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Nintendo Game & Watch
The Game & Watch is a series of self-contained handheld LCD games by Nintendo where the first one was released on April 28, 1980 and which are often seen as the precursor to the Game Boy/Color, although new Game & Watch games were still released as late as 1991.
| shortname | gameandwatch |
|---|---|
| emulator/core(s) | libretro/gw |
| rom format(s) | .mgb .zip .7z |
Emulators
libretro/gw
gw-libretro is a simulator and not an emulator. This means that the games that can be played with it aren't actually the original games, but recreations of the games combined with the original artwork and an image of the handheld.
Configuration
There are no specific configuration settings for this emulator.
ROMs
Place your Game & Watch ROMs in /userdata/roms/gameandwatch/.
Controls
The inputs are game specific. Press START to get an overlay like the following example:
- systems/gameandwatch.1622390990.txt.gz
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- by igno2k