OVERAYASpace 2 turns AYANEO's Android handhelds into a "Pocket Museum" with 3D carts, built-in emulation and save sync
AYANEO used a livestreamed "Sharing Session" on the morning of October 30 to show off AYASpace 2, a complete rebuild of the launcher that ships on its Android handhelds. AYANEO calls it a "Pocket Museum": your library sits on shelves as 3D boxes and cartridges, with display stands, gold plaques and spotlight lighting. It's available to download now, but only for three devices so far: the KONKR Pocket Advance, the KONKR Pocket Block and the Pocket MICRO 2.
What it does
- Automatic recognition. Games are identified from the file contents rather than the file name, so there's no scraping step and renamed files still match.
- Built-in game data: names, release years, genres and publishers.
- 3D boxes and carts. Import a media pack and each game wears its original cover and label in 3D.
- Emulation built in. No separate emulator to install or configure; save, load, fast-forward and rewind all happen inside the launcher.
- Rewind that you scrub like a video timeline.
- Sync between handhelds. Two AYANEO devices on the same network can pair with a code and share saves and records.
- Cheats, screen effects, key mapping with turbo, per-game settings, resume, save backups, archive support, and English and Chinese menus.
The catch
For now it's focused on Game Boy Advance, the only system AYANEO showed on stream, which fits the GBA-style Pocket Advance and Pocket Block. AYANEO hasn't said when other consoles or older devices will be added. It also lands in a crowded field: independent Android frontends have been pushing the same box-art-and-shelf look all year, so AYASpace 2's selling point is that it comes from the device maker, with the emulator and sync built in. As with any launcher, bring your own legally dumped games; we don't link to ROMs or BIOS files.