What is a .WS file?
WS is a Bandai WonderSwan handheld game ROM.
- Did you know
- The WonderSwan, designed by Game Boy’s creator, was a hit in late-1990s Japan.
- The WonderSwan ran on a 16-bit NEC processor yet squeezed up to around 40 hours of play from a single AA battery.
- Bandai sold the WonderSwan only in Japan, where it took roughly a tenth of the handheld market against Nintendo’s Game Boy.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify and read more game and emulator files: Unity asset bundles, Unreal cooked assets, CISO/CHD disc images, FMOD/Wwise sound banks, Spine skeletons and atlases, GameMaker/LDtk/TIC-80 projects, Minecraft Anvil regions, Warcraft III maps, Ren Py and RPG Maker data, extra console ROMs (Atari, PC Engine, Master System/Game Gear, WonderSwan, 3DS homebrew), xdelta/Basis patches and emulator saves and movies.
- Depth of analysis
- .WS is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .WS file
- Drag a .WS file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.