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Bandai WonderSwan	Consoles	name image logo company company_name tabs photos screenshots emulators links comments oc_id source WonderSwan /media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-blue_1s.jpg /media/museum/logos/wonderswan_logo.gif /companies/bandai Bandai photos software emulators links title subtitle text image SKELETON BLUE WONDERSWAN /media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-blue_1.jpg title subtitle text image SKELETON BLACK WONDERSWAN Skeleton Black WonderSwan playing Space Invaders Thanks to [Little Video Game Area](http://www.studio42.info/index.shtml) for this picture /media/museum/photos/bandai_wonderswan-black_1.jpg title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT /media/museum/software/bandai_wonderswan_lode-runner_ss.gif title subtitle text image SCREENSHOT /media/museum/software/bandai_wonderswan_puzzle-bobble_ss.png title url platform text Cygne http://cygne.emuunlim.com/ Windows The first WonderSwan emulator title url platform text OSwan http://calice.emu-france.com/oswan/index.html Windows Excellent WonderSwan emulator title url platform text WonderScott http://www.zophar.net/ws.html Windows Another WonderSwan emulator by the Boycott Advance team title url platform text WScamp http://www.zophar.net/ws.html Windows Very good WonderSwan emulator title url platform text eSwan http://pspupdates.qj.net/category/Wonderswan/cid/769 Other platform WonderSwan emulator for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) ! title url text Cygne Emulator - Tech info page http://cygne.emuunlim.com/files/wstech21.txt Detailed technical information title url text Official website (Bandai-Asia) http://www.bandai-asia.com/wonderswan/ Description, features and games title url text Planet Pockets http://www.planet-pockets.de/?show=articlelist&id=68 German site dedicated to pocket systems. Includes WonderSwan reviews title url text Swan Song Color http://www.j-fan.com/swansong/ Website dedicated to the WonderSwan title url text The Wonderswan Blog http://www.wonderswan.co.uk/ A blog dedicated to Bandai's Wonderswan console. title url text Wonder Witch http://wonderwitch.qute.co.jp/ Japanese website dedicated to Wonder Witch, a personal Software Development Kit for the WonderSwan title url text Wonder Witch Link Site http://jekyll.hp.infoseek.co.jp/english/ Japanese site (with english version) with links, news and a lot of interesting info author date text Kaleb losher (USA) Wednesday 27th September 2017 idk why i said i don''t know my keyboard glitched out but what i wanted to say was These old systems are really cool and i actually had a nintendo 64 and i still have it! :p XD xD xd Xd lol lel lul :P $p $P $D d$ d: D$ D: lolololololololololoXdXDXDXDXDXDXxDxDxD WHY AM I SAYNG XD LUL author date text Kaleb losher (USA) Wednesday 27th September 2017 I don''t know author date text Godzil (UK) Monday 9th May 2016 If you have ever found a WonderSwan, B$W, Color or Crystal in another country than Japan, it was imported, without the approval of Bandai. and $150 is 2 to 3 times more expensive than what is was in Japan.. Also there is a small error in the desctiption "ROM: 1KB save EEPROM" mean nothing, there is an internal EEPROM but it''s not used as a save memory for game, it''s only to store some internal information for the console, and the Owner Infos Also, the Media is proprietary ROM, that''s true, but the "small amount of EEPROM for game save (max 16MB)" is eaither badly written, or just false. There are two type of possible save method on the WonderSwan, SRAM and EEPROM (like early GBA game in fact), the EEPROM capability have a limit of 16KB (maximum of 13 bit of Address with 16bit data) and have the ability to address 256 * 64KB of SRAM so 16MB in this case.) author date text Raindance Rob (UK) Friday 30th July 2010 this handheld was also sold in the UK, im not sure if it was sold in all of Europe but it was definitely on sale here in the UK. i can remember Argos $ Toys R Us selling them $ also the colour version. author date text Bearzilla (USA) Saturday 3rd February 2007 I would like to "correct" the information given about this system. It was infact sold here in the US, mainly through Toys R Us. Later when the system failed a very weak "buy back" offer was put to use to "reclaim" all hardware so it could be destroyed. The system itself sold for nearly $150.00 us and only had a few games available. 1175 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230516092219/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1175 2023-05-16

The WonderSwan was developed by Yokoi Gunpei (known as the father of the Nintendo Game Boy). A low price point and extremely low battery consumption is considered to be the original vision of Yokoi. Sadly, Yokoi died in a car accident before seeing a completed WonderSwan.

Most of the games for the WonderSwan were based on Japanese Anime series. The system had no success outside of the Japanese domestic market, mainly beacause it was not ditributed and marketed efficiently. One of the system's interesting features is the control layout allows for games to be played in either vertical or horizontal position.

Other than the original WonderSwan's lack of color support it was a brilliantly engineered system. Shame it didn't have success outside of Japan.

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Author : Yuki Itada