Odd WonderSwan Unit (Dev Unit?)

Wow ! I really need one ! Such a thing will be really helpfull for my project... It's sad they are so rare

(edit: in fact the auction website is in chinese, not japanese)

 

Very interesting, thanks! It seems like the unit I have is part of that kit.

 

these pics blew my mind!

 

I won mentioned unit.



I believe it's in the original box (things fit in it a little too well) I still have yet to even try powering it on. I believe this unit to be a very basic unit. There is lots of room on the back for extra add on cards that aren't present in my unit. The only one I can remember is a TV out card.

 

Wow, good to see. Is the unit the same as mine?

Do you plan on powering it up anytime soon? If there's a hard drive in it, there might be betas on it.

 

It looks like the original auction was on Yahoo Japan - all 79door does is to provide a Chinese interface for various Japanese shopping sites and Yahoo auctions.

 

Arg, it's a member of this forum that Win this item

Can you please take photos of the internal of the SW-1100T box? It's a long process an a pain, but scanning the documentation, photograph the internal and making images of the media (the CD here) is important for preservation of thoses rare stuffs, and it's one of ma goal with the WonderSwan. I'm searching stuff from this console to preserve them, and analyse them to better understand it.

 

At this point I plan to do all of that eventually but not really any time soon. I don't believe it has a hard drive inside but will have to check sometime.

 

Thanks!

 

Wow... I'd say probably a dev unit or a test unit. The Parallel ATA port points it's more likely used to program, maybe from a computer?

 

SW-1100T is relative an early model.

I think I have bought SW-1000T/SW-1010T/SW-1100T about 10yrs ago.These models are for B&W Swan.
And later,I got SWTool for Swan Color and then SWTool for Swan Crystal.They are much more smaller and lighter than SW-1XXXT series and much more like an Dell Slim PC.

For SwanCrystal model,the display and joystick terminal must connect a special blue box to convert 80pin to 68pin for the interface on SWTool.

Sorry,I don't have these kit in my new house.I have only swan color and swan crystal terminal on my book shelf.So enjoy the terminal pictures today and I will take more pics when I back to my old house.

 

Thank you for sharing the pictures! Have you powered on any of the kits?

 

No,I have not powered on them.Too lazy to connect them.I like devkit but I hate those cables,they messed me up.....
But I know they are working.

Recently I'm moving into new house.Maybe I will turn on those kits(include my other dev stuff) in my new big room and record video for archive(If I can find old PC for plugging interface card).

 

It would be great to see them running! Do you know if they contain hard drives? Maybe they have betas on them?

 

I so want one of these I am a huge Wonderswan fan.

 

As I promised.I started moving Swan dev kits to my new house.The first one is the newest model for Swan Crystal.Other models will be a little bit later.

Sorry,I can't demonstrate how to make game running on the terminal.It'll take much longer time as I forget where I stored my source code backup disc and master roms(Even I found them,I need a working M.O. disc reader to read them X_X ).And I forget to take the EEPROM cart and flash cart to new house,either. ...

Anyway,it seems the kit is still working with the debugger(even running well in VM Ware on my MacBook Pro).
So enjoy the pics today and I will bring more ASAP.

P.S. I will not include all pics nor pics in full size for that will affect thread loading speed.You can check full album in this URL:
http://imgur.com/a/GCo1v/all

 

Wow, thank you for sharing! Interesting stuff.

 

man that is really cool i wish i had one