One Piece - Grand Battle Swan Colosseum | 2002 | Bandai WonderSwan Color / SwanCrystal
3One Piece - Grand Battle! Swan Colosseum is a fighting game based on the One Piece manga and anime, released for the WonderSwan Color. A handheld spin-off to Grand Battle! 2, it condenses many of the game elements to a smaller scale, with its story material adapted almost exclusively from the Arabasta Saga. The game was developed by Dimps, published by Bandai, and released on July 12, 2002. Fighting consists of standard button combinations. Each player character can access around 10 standard techniques, along with one or more Finisher (必殺, Hissatsu?) techniques fueled by a three-tiered "Bombstock" (ボムストック, Bomusutokku?) gauge; this gauge is filled by any standard attack that touches the opponent, including blocked attacks. As in the home-console Grand Battle! games, Finisher techniques follow a numbered level system; a level-one Finisher requires one tier of the Bombstock, and so on.
GAME RECORDING INFO:
The game was emulated at Retroarch. It was integer scaled to 4k, without bi-linear filtering, and retaining the original aspect ratio (display aspect ratio, not internal resolution). And captured using shader / filter that simulates the original screen of the hardware. I also created an image of the handheld to use as a bezel above the game, to create a nostalgic atmosphere.
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