game-and-watch-patch
CFW for the Nintendo Game and Watch (by BrianPugh)
LCD-Game-Shrinker
This program permits to shrink MAME high resolution artwork and graphics for portable device running LCD-Game-Emulator. (by bzhxx)
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game-and-watch-patch
Posts with mentions or reviews of game-and-watch-patch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-02.
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Game and Watch A Link to the Past Bug Fix
That being said, if you want to triple boot the device, Brian's patch explains how to do that here. This would probably be the best option since you want to keep the original firmware.
- Duel boot help...
- Replaced flash chip, but keep getting this error:
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Just joined the 64MB club!
Which part exactly are you not sure about, flashing the firmwares or installing the chip? The flashing part is actually really simple, The commands are fully laid out here
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Easiest Way to Mod Game and Watch?
If you plan to keep the stock original games you'll only have around 1MB of free space left on the Zelda unit. You can help free up more space as mentioned here.
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Is there a definitive guide to mod a Zelda Game & Watch?
All u need is already on the GitHub of each thing u need. The backup thingy is the same for both Mario and Zelda. The retro go setup (and CFW to have both the stock firmware and retro go at once) have a section for Zelda at the end too
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New chip ?
I note that I am on a virtual machine with Ubuntu 22.04 and a Stlink Nucleo-F446RE. NOTE: My username on Ubuntu is ed and I have installed in the Documents folder the arm-gcc-none-eabi files. 1. !! be sure to have made a backup of your G&W with your original chip and to have done at least the first 4 steps !!. See ghidraninja's Git -> https://github.com/ghidraninja/game-and-watch-backup 2. Make a git clone of the G&W Patch and G&W Retro Go pages -> https://github.com/BrianPugh/game-and-watch-patch -> https://github.com/kbeckmann/game-and-watch-retro-go 3. It may be useful to install these dependencies: -> pip3 install -r requirements.txt -> make download_sdk
- About the watch functionality
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Finally manage to solder a 64MB flash. Harder than I expected when one pin didn’t connect correctly. Anyway, have to start select games, any suggestion?
I think you can search youtube for the tutorials, but don’t follow them exactly, because most of them do not quite know how to do soldering XD. If you have a hot air gun it will be much easier, but it is still doable with solder iron. I suggest you to desolder the speaker from the board and remove the board from the case before doing anything. You can test and flash the ROM without reconnecting the board to display. You can flash the ROM with a pi or st-link adapter. I’m using a st-link adapter and I suggest to do so. It is a lot more stable and faster than using pi. Here are all the useful links of software that I’ve used. Backup and Unlock the G&W, do it before any hardware mod https://github.com/ghidraninja/game-and-watch-backup Patch original game so launch retro-go with SET+Left https://github.com/BrianPugh/game-and-watch-patch Orignal Retrogo from G&W https://github.com/kbeckmann/game-and-watch-retro-go Forked version that support cover art (I’m using this) https://github.com/olderzeus/game-and-watch-retro-go Convert MAME G&W games to Retrogo, you can download G&W games from any MAME archive. And google “Game and watch artwork” for the artkworks, you should able to find a google drive sharing folder https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker
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LCD-Game-Shrinker
Posts with mentions or reviews of LCD-Game-Shrinker.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-25.
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LCD game(Konami.Elektronika.Tiger Electronics) in G&W
FYI https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker
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Finally manage to solder a 64MB flash. Harder than I expected when one pin didn’t connect correctly. Anyway, have to start select games, any suggestion?
I think you can search youtube for the tutorials, but don’t follow them exactly, because most of them do not quite know how to do soldering XD. If you have a hot air gun it will be much easier, but it is still doable with solder iron. I suggest you to desolder the speaker from the board and remove the board from the case before doing anything. You can test and flash the ROM without reconnecting the board to display. You can flash the ROM with a pi or st-link adapter. I’m using a st-link adapter and I suggest to do so. It is a lot more stable and faster than using pi. Here are all the useful links of software that I’ve used. Backup and Unlock the G&W, do it before any hardware mod https://github.com/ghidraninja/game-and-watch-backup Patch original game so launch retro-go with SET+Left https://github.com/BrianPugh/game-and-watch-patch Orignal Retrogo from G&W https://github.com/kbeckmann/game-and-watch-retro-go Forked version that support cover art (I’m using this) https://github.com/olderzeus/game-and-watch-retro-go Convert MAME G&W games to Retrogo, you can download G&W games from any MAME archive. And google “Game and watch artwork” for the artkworks, you should able to find a google drive sharing folder https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker
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Getting Game and Watch roms working
you need to use the custom LCD-Game-Shrinker https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker . full guide here https://gist.github.com/DNA64/16fed499d6bd4664b78b4c0a9638e4e
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How to: Install and Use LCD-Game-Shrinker
Learn more about LCD-Game-Shrinker on the projects GitHub page.
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Working on porting RetroArch to the RetroMini RS-90. I managed to get it to compile and display status text. No menu yet. More details in the ocmments.
Best of luck,l for you project. I suggest you to have a look to the Game an watch hack that has similar limitations to run emulators. Someone made this tool to shrink the roms and make them lighter to run: https://github.com/bzhxx/LCD-Game-Shrinker
What are some alternatives?
When comparing game-and-watch-patch and LCD-Game-Shrinker you can also consider the following projects:
game-and-watch-retro-go - Emulator collection for Nintendo® Game & Watch™
Nintendo-Switch-JoyCon-Hack - Hardwiring a push button in a JoyCon to grant bootloader access
LCD-Game-Emulator - This is the LCD Game Emulator source code for portable device.
game-and-watch-retro-go - Emulator collection for Nintendo® Game & Watch™
game-and-watch-backup - Relatively easy to use scripts for backing up (and restoring) the original Game & Watch firmware.
RETracker - Reverse Engineering Framework for the Polyend Tracker
game-and-watch-zelda3
MARIOFont - The Mario fonts you usually see in Mario games
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LCD-Game-Shrinker vs game-and-watch-retro-go
game-and-watch-patch vs Nintendo-Switch-JoyCon-Hack
LCD-Game-Shrinker vs LCD-Game-Emulator
game-and-watch-patch vs game-and-watch-retro-go
LCD-Game-Shrinker vs game-and-watch-retro-go
game-and-watch-patch vs game-and-watch-backup
game-and-watch-patch vs RETracker
game-and-watch-patch vs game-and-watch-zelda3
game-and-watch-patch vs MARIOFont