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{{Infobox console
 
{{Infobox console
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|title = Bandai WonderSwan/Color
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|title = ColecoVision
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|logo = WonderSwan-Black-Left.png
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|logo = coleco.jpg
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|image = WonderSwan-Color-Blue-Left.png
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|developer = Coleco Industries, Inc.
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|image2 = WonderSwanCrystal.png
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|type = [[:Category:Consoles|Home video game console]]
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|image3 = SwanCrystal-Wine-Left.png
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|generation = [[:Category:Second-generation consoles|Second generation]]
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|imagecaption = '''Top:''' The WonderSwan.<br/>'''Middle:''' The WonderSwan Color.<br/>'''Bottom 2:''' The SwanCrystal <small>(Blue Violet & Red Wine).</small>
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|release = 1982
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|developer = Bandai
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|discontinued = 1985
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|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
 
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|generation = [[:Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles|Fifth generation]]
 
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|release = 1999 <small>(WonderSwan)</small><br/>2000 <small>(WonderSwan Color)</small><br/>2002 <small>(Swan Crystal)</small>
 
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|discontinued = 2003
 
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
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|predecessor = Telstar series
 
}}
 
}}
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The '''[[gametech:ColecoVision|ColecoVision]]''' was the second-generation video game console produced by [[wikipedia:Coleco|Coleco]] in August of 1982, before being discontinued in 1984 partly due to the [[wikipedia:North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983|ongoing crash in North America at the time]]. It retailed for {{Inflation|USD|174.99|1982}} and had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 8KB of RAM. Notably, it provided gamers with experiences very much like the arcade versions of games, as well as having Donkey Kong as a pack-in title to showcase this, although the Atari 2600 and Intellivision could do the same with the respected hardware. It shares largely the same underpinnings with the [[SG-1000 emulators|SG-1000]]. Indeed, a clone of the SG-1000 known as the Dina 2-in-1 (sold in the United States as the Telegames Personal Arcade) had support for both SG-1000 and ColecoVision games, though compatibility with the latter is spotty due to the lack of an expansion module interface or a second numeric keypad, rendering two-player ColecoVision games unplayable.
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The '''WonderSwan''', '''WonderSwan Color''' and '''SwanCrystal''' are the fifth-generation handheld game consoles produced by [[wikipedia:Bandai|Bandai]] in 1999, 2000 and 2002, respectively. It is the brainchild of Game Boy/Color creator, [[wikipedia:Gunpei_Yokoi|Gunpei Yokoi]]. There were three versions eventually released: A black-and-white version, a color version, and a  '''Crystal''' version with an improved screen.
 
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
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|-
 
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
! scope="col"|Latest Version
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="WonderSwan">WS</abbr>
 
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! scope="col"|<abbr title="WonderSwan Color">WSC</abbr>
 
−
! scope="col"|[[Libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|Active
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
|-
 
|-
−
! colspan="9"|PC / x86
+
! colspan="6"|PC / x86
 +
|-
 +
|[[BizHawk]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 +
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
 +
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[Mednafen]]
+
|[[ColEm]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
−
|[{{MednafenURL|releases}} {{MednafenVer}}]
+
|[http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/#Downloads {{ColEmVer}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
+
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|CoolCV
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 +
|[http://atariage.com/forums/topic/240800-coolcv-emulator-for-mac-os-x-linux-windows-and-raspberry/ {{CoolCVVer}}]
 +
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|DSP
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 +
|[https://github.com/leniad/dsp-emulator 0.18]
 +
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[higan]]
 
|[[higan]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
−
|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{higanVer}}]
+
|[https://github.com/higan-emu/higan/releases {{HiganVer}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
+
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|-
 +
|[[MAME]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 +
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[BizHawk]]
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|[[Pantheon]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
−
|[http://tasvideos.org/BizHawk/ReleaseHistory.html {{BizHawkVer}}]
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|[http://bostjan-grandovec.si/Content/News.htm {{PantheonVer}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
+
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[https://www.zophar.net/ws/wscamp.html WSCamp]
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|[[vdmgr]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
−
|[https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/237-wscamp 0.21]
+
|[http://vdmgr.g2.xrea.com/download.html {{vdmgrVer}}]
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{~}}
+
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[MAME]]
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|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
−
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
+
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 {{PhoenixVer}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
+
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[Cygne]]
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|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/ FreezeSMS]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
−
|[http://cygne.emuunlim.com/ 2.1a]
+
|[http://freezesms.emuunlim.com/download.html 4.6]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|?
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{~}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[http://sourceforge.jp/projects/oswan/devel/ Oswan]
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|[[Clock Signal|CLK]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
−
|[http://sourceforge.jp/projects/oswan/releases/p5046 1.7.3]
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|[https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK/releases {{clkver}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|-
 +
|Bee
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
 +
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20180903061210/http://thebeehive.ws/download/ 2.4.3]
 +
|?
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[http://wsonline.emuunlim.com/ WonderScott]
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|[[blueMSX]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Web}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}<br>{{Icon|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}<ref group=N name="libretro">Only available outside of Windows as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>
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|[https://www.zophar.net/ws/wonderscott.html 0.54b]
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|[http://bluemsx.com/download.html 2.8.2]
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141105014113/http://www.xe-emulator.com/ Xe]
+
|[[MEKA]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux}}
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
−
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20141022230129/http://www.xe-emulator.com/index.php?m=download 2.16.2]
+
|[https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases {{MEKAVer}}]
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
! colspan="9"|Mobile / ARM
+
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20071206014650/http://www.dridus.com:80/~nyef/darcnes/ DarcNES]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|BeOS}}
 +
|[https://segaretro.org/DarcNES 9b0401/9b0313]
 +
|?
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[[Mednafen]]
+
! colspan="7"|Mobile / ARM
−
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Linux}}<ref group=N name=libretro>Only available as a libretro core (e.g. [[RetroArch]]).</ref>
 
