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First DSi-exclusive game found: Monster Finder

by JC Fletcher on Sep 1st 2009 12:01PM

Just yesterday we heard that DSi-only retail games would be on the way soon. Today, Japanese publisher Alpha Unit announced the first one, Monster Finder -- though, since it was announced for Japan, we doubt it's one of the games being referred to yesterday!

Basically the only details available about Monster Finder right now are that it includes over 100 different varieties of monster and that those monsters are found with the DSi camera (hence the DSi exclusivity); and probably represented in-game by the scanner-gun thing seen in the teaser artwork. It's part Monster Rancher, part augmented reality. Monster Finder will be released sometime this winter in Japan.

[Via Andriasang]

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Tags: alpha-unit, DS, dsi, dsi-card, exclusive, japan, monster-finder, Nintendo

Reader Comments (40)

Couldnt a camera be added to the GBA slot for the ds light/fat like the old gameboy camera? You know, for people who didnt want to upgrade.

All I know is if this game lets me take photos of things and turn them into pokemon it's pure win!

But then nintendo wouldn't get your $170 =P

As awesome as the Gameboy Camera was, it was hideous in quality. I doubt that counts as an upgrade.

Also, there is no easy way to add a camera device that fluidly works with the system like the built in DSi one does. It would take a software upgrade and everything.

so??? the dsi quality sucks balls too... 0.3?!?!?!

Hey, Sony Boy, that's still 300,000 pixels more than the PSP's camera!

The DSi has 4x the RAM, double the clock speed, new larger screens, onboard flash memory (to increase game boot times) and new wireless security options. I bought one at launch (obviously as I'm defending the console) and I love it. The GBA slot isn't a big deal cause I always have my GBA Famicom with me.

Wasn't there that Ghostwire game that required the DSi's camera as well? I really want that game, too.

That was just a DSiWare thing though, this is a proper game.

its a copy of invizimals!!!

And it'll sell like hotcakes!

So then wouldn't invizimals and this be a copy of those barcode scanners years back that let you scan barcodes to gain new monsters?

wait... examples, jason???

the one thing i can think of is digimon but i'm not sure.

Jason speaks the truth. I wish I could remember what those were called.

Skannerz, Barcode Battler, Monster Maker: Barcode Saga, and etc....

Of course, my favorite wasn't about scanning barcodes, it was scanning other discs... I LOVED Monster Rancher. 2 was the best.

What this has over Invizimals is a less dreadful title and the pleasure of being Nintendo's first DSi game. Also, probably a better ad campaign than that silly live action trailer for Invizimals.

how the hell did my first comment lower it self like that??? it was under QUOQ

This is what'll get me to upgrade. Not this specifically, but some sort of compelling retail games.

Khan, I'm telling you, it's worth the upgrade already! Specifically because you're still rocking the Phat!

I Agree. If you have a DS lite, its hard to justify on its own but if you have a phat, it is much easier to look at it as (probably) the last upgrade before the DS2

I too am rocking the Phat, as you say, and stuff like this is what's getting me to buy a DSi in the near future. I mean, my R button is gummy, the speakers are crackling like mad, and the touch screen is starting to get pretty bumpy.

this looks familar...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbTJw_2E-Ww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZMmOfVIZ5c

Psssst... see stormtrooper190 (IcelandTerrorist)'s post.

Don't tease with links, just say it. :P

So basically it's a copy of that psp ga.....oh, beaten by a mile already.

But you see it has........................

.................................... Japanesey children as main characters!

... yeah!

And the one guy has a staple gun!

First???

Ghostwire anyone?

http://wiiclube.uol.com.br/blog/2009/06/23/dsi-video-ghostwire-mistura-fantasmas-com-o-mundo-real/

Hmmn I wonder if the revamped Pokemon games will be DSi only.

And for the record I support this. I mean there's no reason to buy the DSi if there aren't going to be games that are optimized for the system.'

I do feel bad for those who own DSLites though but at the same time no one is forcing you to do anything.

HeartGold and SoulSilver? They better not be.

Heart Gold and Soul Silver definitely aren't.
The 5th Gen games could well be though, but they're still at least a year off.

the live action trailer was fun entertaning to see you know it. dont lie!

my first replay fail. nooooooo and i thought i could get around it all this time

NOBODY expects the Reply Fail! Amongst its weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms.

I can't remember ever having a reply fail...
Touch wood.

JOYSTIQ! you and your comment sistem has srewed up the order of my comments and were the are suposed to be

Take pictures of anything?

There's going to be sooooo many snake monsters...

I'm pretty disgusted at this news as this is the last thing adopters of DSI need: false hope. For this is a video game version of a mirage if ever I saw one. DSI-exclusive games are not going to be the median when it comes to this pointless device, it won't even be an afterthought. You'll get gimmicky concepts attached to tired ideas (does the world need more Digimon?) such as these, but nothing of genuine substance. Think of it as the supermarket wine to your glossy duck. The former just ruins the latter, and it adds to the growing, but unspoken, consensus, that the DSI was redundant from launch.

Hell yes it'll be all gimmick and no substance! Just like the DS when it laun- oohhh that's right. Then it went on to become one of the best-selling systems. I almost forgot about that.

I was just thinking about buying a DSi, sounds good.

"It's part Monster Rancher, part augmented reality."

What a coincidence, because that's the EXACT sentence that makes me sell my DS Lite and buy a DSi. Huh. How about that!

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