Virtual Wares: Introducing DSiWare

by David Hinkle { Apr 6th 2009 at 10:34AM }

It's a big week for Nintendo fans. First of all, the first 6 downloadable goodies on the US DSi Shop are available, and we've got 1 new WiiWare and Virtual Console title to consider. So let's not waste any time and get right down to the nitty-gritty. What will you be downloading this week?

Gallery: Equilibrio (WiiWare)

DSi Shop

Nintendo DSi Browser (Nintendo, 1 player, 0 Nintendo DSi Points): It's the Nintendo DSi browser. We hear it's way better than the existing browser for DS Lites and Phats.
Bird & Beans (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 200 Nintendo DSi Points): Players take on the role of Pyoro, a bird with a really long tongue and an insatiable appetite, who must use said tongue to snatch up falling beans for points.
Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 200 Nintendo DSi Points): Magicians receive a little aid with this title. Downloading this allows you to perform the Vanishing Card trick from the DS Master of Illusion game. It also allows you to do the Vanishing Money trick.
Art Style: AQUIA (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Nintendo DSi Points): The latest in Nintendo's line of Bit Generations-turned-downloadable titles, Art Style: AQUIA is a puzzle game where you must match similarly colored blocks on horizontal and vertical grids. The goal is to get a diver to the bottom of the ocean's floor, with each matching trio of blocks allowing him to go that much further.
WarioWare: Snapped! (Nintendo, 1-2 players, Rated E for Everyone – Comic Mischief, 500 Nintendo DSi Points): The newest WarioWare game focuses on the DSi's camera, allowing you to partake in 4 different adventures composed of several minigames.
Brain Age Express: Math (Nintendo, 1 player, Rated E for Everyone, 800 Nintendo DSi Points): More Brain Age for your Nintendo DSi, with this version hoping to improve your mathematical skills. Featuring a mixture of new and old exercises, you'll be able to play through modes such as Change Maker, Triangle Math, Sum Totaled and Multi Tasker.

Gallery: WarioWare Snapped!

WiiWare

EQUILIBRIO (DK-GAMES, 1-4 players, Rated E for Everyone, 500 Wii Points): This title is a lot like Kororinpa: you move a ball around a map, trying to gather as many points as you can, until you find the exit. It features four game modes and support for up to four players via local splitscreen.

Virtual Console

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (SNES, 1 player, 800 Wii Points): Transport yourself back to the time of dysentary and scurvy, as you live through the early 16th century on the hunt for new lands. Once you've chosen from one of the six different available characters, you're free to roam the world and discover.

Tags: dsi, dsi-shop, nintendo-dsi, virtual-console, virtual-wares, wii, wiiware

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

InFaMoUs1- @ Apr 6th 2009 10:38AM

Now should I wait or just spend my 1000 points?

MowDownJoe @ Apr 6th 2009 10:40AM

Ehh... the only one on there I'd buy is Pyoro... and it's only 200 points, so I'd go for it.

Zerokku @ Apr 6th 2009 11:09AM

Art Style: Aquia is one of those great puzzle games you can lose yourself in for hours. Really the only one worth getting imo.

David Hinkle @ Apr 6th 2009 11:34AM

No WarioWare love?

Kenofthedead @ Apr 6th 2009 12:00PM

Art Style: Aquia is such a great game, I love it.

Unfortuantly I'm not buying a DSi anytime soon and thus won't be buying it myself anytime soon (though I shall play my friend's copy when possible).
Anyone know if Aquia is like another game out there for PC or a past game system?

Zerokku @ Apr 6th 2009 12:04PM

@ David Hinkle

Wario Ware: Snapped is sorta pathetic. That and it only has 20 minigames to boot. Not really worth the 500 points. It's one of those that you'll play it once or twice and never touch it again. So basically yah, no love for warioware :P

Charles @ Apr 6th 2009 10:46AM

Ugh, are they really keeping Wii and DSi points separate? Combined with their mandatory point purchase quantities, now I'll have two sets of unused points collecting dust.

If I get any of this first round of games, it will be Aquia.

InFaMoUs1- @ Apr 6th 2009 10:48AM

PSN is the way to go when it comes to that stuff. Money transfers no matter what because you have an account.

3dpenguin @ Apr 6th 2009 10:57AM

Seeing that PSN is doing so well that Sony has started offering more and more incentives to developers to develop for it, even more if its exclusive, its no surprise you can download for either the PS3 or PSP using it, and the fact that Wii Wares are failing so much that Nintendo has had to unlock the system so the Wares programs can be stored on SD cards, I have no idea why Nintendo is separating out the points programs into two different discrete and independent categories, they'll never make any money at it [[SARCASIM]]

Roto13 @ Apr 6th 2009 11:08AM

If I wasn't so lazy, I'd post a picture of an ass with "and the fact that Wii Wares are failing so much that Nintendo has had to unlock the system so the Wares programs can be stored on SD cards" coming out of it in a speech balloon.