−
|[{{MednafenURL|releases/}} {{MednafenVer}}]
 
−
|{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
−
! colspan="9"|Console
+
|[[ColEm]]
 +
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|Linux|Pandora}}
 +
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fms.colem.deluxe 5.2]
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|[http://dev-e.sakura.ne.jp/ eSwan]
+
|[http://www.explusalpha.com/home/msx-emu MSX.emu]<br/><small>(blueMSX tech)</small>
−
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}
−
|[http://psp-news.dcemu.co.uk/eswan.shtml 0.09]
+
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.explusalpha.MsxEmu Android 1.5.34]<br />[https://github.com/Rakashazi/emu-ex-plus-alpha Git]<br>[https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=MSXemu_ptitseb Pandora build 15]
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|?
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|pSwan
+
|[[blueMSX]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}<ref group=N name="libretro"/>
−
|0.07
+
|[http://bluemsx.com/download.html 2.8.2]
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
|-
−
|Wonderstation
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! colspan="7"|Consoles
−
|align=left|{{Icon|PS2}}
 
−
|[https://www.thetechgame.com/Downloads/id=207041/wonderstation-oswan-ps2-01.html 0.1]
 
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{TBD}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
−
|OswanDC
+
|[[ColEm]]
−
|align=left|{{Icon|DC}}
+
|align=left|{{Icon|Wii|DC|PSP}}
−
|[https://emulationrealm.net/downloads/file/1096-oswan-dc 0.15]
+
|[http://fms.komkon.org/ColEm/#Downloads 4.2.3]
−
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
+
|{{✗}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 +
|{{✓}}
 
|}
 
|}
 
<references group=N />
 
<references group=N />
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==Notes==
 
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;WSCamp:A WonderSwan and WS Color emulator written by Toshi.  This was the first WonderSwan emulator to feature sound as well as gamepad support, and it has a very high compatibility rate and excellent speed. It was the most accurate WonderSwan emulator at the time in the early 2000's, beating out [[Cygne]] and Oswan.
 
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;[[Cygne]]:The first WonderSwan emulator created on the Windows platform, written by DOX and released under the GNU General Public License. It had undergone massive improvements over its original DOS beta form in the early 2000's, including better timing and fixes to the SRAM. Cygne has a high compatibility rate, but lacks in speed and does not offer any sound support. Cygne supports both the original WonderSwan and the WonderSwan Color. However, it was abandoned in 2002.
 
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;Oswan:Oswan is a WonderSwan/WS Color emulator based on the Cygne source code and authored by David Raingeard. Improvements upon the original Cygne source include the additional of sound support and many speed improvements. Oswan also features the ability to apply several video filters as well as color schemes to add color to WonderSwan Classic titles. It has been abandoned but two variants of it were released in 2007 and 2010.
 
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;WonderScott:The second WonderSwan/WSC emulator, this WonderSwan emulator written in JavaScript was authored by Julien Frelat (Gollum) and released by the same team that made Boycott Advance. An online web format of WonderScott was also available at its official website, but is probably permanently inaccessible. It was somehow abandoned after its last version, v0.54b, was uploaded near the end of 2001 with poor compatibility.
 
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'''Features & pages on recommended/available WonderSwan/WS Color emulators:'''
 
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* [http://www.racketboy.com/retro/bandai-wonderswan-101-a-beginners-guide BANDAI WONDERSWAN 101: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE] (July 6th, 2007 by racketboy; updated June 19th, 2018. Old feature covering early WonderSwan emulation. Oswan and WSCamp were the recommended emulators according to the article. Both are too old by now and not recommended.)
 
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* [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PSP/Emulation_List#Bandai_WonderSwan Wikibooks.org] (PSP/Emulation List. 5 old emulators and ports for the PSP.)
 
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* [http://www.vtemulation.net/emulators/windows/ws.php VTEmulation.net] (Old list of 3 old, early 2000's recommended emulators. Site no longer maintained.)
 
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* [http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/emulator.asp?c=1175&st=2 Old-Computers.com] (List of 5 old, early 2000's emulators. For reference only.)
 
