Bandai Wonderswan Color | Ashens
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- I've discovered I can see the screen clearly if I sit against the bottom of a window, facing away, at a certain time of the day. It's like the GBA all over again!
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I'm always astonished at the amount of English text on Japanese products that aren't otherwise bilingual.
Yeah I've always been curious as to why products that are to be released only in Japan still contain bits of English here and there.
They're smart enough to know people who don't speak or read Japanese will be using them
@@imbibe9891 ah yes, putting english in a game for someone to buy it from a reseller 20 years later is sure smart of them.
what benefit do they recieve? why is it smart?
@@psychwardsandSCENE weebs
English is taught in school there and is often used decoratively. That's why so much of it doesn't make sense.
"The WonderSwan was never released outside Japan."
That's a common misconception. The truth is that the WonderSwan was released in other parts of Asia such as Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, etc. Many of the territories covered by Bandai Asia, had the WonderSwan. If you were to buy one in Hong Kong or Taiwan, you would actually get a translated instruction manual (English & Chinese) in addition to the original Japanese one. Some games did receive English translated versions.
KoushiroIzumi85 Do you have any idea which games were translated I would like to buy them?
@@markputnam4902 I have Digimon Anode/Cathode Tamer and it has packaging in English and Chinese and plays in English. I know of another Digimon game with English packaging but there was no need for the game being translated because it just had English words from the beginning.
I got my Digimon Anode/Cathode Tamer a long time ago in like the mid 2000's from an eBay seller in Hong Kong. Hong Kong, Taiwan, and I believe Singapore might've had some of these games with some localization or just English packaging and translated manuals.
I also have the Korean market version of this Digimon game and while it has a Korean label, it also plays in English.
The Digimon V-Pet game also has an English version. There's a rom of it floating around
Seeing the icon, They have Digimon games.
Source?
You're gonna love this, Ashens. It was designed by Gunpei Yokoi, same guy who designed the Gameboy.
+epic liampaul
Sadly, his last work before passing away. At least, he had occasion to design something way better than this piece of shit known as the virtual boy before meeting his fate. Too bad the system never took off as already established Nintendo crushed it definitely upon GBA's release.
The Virtual Boy was shit.
Explains why it also still had no back light. Seems that guy didn't believe in them.
@@ultrascarlet5275 ur muff is shit
@@nozotohey now the virtual boy was way too ahead of its time.
Pretty impressive that the whole thing runs off a single AA battery to be honest.
Benisteinzimmer considering it was made in 2000..... i think not so much
Benisteinzimmer AND considering the size. its still cool af
Just think if it had two, one could have run a backlight
Gay
Hey look. A homophobic prickly tit in the wild. I hear they're quite common but very very stupid. 🤣
You can actually turn it on without a game i believe, by pressing start and select (don't quote me on that)- it asks for your name, gender, and also blood type. Seems a bit weird to ask for that but I believe your blood type is seen as a very important characteristic in Japan, perhaps a bit like our horoscopes
It's interesting that, despite not ever being released in the US, all of the words on the front are in English. I've noticed that with a lot of Japan-only hardware.
Death Adder disemboweled my dog, ate my grandparents, beat my father to death with my mother, and whipped me hundreds of times with my sister's intestines.
ChickenPika you know nothing about pain!!!
ChickenPika Sounds like it was a pretty good time, compared to going to an American Wal-Mart. Trust me.
***** any. fucking any.
***** just saying, i once was forced to go to walmart, and in the line, a woman was checking her kid's hair for lice .3. so ya. most are horrible.
***** Try Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Maine.
it's also sold in other asian countries like mine, not just Japan. back in the day they were sold alongside the Digimons in Toys R Us. A pretty good console, but too late to overtake the gameboy. GBA was out during the time it released in Viet
The Wonderswan was developed by Gunpei Yokoi, who before doing this worked for Nintendo. He created the Game Boy and Game & Watch there. He also created the Virtual Boy and thats the reason he left.
Liam Austin I heard the WS game Gun Pey is made on his honor
Sheena Clingan hgfrfff!
Liam Austin Yeah..im pretty sure this was a mere side project that he had been working on but Nintendo didn't wanna know.
@@HoChiMints2007 Nice picture of Elli Tran Ha 😎
The Wonderswan is an amazing handheld, I'd love to collect for it.
