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Finally! SOme new DS news; confirmed launch games
Topic Started: Oct 7 2004, 07:36 PM (351 Views)
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Nintendo Unveils Lineup for DS Handheld 

Nintendo Co. managing director Shigeru Miyamoto shows off the video game maker's new portable game player "Nintendo DS" as he launches the handheld player in Tokyo Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004. Nintendo hopes the gadget, featuring double screen, touch screen, wireless and microphone, helps strengthen its global share of gaming market. The player will go on sale go Nov. 21 in the United States and Dec. 2 in Japan. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)


October 7, 2004 11:27 AM EDT 


Madden NFL 2005 and Spider-Man 2 are among the dozen video games Nintendo Co. says it plans to offer for is new DS handheld system within a month of the product's November launch.

Nintendo said it expects about 25 games for the dual screen player by early next year. About 120 games are in development.

Analysts said the relatively large number of games being made by third-party developers such as Activision, Electronic Arts and THQ bodes well for Nintendo heading into the busy holiday shopping season.

The DS version of the popular Madden games will show 22 players on the field on one screen, with the other showing key action. People will be able to compete against each other using the system's built-in wireless capability.

EA, the world's largest game maker, also will have Tiger Woods PGA Golf Tour and The Urbz: Sims in the City, which puts characters from the Sims in an urban setting.

The DS debuts in the United States on Nov. 21 and in Japan 10 days later.

The black and silver paperback book-shaped device will come pre-loaded with demo version of the sci-fi shooter Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt to "whet gamer's appetites," said Nintendo of America spokeswoman Perrin Kaplan said.

A completed version of the game - one of the company's marquee franchises along with Mario - comes out early next year.

Two other remakes of popular Nintendo titles that will see new life on the DS are Super Mario 64 DS and the racing game Mario Kart.

IDC analyst Schelley Olhava said Nintendo's lineup had a good mix of genres that should appeal to a variety of tastes.

"They have brands that resonate well with gamers," she said.

The $149.99 DS has a chat and messaging program so users can scribble notes or pictures on the touch-sensitive screen.

Prices for the games will be in the $30 range, Kaplan said. Additionally, it can play more than 550 older Game Boy Advance games.

"It's launching in every way that consumers are going to want to have it at the beginning: the right price, the right package, the right features and the right games," she said.

A handful of games already have been announced for rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable, including the racer Need for Speed Underground Rivals and Tiger Woods, both from EA.

The sleek black PSP arrives in the United States next year.


If you didn't bother to read all that, here's what was up there in a nutshell-
-Launch Date in U.S.-Nov.21
-One color, black and silver, with more expected to come out somewhere around Christmas
-Preloaded with MP-Hunters and ?Pictochat?(I can;t confirm, some people say yes some say no)
-120 games in development, 25 by Christamas, 12 At launch or week after launches end. However, themn bundling a MP-Hunters Demo might be a foreshadowing that Big N won't have that many launch games...
-BIG NEWS! 30$ games! Looks like that deal with memory card manufactureres paid off. Instead of the usual 50$ a game, gamers would pay 40$ TOPS. However, thats not guaranteed, as some game developers are greedy....
-Backwards compatible with GBA, but not older GB and Color games. *sob sob* but i loved pokemon blue.....not.....

I still don't know the exact date for the release of flashcarts.

Buy DS, or I'll flog your torso! :sonic:
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So is there an instant messanger type thing on it? Or would you have to have internet or somethin for that...although i heard the wireless part was only for like 30ft or somethin. Nice info though.
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ty muchly, lifeless. Hey, btw, can you please remove "fu ckaz" from your siggy?

instant messanger is called pictochat. Its basically Aim between DS's with the ability to draw pictures using the touch screen and the stylus. I don't know if it'll be bundled with DS or not, whehter it will be part of the pre-installed software, because some sources sayn yes, and ssome fail to mention it, but my guess is yes.

30 ft is the guaranteed effective range of the DS, through walls and such, but under optimal conditions(open place, low electromagnetic interference) it's said to be able to stretch to over `100 ft!

Internet....thats a touchy topic. you need to have a good computer vocabulary to understand the following- DS runs on a Wi-Fi interface, much like most home networks. If you bring your wireless-card-equipped laptop close to a Wi-Fi point, preferably at a public spot (say, at a McDonalds or Starbucks), your laptop displays that you are in a "hot spot". This means you can connect to the WiFi router and surf the internet, usually for a fee, or at some locales, free, but you still have to pay your provider(although some establishments offer free internet using their own provider).

Now, a DS has the same capabilities, however, the software that tells you that your in a hot spot on the computer, !might not! come pre-installed with the DS. Maybe it wll be, we got over one and a half months to see. But Nintendo says it's "not planning to write software for internet capabilities....but if another developer wants to.....*winks* ". So what they said is that they won't support it, but the DS welcomes it with open hands. Rom writers unite! Flashcards all the way!

