In late November, "Everybody's Nintendo" channel launched for Wii in Japan, highlighted by wirelessly transferable DS demos. While this technology has yet to be released in other regions, it's apparently on the agenda. DS will be more "tightly integrated" with Wii in the future, reports The NY Times – and that could include portable extensions of Virtual Console, WiiWare and Wii Shop Channel too. But how will Nintendo reconcile the obvious limitations? DS can only temporarily store and play downloaded content, which is fine for demos (or single cart multiplayer), but what about so-called "complete" games? Perhaps Nintendo is also developing a memory expansion cart in conjunction with the proposed service. That's one way to re-sell old Game Boy games...
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I'll give that a w00t!
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This is all speculation of course.
Now where is the "everyone Nintendo" channel? Get on it Reggie!
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They are bigger than SD cards (at least twice as big).
So, maybe a blank DS cartridge you can load up with games and demos would work. Seems like Nintendo had a similar idea in Japan with the Gameboy, I think, where people could buy blank cartridges and load them up at a sort of vending machine.
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The M3 system allows homebrew DS games as well as using the DS for movie and MP3 player, as well as other more nefarious deeds which we all know I am referring to, but am not going to discuss here.
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You couldn't be talking about...*snicker*..boobies could you?
Whatever the deal is. I'm excited to see this. I really hope that they do end up making it some sort of GBA plug-in that you can put SD memory cards in. I've got so many laying around this could be awesome.
Website: http://www.dsvision.jp/
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You say: "Perhaps Nintendo is also developing a memory expansion cart in conjunction with the proposed service. That's one way to re-sell old Game Boy games..."
I seem to recall a joystiq article by Scott from about a month ago which talked about that...
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/12/03/ds-gets-downloadable-content-with-dsvision-flash-card-peripheral/
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GameInformer did a little article talking about Nintendo having already finished the new DS, they are only waiting for sales of the current console to die down.
They said that it was thinner and lighter, thanks to the gba slot being taken out.
The other important part was that there was plenty of onboard memory for downloads AND an expansion slot for sd cards.
This would explain a lot if they were really planning full ds game downloads. I already have two 6gb micro sd cards sitting around that I can put to good use with this
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I buy more GBA games than DS games... Is that strange?
Is the GI your talking about have C&C Tiberium on it?
Really though, it doesn't make business sense to make things backwards compatible for more than a generation, but the time generation 3 is around, generation 1's prices have fallen below the cost of implementing backwards compatibility.
Just think of this way:
If it makes sense, Nintendo won't do it.
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i'm juss sayin
Seeing how the competition has pretty much copied two thirds of everything Nintendo has ever come up with, I'd say a lot of what they do DOES make sense.
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Spoiler: that sentence alone makes it pretty likely that you aren't.
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After all, with a simple and inexpensive modchip install, PS2 and Wii games can be downloaded off the internet with ease. In fact, if you have an old fat PS2, all you need is HDloader! A SATA connector and a DOS PC can get you access to any XBox 360 game, AND allow you to play your backups on live. The PC has ALWAYS been rife with piracy, and now is no exception. A memory stick and a battery can get you every single PSP game ever created for your enjoyment, plus as many PS1 games as you can rip. And finally, the aforementioned DS is completely unlocked with a $30 R4, DSX, EZ5 or M3 perfect.
So, by your douchebag deadbeat logic, the only games worth buying are PS3 games because you can't "break a few laws" and steal them. You know, now that you mention it, what the hell am I doing working for a living? I'm MUCH better off breaking a few laws and just printing my own money. I have a DS and everything! This argument seriously needs to start warranting a ban because I'm fucking sick of it. SURE IT'S CHEAPER TO BOOTLEG IT. YOU'RE BOOTLEGGING IT. For fuck's sake.
I agree with a ban for retarded comments like this.
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Oh wait, it's JRW again. Nevermind.
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I'd probably do all that, except that'd be way to much effort. It's much easier to just mooch off someone elses work of enterpreting machine instructions on a different hardware platform (emulators). In fact, I probably wouldn't do this if it was me who had to do all the transcribing for such software, but since someone else did it, and put it up for the internet for everyone to see, I'm game.
As a matter o'fact, I've noticed a few flaws in my Paper Mario rom, the screen flashes in funky phycedelic text before shifting to a battle scene. Oh well, the mantra "you get what you pay for" holds more true than ever.
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