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- Aaronraw, on 11/27/2007, -3/+25Its like the DS has on a little Backpack of Awesome.
- JlmAWP, on 11/27/2007, -1/+8Man, you're gonna be pissed when Nintendo releases this new DS without a GBA slot.
- JlmAWP, on 11/27/2007, -3/+10I'm sorry, but the improvements of the DS to DS Lite are way better than any of the other "upgrades" Nintendo has done. I traded my DS Phat in for $70 and bought the Lite for $129, and it was worth every penny.
- TheDarkTipper, on 11/27/2007, -2/+7SNESmulDS works well so far for playing SNES on DS. It plays most of the popular games in full speed with some minor glitches. nesDS is full speed NES on DS.
I use the R4 for those and I also buy my DS games. - inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3Yes, all of them do. No exceptions.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3how come all demos ive seen of psp running emulators the screen resolution is always stretched to fit the psp screen, do you guys have an option on emulators to go original AR?
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2I paid $20 for my 4 gig stick. If that's expensive as hell the $100 Passkey+M3 combo for DS is beyond your reach.
As for the horribleness of a PSP, you mean better framerates, built in USB port so you don't have to take the flash card out. Hackable OS so you can even have USB transfers going in game. Larger screen. And overall higher quality emulators?
Oh the horror. I'd hate to submit you to the torture. You can go back to the DS with it's weaker processor that runs games awesomely enough to add tons of studdering and such. - GfunkGbuss, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3I can generally watch 2 full-length movies on 1 set of fresh rechargeable batteries, so I'd say between 3½ - 4 hours with movies. Games really depends on the games, but it can range from an hour to 4. Listening to music with the screen off can get you around 6-8 hours.
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2DS with a broken screen = unusable
PSP with a broken UMD drive = still usable thanks to memorystick - darkNiGHTS, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3Yeah, but Memory Sticks are expensive as hell.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3they absolutely are. There's no question about it. *****, I bet they'll make an even smaller, brighter one soon too and then only make addons for it!
- Bense, on 11/27/2007, -14/+15I'll stick to my hacked PSP, which plays GameBoy, NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Gear, MAME, PSX, SegaCD, and many more games flawlessly.
All for free. - postalblowfish7, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1this is ***** awesome. final fantasy II anyone?
- postalblowfish7, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1you just don't get it.
- ButchersBoy, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1I applaud the ingeniouty but I'll be sticking to Wii VC.
- djSyndrome, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2Serious question: how's the battery life on that thing? Word on the street is that it's not so good with alkaline, but better with rechargables.
- aywwts4, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Uh, you don't need passkeys anymore. the r4/m3 IS the passme, you put your firmware on the a micro sd card, then you stick a 10 dollar micro sd inside a 35 dollar r4 put it into slot one and boot, there is nothing else to buy or do.
And DS emulation isnt that bad, if a DS is all you have there are good options, NES and Sega and all the old portables in particular no studdering problems - aywwts4, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1I have had an R4 for ages and I just got a used 50 dollar psp and I have to admit the PSP emulation homebrew is much better, number one is that the screen size actually fits the full resolution of the game, SNES and Genesis on the DS both crop the top bottom and sides (it made for a lot of cheap kills in a lot of games) and there is nothing the DS can do about it other than smush it, which looks real bad.
Number two, Emulation on the DS has progressed so much, NES is perfect, the new jEnesis sega emulator is very near perfect, with the notable absence of sound. and SNES DS... it still has some speed and layer issues, but I think it can be mostly fixed. But none of it is quite as polished as the PSPs emulatiors.
Number 3. The DS can't do play sonic CD nor struggle through 25% of N64 games (but it looks decent emulation might actually be possible eventualy) nor play PSX games
On the flipside the DS wins in two very important areas, 1 it fits in your pocket, 2, it has a touch screen, making all sorts of PDA and email applications actually useful. But for straight up game emulation the PSP wins, I can't say it doesn't, (it would win on screen alone) and I'm a Nintendo fan boy, (just look at my digg history)
I'm reluctantly impressed with my psp, I will admit that. (and it has dreamcast games like crazy taxi and powerstone!) - trunk8, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2Awesome, but it doesn't play U.S. cartridges.
- LogitechG15, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Classic games on my portable device?! Welcome to 2004!
