WonderSwan The WonderSwan was robbed

[thanonyx thanonyx]

Does the WonderSwan have a flashcart that saves games?

That's a good question, I'm not sure.

 

[Toppis]

Because I am going to buy a Wonderswan someday

 

[PhrawzT]

based on what i know and heard about konami, they just don't care. they tried to replace silent hill with the movie tie-in saw games; and when that failed, they decided that anyone can just write a horror story, so that why the next 4 silent hill games after silent hill 4 are a mixed bag.

I have heard that as well. That's why we never got an updated version of Symphony of the Night or the Silent Hill games. Someone lost the hard drives with the source code long ago.

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That's a good question, I'm not sure.

It does. The Flash Masta, but it can only hold 10 games.

WS Flash Masta USB (Cartridge for WonderSwan) – Flash Masta Developments

www.flashmasta.com

It is a bit cumbersome to use compared to other flash cards. You have to connect it to your computer with a USB cable and use a special program to move files on and off. You can only have one save game at a time, but you can back it up saves and move them in and out of the flash memory. Despite all the issues, I have used it a lot and beat Final Fantasy using it. It's the only option that I know of but it works.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

It does. The Flash Masta, but it can only hold 10 games.

WS Flash Masta USB (Cartridge for WonderSwan) – Flash Masta Developments

www.flashmasta.com

It is a bit cumbersome to use compared to other flash cards. You have to connect it to your computer with a USB cable and use a special program to move files on and off. You can only have one save game at a time, but you can back it up saves and move them in and out of the flash memory. Despite all the issues, I have used it a lot and beat Final Fantasy using it. It's the only option that I know of but it works.

OMG, the WonderSwan even got robbed when it comes to flash carts,

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Twice!?

Twice

When a western company had to make the firsr pc port they didnt bother keeping the source code and only had a beta

Then Square e wanted to make a new port for the ps4 and steam and asked for the code to the pc port, they didnt have it

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based on what i know and heard about konami, they just don't care. they tried to replace silent hill with the movie tie-in saw games; and when that failed, they decided that anyone can just write a horror story, so that why the next 4 silent hill games after silent hill 4 are a mixed bag.

Its not just konami, most companies dont care, once a game has finished its initial commercial run its discarted

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

When a western company had to make the firsr pc port they didnt bother keeping the source code and only had a beta Then Square wanted to make a new port for the ps4 and steam and asked for the code to the pc port, they didn't have it.

Lmao!

That's some golden-grade level of fail.

 

[Lee__Kanker]

Lmao!

That's some golden-grade level of fail.

So the steam and ps4 version is a reverse engineered port of the beta, this is why the backrounds are compressed
On the other hand capcom kept the source code for Biohazard 0 so all the backrounds are pristine

 

[Bomberman]

Digimon Battle Spirit 1,1.5,and 2 are amazing.

I hear really good things about the One Piece game too (I have it but never played it).

 

[SpikeSlania]

This little handheld had some great games and there were even special edition ones made. If this came out internationally wouldn't you have gotten one?

Since I did end up getting a Neo Geo Pocket Color when I was in High School and was craving any JRPG content I could reasonable get my hands on back then, yeah, I probably would have picked up a WonderSwan with all that Digimon and Gundam on it. A Gundam youtuber I watched even reviewed one of the Gundam games on it recently and I would love to be able to play it, but I can't read moon language and it's a very niche game that probably won't attract any translators.

 

[Deleted member 13897]

Since I did end up getting a Neo Geo Pocket Color when I was in High School and was craving any JRPG content I could reasonable get my hands on back then, yeah, I probably would have picked up a WonderSwan with all that Digimon and Gundam on it. A Gundam youtuber I watched even reviewed one of the Gundam games on it recently and I would love to be able to play it, but I can't read moon language and it's a very niche game that probably won't attract any translators.

Moon language?

 

[MasterEn]

Moon language?

i think it's a reference to sailor moon. i'm not sure, but that's my best guess.

 

[hazys]

Calling Japanese "moon" or "moon runes" is an LOTR reference that originated ages ago on 4chan I think, lol

 

[Deleted member 13897]

Sounds unfunny and kind of racist.

 

[SpikeSlania]

Calling Japanese "moon" or "moon runes" is an LOTR reference that originated ages ago on 4chan I think, lol

I picked it up off of episodes of Gamesack

 

[RedCometHarry]

Calling Japanese "moon" or "moon runes" is an LOTR reference that originated ages ago on 4chan I think, lol

Huh, I was thinking it was a Turn A Gundam reference

 

[Deleted member 13897]

Huh, I was thinking it was a Turn A Gundam reference

That lines up more with that I read. I don’t think it has anything to do with LOTR.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Japanese letters is the reason why translating older games was harder.

The Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are made so we need more characters per words whereas Japanese can have a consonant + vowel into one.

 

[Deleted member 13897]

Damn OP had some gorgeous swans—I wanted to come back to this thread and drop my swan wishlist. Word’s been getting around (irl lol) that I’m on the hunt for a crystal orange swan:

Apparently a store near us had one and I would have loved to seal that deal in person, but our new car payments start soon and I’m a rom fiend so I didn’t want to drop the money on it yet. So I’ve asked for it as a gift lol. First games I’d want for it would be Tetris (the swan has an AWESOME Tetris port):

And Dokodemo Hamster (the B&W LCD and Color titles both look sweet):

Have a SWANNING week

 

[Bomberman]

Jealous of those with IPS modded Wonderswans.

 

[Aisf]

The wonderswan has a bunch of one piece games that I should try emulating at some point. And one piece games are usually pretty good.

 

[solnK!]

I tried to emulate it but never worked

 

[Aisf]

I tried to emulate it but never worked

There's a good emulator that does wonderswan. It's lemuroid. I'm sure it works on there

 

[Deleted member 13897]

I tried to emulate it but never worked

Have you tried it in retroarch? Or standalone? For me, retroarch’s provided core works well. They even have a setting somewhere in there to level the peaking from the swan audio

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

I need to get a better WonderSwan emulator, I'm still using Oswan.

 

[HyperTurboFox]

Then, the GBA happened