hot damn! this just seals the deal for me: the DS is the best portable game system.

and the boomerang is like a gift from the gods in Phantom Hourglass. I spent hours just fucking with it and nothing else.

that picture is incredible.. i can hardly believe it. genius.

This is fantastic. I really liked Pillow Fight.

Thanks for the links.

i haven't touched my DS since i purchased it (after i had a hard time finding a copy of hotel dusk, i pretty much forgot i even owned it). if nintendo were to make it easier for third party and independent developers to release apps for it (especially apps like Colors!) i would be more inclined to use it.

Might I suggest Dragon Quest Monsters : Joker ? Fun game & the graphics are simply amazing for a hand held .

There are so, so many consoles I need to acquire. It's depressing.

I know, right?

I want this feature without having to hack my DS. Drawing dicks in PIcto-Chat is finally starting to get old for me.

Draw titties instead

Good point.

I, too, feel your pain.

Um, how is this News?

Shouldn't it be in Lifestyle?

Wait....hack one's DS? I didn't realize people even did that.

You can just buy these devices that plug into the DS card slot and run homebrew software. (Or, more commonly, adapt a microSD/microSDHC card for the aforementioned purpose.) I'm not sure they're all that legal - all the retailers I've seen that stock them operate out of Hong Kong or parts thereabout and I've seen listings pulled on eBay and the like. But there's literally nothing remotely complicated about it. No going at the innards of your DS, no running scary software exploits that might permanently corrupt the onboard memory (like on the PSP, which is honestly quite simple to hack almost risk-free, but it *looks* intimidating), nothing like that.

Of course, it's a lot more expensive than hacking the PSP - the cheapest such device I've seen was $25 and that doesn't include the microSD card (which go for $20-30 if you want anything decent-sized.), whereas depending on your firmware a PSP may only require a $5 USB cable.

I hope nintendo comes out with something like that because i realy dont want to mess with my ds.

Wider issue, that they're thinking about along with the other newswire issues.