The WonderSwan (1999) and WonderSwan Color (2000) are 16-bit handheld consoles released by Bandai and designed by Gunpei Yokoi. Powered by an NEC V30 MZ CPU at 3.072 MHz, both feature a 224 x 144 display, 40-hour battery life on a single AA, and a unique design supporting both vertical and horizontal gameplay. The original features a monochrome screen, while the Color variant displays 241 colors simultaneously from a 4,096-color palette.
Swan Driving is a new WonderSwan Color "game" by Sebastian Mihai. You control a car, trying to avoid incoming traffic. Your car has a low and a high gear, for driving slowly and fast, respectively. Use UP/DOWN to move your car, and LEFT/RIGHT to select low or high gear. Read more about Swan Driving (06-01-2015) (WSC misc)
*finally* is a WonderSwan Color demo by Titan! It's quite amazing to see a WonderSwan homebrew after such a long time and we from PDRoms hope there will be more! Also the quality overall is quite stunning, a well deserved 2nd place in the Alternative Demo Competition at Evoke 2012. Read more about Finally (WSC Demo)
For those who might have not recognized yet, we do have another coding competition here at PDRoms, running since 2nd April and it's deadline beeing 31st May 2009. There are still two weeks to hook up an entry :) Read more about PDRoms Coding Competition v4.01 – Reminder 2 (WS misc)
For those who might have not recognized yet, we do have another coding competition here at PDRoms, running since 2nd April and it's deadline beeing 31st May 2009. There is still plenty of time to get things going! Read more about PDRoms Coding Competition v4.01 – Reminder 1 (WS misc)
It's reality again, here comes PDROMS CODING COMPETITION v4.01 - Retro Coding Fun for Console and Handhelds!
Coding on "closed" handhelds or consoles must not be a privilege; dozens of free development kits proof the opposite. The steadily growing "homebrew scene" produces unlicensed software for devices not meant to be open for everyone. Read more about PDRoms Coding Competition v4.01 (WSC misc)