![]() ![]() 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. Added support for automatic rotation of video mid-game (Rockman & Forte). Separated mappings for the two sets of directional controls. Its obscurity is probably because the menu is in Japanese only, but you can guess enough to get by without being a polyglot. Fixed a problem where a malformed preferences file could cause the emulator to crash when opening a new ROM. 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). This is one of the rare cases where a multi-system emulator performs better than the standalone alternatives. 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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