I swapped my WonderSwan screen for an IPS one 0 ▲ Whatever the Wind Brings 1 hour ago · Gaming · hide · 0 comments Back in March, I said I bought a WonderSwan Color. I barely turned it on because (a) its games are only in Japanese, since it was released only in Japan; (b) the only game I had was Final Fantasy II (in Japanese); and © I could barely see the screen. Maybe younger people don't know about this, but old handhelds didn't have any backlighting, so you had to play it under a strong source of light to see anything, and it was not great. Here's a picture of my WonderSwan running Final Fantasy II. It was taken during the day, in a bright room with an overhead lamp turned on. Magnificent, isn't it? And now here it is with an IPS screen bought from AliExpress, at minimum brightness, in a dark room. It's a world of difference. Of course, now the single AA battery will last way less than before — I still don't know by how much — but at least it's playable. The screen ended up a bit too far to the left, but since it has a larger internal frame than the original one, I'm not sure it can be changed… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.