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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.
 
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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==TV-Link emulation==
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Being incredibly rare due to its pitifully low sales, the TV-Link add-on isn’t well understood yet. Currently, no emulator even attempts to support it.
  
 
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Revision as of 06:58, 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 1.0.6 ?
Potator GCWZero git ~
Potator2x GP2X R1 ~
PotatorDS Nintendo DS R1
Calculators
Potator TI-Nspire archive ? ~

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.

TV-Link emulation

Being incredibly rare due to its pitifully low sales, the TV-Link add-on isn’t well understood yet. Currently, no emulator even attempts to support it.