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I've received a voucher for a 50% reduction for a DS Lite - I got it through an online business account we have at work - should I get one? Are they worthwhile? I had a play on a friend's one recently and I have to say it brought me back to the gameboy days (just a bit more fun ;)) and I was quite impressed. Apparently it's a lot more versatile than being *just* a hand held console? Is that right? You can also be naughty and download games and store them on a card?
Anyway, I've got a few days to make up my mind, or I can just get credit on our account... It's a gadget, and I love gadgets, but will I use it and become addicted to it? Is it actually as good as my impression of it was very briefly? Or am I just craving gadgets?
It is good (we have one each), you can download games and play them off a memory card (have to buy a couple of bits), and yes, they're great fun :)
I'd go for it at that price :)
You can indeed play downloaded games as well as homebrew stuff (Including some applications) with the smartcard and cartridge. Burble will be an expert on that as it was him that converted us lot :D
Its a cracking bit of kit. The best bit of tech I have brought in years bar none. I mainly use mine to keep me occupied on the train and its great at that, with the suspend feature its excellent. Ie start playing a long mario level close, then reopen a few hours later at the exact same point.
The cards were £50 to download all the games onto. Once you have done that check out btemuparadise.org for the nds games. You can get it to play mp3's and there is a web browser to connect via wireless. I haven't tried this though so I can't comment on quality.
The last handheld I thought was any good was the original gameboy/ gamegear. I never bothered getting another one till I thought blow it and brought one at kidderminster. I challenge you to play osu! tutakae! ouden! and not burst out laughing at random points
Ahh ok - I shall bug him about it then ;) Hmmm very tempted! Dammit....
btemuparadise.org doesn't seem to work, but I've found: http://www.nintendo-ds-roms.com ?
Right... time to pester Burble! ;D
eek, its gone down. It was there fine the other week. The address is actually emuparadise.org. The torrent tracker is bt.emuparadise.org:8889
There might be server issues as its been there for years. Infact just go to somewhere like btjunkie and search for "nds roms"
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 14:46
Damn i just bought one for my daughter... :(
Right... that's it... it's bought! I've spoken to Paul and I've got myself all the accessories I need too! :cool:
There goes my free time! ;)
leowyatt
31-05-2007, 14:58
Desmo is the one to speak to supercards and stuff. I got it work for Kitten with his help so will gladly lend any assistance I can.
Kell_ee001
31-05-2007, 14:58
Right... that's it... it's bought! I've spoken to Paul and I've got myself all the accessories I need too! :cool:
You should use your spare time wisely, not playing silly games.... did I mention it's my birthday in a couple of weeks! ;) ;D
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 15:00
What are these cards.. explain to an utter noob :D
leowyatt
31-05-2007, 15:04
They allow you to download roms off the web and play them on your DS. So you can have 20-30 games on 1 memory card and they are freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) well the games are anyway. The kit will probably set you back £40+
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 15:08
They allow you to download roms off the web and play them on your DS. So you can have 20-30 games on 1 memory card and they are freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :) well the games are anyway. The kit will probably set you back £40+
Sounds great - and you buy them from the links above?
Where do you get the software?
You need a superkey plus supercard, then a microsd card and you're away basically.
http://www.consoleplus.co.uk/product_info.php?=&pName=supercard-lite-black-and-superkey-bundle
Something like that. Then you need a separate microsd card - I got a 2gb one from:
https://www.lowpricememory.co.uk/micro.html at £14 it's pretty good going.
leowyatt
31-05-2007, 15:13
This (http://205.209.147.99/showthread.php?t=1247) should help
Then you need a separate superkey.
Includes Superkey
:/
You just need a memory card after buying that.
See my edit n00b I did a typo :p
That would make you the n00b, n00b :D
Yeah but I felt like calling you a n00b, n00b! :p
Kell_ee001
31-05-2007, 16:11
Guessing my "subtle" hint was too subtle then? ;D
No no, I just chose to ignore it :p
Kell_ee001
31-05-2007, 16:26
No no, I just chose to ignore it :p
:numpty:
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 16:56
This (http://205.209.147.99/showthread.php?t=1247) should help
Cheers.. doncha just luv this interwebby thing :D
Ah, this reminds me....must acquire some more games for my holiday :D
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 17:00
so when you got the 3 pieces of kits, where do you get the games from.. and what do you do on the PC?
