Buy Nintendo DS Here! The NDS is here. Duel-screen tech... touching is good. Get your Nintendo DS here. Highly antisipated and expected to fly off the shelves this holiday season. Get one before it's sold out. With games Like Super Mario 64 DS coming out, and a Metroid DS demo with the system you can't lose.
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November 21, 2004 Be there or be square! That will be a day that will live in gaming infamey forever. That's right that will be the day to go out and buy Nintendo DS. Yes I know you loved your Game Boy SP and GBAs, but the Nintendo DS will be the one hand held to rule them all. Forget the hype of Sony's PSP - that won't even be out till next year here in the states. Forget the odd faddish things nintendo has relesed in the past a.k.a. the Virtual Game Boy (or Game Boy VR). This one is for realsies. the bottom screen is touch sensitve for analog goodness, plus you'll never have to pull out that map screen it'll always be there now! Personnally I'm looking forward to the Animal Crossing DS but that woun't be out for a few months. But it looks almost as good as the GameCube version and that is saying something. It's supposed to have all the same good features and fun little mini-games.
* Size (closed): 5.85" wide / 3.33" long / 1.13" tall
* Upper Screen: Backlit, 3-inch, semitransparent reflective TFT color LCD with 256x192 pixel resolution and .24mm dot pitch
* Touch Screen: Same as upper screen, but with transparant analog touch screen
* Color: Capable of displaying 260,000 colors
* Wireless Communication: IEEE 802.11 and Nintendo's proprietary format; wireless range is 30 to 100 feet, depending on circumstances; multiple users can play multiplayer games using just one DS game card
* Controls: Touch screen, embedded microphone for voice recognition, A/B/X/Y face buttons, plus control pad, L/R shoulder buttons, Start and Select buttons
* Input/Output: Ports for both Nintendo DS game cards and Game Boy Advance Game Paks, terminals for stereo headphones and microphone
* Other Features: Embedded PictoChat software that allows up to 16 users to chat at once; embedded real-time clock; date, time and alarm; touch-screen calibration
* CPUs: One ARM9 and one ARM7
* Sound: Stereo speakers providing virtual surround sound, depending on the software
* Battery: Lithium ion battery delivering six to 10 hours of play on a four-hour charge, depending on use; power-saving sleep mode; AC adapter
* Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Italian
* Color: Silver and black
A REPORT this morning in games trade journal MCV has suggested that the Nintendo DS games console will launch at £129.99 in the UK when it arrives in March. This is in stark contrast to the reasonable $149.99 that it will cost when released on November 17 in the US, which equates to around £80 with the current dollar conversion rate. Whilst at £80, it's a no-brainer gadget for anyone interested in gaming, at £130, you're going to have really want it, and the higher price point will surely endanger its pervasiveness. Nintendo's current console, the Gameboy Advance SP, sells for £65.
Meanwhile, a homebrew coder has published NDSemu.com, which has a working beta of a DS emulator. There are no games available for the device yet, so how well it works we are yet to find out. The program appears to be legit, however, and we've have had a play with it by running a couple of available demos which look quite funky. We suspect that Nintendo will be stomping all over this as soon as it can, now its done suing poor porn users.