The DS is here!

Ramblings / December 1, 2004 / John / 0

My Nintendo DS arrived from Canada yesterday. It’s lovely 🙂 Super Mario 64DS is essentially a reworking of Mario64 on the N64, with extra playable characters, a pile of minigames – single and wireless multiplayer, and some extra tricks up its sleeve. The map display on the bottom screen (also used for analogue touch control) works really well. The main thing that struck me about the console is the extremely rich and vivid stereo sound it puts out – particularly as it’s a handheld unit.

All I need now is for nintendo to do the same for Ocarina of Time and my life will be complete.

So, dual screens – one of which is touch sensitive, surprising stereo sound, wireless connectivity, and it’s not region locked, so importing one from the US now won’t stop you playing European games (when it launches next year). All in all, a fab little console.

John

UNIX geek, wannabe cook, musician, book-lover, and all round good-guy.