Jrezky I would like to collect for it to
I'd say the most interesting thing about this thing is that a few GBA games were based on this, like MMBN Battle Chip Challenge and the GBA versions of FF1, 2, and I want to say 4.
thinking about golden axe gives me copious amounts of nostalgia
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Nice Engrish in the booklet : Axe Battler the Barbalian.
KiddoPlays Official You may want to google "Engrish"...otherwise you could make a fool of yourself.
It can still be Engrish if it's an "l" being swapped for an "r".
Lots of things we love when we're young turn out to be terrible when we grow up. Reality, for example.
Woah that's dark but so true
Not lego
My Girlfriend (actually, she's lovely...... she's just walked in)!!!
@@jf1376 Definitely not Lego!
Mostly lcds tho
Anchor Field is actually pretty fun and easy game to play, so long as you can read the text on the screen. Basically, It's like Qix's. You have to shoot the anchors out and connect them back to your original base. Ashens was playing the tutorial, which was explaining what to do... if he could read it. For that stage, you have to get over 40% of the area filled in to win.
簡単だよなぁ
The fact that Ashens’ only color game is one of the most expensive WonderSwan titles and he seemingly doesn’t notice is pretty funny TBH
shin nihon pro wrestling actually means "New Japan Pro Wrestling".
possibly one of the best wrestling promotions in the world right now.
those games have some really nice music.
Too damn bad they didn't release it outside of Japan they had some notable titles on it that looked quite good and had some nice exclusive titles. When it first came out and hearing about all the Squaresoft love it was getting made me mega sad face inside
"Too damn bad they didn't release it outside of Japan they had"
wat
Whats funny is old handhelds without back lighting can easily be seen outside (in fact easier outside then inside) but newer ones are half impossible to play outside, ironically.
Been recently playing Pokémon Yellow on my GBC from 15 years ago :D
This was made by Gunpei Yokoi..the creator of the game boy
R.I.P.
"It's like a gameboy only more advanced"
So what about the gameboy advance then?
MegaDrain Nintendo has officially declared this handheld as "non-canon"
how does one consider a console as "non-cannon"? It's a handheld, not the Philips-CDi Zelda games.
OrangesmikyPro CD-i Zelda game.... I NE'd
Daniel Perez
Non Canon wtf kiddo
Yeah, I remember when I read it in the news.. 'Nintendo non-canonizes the Wonderswan.'
A sad day for us all.
Ashens should review the Neo Geo Pocket Color!
Damn, I always wanted one of these to go along with Final Fantasy VIII. If you played the PC game you can get some really great items early by playing the Chocobo minigame and porting the items over to the main game(which was supposed to be done with the Wonderswan when the game was made)
I think this is the first ashens video I ever saw, looking for gameplays of this console.
+Konhat Lee Sakurai Same, I just ordered my Wonderswan today with 3 games and I couldn't wait to get it so looked up reviews and BAM! I ran into Ashens xD
I can't help but think of Zero Punctuation.
Lost my shit when he talked about the guys who attack you with grapes in Golden Axe.
Akhamesh OH MY GOD! DUDE! I was like 8 when me and my brother used to play this and we ALWAYS were like "Die you son of a bitch! Why are you using grapes anyway?"
SEGA Genesis + 6 Pak. Good times.
Darkwiz666 "You son of a bitch! You stole my dragon!"
golden axe is a game from my childhood, but i agree, it always seemed like they were beating you with a lump of grapes
translucent casing? we are truly in the 21st century
Still better than Sword Of Sodan... Now if you don't know what that is... count yourself a winner!
Sword Of Xolan, on the other hand, is actually pretty decent
I never thought about Axe Battler only fighting with a sword. I guess that's why I'm so intelligent.
I do love it when Stuart uploads a nice long video :)
love you ashens. you never fail to make me smile! xx
"You know, just like buying drugs in Ipswich"
Didn't Gunpei Yokoi design this? Before he died in the car crash?
+Chatbox 3000 yes
+Chatbox 3000 yes
+Chatbox 3000 And the fun puzzle game "Gunpei" is named in his honor. He sadly passed before the system launched, if memory serves.
***** I've heard two reports about the way he left Nintendo, with that being the first. The other was, he was planning already to leave, and designed the VB as a sort of "parting gift" project, which ended up being poor timing due to its flop (partly because during development, before costs cut it down to red and black, VB used full color).
