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i wonder what kind of games the ds might have Rolling Eyes
Mario Games, Zelda Games Sonic Games.  The usual.
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Ok

2D on the DS will be the same as the advance

It will have around 120,000 polygons per sec (N64= 100,000)

Two processers ARM-9 main processer(67MHz) and a advance like ARM-7 sub processer(33MHz)

16 channel sound + Microphone Input

4MB RAM + 64KB in processers +656KB VRAM (N64=4MB)

screens resolution will be 256X192 (advance=240X160)

262,144 colours (advance=32,768)

A,B,X,YL and R buttons + a D-pad

wireless networking (16 PEOPLE!!)

Lots of power save features (PSP battery life=2hours)

Video playback and also a touch screen and maybe some sort of instant messaging service.

I got this from a friend who found a leaked document
Not impossible
just highly unlikely
And everyone knows that the best source in the world is a guy on a message board's friend.

Although those specs were indeed leaked and posted on most major game news sites, so in this case it's legit.
hm... just a few hours away till the official unveiling, till then.

Maybe its this?

USAtoday seems to know quite a bit about it, and thats where that came from.
Looks like a SNES remote if you ask me, at least button wise. As for the two-screen thing, what would a Metroid game look like on that? Metroid Zero mission for example. Would Samus's current placement on the map be on top screen and full map be on the bottom screen? Or could you be on the Mothership and be able to watch Terence's Perfect Stealth video.. Heck, that'd be awesome.
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I posted some stuff about the DS on the E3 thread on the Boardwark, including some screens. Check it out.
I wonder if we can get an emulator for the DS. 2 screens, touchscreen? hmm.
The DS will do to the GBA what it did to GBC. only more so.

I'd estimate cost at ~150-200 release

~150 2-3 months after release.

For all the things they're offering, its pretty much a steal, at least compared to others.
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I wonder if we can get an emulator for the DS. 2 screens, touchscreen? hmm.

Heh heh.  Mr. Green
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I wonder if we can get an emulator for the DS. 2 screens, touchscreen? hmm.


Maybe the touchness will be the mouse?  That could work.
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That can be worked. But it'd need quite a team of people to program that, and (based on my views and calculations) would eat up performance memory like mad.
I haven't read what other people said, but there's gonna be Wirless with instant messaging and other stuff. (Don't get mad at me if someone already said that.)
直死の魔眼使い
Indeed, it has.
I was watching techtv which had coverage of the E3 conferance in which they said that the touchscreen will be in the DS.. Also they spoke for a long time about something that uses Disks and has a flap to put them in. They played duke nukem on it.. So the DS is everything in a Gameboy and more.. much more.
I truly wasn't planning on buying it, but because it has a metroid game, and probably many other great titles I may be forced to buy it. So many parts of it seem horrible though, first off: price, I don't want to pay that much. Second: 2 hour or so battery life? Give me a break! And third, I no longer play my GBA whatsoever. I use the GBA/GCN hookup, and when I'm in a car or something, I try to play my GBA but its so annoying, I love playing it on a real tv, which is way better.

Which I guess leads to my next question. Sure, the DS will probably have backwards capability, BUT, will the GCN be able to play DS games??
But that just get's rid of the whole portableness of it all.
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and white wine
Well I think they should make a Mario Paint thing for this system. Perhaps the one that was planned for the 64DD a while back. Touchscreen + Mario Paint = awesome.
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Wait, the PSP has 2 hour battery life. What was the DS's battery life again? I didn't think it was 2 hours...
Well to begin with, NO PRICE IS SET so how can that be driving you nuts?  Shocked

The DS cartridges are very thin in comparison to the GB/GBC/GBA. There's two separate ports for the different cartridges too
The price can drive me crazy cuz even if its $100, thats $100 dollars I'd rather not spend. Why do you think I didn't get SP?

- I know, GBA... the whole point is being portable, but I just can't seem to play it on the road once I've played big screen so much.
I got SP, MZM and 2 albums cuz I had a $200 future shop card to blow :P
shrimp
and white wine
Price isn't a huge issue for me. I'd pay up to $150 or so for it. More than that isn't very reasonable though.

The system price'll probably drop ten bucks after a couple weeks of being released.

I wonder. Will this thing have a headphone jack on it?
how will the system price drop a few weeks after release?

the SP has been around more than a year and hasn't dropped a penny of price.

It took the GBA at least a few years before it went down in price, that also debuted at 100$

My second GBA cost 100$ as well i believe, and that was quite a few months later.  (lets see, GBA = summer before freshman year, it "retired"... the winter golden sun 1 came out, i just remember playing through all of golden sun on the batteries that came with the system...25+ hours on those things)

I think the GBA dropped to 70$ the christmas before the SP was announced, cause the SP was announced very early in the year, announced in january and came out that march.
shrimp
and white wine
Well, it did here anyway. Maybe the stores are weird. Actually, they probably are.

Hehe, oh well.

EDIT: "It" refers to the GBA. It started at like $105 and went down to about $95 in a few weeks.