Mr Khan @ Apr 6th 2009 11:45AM

The question, of course, is how exactly they would do that, with the lack of any sort of account system and all.

Though i suppose you can still link it to your MyNintendo (now Club Nintendo) account if you wish, but that still doesn't create a unified base.

Duke @ Apr 6th 2009 12:17PM

Roto, I think he was being sarcastic.

Monkeys Suck @ Apr 6th 2009 10:56AM

Oh good god I remember Uncharted Waters...that was so freaking hard.

Obie @ Apr 6th 2009 11:02AM

Question: Can the DSi still download demos from the Wii's Nintendo channel?
Also can you save these demos to the SD card? Or do they get erased when you power down?

Roto13 @ Apr 6th 2009 11:06AM

Demos work the same way as downloading single-card multiplayer games. I can't imagine they'd work any differently on the DSi.

Alex Sohn @ Apr 6th 2009 11:07AM

Yes to your first questions, DS Download Play and Wii DS Demos work just fine. Didn't notice it streaming any faster or anything, but still works fine.

As far as your next questions, I didn't really look, but I don't think there is a new option to download to an SD card, the demo thing works exactly the same so I'm guessing it's still just streaming it right to the DS internal memory. I'm at work right now so I can't test, but when I get home if there is still interest I can check for ya and let you know.

Obie @ Apr 6th 2009 11:08AM

Thanks guys, I was wondering if I could download a bunch of demos to take with me on the go.

samfish @ Apr 6th 2009 11:21AM

Grr. I can't believe they didn't release Majora's Mask today on the VC. I was all ready to plunk down for it with my last 1300 Wii points >:(

Mr Khan @ Apr 6th 2009 11:48AM

Should've figured it out by now. NoA definitely has no plan of action for VC anymore. That stopped a long time ago. Every week a surprise, every week a disappointment of some kind, especially in lieu of the very coordinated efforts of NCL and NoE

sam @ Apr 6th 2009 12:00PM

Was that announced for today? Meh, whatever.

As for the DSi games, I have to say, god damn I'd be tempted to get all of them! Except the magician one. Even Brain Age - you know, it's kind of fun in small doses...

Luckily, I don't have a DSi. :) Yet.

Saria the Cat @ Apr 6th 2009 12:30PM

I know, I'm really itching to play MM again. :( I have been looking for the Master's Quest/Majora's Mask GameCube pack thing but it's getting rarer and rarer.

Roto13 @ Apr 6th 2009 3:23PM

Last week wasn't a disappointment, which is probably exactly why this week is. Two big-name games in a row? That'd be pushing it.

Roto13 @ Apr 6th 2009 3:25PM

"I have been looking for the Master's Quest/Majora's Mask GameCube pack thing but it's getting rarer and rarer."

Probably because it never existed in the first place. :P The Ocarina of Time: Master Quest disc and Zelda: Collector's Edition disc (which is the one that included Majora's Mask) were two different things.

mr mobius @ Apr 6th 2009 3:26PM

*Writes a reminder to go to the shop tomorrow, get 2000 VC points, and enjoy some Majora's Mask*

Saria the Cat @ Apr 6th 2009 4:21PM

@Roto13: You're right, I always get them mixed up. I want both of them, though, and I can never find either. :S

TrueNRPeace @ Apr 6th 2009 11:22AM

WHERE...IS...SSB...AND...MAJORA'S MASK?!?!?!?!?

I love you, Nintendo, but you've failed me yet again.

Another painful Monday. So sad. So very, bitterly sad.

-uncorks bottle, drowns sorrows in Lon Lon Milk-

Obie @ Apr 6th 2009 11:29AM

Tell me about it. Still no word on Pilotwings, Star Fox and Mario Kart for the SNES!

Thems are classics I tells ya!

dangerman @ Apr 6th 2009 11:38AM

Picked up DSi Browser (free), Bird and Beans (incredible value for 200 points), WarioWare Snapped (500 points, would be worth it if it ever worked), and Art Style Auqia (500 points, great fun, recommend it).

Mazrael @ Apr 6th 2009 11:45AM

..I'll wait til something worthwhile appears for the DSi (before I even buy a DSi).. if the console is more powerful/able, I want to see something to reflect that.. the camera's are a bit pointless to me.. where, with downloads, on Wii, I've only downloaded Street Fighter 2: World Champions & a SNES rpg (I can't remember which), but they look like a collection of squares, then I have to keep changing my HDTV's screen aspect to 4:3 because the Wii doesn't compensate - (sorry, little off topic there)