+Chatbox 3000 The sad thing was that he died before the Swan hit the market.
Thanks for uploading this Ashens! This video helped me remember one of the games I spent my childhood playing! x)
I have a special edition Final Fantasy one of these. I had to buy it purely because I had never seen one in the wild before. Can't read a sodding thing on the included Final Fantasy 1 but it's a lovely little thing on display on the Final Fantasy shelf of my nerd cabinet.
*Golden Axe* was best enjoyed in the arcade with 4 players. The tedium was not so obvious when you were all working as a team, plus the screen was fucking _huge_ and the speakers were always cranked up so loud you couldn't hear any of the other games. When translated to home consoles, or worse, handhelds, it lost much of its charm. It was meant to be a quarter-eater.
***** Played it religiously with my friend on his sega ....
+Xeokym Idonthinkso Are you sure you are not thinking a different game? After all the original Golden Axe only had 3 characters and only supported 2 player co op.
Plus the game was so short that you could reach the final boss in about 15-20 minutes.
+txcforever that's what I was gonna say lol
+BGfootballfan Same except it was on my 6pak cart.
Did anyone see a bearded man's face appear in front of the WonderSwan Color's screen at 9:36? 0_0
Yep.. I'm still wondering what it is
I think its some kind of meme, this appears in several other of his videos, I still dont get it, Im guessing there is a video we missed where that is explained.
It flashes by too fast for me to catch but I think it's a character from a 90s fps game.
You guys are new to ashens.
Voshchronos I know right
I am slowly working my way through your back catalogue
Golden Axe....bringing back some great memories there.
was the wrestler he selected justin thunder liger ?
Do I sense a Neo Geo Pocket Color review coming soon?
No
Being a huge Dark Souls fan, and Golden Axe being Bandai, I swear some of those weapons made some extremely unknown cameos in the Souls series.
It's great to see a review of one of these. It's certainly clearer in black and white.
I just called them "Derpy Dwarf Guy, Porn Star, and Normal Person"
I'm a silly twat.
Nice! Jushin Thunder Liger is in that game!
I was impressed, I sometimes forget just how long Jushin Thunder Liger has been around and has been the best guy ever.
Watching the video just really makes me want a modern NJPW game for current gen.
"A moustachioed man who attacks you with a bunch of grapes..." Chef excellence by any chance?
the colour amazes me .
Golden Axe is on my bootleg Genesis, made by AtGames. Bright side to the console, it doesn't give a shit about national cartridge differences, meaning its internstionally compatible. Bad news, its simple as shit and cant save files.
Isn't there a version of final fantasy III on the wonderswan?
+Hash Crab Yes
1,2,3,4,5 and 6 are I think. At least 1-3 are for sure. Not 100% sure on 4-6.
+Tael the Mask Salesman no
+Tael the Mask Salesman 1, 2 and 4
+rossy105 Oh okay. I thought all those PS ports were from the Wonderswan. My mistake.
...It was on this system that my favourite ever RPG was born. Riviera: The Promised Land~
u da best Ashens i fall asleep to your videos every night, perfect.
I have the non-color version (apartheid?), and a Swancrystal. The Swancrystal seems to be on par with GBA, graphically. Give it a nice windowsil lightsource, atleast. But the sound! It's a GBA SP graphics-wise, with Game&Watch audio. Dreadfull. And the games are in Japanese. I have Final Fantasy and FFII. Not really feasible.... I hear Front Mission is quite playable, and, uhm, Gun-Pei?
The sound hardware is actually pretty good, but they used a piezo speaker to output the final product of it. From what I read, if you can find the headphone module for it, the sound is pretty amazing.
I really can't imagine that would be the case, as the audio itself seems to be sub-NES in style. Also, I see this is from a year ago.
I hate the sound chip from the GBA. The WonderSwan's audio quality isn't amazing, but its way better than the GBA.
ZeroZerock I think GBA goes to about SNES levels, but there's that buzz in the PCM stuff that's really annoying. I also wonder, how you happened upon my comment, it's been awhile, and I just rewatched this. Spooky.
I went to Chinatown in nyc as a kid with a friend and we went into a game store that was selling the WonderSwan. I remember wanting one so bad, never got one though. Guess this review will do.
You are what I look forward to at the end of my day, Ashens. Take that how you will.
