# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear/blob/bb148e1a600691ac37fe1b1c4fa7ad56478315fa/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vitalwear-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/vitalwear-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/vitalwear-case/index.md)

## 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.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/cfogrady/VitalWear/blob/bb148e1a600691ac37fe1b1c4fa7ad56478315fa/README.md>

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