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The '''[[wikipedia:Watara Supervision|Watara Supervision]]''', also known as the QuickShot Supervision in the UK, is a monochrome handheld game console which was introduced in 1992 as a low-cost competitor for Nintendo's [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy]]. It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. One unique feature of the Supervision was that it could be linked up to a television via a link cable. Games played in this way would display in four colors, much like Nintendo's Super Game Boy add-on for the [[Super Nintendo emulators|SNES]]. A full color TV link was also in the works, but because of the Supervision's failure to make a major impression among gamers it was cancelled, along with the games which were in development for it. Only a tiny handful of games were developed by third parties and many were developed in Taiwan or Hong Kong.
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The '''[[wikipedia:Watara Supervision|Watara Supervision]]''', also known as the QuickShot Supervision in the UK and as the Travell-Mate in parts of Asia, is a monochrome handheld game console which was introduced in 1992 as a low-cost competitor for Nintendo's [[Game Boy/Game Boy Color emulators|Game Boy]]. It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. One unique feature of the Supervision was its TV-Link peripheral, which allowed the console to be connected to a television and its games to be played in limited colour, a handful of years before Nintendo’s own Super Game Boy. It featured very similar capabilities to the Game Boy, but with a much bigger and slightly higher resolution screen. Sadly, it was much blurrier as well, which did not help its sales, already hampered by the lack of recognisable titles and the overall poor quality of most of its games. It later received a minor hardware revision in the form of the Magnum Supervision, for which only one exclusive game was developed, ''Journey to the West''.
  
 
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===Comparisons===
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;Potator
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The first Supervision emulator, originally developed for Windows using SDL. Surprisingly old, it was last updated in 2005. The sound emulation is only preliminary and there are a lot of bugs and inaccuracies.
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Potator’s first fork was a port to the GP2X handheld, abandoned in 2007. This port would serve as base to all subsequent forks, including the libretro version and the Windows SDL2 version.
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Potator’s return to Windows after a chain of handheld ports is one of the very few emulators to support the Magnum and thus ''Journey to the West''. The UI is very barebones, but the emulation is pretty much flawless. Stopped being updated in 2019.
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Runs relatively fine, but the sound emulation isn’t quite there yet. This is especially bad with ''Classic Casino''’s sampled speech.
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A more traditional-looking, fully-featured emulator developed by renowned Atari homebrewer Osman D. after he lost a bet. Like Potator (SDL2), the emulation is pretty spot-on, but despite having really low system requirements, working even under Windows 95, it may chug on less powerful PCs.
  
 
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Revision as of 06:51, 13 February 2023

Watara Supervision
Watara-Supervision-Tilted.png
Developer Watara
Type Handheld game console
Generation Fourth generation
Release date 1992
Emulated ✓

The Watara Supervision, also known as the QuickShot Supervision in the UK and as the Travell-Mate in parts of Asia, is a monochrome handheld game console which was introduced in 1992 as a low-cost competitor for Nintendo's Game Boy. It came packaged with a game called Crystball, which is similar to Breakout. One unique feature of the Supervision was its TV-Link peripheral, which allowed the console to be connected to a television and its games to be played in limited colour, a handful of years before Nintendo’s own Super Game Boy. It featured very similar capabilities to the Game Boy, but with a much bigger and slightly higher resolution screen. Sadly, it was much blurrier as well, which did not help its sales, already hampered by the lack of recognisable titles and the overall poor quality of most of its games. It later received a minor hardware revision in the form of the Magnum Supervision, for which only one exclusive game was developed, Journey to the West.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Version libretro TV-Link Magnum FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Wataroo Windows 0.8.0.0 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ~ ✓
Potator (SDL2) Windows 1.0.19 ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ~
Potator Windows 0.6 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Consoles
Potator PSP git ✗ ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ✓
Potator GCWZero git ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ~
Potator2x GP2X r01 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ~
PotatorDS Nintendo DS r1 ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✗ ✗
Calculators
Potator TI-Nspire gitx.x ✗ ✗ ? ✓ ✗ ~

Comparisons

Potator

The first Supervision emulator, originally developed for Windows using SDL. Surprisingly old, it was last updated in 2005. The sound emulation is only preliminary and there are a lot of bugs and inaccuracies.

Potator2x

Potator’s first fork was a port to the GP2X handheld, abandoned in 2007. This port would serve as base to all subsequent forks, including the libretro version and the Windows SDL2 version.

Potator (SDL2)

Potator’s return to Windows after a chain of handheld ports is one of the very few emulators to support the Magnum and thus Journey to the West. The UI is very barebones, but the emulation is pretty much flawless. Stopped being updated in 2019.

MAME

Runs relatively fine, but the sound emulation isn’t quite there yet. This is especially bad with Classic Casino’s sampled speech.

Wataroo

A more traditional-looking, fully-featured emulator developed by renowned Atari homebrewer Osman D. after he lost a bet. Like Potator (SDL2), the emulation is pretty spot-on, but despite having really low system requirements, working even under Windows 95, it may chug on less powerful PCs.

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