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* [https://www.zophar.net/ws.html Zophar's Domain] (List of downloads for 5 old, early 2000's emulators.)
 
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==Debugging==
 
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;[[Mednafen]]:This multi-system emulator is said to have great debugging and cheat engine features but, unfortunately, has a [https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/3llkck/comment/cv78kj7 CRC check function] similar to default MAME. A CRC check analyses a game ROM file for any change to its data and size, so a fan-translator or ROMhacker would have to edit filenames every time for every change, which is incredibly tedious. This is likely the reason why there have not been many hack and fan-translation patches being provided publicly for any game on several systems that are covered by Mednafen such as Wonderswan (this page's topic), Neo Geo and PC Engine/PCE CD. These systems don't tend to have many good alternative emulators, let alone ones with good quality debuggers.
 
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;[[MAME]]:This well-known emulator of thousands of systems also has a normal CRC check algorithm to insure that the ROM file(s) of any supported game or clone, depending on the database/ROMset for a MAME version, match the data integrity and size of the same game/variant in the records. However, this does make it rather prickly for an aspiring ROMhacker. The MAME developers partly wanted this to reduce the nasty incidences of some sellers pawning circuit boards that were actually stuffed with user-made ROMhacks. There are a few ways around that - note that MAME developers still support genuine fan-translators, even for arcade games.
 
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::1) Try using the HBMAME or MAMEUIFX frontend, which may support loading modified ROMs.
 
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::2) If you don't zip the set and instead make a folder with the zipname inside your rompath with properly-named loose files inside there, MAME will fuss up, but it will run the game even though the CRCs don't match.
 
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::3) With the new GEnie build system, it's pretty easy to build a one-game-off version of MAME that builds in seconds on pretty much any worthwhile PC.
 
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:::''make SUBTARGET=rom_name DRIVERS=src/mame/drivers/whatever.c REGENIE=1''
 
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;Oswan:A very old, broken and dead emulator. But it has a (poorly working) debugger, so making a hack patch on a WS game can be a lot smoother process with this software's tool than Mednafen's.
 
  
 
[[Category:Consoles]]
 
[[Category:Consoles]]
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[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
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[[Category:ColecoVision emulators|*]]
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[[Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles]]
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[[Category:Second-generation consoles]]

Revision as of 11:31, 7 July 2021

ColecoVision
Coleco.jpg
Developer Coleco Industries, Inc.
Type Home video game console
Generation Second generation
Release date 1982
Discontinued 1985
Predecessor Telstar series
Emulated ✓

The ColecoVision was the second-generation video game console produced by Coleco in August of 1982, before being discontinued in 1984 partly due to the ongoing crash in North America at the time. It retailed for $174.99 and had a Zilog Z80 CPU at 3.58 MHz with 8KB of RAM. Notably, it provided gamers with experiences very much like the arcade versions of games, as well as having Donkey Kong as a pack-in title to showcase this, although the Atari 2600 and Intellivision could do the same with the respected hardware. It shares largely the same underpinnings with the SG-1000. Indeed, a clone of the SG-1000 known as the Dina 2-in-1 (sold in the United States as the Telegames Personal Arcade) had support for both SG-1000 and ColecoVision games, though compatibility with the latter is spotty due to the lack of an expansion module interface or a second numeric keypad, rendering two-player ColecoVision games unplayable.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
BizHawk Windows 2.9.1 ? ✓ ✓
ColEm Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 5.6 ✗ ✓ ✓
CoolCV Windows Linux macOS 0.6.9 ? ✓ ✓
DSP Windows Linux macOS 0.18 ? ✓ ✓
higan Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD v110 ✓ ✓ ✓
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.265 ✓ ✓ ✓
Pantheon Windows 13.640 ✗ ✓ ✓
vdmgr Windows 0.2.6 ? ✓ ✓
Phoenix Windows Linux macOS 2.8.JAG ✗ ✓ ~
FreezeSMS Windows 4.6 ? ✗ ~
CLK Linux macOS FreeBSD Template:Clkver ✓ ✓ ✗
Bee Windows Linux macOS 2.4.3 ? ✗ ✗
blueMSX Windows
Linux macOS FreeBSD [N 1] 		2.8.2 ✓ ✗ ✗
MEKA Windows Linux macOS 0.8-alpha (2023-08-26) ? ✓ ✗
DarcNES Windows Linux BeOS 9b0401/9b0313 ? ✗ ✗
Mobile / ARM
ColEm Android Linux Pandora 5.2 ✗ ✓ ✓
MSX.emu
(blueMSX tech) 		Android iOS Linux Pandora Android 1.5.34
Git
Pandora build 15 		? ✓ ✓
blueMSX Android iOS Linux Pandora [N 1] 2.8.2 ✓ ✗ ✗
Consoles
ColEm Wii Dreamcast PSP 4.2.3 ✗ ✓ ✓
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Only available outside of Windows as a libretro core (e.g. RetroArch).
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