BTW, this may be off-topic, but with PSP boasting that it can play movies and music....I can play Movies and music right off my GBA-SP. All I do is download the said movie or music file through a converter into the flashcart, and believe me, the quality is pretty good for both. Also, with flashcards you can write and rewrite, but if you somehow manage to burn one of those PSP disks, your stuck with it.

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Players can expect Nintendo-published games to retail for as low as $29.99. In the coming months, publishers will release a wide range of novel software. Nintendo's list of DS-specific first-party franchises includes a multiplayer Mario Kart, as well as Metroid Prime Hunters, WarioWare, Inc. DS, Animal Crossing, Yoshi's Touch & Go, Advance Wars DS and a new Super Mario Bros., among others.
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I'm really looking forward to Animal Crossing, even though I won't have enough money to get a DS right away. Hopefully I'll be getting a job this winter, so I can buy one after the first price drop down to $140, or whatever.
And Lifeless, you do know one of our rules we want you to abide by is the language filter, so don't try to sneak your way around it.
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Being able to play DS online is going to be awesome, but of cource... you'll need to be at a Wi-Fi spot to be able to do so. Of cource, it'll be absolutely free to play online... since Nintendo guarantees they will never charge gamers for playing online (that fact is also their reasoning for not taking the cube online... they don't wish to charge their consumers).

All this DS news has got me excited. I'm hearing good things about Spiderman 2 (believe it or not), and I'm planning on getting Mario 64 DS and Animal Crossing DS when I get the system. I'm also thinking about getting Metroid Prime: Hunters and Yoshi's Touch & Go.

Here's somre newly released details on Super Mario 64 DS...
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As previously mentioned earlier today, the Nintendo DS version of Super Mario 64 is not a simple port. The game features many enhancements that alter the strategies required to earn the stars in the adventure. Players actually begin the game as Yoshi, who as you know was high atop the castle in the original Nintendo 64 game. As Yoshi, players must locate Mario, Luigi and Wario somewhere within the castle's paintings. Only then will players be able to play as these characters in the main adventure. As a side-note, these characters are playable "temporarily" when Yoshi finds their respective hats in a level. A Mario hat will turn Yoshi into Mario temporarily (he still emits the cute Yoshi grunts and groans), giving players the distinct character control of Mario for a short while.
Each character has their own attributes. Yoshi, for example, has his familiar flutter-hover, and can swallow enemies and throw eggs. Luigi has a higher jump than the rest of the crew, and can turn invisible when he finds the power flower. Mario can now inflate like a balloon with the help of a power flower, which will come in handy in the newly designed levels.

The goal to completion has been upped to 150 stars now, which means there are some new levels in the game. We got our sneak peek at one of the new challenges that took place in a platform design that featured a gas-filled area that would harm the character if he fell off the ledge into the poison. It didn't offer any new play mechanics, rather just offered a new level layout and challenge.

The controls are definitely different than the Nintendo 64 version, since the DS lacks a true analog stick. The digital pad offers a standard walk, and holding down the Y button will cause the character to run. It's not as precise as the Nintendo 64 game with its analog control, which is why it was mentioned during the presentation that there's a new touch screen control option in the game where the screen becomes an analog stick. You can slide your thumb along the touch screen and the character will behave as if you were pushing around an analog controller. It took a few minutes to get used to, and I simply changed the controls back when it got too awkward to play this way. But Nintendo representatives stated that this control mechanism's better when used with a special stylus-thumb strap device that may be made available when the system ships at the end of this year.

Graphically the game seems much more colorful, sharper and lively than the Nintendo 64 game, though the images have a sort of "shimmy" to them that might be due to the lack of texture filtering of the Nintendo DS. When the game was blown up on the big screen a lot of the graphical issues were made known...but on the small backlit screen of the Nintendo DS, you won't care that there's some pixelation going on in some textures. The resolution of the screens do a decent job of masking the issue.

Other additions in the game include a series of touch-screen savvy mini-games that will reward players. These games utilize both screens in their design; in one, players shot bombs out of a slingshot by dragging back on the stylus. In another, players played a game similar to the old "pipes" game, where they must guide a Mario head down a series of lines by connecting rungs between four vertical bars. There's even a small puzzle game featuring Luigi where players must match two cards touching each other to clear out the pile.

While it's disappointing that the Mario launch title for the Nintendo DS is a remake of a seven year old game (as opposed to an entirely new game), at least this remake adds a lot more to the mix. The platform design is still top notch, and is still one of the finest 3D platformers ever created.
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So whats Yoshi Touch n Go? And uhh for the instant messaging thing, i just dont get how it'd be worth it if it only works in a 100 ft range. If the person's that close...couldnt you just TALK to them?..

And yall admins...dont act like you've never said a cuss on this board...
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idk, never really heard an admin cuss.....

anywayz, it will be usefull in class, through walls, and 100ft is pretty much. Also, the IM is mainly for seeing who is in the vacinity, and deciding which game to play....silently
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omfg they cuss all the time. Look in the topics that got closed in the artwork galary...yall are in denial.
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