Games are downloaded from torrents or newsgroups or sent by us :p
You then just run them through a proggy on the PC to patch them, copy to the memory card, slot this into the DS supercard and play away :)
Admiral Huddy
31-05-2007, 17:26
what's the proggy ?
hey Will, when you've got the stuff, give us a bell and me or Leo can send you the links to the roms we've got hosted, they've got about 100 games in each :eek:
I love my DS soooooo much *strokes* Spent the entire flight there and back to Spain revisiting Resident Evil :D Brought back loads of memories of days locked in my room gaming, a few years back :D
Will do!!! Thanks!! :D :cool:
It will come with whatever supercard you buy.
Wooohoo - it's arrived in the UK, it'll be at work tomorrow! :D I can't wait... I've currently downloaded about 60% of the ROMS....
Well, I'm LOVING it. Really such a great little gadget - so glad I got it. Made my trip to Holland much more bearable! Hmmm there goes my book reading though... :embarassed:
Even got ScummVM working on it too - so I have my lucasarts games on there - superdooper! :D
Thanks for your help with all the bits and pieces - unfortunately I use WPA at home so wireless connectivity might be tough, but I'll try and sort something and put my friend code for some of the games in due course.
Oh does anyone have the ROM for Final Fantasy... I've only been able to get the Jap version :(
Glad you're liking it :D
Which Final Fantasy do you want? I've got the rom for 3 I think.
Yes that's the one! :D There are a few games that only seem to be Jap versions though - are there other places bar that nintendo roms site I can get them from?
Other suggestions game wise? I've got about 50 installed at the moment (+ scummVM games, Monkey island 2, indiana jones and sam and max).
Quite enjoying the brain training games :embarassed:
I mainly get mine off torrent sites as you tend to be able to download tons of them at a time :)
Just getting FF sorted for you now.
leowyatt
11-06-2007, 11:52
Have a look what you want and if we've got it we can host it for you to download :)
Ohhh feel free to PM me some recommendations ;)
I need to find out which games exist!!!
What kind of games do you like? :)
Guessing ones that require a bit of thought?
Davey_Pitch
11-06-2007, 11:53
Quite enjoying the brain training games :embarassed:
Me too, got my brain age down to 27 last night, 2 years younger than I am! \o/
I'm on 54 at the moment :p But I tend to play on it on the plane at 6am - so not necessarily the best thing ever.... :p
Davey_Pitch
11-06-2007, 11:57
I'm on 54 at the moment :p But I tend to play on it on the plane at 6am - so not necessarily the best thing ever.... :p
Haha, yeah I can imagine you not being too awake then, though I got my 27 at 1am this morning :D
leowyatt
11-06-2007, 11:57
I'll get Kitten to send some suggestions over :)
Haha, yeah I can imagine you not being too awake then, though I got my 27 at 1am this morning :D
Well you never go to bed :p
Just uploading FF3 for you now :) Might be a little while as it's 67mb.
FakeSnake
11-06-2007, 13:14
I need one of these!
Ever since I had a play with the Lite my Mother bought, I was hooked.
didnt realise it was so easy to get games.
May look into this much closer now!
I find NDS Release Lister (http://ndslister.emubase.de/show_nds5.en.html) is a good source for whats out, and Frozen Roms (http://www.frozen-roms.net/index.php?show=news&lang=en) is a good place for most Nintendo roms.
Ooh handy links, thanks :D
You're welcome. :)
A good puzzle/rpg game is Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, basically Bejeweled meets rpg, one of my three most played games right now.
I've got that :) Hardly played it though, same with FF3.
Mainly got Puzzle Quest because it seemed the kind of game my Mum would love but she's hooked on Bust a Move :p
I find NDS Release Lister (http://ndslister.emubase.de/show_nds5.en.html) is a good source for whats out, and Frozen Roms (http://www.frozen-roms.net/index.php?show=news&lang=en) is a good place for most Nintendo roms.
Brilliant!! Thanks!
leowyatt
22-08-2007, 08:58
We're off to the states tomorrow and upon examining Kitten's DS Lite charger it appears it only works on 230V is this the case?
Will it charge in the US or would we need to get al el-cheapo charger while we are over there? I'd have though most power supplies would switch.
You'll need a switch mode power supply. It just won't work - I tried to plug in a soldering iron which was rated at only 230v - it hardly even got tepid! :p
If it doesn't say 100~230V AC then it won't switch I'm afraid :(
leowyatt
22-08-2007, 10:09
bollocks that is what I thought. I think a trip to Target when we get there might be in order otherwise someone will be rather unhappy :D
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