List of English Friendly Wonderswan Games
This is a list of games for the Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color that are playable without extensive extensive knowledge of Japanese. In most cases, you just need to play around in the menu to get to the game. In some games, you would need a good understanding of how the game work to be able to enjoy them. Please look at the video to see if the game fell right to you.
The list has compiled using different sources and my own experience. The sources are listed bellow the table.
| Title | Genre | Color or B&W | Gameplay Video | Notes |
| Armored Unit | Strategy game | B&W | Video | A lot of menu trial and error |
| Beat Mania | Music | B&W | Video | |
| Blue Wing Blitz | Tactical RPG | Color | Video | HARD to play: You should read a walkthrough for the general premise, the controls and the objectives |
| Buffers Evolution | Platform | B&W | Video | |
| Crazy Climber | Arcade | B&W | Video | Conversion of Taito’s classic arcade game. Similar to Donkey Kong. |
| D’s Garage 21: Koubo Game – Tane wo Maku Tori | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Densha de go! 2 | Simulation | B&W | Video | Only if you know the general premise.
trial and error in menu |
| Dicing Knight Period | Action RPG | Color | Video | Was developed via WonderWitch, Bandai’s official homebrew development kit. The game is a random dungeon crawler. |
| Digimon Digital Monsters: Anode/Cathode Tamer Veedramon Version | Tactical RPG | Color | Video | |
| Digimon Digital Monsters ver wonderswan | Card Battle | B&W | Video | |
| Digimon Frontiers Battle Spirit | Action / Platform | Color | Video | |
| Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5 | Action / Platform | Color | Video | Expansion on previous game. |
| Engacho! | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Fever Sankyo Koushiki Pachinko Simulation | Pachinko | B&W | Video | |
| Final Lap 2000 | Driving | B&W | Video | Formula One Racing. |
| Final Lap Special | Driving | Color | Video | Upgrade of previous game. |
| Fire Pro Wrestling | Wrestling | B&W | Video | |
| Ganso Jajamaru Kun | Action / Platform | B&W | Video | Sequel to Ninja JaJaMaru-kun on Famicom. |
| Glocal Hexcite | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Golden Axe | Action | Color | Video | Straightforward conversion of Sega’s classic arcade hit. |
| Gomoku Narabe & Reversi | Board Game | B&W | Video | Reversi Game.
Some menu trial and error. |
| Guilty Gear Petit | Fighting | Color | Video | Portable version of Sammy’s popular 2D fighter. |
| Front Mission | Tactical RPG | Color | Video | playable quite a lot as the commands are in English |
| Guilty Gear Petit 2 | Fighting | Color | Video | |
| GunPey | Puzzle | B&W | Video | Named for WonderSwan creator Gunpei Yokoi. He also invented Game & Watch, the d-pad, Game Boy, and Virtual Boy. |
| GunPey Ex | Puzzle | Color | Video | Updated version of the original. |
| Judgement Silversword – Rebirth Edition | Vertical Shooter | Color | Video | |
| Kaze no Klonoa: Moonlight Museum | Platform / Adventure | B&W | Video | |
| Kidou Senshi Gundam Seed | Fighting | Color | Video | |
| KinnikuMan Second Generations Dream Tag Match | Wrestling | Color | Video | |
| Kurupara! | Puzzle | Color | Video | |
| Lode Runner | Action / Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Magical Drop | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Makaimura | Action / Platform | B&W | Video | This is Ghosts N’ Goblins. |
| Mingle Magnet | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Moero!! Pro Yakyuu Rookies | Baseball | B&W | Video | |
| Mr. Driller | Puzzle | Color | Video | This game has been widely released in the U.S. and Europe on many platforms. |
| Nice On | Golf | B&W | Video | |
| One Piece Grand Battle: Swan Colosseum | Fighting | Color | Video | |
| Ou-chan no Oekaki Logic | Picross | B&W | Video | |
| Pocket Fighter | Fighting | B&W | Video | |
| Puyo Puyo Tsu | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Puzzle Bobble | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Raku Jongg | Puzzle | Color | Video | trial and error in menus and in some in-game choices |
| Rainbow Islands: Putty’s Party | Platform | B&W | Video | |
| Rhyme Rider Kerorikan | Music | Color | Video | |
| Rockman & Forte: Mirai Kara no Chousen Sha | Action / Platform | B&W | Video | This game is in the Mega Man series. |
| Rockman EXE WS | Action / Platform | Color | Video | This is a title in the Mega Man Battle Network series. This game is a platformer like Mega Man Network Transmission, rather than an RPG. |
| RUN=DIM: Return to Earth | Sidescrolling Shooter | Color | Video | |
| SD Gundam: Operation U.C. | Sidescrolling Shooter | Color | Video | |
| Sennou Millennium | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Shanghai Pocket | Puzzle | B&W | Video | |
| Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Toukon Retsuden | Wrestling | B&W | Video | |
| Side Pocket | Billiards | B&W | Video | |
| Soccer Yarou! Challenge the World | Soccer | B&W | Video | |
| Space Invaders | Shooter | B&W | Video | |
| Tare Pan no Gunpey | Puzzle | B&W | Video | (menu trial and error) |
| Tekken Card Challenge | Card / Fighting | B&W | Video | This game required a good understanding on the overall game to be playable. |
| Tetris | Puzzle | Color | Video | |
| Turntablist: DJ Battle | Music | B&W | Video | |
| Uchuu Senkan Yamato | Sidescrolling Shooter | Color | Video | This actually just a sub-game that can be selected from the main screen, third option down. |
| Ultraman: Hikari no Kuni no Shisha | Fighting | Color | Video | |
| Umizuri Ni Ikou! | Fishing | B&W | Video | |
| Wasabi Produce: Street Dancer | Music | B&W | Video | |
| Wizardry | RPG | Color | Video | There is an option in the settings to set the language in English. |
| Wonder Classic | Golf | Color | Video | |
| Wonder Stadium ’99 | Baseball | B&W | Video | |
| XI [Sai] Little | Puzzle | Color | Video | Also known as “Devil Dice.” It was one of the few Yaroze homebrews to see a commercial release on PlayStation. It was later ported to WonderSwan. |
Ref :
- https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroGamingNetwork/wiki/wonderswan
- http://atariage.com/forums/topic/192439-my-list-of-playablefor-non-japanese-speakerswonderswan-games/
- http://racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7184