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Nintendo DS even Liter... what are the chances?
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I think the DS Lite is ugly, but I'm still giving one to my gf for christmas (she wants one).
Before I pick one up for myself (some months from now, I think), I would like to know if you believe there is any chance that a re-re-design is on the near or far horizon. I think I read something a while back about one with bigger screens, but I don't know if that was bullshit or not, so sources with your rumors would be appreciated.
I personally loathe the vertical distribution of the displays, and 90% of the games I've seen so far doesn't use dual displays in a natural or intuitive manner, but I guess there's no chance they'll change that. :P
Before I pick one up for myself (some months from now, I think), I would like to know if you believe there is any chance that a re-re-design is on the near or far horizon. I think I read something a while back about one with bigger screens, but I don't know if that was bullshit or not, so sources with your rumors would be appreciated.
I personally loathe the vertical distribution of the displays, and 90% of the games I've seen so far doesn't use dual displays in a natural or intuitive manner, but I guess there's no chance they'll change that. :P
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2) What 90% games are you looking at? The only game I can think of that doesn't fully utilize both screens in a good way is FFIII (and I have about 40 some DS games), and that only during combat, which isn't a big deal.
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It sounds like maybe you should just get a PSP or a GP32 or something.
You want them to redesign the DS so that the screens are side by side instead of one on top of the other?
Yeah, because that wouldn't screw anything up... :roll:
Thanks for the info on the new version. So next christmas perhaps she can buy me a DS Lite 2 then...
It's not "info", it's just a speculation.
Obviously, larger screens would be nice, but I don't think they could change the size of the screens without making all the current touch screen games useless.
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I'd like to point out that some games (Hotel Dusk and the Brain Age games) make you hold the DS on it's side, which is really interesting. I don't know if I'd want that many games playing like that, but it was awesome for Hotel Dusk.
Isn't the new Ninja Gaiden supposed to do this as well?
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As stated, rumor is that a 3rd iteration of the DS is in the works, supposedly with larger screens and minus a gameboy advance slot. This would hopefully also come with a price drop. I doubt Nintendo would be ready to release it until the current DS Lite sales slow down (which doesn't appear to be happening anytime soon.)
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the new Ninja Gaiden will be held in the same way.
Also, isn't the DS consistently sold-out in Japan like the Wii is here?
It was for a while, but hasn't been for a few months now. From what I've read you might have to go to a couple stores if you want a specific color, but it's not too bad.
Yes it does.
So does Planet Puzzle League.
Konami Arcade Classics has the option to do this for its vertically oriented arcade games as well.
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I wouldn't - as other people said, chances are a new version of the DS will be like the Micro, and will come out around or after the next handheld is released. Six months from now, I think the only additions to the lineup will be a new color or two and maybe a new fancy pattern for a game bundle.
God no
Why would that be good?
How?
No, it's probably not the best option if you want to actually play those GBA games, but it would benefit dramatically with even just a little bit more memory onboard, especially for homebrew and emulation.
the DS has 4MB of RAM. It goes a long way if you know what you are doing. By the way, 4MB of RAM was the same amount that the N64 had without the expansion pak.
And the cart for Opera DS is the cache, not RAM. Pretty sure the cart port is too slow to allow a cart to act as RAM.
The DS was always designed with a two-slot system, it just so turns out when it hit the light of day (it was started somewhere around the middle of the N64's life) that the GBA was the current handheld and it had a very similiar pinout to the GB/GBC port they would have used in prototypes.
It's only a matter of time.
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As long as the aspect ratio stays the same I don't really see a problem with resizing the screens.
The thing is, the company that manufactures the cards says that pretty soon, they'll be able to make 1GB NDS cards.
If you really need the space, a developer should probably just make a console game.
This. The ARM7 co-processor (which runs the GBA support) is the only processor which can control the touch screen.
This. This is not true.
Ars DS Review:
"The system is powered by two processors, an Arm9 and an Arm7. The developers can choose which processor powers which screen, although the obvious choice is to use the weaker processor for the touch screen."
Plus, it doesn't make any sense that they couldn't remove the slot because the ARM7 runs the GBA compatibility. It might be inefficient to take the slot out so needlessly, but they could remove it and leave the ARM7 no problem. They could probably simplify some other parts of the design, too.
That makes it sound like each screen requires a dedicated processor so to save costs (?) they'd put in an ARM7 instead of an ARM9 and then they'd also have GBA support to boot. O_o
Well, backward compatibility and cost were concerns with the DS. It is the most practical solution.
Homebrew Development FAQ:
"The first thing we need is the ARM7 code. The ARM7 is the only CPU that can be used for controlling the touchscreen."
This is what I was going on. The Wikia Article on the Nintendo DS seems to suggest the same, but I wouldn't take a wikia article as fact until I do some checking.
It's possible that the processors can display on any screen but the actually touchscreen is controlled by the ARM7. The sound and WiFi are also controlled by the ARM7 and not the ARM9, so in any case you would absolutely have to have both processors in some capacity.