Awesome. Loads of fun to be had with a DS. :)

I play my DS off and on each day, and its charge lasts well over a week. Its battery held up for my recent 2 week vacation, including the 2 flights. I've been very happy with it and haven't been paranoid about the battery going dead when I'm out all day.

I've heard great things about Kirby, and all my DS games have been quite fun in general. I really like Golden Eye, but only because of its multiplayer option and more importantly the DS's controls. This game would suck on any console or other portable. But my favorite game right now is Fire Emblem, which is a GBA game. Just another perk about owning a DS. :)

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Kirby:Canvas Curse is great....the best touchscreen-based game ever in the history of touchscreen-based games.

I'm not even exaggerating...it is very easy to just pick up and play, yet difficult to be really good at.

I can't wait for the DS WiFi thingy. Does anyone know if the DS suppots WEP?

Read this;
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums...hp/t-51124.html

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Oh Mr. Axe, your article was kinda funny... Well, the flame responces were anyway. But, theres some new DS news on the WiFi (If you call it that)

Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Hits Theaters
Get an exclusive look at Nintendo's trailer hitting movie screens this weekend.
by Craig Harris

July 29, 2005 - Nintendo will launch a multi-million dollar campaign kicking off the company's focus on taking the Nintendo DS online with a film-style teaser trailer hitting movie theaters this weekend.

The theatre-only advertisement, titled "The Sad, Agonizing Tale of Bhuvan Ganguly," is a minute-long mini-movie that teases viewers with the idea of affecting people anywhere in the world from anywhere in the world. The film has been created and produced by Nintendo's longtime advertising firm Leo Burnett.

"The Sad, Agonizing Tale of Bhuvan Ganguly" will be spotlighted in more than 5,000 theaters in the US starting July 29th through August 25th, and will be shown before such films as The Fantastic Four, The Dukes of Hazzard, Bad News Bears, Stealth, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Island.

"There is a great element of surprise to this ad," says Nintendo's advertising manager Kelli Koenig. "The spot opens on a very dramatic situation that you just wouldn't expect to be related to video games or Nintendo. The spot clearly demonstrates Wi-Fi as it relates to the Nintendo brand with a nod to Mario Kart DS and it does this in a magical, clearly 'ownable ' by Nintendo kind of way."

Instead of ruining the film's "surprise" in text, we'll just let you watch it for yourself. Hit the movie link below to watch "The Sad, Agonizing Tale of Bhuvan Ganguly" in its entirety.

http://media.ds.ign.com/articles/637/637723/vids_1.html

Well, I am now in the world of Nintendo DS. Just picked up an electric blue one. It came with Mario 64 and I also picked up Urbs: Simz in the City.

Got it charging right now, so I will give it a go in a couple of hours.

Bluuuuue. :) The only thing I would like to change out my DS is its color, I would like black.

Urbz is very very addicting, be warned, I lost days before i forced myself to put it down. :)

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I wish the gunmetal colored DS was available in the States. Only two more weeks until Advance Wars: Dual Strike is released.

P.S. Nanostray failed to impress me.

P.P.S. My hand strap / thumb screen poker thingy is starting to get frayed. It annoys me. I hate hand straps.

I get "Electronic Gaming Monthly" for free, since I attended E3, and I would like to point out that these TARDS can't understand why anyone would want to aim with a stylus. I guess because of their vast gape of ignorance, they're probably too young to have played with a mouse and keyboard for FPS games, so have grown accustom to the inferior thumb-analogue stick for aiming.

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Say it brother. ;)

I HATE console controllers for FPS games.
I just can't get used to 'em!

Just ranting as usual. :) Same here, I can't stand console controlers for FPS. I've only tolerated them for games like Halo.

Speaking of which, when hanging out at one of the game stores where my friend manages, one of his employees had no idea that FPS games were easier to control with a mouse and keyboard. His only experience with FPS games was with consoles.

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I would have liked the black as well, but the blue one had Mario 64 with it. Came as a package deal for the price of a normal one...

So far, I really like it.

One question... How will I know when the battery is low? Do I only need to charge it when it "tells" me that it is low or should I top it off?

You can tell when the green light turns orange on the DS itself. Just charging it whenever seems to work fine for me, although I tend to let it discharge and then charge it up.

The orange light comes on at 30% power.

I like the blue more so than my silver one. I'm just going to print some stickers and put them on it when I finally get bored with its color.

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Is there a good site with reviews and screenshots of the current DS games?

I don't have any peticular place I go. I just do a search on Google when I find a new game I'm interested in learning about. That way I can hopefully get a broader view of the title. I like second opinions. :)

I had one link I liked a while back, but I'll need to dig it up again.

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IGN, Gamespot, any of the "Established" gaming websites have full reviews screenshots, upcoming games, news, ect. Speaking of, I should go see if theres any DS or PSP news.

Oh, I've got some, my PSP is lonely. I don't use it, as there are no games I want. Thank god Ghost In the Shell : Stand Alone Complex is coming out for it, or I may have already sold it. (Major fan of the show)

I've been watching it on Cartoon network. I really started to like it after seeing a few shows.

So, let me get this straight; You're going to spend more money on a propietory lower-rez UMD just to play it on a lower-rez sreen, rather than buying a higher-rez DVD that will play on pretty much anything? :)

My friend sold his PSP already, and my other friends just sits there collecting dust all day. The PSP, all dressed up with no where to go. ;)

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Yeah, thats what Sony's IDEA was. Too bad it didn't work.