- HollowGrind, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1apparently you never played the original Gameboy Advance ...
it was unplayable because the dark screen. i'd call the the Advance SP a bigger improvement - HydrogenOxide, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Give me a DS attachment that will let me play EarthBound and Mario RPG 7 Stars, and I will love you forever nintendo, if not sequels
- asspants, on 11/27/2007, -3/+4Yes yes we all know that there are emulators out there that can play all these games, many of you are all acting like this is new *****, and you're so super leet because you can do this.
I have full GoodROM sets too, and an M3 adapter.. but
I will buy one of these because I have about 100 NES cartridges laying around and it looks cool.
Also, what game are they playing on the DS that's on the website it links to? In b4 battletoads - mattcoady, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Dreamcast was great, but it made for an awkward portable.
- directive0, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1Well said, and honestly, nothing is quite as cool as playing the actual carts. But I wouldn't bring this to work with me for my metroid or thexder breaks, that would still fall to the r4.
- m0shen, on 11/27/2007, -9/+9no, all for $200 + the inflated cost of a sony memory stick
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -2/+2It's a good idea to play games that are actually good, but i'll still stick with the roms and nesds method (you can reverse time with it, very useful for megaman).
- funknjunk, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1Fire the harpoons!!
- gmaster999, on 11/28/2007, -0/+0Darn, I have the old DS.
- Bense, on 11/27/2007, -5/+5You can't run PSX, or sega cd games on a NDS.
PS. That flash cart is extra money. a Tiff hack isn't. - djSyndrome, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1Being a NES(Famicom)-On-A-Chip, it still won't play some games, including Castlevania III. Fail.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+0Let's hope it does if it ever gets here=)
- GfunkGbuss, on 11/27/2007, -5/+4I bought a GP2X and a 2GB SD card and I could install emulators for all of those systems immediately out of the box. I can also watch xvid .avi files with no need to transcode into an obscure format. Plus, when my batteries run out, I can just pop in a fresh new set of AA's without having to go find somewhere to charge it or carry an expensive unique battery pack.
- Yerknutz, on 11/27/2007, -3/+2They aren't forgetting, they just don't see a market for a system that Nintendo stopped production on a while ago.
- darkNiGHTS, on 11/28/2007, -2/+1Well I bought a DS with a broken screen $50 shipped
Bought a 2gb microSD card $25 shipped
r4ds $32 shipped.
That's cheaper, and you get a lot of good native games for the DS. - ZachSka87, on 11/27/2007, -4/+3Dreamcast?
- joltjake, on 11/27/2007, -6/+4What? do you think you're psp is something special? You can run all of those for free on a ds too, but without all the horribleness of a psp, all you need is a flash card.
- EvileSpawn, on 11/27/2007, -5/+3... or you run
http://wiki.pocketheaven.com/SNES_DS
on your:
http://eng.supercard.cn/products_scl.htm
and not lug that huge thing around ... just a thought - ripperad, on 11/27/2007, -3/+1I like DS, come on its awesome, but so is this.
- fishroy, on 11/27/2007, -3/+0That would be cool to make your old NES games portable. SNES would be even cooler. I still prefer the remakes and retouches of old SNES games on DS or GBA carts however.
- Bense, on 11/27/2007, -7/+4I bought a PSP with a broken UMD drive for $75 shipped from ebay
Then I bought a MicroSD to DUO pro adapter for $9 shipped from ebay
Then I bought a 2GB Kingston microsd for $25 shipped from newegg
I have less money invested than your DS lite. I also have a R4DS on my DSLite It's easier to play the games on my PSP anyways.
PS, there are sandisk 4gb pro duo sales for $39.99 about every 2 weeks. Check http://slickdeals.net for more info. - DiggIsaBitch, on 11/27/2007, -4/+10nly 200 diggs now, prepare for 2,000
- EvanVolm, on 11/27/2007, -9/+4Are devs forgetting about the original DS? I'm sick of seeing all these attachments only compatible for the DS Lite.
- Zamfir, on 11/27/2007, -9/+3You didn't buy a DS Lite!? C'mon, what's wrong with you... you're not going along with Nintendo's plan, to resell you the same crap over and over, but as a different color and in different plastic! Terrible...
- acu8509, on 11/27/2007, -7/+1You would think they would splurge what little money it would cost to make it compatible with Super Famicom (SNES in the US). The button layout is exactly the same, and the processing power is much greater. The only barrier would be the emulation that it requires, but if the power of the DS somehow wasn't up to par, a simple hardware solution could be implemented very easily.
- twtmc, on 11/27/2007, -8/+1Of coarse
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