Got a Nintendo DS in 2024

[Jerzy Bondov]

Personally I think if you're buying one you might as well get a New 3DS or 2DS XL, since you only need an SD card to hack it and then you also get the 3DS library which fucking bangs. Once it's hacked it's no effort at all to install games. Amazing thing it is.

[Memorex MP3]

You've a point; I'd say get a 2DS because they're super cheap now (can probably get one for £30?) then gift it away and upgrade to the New 3DS XL if you want a better form factor. New 3DS XL is expensive but the original 3DS is just a frustrating inbetween atm, feels small, a bit fragile and the 3D is dogshit.

[Ferris]

Ghost Trick didn't last long then. Bet you didn't even meet the pomeranian. :(

It's the next game I'm gonna play, promise!

[katzenjammer]

Imo DSi XL is the way too go; the larger screen feels more natural these days even though the resolution is the same. If you're at all technical you can do the softmod route and save some money on an r4, worst case scenario you can't figure it out and you just buy the R4 afterwards


If getting an R4 I'd just grab the cheapest working DS Lite off eBay. Get yourself a GBA cart reader in the process

Cheers for this, getting one for €45 on Tuesday that says it has hundreds of games so guessing it has an R4 thing or something. I think you've saved me some bother, was going to buy a non new 3D XL before

[Ferris]

Playing ghost trick, just met Missile the Pomeranian but the Rube Goldberg type gameplay isn't clicking for me yet.

I'm soldiering on for the story at this point and holding out hope I get into the gameplay more, but it's on thin ice - if it gets on my tits with the "trick" timing business then it'll be metaphorically binned and I'll move on to another of the bazillion games I'm metaphorically sitting on.

Got to be brutal, got 996 games to get through.

[Ferris]

Did the first 1 and a bit cases of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. What a game - knows exactly how silly it is and leans into it. I'll be playing the rest of that at some point.

[lazyhour]

I hate you

[lazyhour]

this cunt clicked with Ghost Trick yet

[Ferris]

I've been checking out the built-in emulator and am a few hours into a Pokémon Gold GBC campaign.

I'll play your fucking ghost trick when I'm good and fucking ready alright??

[madhair60]

just play it now you useless arsehole. sorry for calling you a useless arsehole.

[Ferris]

Tell it to my level 11 Psyduck mate.

[McQ]

He's got (9)99 games, but Ghost Trick ain't one. Hit me! (Bwah.)

I really do recommend Ghost Trick, though. It's very good. This has been a cautionary tale about the dangers of too much choice, I feel.

[McQ]

Also, the name of the thread should have been, "I got a Nintendo DS... in 2024??!!??"

[TommyTurnips]

I used to play a lot of Pokemon when it first came out  in the late 90s but lost interest in gold and silver. I didn't like the new pokemon, they all seemed kind of hacky, like they'd been hurriedly designed to cash in on the fad. So I went in search of a new to me pokemon game. I wanted one that only featured the original 151 pokemon and the answer seems to be fire red and leaf green for the Gameboy Advance and it looks great. It's a remake of red and blue and I'm having a lot of fun playing like it's 1999 again and it looks great on the 3DSXL screen. I really missed having the GBA cartridge slot and it's great to be playing GBA again. As others said, the backwards compatability wasn't removed with the cartridge slot, it was there all along.

[C_Larence]

If you're emulating you can easily download fan made ROM-hacks of pokémon games, Ash Gray might be up your alley as it's essentially a faithful retelling of the first season of the anime so only has first gen pokémon.

[Ferris]

"I got a Nintendo DS... in 2024??!!??"

Robert Kilroy silk has let himself go

[Ferris]

If you're emulating you can easily download fan made ROM-hacks of pokémon games, Ash Gray might be up your alley as it's essentially a faithful retelling of the first season of the anime so only has first gen pokémon.

This is actually the game I'm playing! And the reason I'm playing it! I said gold just to make it more approachable for yer journeyman poke-enthusiast.

It's good, but there is definitely a decent amount of cut content and the occasional translating snafu from the original Japanese (?)

[C_Larence]

Oh that's funny! I have hundreds of the things, if you want I could put them in a google drive or something.

[Ferris]

Oh that's funny! I have hundreds of the things, if you want I could put them in a google drive or something.

That's really kind of you to offer, but I think I have them all (?) and certainly more than I'll ever have the time to play! Appreciate it though.

I'm on a flight tomorrow without wife and child so will get 4+ hours of blissfully uninterrupted DS time. Honestly looking forward to that more than the actual destination. Cleared my credit card as well so look out, drinks trolley!

[Ferris]

Robert Kilroy silk has let himself go

Just to point out this is probably the funniest thing I've ever written.

[Pink Gregory]

sudowoodo is a great guy, it's a pokemon that pretends to be a tree and it's called 'pseudo-wood'

[madhair60]

having access to the DS library and choosing to play fucking Pokemon over Ghost Trick is a total cunt move

that said I am interested in buying a DSi XL now for my own foray into the recent past

[Ferris]

I don't even like Pokémon, I'm just doing it to annoy madhair

Another point to ferris

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Ghost Trick?

[lazyhour]

Pokemon is definitely for babies and paedophilea, of that there can be no doubt.

Ghost Trick, on the other hand...

[Midas]

Korg DS-10

[TommyTurnips]

If you're emulating you can easily download fan made ROM-hacks of pokémon games, Ash Gray might be up your alley as it's essentially a faithful retelling of the first season of the anime so only has first gen pokémon.

I downloaded ash gray from about six or seven different sites. I pasted the .gba file into the gba folder each time. None of them worked. Gave up.

[Midas]

Is that on 3DS? I don't think GBA ROMs work (other than the ten 3DS Ambassador Program ones)

(Might be wrong)

[madhair60]

yeah you will need TwilightMenu or to create a Virtual Console injector for the game

alternatively you could play something good?

[TommyTurnips]

Is that on 3DS? I don't think GBA ROMs work (other than the ten 3DS Ambassador Program ones)

(Might be wrong)

Yes it's a 3DSXL. All the other GBA games work but it seems rom hacks don't.