You notice though that about a good 80% of the shovelware bullshit comes from one fucking company.  Ubisoft.  Someone should knock some sense into their heads. 

Anyways, I think I'm going to hold off on getting a new DS.  I want to see if the hinges on this new one are as shitty as the ones on the Lite (seriously, $80 to replace a damn hinge. WTF?). 

Shovelware?

Shovelware is basically shitty, low quality, worthless games.

I'd get this, but then I'd have to spend a few $100 on a supercard that works off the DS Slot alone, and I'd need a mini-SD card as well.

isn't it just a normal SD slot? You could get a cheap $20 one at walmart or something.

It's normal SD.  Also, as long as this gets the homebrew treatment (which is INCREDIBLY likely), then there's no reason to be buying separate cards for it, it will just be straight of the SD.  At least that's what I would expect.

Shovelware is basically shitty, low quality, worthless games.

isn't it just a normal SD slot? You could get a cheap $20 one at walmart or something.

He's saying the current way he pirates games uses a Slot-2 (GBA) device, and the DSi lacks a Slot-2.

Yeah, but it seems like you could pirate games directly from the built-in SD in this one, so if he got this he would not have to buy any new device.  That's assuming there's nothing big blocking homebrew stuff (which knowing Nintendo, there's not)

Yeah, but it seems like you could pirate games directly from the built-in SD in this one, so if he got this he would not have to buy any new device.  That's assuming there's nothing big blocking homebrew stuff (which knowing Nintendo, there's not)

Current piracy methods can't even run GBA roms from a Slot-1 device, what makes you so sure that running games from an SD card is so easy?

Nothing.  Because we don't know what we can do with the DSi yet.

So technically neither of us know what it'll be able to do.

You notice though that about a good 80% of the shovelware bullshit comes from one fucking company.  Ubisoft.  Someone should knock some sense into their heads. 

Anyways, I think I'm going to hold off on getting a new DS.  I want to see if the hinges on this new one are as shitty as the ones on the Lite (seriously, $80 to replace a damn hinge. WTF?). 

what, i just walked into the nintendo place and said "hinge cracked" and they were like "oic......brb" moments later "here u go" "thx"
(of course, this was before the warranty expired)

also i wouldn't count on ever running GBA roms without a slot 2 device on either DS or DS lite

I never got that GBA Advance with the backlight... I kind of count on my NDS to play GBA games now. Having fully overlooked that point in the main post, I have to now restate how much I will not be buying this.

Also, I'm not sure if it's still running, but the PSP had a store you could access from the PSP browser to download content. I haven't been on in ages, so who knows if they've dropped it or not. As far as I know, using the PS3 to download content is only one way of doing it. (As for old PSX games, it's actually preferable to do it over PS3, since you can just play it on the PS3 also or re-download at anytime.) Still, I do recall downloading crap from the PSP site at one time. Anyone know for sure?

it's pointless to buy another ds if you already have one


it is that simple

dead simple

oh shit

Well, I've been trying earnestly to play this Phoenix Wright game everyone seems excited about. It's like a less funny, more fun-to-play Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law (which subsequently probably stole gameplay design from Ace Attorney to be witty/lazy). Yet, the wonderful thing about CraptendoDS is that when you press at all on the cart, it pops the eff out. I put it in a bag, and pulled it out just now, and voila; cart popage. When this happens the system shuts down and cancels anything that happened before your last save.
Does the new NDS fix this idiot build (for a portable system, SERIOUSLY WTF)?

But why did you press on it? From personal experience, your fingers aren't meant to be even close to it.

Regardless, I never had any cart pop from it when I touched it, anyway.

Well, I've been trying earnestly to play this Phoenix Wright game everyone seems excited about. It's like a less funny, more fun-to-play Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law (which subsequently probably stole gameplay design from Ace Attorney to be witty/lazy). Yet, the wonderful thing about CraptendoDS is that when you press at all on the cart, it pops the eff out. I put it in a bag, and pulled it out just now, and voila; cart popage. When this happens the system shuts down and cancels anything that happened before your last save.
Does the new NDS fix this idiot build (for a portable system, SERIOUSLY WTF)?

a) pw is way better
b) harvey birdman was made by the same dang people, it is supposed to be based off the same gameplay system
3) you are wrong about everything here are my apinions


edit: i have never even touched the cart when holding my ds, much less popped it out, what is wrong with you

- SD card slot

This means ill never have to buy another ds game again! ROM HEAVEN!

a) pw is way better
b) harvey birdman was made by the same dang people, it is supposed to be based off the same gameplay system
3) you are wrong about everything here are my apinions


edit: i have never even touched the cart when holding my ds, much less popped it out, what is wrong with you

Oh yeah, I never noticed it was the same people. Nice! Also: HB was way funnier. I hate anime, and the overdone anime expressions in pw ruin any attempt at humour.

@3) I don't pop it out while playing. I pop it out whenever I have to shut the lid and do something. I don't sit and play NDS like a console. It's like pulling out a book at work or whatever when I have a few minutes to kill. Then whenever or whereever I put the damn thing, the cart pops out. I could save every time, but I seriously mean I pull it out for a few minutes at a time. PSP wins in this area of annoyance. Even if the UMD pops out, it doesn't fuck up the gameplay.

Maybe I should just jam some ducktape on there, and send fashion to the wind. Red Green is right.

Err, but it did ruin the gameplay. I do remember the era of UMD shooting PSPs and well, games fucked up. ;/