![]() ![]() Discovering what exactly, is left as an exercise to the reader. Option 1 loads a ROM, options 5 to 8 adjust scaling, vertical screen sync, CPU speed, and exit. Its obscurity is probably because the menu is in Japanese only, but you can guess enough to get by without being a polyglot. That is a shame, because it is the best option out there for emulating the Wonderswan on PSP. ![]() OswanPSP by bird_may_nike (different from the earlier oSwan mentioned above) seems to have flown completely under the radar of western PSP websites. The same can’t be said of the scaling - the emulator applies some sort of ugly filtering, with no option to turn it off. It doesn’t offer many options, but speed and sound are both adequate. Kawamorita’s e for PSP (a name seemingly designed to mess with markdown formatting). Added support for automatic rotation of video mid-game (Rockman & Forte). Separated mappings for the two sets of directional controls. This is one of the rare cases where a multi-system emulator performs better than the standalone alternatives. Fixed a problem where a malformed preferences file could cause the emulator to crash when opening a new ROM. Emulation is glitchy and erratically slow. Even then, debug symbols take up half the screen. Out of this quartet, only eSwan can even output sound properly. oSwan / pSwan / eSwan / Cygneįour of the emulators are really little more than proofs of concept. The emulators available on PSP reflect this reality: there are six of them, all six created by Japanese coders. ![]() A specific type of Japanese, too: if the Sony handhelds are the trusty salarymen, and the Nintendo ones countryside kids who enjoy tormenting bugs, the Wonderswan would be the anime fans of the lot. The Wonderswan was a deeply Japanese console. While I was looking for roms to test, all I could find were tie-in games from forgotten anime franchises. Is the Wonderswan a videogaming hidden gem? If so, they sure hid the gems pretty well. ![]()
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