Even though this was disproven after reverse engineering efforts of several MAME developers which led to support for all of the games. (To dump a game's ROM, the microcontroller often must be decapped, which is not only very costly and complicated but highly destructive to the system.) The lack of information on the Game & Watch's hardware leads to the false belief that it does not contain a CPU or ROM and therefore could not be emulated.

Emulation issues Īlthough Game & Watch emulation has recently become possible, it took quite a while to achieve due to the lack of information about the microcontrollers driving them and the high difficulty of dumping the ROM from a system.

Just before mid-June 2017, it also started to emulate a few notable Game & Watch 'Thanks to MAME for the ROMs and the info.' (as stated in the readme). Arcade Italia's database of compatibility records for games on MAME.ĭSP It was officially the 2nd Game & Watch emulator.See MAME driver which covers all of the Game & Watch series of games and those of a similar ilk from other companies running on the LCD game handhelds with Sharp SM5xx family of CPUs (SM5A/SM510/SM511/SM512) (Other companies that released similar games included Konami, Elektronika, Tiger Electronics, Tronica and VTech).Since July 9, 2020, MAME supports at least one version of each Game & Watch model. 0.185 in May 2017) and emulated its first game in 0.186. It started to comprehensively cover the Game & Watch games from around just before mid-2017 (e.g.

MAME It was officially the 1st Game & Watch emulator, with support for almost all games.

4.4 Games that are not part of the Game & Watch Series.

4.3 Games in lcdgame.js that are not part of the Game & Watch Series.

4.2 Games in Pica Pic that are not part of the Game & Watch Series.

4.1 SM5xx CPU games in MAME that are not part of the Game & Watch Series.

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