Case study

VitalWear: recreating Vital Bracelet BE on Wear OS

VitalWear recreates Bandai Vital Bracelet BE gameplay as a Wear OS watch app with a phone companion. It loads user-supplied 1.0.B firmware and DIM or BE Memory card images, validates cards against a physical bracelet, and implements character training, battles and adventures.

Targets: App
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06

Stars: 71
Last commit: 2025-03-19
Language: Kotlin
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A Vital Bracelet and the physical cards to be used are required.
Prerequisites: The watch app and phone companion app must both be installed; official firmware version 1.0.B is required.
Limits: Other firmware versions may cause malfunction.
License: MIT license.

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BibTeX

@misc{vitalwear-case,
  title = {{VitalWear: recreating Vital Bracelet BE on Wear OS}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear}},
  url = {https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/vitalwear-case/}}
}

Plain text

VitalWear: recreating Vital Bracelet BE on Wear OS. https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/vitalwear-case/

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README.md GitHub · cfogrady/VitalWear · Revision bb148e1