Thank you Ashens!
I found out about your channel today. I love you already.
Oh, the Wonderswan Beatmania was fantastic. The best handheld music game, without a doubt.
I need more Ashens. Like daily. Please.
That has already happened further below. It's a delightfully delightful delight.
At 16:58, Ashens slips in to his native alien tongue, which translates as 'still more fun than a Popstation'
Golden Axe..Oh the memories.
Why was it so good back then?!
Couple points: The option selected in the wrestling game was "title match" (in English written with katakana). Option selected in the anchort game is "ha zhi mu ka ra", which Google says (my vocab=bad) means "From Introduction", which I assume means "new game".
The objective of the anchor game seems to be trying to reach zone marked "2" in the upper left (avoiding the walls), with the choice of arrow and plunger determining how far you move. I don't even need to read anything to tell that.
OMW Golden Axe!! that brings back memories.
I could just see him in the beginning balancing the box on his head, slowly tilting it forward to make it fall.
I'd say that someone else did it, but what I imagined is more fun.
Him having to use the camera light reminded me of those Nyko worm lights for GB and GBC. Casted that same bright dot.
Holy crap, Golden Axe. I played this so many ages ago on an old Windows 98 PC we used to have, I think. Wow, that takes me back.
one of the best avatars on youtube
As someone who lives in Queensland, Australia, the phrase "Just like buying drugs in Ipswich" applies here as well.
I love the wonderswan crystal
its beautiful
WonderSwan review really need to use the Swan Crystal model.
No backlit screen but with a decent source of external light the screen is really sharp.
I never noticed that Ashens spun the box into a different facing with just one hand before now
Oh man, the Wonderswan. I'll tell you right now, I have a definite soft-spot for this thing.
I love being able to see inside the console
Holy shit Ashens you mind reader! I was planning WonderSwan Wednesdays on my LP channel, and was thinking about what games I should do. Thanks for the ideas!!!
I remember a character in Gundam Seed had a Wonder Swan though I had no idea it was a real thing.
It also made an appearance in the Rebuild of Evangelion movies. Asuka played on one.
So glad the gba sp had a backlight so you can see the game
You flipped that box with such grace.
The Wonderswan was released in the UK. I think it was exclusive to a supermarket though.
I have to say, I love how the Wonderswan looks. A very marvelous looking console, shame they never released in America with a better screen.
Your love of the Neo Geo Pocket pleases me no end good sir!
Coulda' swore I saw a advert for this in a North American gaming magazine in the early 2000s..
I think the idea of anchor field is to jump from one side of the field to the other using the anchors in as few turns as possible, presumably higher levels have limits on arrows and that sort of thing
I recognise that song in the army game at the end. But I don't know where it's from.
Shots fired with Ipswitch reference lol
The goal of Anchor Field Z is to capture as much land as possible. Each turn you may fire 3 harpoons. The third must land in your territory. The encompassed land is yours. Then the enemy will take their turn trying the same thing in the opposite box.
The Wonderswan's design is so reminiscent of that of the original Game Boy Advance to me (the Arctic one), I can't help but think Nintendo used it as inspiration.
I KNEW IT! I knew it had to be the Wonderswan that you'll be reviewing. :D
I used to love golden axe as a child
I know of no other person who can turn a couch into an amazing set.
Thank you Ashens for being so damn awesome!
man this brings me back, i remember having golden axe for my game boy advance,
David Hayter keeps me up all night
Ashens mentioned beatmania. My life is complete
There are a lot of references to King's Field, Seath is a huge one, so is the Moonlight Greatsword, albeit the original was called Sword of Moonlight.
King's Field was also created by FromSoft however, the Souls games are their spiritual successors.
Almost every game FromSoft has made has the Moonlight sword in it, actually, they love throwing references to their older games, even Patches might be one as there was a character like that in Armored Core For Answer.
Man I loved golden axe. Amazing
Just wanted to say thank you for the laughs... Dont know if you'll read this but thank you
anchor field z gave me flashbacks to i game i loved called advance wars. i totally forgot about that game til just now
RIP Gunpei Yokoi. You will be missed.
Golden axe was so good back In the day on the Sebastian mega drive aha.
I found the Gameboy advance's screen was really clear and easy on the eyes, and there was the advantage of being able to use them under direct sunlight... though sadly not during less than optimal luminescence,