#27279 - Cupcakus - Fri Oct 08, 2004 2:02 am
So it turns out Nintendo plans on using the extra cartridge port functionality of the DS already with the Pokemon Dash game, putting the Emerald GBA game into the GBA cart slot with Dash playing unlocks extras.
Kind of weak, but the DS games being able to access this slot opens it up for a lot of options, I see it as the ultimate peripheral slot, I'm excited to see what crazy stuff they cram in there... DVD Player? Extra Storage like a HDD for MMO games... The possiblities are mind boggling.
#27282 - zazery - Fri Oct 08, 2004 3:33 am
I'm surprised that Nintendo actually is using this idea themselves. I had written a post on the forums here talking about MMO games and updatable content. Who would have thought Nintendo would be actually doing it.
#27309 - dagamer34 - Sat Oct 09, 2004 12:23 am
Interesting picture of the back of the DS. And yes, there is a headphone jack. I am still wondering where the stylus goes...
http://www.planetgamecube.com/media.cfm?action=hwshot&id=220&seq=4
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#27310 - Kleevah - Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:14 am
| dagamer34 wrote: |
| I am still wondering where the stylus goes... |
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/hardware/index.html
Check out point 14, thats where the stylus goes...
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#27313 - dagamer34 - Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:08 am
Yeah, I noticed soon after I posted my reply.
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#27318 - mymateo - Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:54 am
I see at the front the headphone jack and the once-mysterious headset jack, but at the back, there is a square hole near the stylus slot. Any ideas? I can't read japanese, otherwise the link provided above would be helpful. If someone here can read japanese, then it's #13. Thanks!
Edit: oops.
Found a translate tool online, it's a stap hook. I got excited over nothing. Ugh, a strap? Needless to say, I don't think I want that hanging off of my beautiful DS, unless it looks really cool and has magical properties.
#27470 - jambo - Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:15 pm
| mymateo wrote: |
| Found a translate tool online, it's a stap hook. I got excited over nothing. Ugh, a strap? Needless to say, I don't think I want that hanging off of my beautiful DS, unless it looks really cool and has magical properties. |
It does. The strap doubles as some sort of stylus!
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#27474 - ampz - Wed Oct 13, 2004 7:53 pm
Cool!
#27489 - Cupcakus - Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:14 am
With any luck that will be the Thumb pointer thing... it fits on your thumb and allows you to use the touch screen as an anolog stick with your thumb... I saw it demoed on a video at one of the press conferences with Mario 64...
#27504 - mymateo - Thu Oct 14, 2004 8:32 am
I think game developers could allow the touch pad to be used with your bare thumb as an analog control if they REALLY wanted to.
As for the magical stap, does it do anything else? 'Cause I could really use something to magically do all my dishes, do my taxes, download that blasted Doom3 demo a little faster, and make me look good in vests. Not that I want to wear a vest, but it'd be nice if I at least would look good in one.
Did anyone else just feel that?
#27536 - dagamer34 - Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:04 pm
| mymateo wrote: |
I think game developers could allow the touch pad to be used with your bare thumb as an analog control if they REALLY wanted to.
As for the magical stap, does it do anything else? 'Cause I could really use something to magically do all my dishes, do my taxes, download that blasted Doom3 demo a little faster, and make me look good in vests. Not that I want to wear a vest, but it'd be nice if I at least would look good in one.
Did anyone else just feel that? |
Yeah, maybe that will happen if the thumb strap helps you make money. I don't know about the Doom3 thing.
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#27545 - mymateo - Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:58 am
That's OK. Finally got Doom3 to download. That game is sa-weet! Runs too damn slow for my poor 'puter, though. I need more RAM and a better video card. As for speed, a 2600+ is good enough.
#27557 - dagamer34 - Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:16 pm
| mymateo wrote: |
| That's OK. Finally got Doom3 to download. That game is sa-weet! Runs too damn slow for my poor 'puter, though. I need more RAM and a better video card. As for speed, a 2600+ is good enough. |
Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers. And also, if you are using an ATI Radeon card, there are some options in the control panel that allow you to change preferences on the quality of DirectX and OpenGL performance.
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#27573 - mymateo - Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:50 pm
Hah, I always have the latest drivers. Also, I've had bad experiences with ATI cards in the past, so I'm strictly nVidia. My video card has some extra options for performance... mainly, the overclocking, which I bumped up about another 35% or so... I can finally do large amounts of particle affects without my framerate switching into the "second per frame" category! lol