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→Games: Mario The Juggler now preserved in MAME! https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=116331#Post116331
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;'''[[MAME]]''':It was officially the 1st Game & Watch emulator, with support for a growing number of games (An example being Mickey and Donald). It started to comprehensively cover the Game & Watch games from around just before mid-2017 (e.g. [https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.185 0.185] in May 2017) and emulated its first game in [https://wiki.mamedev.org/index.php/MAME_0.186 0.186]. For the games it does support, MAME is recommended, although many some Game & Watch games still can only be played outside of the original hardware through simulation.:* See [https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/hh_sm510.cpp MAME driver] which covers several 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 (SM510/SM500/SM5A/SM512) (Other companies that released similar games included Konami, Elektronika, [[Tiger_LCD_Handhelds|Tiger Electronics]], Tronica and VTech).
:* [http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/lista_mame.php?game_sourcefile=hh_sm510.cpp&arcade_only=0¤t_version=0 Arcade Italia's database] of compatibility records for games on MAME.
===Emulation issues===
Although Game & Watch emulation has recently become possible, it took quite a while to achieve due to the [http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=17884.msg259362#msg259362 lack of information] about the microcontrollers driving them and the high difficulty of dumping the ROM from a system. (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. Even though this was disproven after reverse engineering efforts of several MAME developers led to support for a few games being added to MAME, emulation of additional games is progressing slowly due to the high amount of time and patience it takes to dump their ROMs and recreate their graphics.
===Graphics===
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! scope="col"|DSiWare
! scope="col"|Pica Pic
! scope="col"|gw-libretro
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|Boxing
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|Chef
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|Donkey Kong
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|Donkey Kong 3
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|Donkey Kong Jr.
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|Egg
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|Fire
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|Fire Attack
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|Flagman
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|Green House
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|Helmet
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|Life Boat
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|Lion
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|Manhole
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|Mario Bros.
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|Mario the Juggler
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|Mario's Cement Factory
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|Mickey & Donald
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|Mickey Mouse
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From an emulation point of view, the 2009 re-release of Ball is a completely new game with a different CPU and a different program compared to the original Ball release.
The three Panorama titles listed here are completely different games than the standard versions despite the same names.
The table top version of Mario's Cement Factory is similar to the widesreen and panorama versions but has different artwork and slightly different gameplay.
The silver version of Fire has slightly different gameplay than the widescreen version.
==Games exclusive to some collections==
* [[wikipedia:Game & Watch ports and remakes|List from Wikipedia of Game & Watch ports and remakes]]
* [https://www.mariowiki.com/Game_%26_Watch Super Mario Wiki] covering Nintendo's Game & Watch series (Nice wiki-style page with many photos of different handhelds)
* [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WLKcvynl0ky2mRL1UacA9yaiMTnNs4x5 Design, layout and artwork] (Made by Lee Robson (hydef). Storage of background art files for LCD handheld games from Elektronika, Gakken, Konami, Nintendo G&W, Tiger Electronics and Tronica.)
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