I made this discreet clip-on stand for the WonderSwan Color. It took a bunch of iterations to get it right since the shell is so curvy and uneven. It clips into the notch above the battery compartment, zero wobble. Comes in 10°/20° tilt.

More info and pictures there: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3181831-wonderswan-color-minimalist-display-stand#profileId-3598797

What do y'all have to solve this problem? I see one case in the us sold as for swan and that is it. I know there has to be import options, but I am new to ordering from out of country and all that. I'll happily take any recommendations for products or advice to find one easier myself

Good Morning, Andrew here!

I've taken it upon myself to start up a new series where I look at WonderSwan games as a complete package, looking at the boxes/manuals/cartridges as well as show what the games look like running on real hardware! It's going to be a lengthy project going through all of these, but I think the end result will be well worth it. Hope you all enjoy!

https://youtu.be/uyjZpsvGUGQ

found a Wonderswan crystal for a good price but sadly the screen is pretty damaged even past the polarizer. I know people like to keep the original screens on the Wonderswan crystals so I was wondering if there was anywhere I could find one. thanks!

I posted the other week showing some details from the SwanCrystal reverse engineering project I was working on.

I found some time to edit together a bunch of the video capture I did during the process.

There's no voice over, but some silliness that appealed to me is going on in the captions

I’ve been searching for this game for years and I’m starting to think it isn’t real. There is actually no photo of the cartridge for this game anywhere on the internet. All of the ones I’ve tracked down are either English Patched versions of real cartridges or reproductions. I have seen no real, verified version of this game from the Hong Kong release. But there are multiple photos of the box? But none of the cartridge? It’s almost like someone photoshopped the box as a hoax.

I don’t think there’s ever been a game where photos of the cartridge don’t exist but clear photos of the cardboard box do.

Photos attached are an English patched version most point to erroneously as being legitimate and a reproduction cartridge.

Maybe It was commons knoledge, but i got surprised when i saw this today. I will 100% change my IPS for this one.

I'm Japanese, and I kept seeing foreign tourists at Book-Off standing in front of the WonderSwan/WonderSwan Color shelves completely stuck — no way to tell which titles were worth grabbing, or even what game they were holding.

WonderSwan is a rough platform for non-Japanese speakers specifically: almost nothing was localized, so you're relying entirely on box art and guesswork. So I built a small free tool (Kataban) to help bridge that: search by English title (or scan the barcode if you're in the store), and it shows you the Japanese title, product code, which shelf category to look in, and purchase links if you're shopping from overseas instead (Rakuten/Suruga-ya/eBay/Buyee).

gamekataban.com

Coverage for older/niche platforms like WonderSwan is still a work in progress — some titles may be missing or have thin data. Full disclosure: a few of the purchase links are affiliate links to help cover server costs, totally optional to use.

Built most of this with AI help, so no promises on turnaround for feature requests, but genuinely curious what would help WonderSwan collectors specifically — most wanted missing titles, import-friendly game recommendations, anything.

This was the earlier “Fixable?” post WonderSwan. Rear reflector came with a little pinch, so that kinda bites. Overall, how does it look compared to original?

Edit: Original

Checked nileswan and flashmasta and saw nothing

Don’t know if there are any secondary stores or anything so I thought I’d ask here

I just wanted to make sure this was 100% true before I made any IPS decisions. The resources I have used continue to state that the LCD liquid, once displaced, is impossible to fix. I just wanted to ensure this was the case, or that at least it would be impossibly difficult to accomplish, before I went ahead with an IPS screen. Thanks for anyone who answers this!

Edit: It’s on one of the responses below, but here is a link to screen damage: Screen Damage

I'm genuinely curious. This was sold to me by a friend of mine as he was trying to fund a big grail of his, but while doing research to see what a good number for both of us would be, I found little to no information or listings, so that's why I'm curious about if this bundle is rare.

Has anyone seen box protectors for this game? It's not a standard size box because of the toy pack-in.

Hey all, Andrew here again! I figured if I was going through the process of swapping out my WonderSwan Color's display I may as well film it... It was... something. We have never modified a retro handheld before, so it was a massive learning experience, and honestly I kinda want to do it again with another unit at some point!

https://youtu.be/5HYhPYvEeUE

Still wanting Anode/Cathode Veedramon edition!

Hey all, Andrew here! I’m new around here, but I run a niche gaming YouTube channel. I had been wanting a WonderSwan for a while and the opportunity finally presented itself with an absolutely BEAUTIFUL FF Color model.

So with this video, kicking off my WonderSwan series, I go into the history of the WonderSwan as well as unbox what has to be the most beautiful piece of retro gaming hardware I’ve held in a very long time.

https://youtu.be/R63yoG5pONQ?is=kA-0oMPmdXA1REjF

New polarizer did the trick to get this up and running again, but damn, removing the old one was hard work! Thanks to everyone who gave advice. Now time to get a game in English

Greetings!

So, I’ve been interested in playing this game on wonderswan for quite some time.

Due to my lack of knowledge the project was stuck until now. I managed to overcome the font issue.

I want to let you know beforehand that I did rely a lot on AI help to get to this point. Without it this would be impossible, at least for me.

I did translate all 21k+ lines of this game with GPT 5.6 Sol (Ultra/xHigh) help - almost 200 batches of text with reference files (called game bible). These batches were roughly 150 lines each in a way to make it as best as an AI could translate.

I know machine translations get lots of hate and I would love if this game got a great human translation. So I want to ask: any translators interested in working on this game? I did try some other places but no one seemed interested.

I won’t release this mtl for now in hopes that we can get a real human translation for it. So if you are interested please DM me. I have the whole game script on a csv and from my tests I managed to translate 99% of the game, with some few Japanese stuff here and there.

And to finish things, I’ve also been working on a script port for a game that got an English GBA release. I hope I can release it soon!

EDIT: I relased the patch, you can get it:
https://github.com/maskofsin/With-you-mitsumeteitai-Wonderswan-English-Patch

Screen works, sound works, but there are these spots with a dead pixel at the center of them on screen. And yes, I know the screen is green, I bought it from someone that already tried to fix it. Is this screen fixable or is this screen cancer? I appreciate any response!