Dynamic Range) enhances image quality and Original Display Modes by providing a wider range of colours, brighter details, and deeper blacks,” it says. “HDR is automatically enabled for compatible displays. Analogue Original Display Modes take full advantage of HDR10.”<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, SD card stability has been improved, as has Progressive Output to fix blinking or flickering screens in certain games, such as Resident Evil 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The full patch notes, taken from Analogue’s site, are reproduced below.<\/p>\n

General<\/p>\n

Clarification on Advanced HDR<\/a>. See the updated User Guide.
\nImproved: SD card stability<\/p>\n

Core<\/p>\n

Improved: Progressive Output (beta)<\/p>\n

Blinking or flickering screens have been fixed for certain games such as Resident Evil 2 when using Progressive Output<\/p>\n

OS<\/p>\n

New: Library Cartridge Colors<\/p>\n

Change the color of Library cartridges to your liking
\nIn Library navigate to \u2018Configure > Customization\u2019
\nGray \/ Red \/ Green \/ Blue \/ Yellow \/ Gold \/ Black \/ Purple \/ Pink
\nColors for original cartridges are set by default based on their release<\/p>\n

New: Long game titles now scroll in Library
\nImproved: \u2018Progressive Output\u2019 can now be toggled from the In-Game Menu during gameplay
\nImproved: OS visual polish
\nUpdated: Auto Overclock behavior
\nUpdated: 3DOS Hotkeys list
\nUpdated: Avg\/Max Luminance settings<\/a><\/p>\n

You can grab the update here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[source analogue.co<\/a>, via gamesradar.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n

\tSee Also<\/p>\n

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\"Damien<\/p>\n

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension<\/a>, the network’s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming’s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo If you consider yourself to be a seasoned collector of N64 games, then you’ll be aware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[199235,2509,59,2510,136,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-analogue-3d","tag-fpga","tag-gb","tag-n64","tag-nintendo","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}