I have even started to see members of the PSP comunity reject both the PSP and the DS because they told everyone how much the "DS sucks" so they cant go back to the DS, but the PSP didnt even come close to the expectations they had for it. It's sad really, and it makes me wonder if more and more people start to reject the units, maybe Nintendo will again be the sole handheld king.

Games keep systems alive, not graphics.

I guess those peeps will just end up with GBA micro, if they're to good for a DS. :) I guess that the next will tell for Sony. They definately have a market, but at the current rate, Nintendo's dominance isn't threatened, especially with something like 130 million GBA owners. My friend (Gamestore manager dude.) says the DS is selling better( Current sales are slow for bogth though.) than the PSP, and that there are quite a few kids with them now.

Games definately make it, and for portables I personaly prefer the simpler games with better gameplay. Like Zelda. :)

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YES! I picked up Minish Cap and was so far from disapointed! The game was kinda fast though, wish it was longer.

Same here, I was hoping it would've been longer. But I had a blast with it. Capcom made that Zelda, so hopefully they release another one. I still play the game once and a while just to collect those annoying figurines. I have agbout about 30 to go, so about 500 billion seashells to collect. I'm trying to get the very last heart container, which is only accessible after beating the game. I got the Mirror Shield after beating it.

I've been thinking about playing "Link to the Past" again. That game was tough towards the end, and I really liked all the armor upgrades. I would love to see a new Minish with all the character it has, but with more items like link.

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The final items of the game sort of disapointed me, like the Cape and the Fire, I guess because those had always been some of the first items you get in the Zelda series... They were still cool to see and use again, because they were changed. The absence of a magic meter kinda ticked me off, but then again, I didnt want another Link to the Past clone. I didn't find the Miror shield, and I will look again, but if I cant find it, you have to help me =P

The Light arrows kicked as always.

I felt the same way about the items. To be honest though, after the nightmares I had with LinkPast and the magic meter, it was kind of a relief. I noticed that all the Zelda games shuffle up the items and their importance. I really like the remote control bombs though. And the new boomerang was nice.

In order to get the Mirror Shield, you have to save the game after beating it. It brings up the option to save after the credits if I recall. Then you have to go to the huge Rock Goro at the top of the mountain and make him happy, then he'll ask if he can suck and chew on your shield. Then after about 20 minutes when you go back to him, he'll spit out the mirror shield. :) I used an on-line walkthrough, or I would've never figure it out. :)

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:D :D Scumm VM has been ported to the DS;
http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.p...er=asc&start=33

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Sweet! I shall have to do that now.

Ye need a flash card, you have one? :eek: I'm not sure if it loads through the GBA, or DS flash card?

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Oh. Uh, no, I don't, but I had been interested in one for a long time.

I've been wanting one also. Mainly to dump my old GC games onto a GBA cart, since the DS can't play them.

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What size card you using there, friend? The 80GB version? How much did THAT run ya? :p :p :p :p Kidding. But, yes, I really want one for my old GB games too... Legend of the River King must live! (Plus Oracle of Ages/Seasons/Awakening/DX and a few more)
Realisticly, what are cards priced now-a-days for a good sized one?

Don't need 80gigs for old Nintendo games. Most of this old games, even the ones that advertized as having more Mbits, were only a few hundred Kilobytes. :)

They sell a kit that includes a DS and GBA 1Gig flash cart and dumper for about $235. The 512 with both types of carts, is about $164. It's about $60 for the GBA carts that can accept either a CF, or SD card.

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Actually, I knew they were quite small, as I have most of those legal ROMs on my PC already. I only said 80GB because you wrote GC :) :p

But, there was a new flash card that apparently runs DS ROMs GBA ROMs / (all older emulation?) Music and Video files. The card is shown using both screens, check it out! http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000883053536/

Thief! :D :p I meant Gameboy Color, but like a tard I didn't write GBC, my bad. :o

Sweeeet. I want one!!! :) I noticed that the DS boxes have a slot for both GBA and DS carts, so Nintendo must have been planing on using the GBA for storage and expansion for DS apps.

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Hah, I knew what you meant :D
Anyway, asking seriously, I own the cartridges of all the ROMs I own, so arent they legal for me to posses? Whats the law on that?

It's illegal to have any kind of ROM or a cop of a game, actually. It says that in the back of the manual for the games. Nintendo doesn't pursue persecution of people who play ROMs, but it's a legal grey area that wouldn't be hard to be busted in.

Its illegal just as much as it is to have music downloaded off of the internet. The reason that they cant currently prosecute is that they cant actually be sure that you dont own a license for either the ROM or the music, as it is perfectly legal to own a digital copy of something you already own. It is however, illegal to upload the files, which is why they prosecute those people. Thank goodness for fair use.

Speaking of roms. I'm curious about how much Nintendo will charge for their download service for the Revolution? I'm hoping that I can download a game, then either play it on my Revolution, or somehow move it to my DS for portable play.

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True!
Nintendo stands to make a lot off legally doing ROMs, something I've been waiting for for a while. If titles are reasonably priced, Nintendo will make a killing. BUT, if they cant get access to some games, people will slowly reject the idea (word of mouth that the service "sucks" spreads quickly) so I want the entire game collection available to me day one. Also, my dad knows french, and likes certain games, I wonder if they will offer different languages?

Same here, I wouldn't want limited access.

Didn't think about the language thing, I suppose that each unit sold might have a regional chip, or when registering, it would ask for your location, then from there determine what you can buy. I can't imagine them not allowing the purchase of any language though.

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Picked up Meteo's today.
Fun as all hell.