Nintendo DS

[motorollin]

I've had my DS Lite for a week now and absolutely love it. This will sound weird, but the games actually feel a bit Amiga-like. The graphics in most of the games are really nice and feel very arcade-esque, which probably explains the Amiga-ish feel. Some recommended games for Amiga lovers:

Nanostray
A vertical shooter with really nice arcade graphics.

Polarium
A wicked puzzle game. Reminds me of an Amiga PD puzzle.

Mario Kart DS
It's even better than XTR  :oops:

That's just for starters. There are loads of games available for the DS and they all look great. The touch screen is a fantastic innovation in games consoles.

You can even get Robocod for the DS :-)

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moto

[Nickman]

Yeah they are realy nice. Will try Nanostray right away  :-)

[justthatgood]

Yeah but don't those suckers have very flimsy hinges on the units.  I wanted to go get my girl one, but I'm just afraid that if I do that, the thing will get broke within a few weeks  or something from getting accidently bumped.

I have this same fear of flip-clampshell cellphones too.

[DBAlex]

Cool, I was thinking of getting one for the cool opera browser software! Also saw someone using some tracker software on one... If I only really use it for that kinda stuff I may as well get a PDA though, although some of the games are pretty cool!

Are thinking of getting the browser for it motorollin?

[toca180]

Mario Kart DS is great. Equally as good as the N64 version. Metroid Prime Hunters is also very impressive, slighly repetative and frustrating at times though. Tetris DS was a little disappointing I thought in marathon mode but the touch mode makes up for it.
I've not heard good things about the browser (I dont own it, just what I've read), anyone here got it? Whats it like (better or worse than web browsing on an Amiga)?
Ita an amazing little console though and dont regret buying it for a minute.

Robert

[toca180]

@justthatgood

Yeah I've heard that. I've got a black DS and was a little conserned before I bought one. I've now had mine for about 3 months, used it daily and its fine :nervous: (but very rearly clicked the screen all the way down to flat).

Robert

[motorollin]

Don't think I'll bother with the browser. Linux is already running on the DS (text only). It supports the touch screen and WiFi, so Lynx works for basic browsing. It's only a matter of time before there's a GUI and a graphical web browser :-D

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moto

[toca180]

@motorollin

It's only a matter of time before there's a GUI and a graphical web browser :-D

 :-o The stuff of dreams! Do you run home brew on yours? Is it easy/worth the money/worth it? Is DSLinux any good?

Robert

[fx]

I have tried DSLinux a little and it felt really nice and stable. Unfortunately I only have an old GBA flashcart so I can't write to the filesystem (so configuring the network is quite tiresome each time I have to do it).

But I telnetted to my linux box and ran alot of network programs from there (which was basically what I wanted to do in the first place) and everything ran as well as one would expect it too.

Now it's just the long wait for 'Portrait of Ruin' and 'Final Fantasy 3' to be released

[motorollin]

DS Linux is stable but doesn't do a lot which is useful to me without a GUI. Though Squirrelmail works in Lynx so at least I can check my IMAP box :-) I've got an M3 Lite Micro SD so I can use the filesystem version of DSLinux.

There's a homebrew tracker for the DS which I'm about to try.

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moto

[d0pefish]

I have a DS and use homebrew too :-D really good stuff.

Though my DS is the older phatboy one, and I have a SuperCard MiniSD.

DSLinux is great, the RAM-enabled build works on my SuperCard which, and that paves the way to a GUI - someone is working on porting the PIXIL GUI to DSLinux.

NitroTracker is cool, but it needs an update pretty badly - filesystem access is very slow on some flash cards (which should be fixed by using a more recent FAT library) and it also doesnt implement any tracker effects.

Still very cool though.

Some cool stuff I recommend you try:

nesDS is a VERY good NES emulator, try it, ALL games I've tried run at 100% speed with fantastic sound. It even has an amazing real-time "rewind" feature that lets you "un"-fall down that gap that killed you in Mario Bros.

SnezziDS is coming along nicely and the SNES games that work are mostly going full speed with sound, just needs to be made more stable and compatible.

MoonShell turns your DS into an media player, it even does tracker MODs/XMs, SPC SNES music files, NSF NES music and more, as well as its own movie format. However if you want to try movie encoding, I recommend you use BatchDPG as it'll gives you much better quality than MoonShell's own encoder.

WiFiVoiceChat is a pretty amazing program that lets you talk to other people using the DS microphone and draw on a whiteboard using the touchscreen all at the same time. Watch out for this idiot who keeps coming in and insists on drawing Nazi swastikas as well as other... unsavory... drawings... still, great app. :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

I have Mario Kart too - awesome stuff. Tetris DS, Animal Crossing, and Metroid Prime Hunters are the other three Wi-Fi enabled games I have. At the moment I'm addicted to New Super Mario Bros. It's just insanely fun! :-D

I agree, a lot of the stuff on the DS has this really nice Amiga feel. As well as Robocod, there's Rainbow Islands and Bubble Bobble... the first time I saw Rainbow Islands in the shop for the DS I was pleasantly surprised, I haven't bought it (yet?) though. Too many other games to keep me busy for now.  :-D

[kickstart]

Hi

Music in Nanostray is made by Manfred Linzner most know like Pink in amiga scene, dont know if any of the rest of the team behind Nanostray is near to amiga.

[Damion]

My favorite DS games...

New Super Mario Bros (it's cheesy, yet SO addicting)

Age of Empires

Mario Kart (g/f loves this game, many heated "battles" between us)


I still want to pick up a copy of Electroplankton.

[KThunder]

i still have the advance classic. all the newer gameboys are too small. they give me cramps. they keep making the smaller though.
im a big guy i need a big system. or at least a landscape oriented one rather than portrait

[toca180]

@motorollin

I guess its not really worth getting all the home brew kit just to run it then (at the moment). I does look interesting though and (as far as I know) the PSP doesn't have Linux.  :-D  Will be very cool if the GUI can be sorted.

Thanks
Robert