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Play Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Japan edition · Japanese) Online
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Play the Japanese Famicom Wizardry online. Create a six-member party and explore Werdna's maze with verified movement, door, camp, and suspended-party controls.
Browser play
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom — EmulatorJS controls
Default Player 1 keyboard mapping. Change keys in Controller Settings.
| Console button | Keyboard |
|---|---|
| ↑ / ↓ / ← / → | ↑ / ↓ / ← / → |
| A / B | Z / X |
| START / SELECT | Enter / V |
Open Controller Settings to configure your keyboard or gamepad. Touch controls are available on mobile.
How to Play Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Quick start
At the title, use SELECT to choose GAME START and confirm with START or A. SELECT SWITCH opens display settings; Up/Down chooses a setting and Left/Right changes it. Create adventurers in the training grounds, assemble a party at the tavern, and equip them before entering the maze. Move cautiously near the entrance: Up or A advances, but only A opens a door. B opens camp. Resume a suspended dungeon group with RESTART AN “OUT” PARTY at the outskirts.
Controls
Menus: D-pad selects; A confirms. B cancels or selects the menu's bottom command. Dungeon: Up or A moves forward; Left/Right turn, and Down changes facing rather than walking backward. A kicks open doors; B makes camp. START hides/shows the party window, not a pause screen. SELECT opens QUIT, SEARCH, and SET TIMER. At the title, SELECT changes the choice and START/A confirms. Name entry uses the D-pad and A; B deletes and SELECT changes character sets.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord — About this game
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord turns Trebor's castle into a base for repeated dungeon expeditions. Create adventurers with different races, alignments, and professions, then form a party of up to six. The first three members occupy the fighting front line, so order matters alongside equipment and spell choices. Town facilities provide recruitment, shopping, and rest between trips into the first-person maze. Keep track of passages and resources rather than pushing deeper without a route back. A party that quits in the dungeon remains there and must be resumed from the outskirts' restart option. This Japanese Famicom release includes English/Japanese display settings.
Cheats
No cheats have been added for this edition.
Player verification and sources
Browser play was reviewed before this edition was published in the catalogue. The date below is the catalogue publication date, not the game’s original release date.
- Browser test and catalogue publication date
- Browsers and devices
- PC: Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile: Chrome on Android and Safari on iPhone and iPad.
- Player engine and core
- EmulatorJS 4.3.0-pre · nes
- Tested by
- rwEmulator
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