Nintendo DS Lite.

July 05, 2006, 12:41 pm

I got a Nintendo DS Lite the week they came out. I also got New Super Mario Bros., WarioWare: Touched, Big Brain Academy and a couple days later I got Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow.

I love it. I've been playing it a lot. My favorite so far has been Castlevania which I beat yesterday (getting 100% souls, the chaos ring, and the good ending). I'm now playing through the Julius mode which is pretty fun.

I also got a flashcart, specifically a EZ4Lite with a 1GB microSD card and a SuperKey pass device. It's pretty crazy to think that you can store 1GB of data on something smaller than your pinky fingernail! I've got about 21 Nintendo DS games and 10 Game Boy Advance games with room to spare.

I loaded NesDS, which by the name you can imagine is a NES emulator for DS. It's pretty awesome! It has a really nice feature where you press the L button and it "rewinds" and the R button "fast fowards". It's great to skip boring cut scenes (like those running sequences in Mike Tyson's Punch Out!). Unfortunately, it hasn't been updated in over six months. Hopefully, it'll be updated and the save state support will be fixed.

I was really surprised by Metroid Prime Hunters. It takes some getting used to, but I'm really impressed. It's actually pretty fun.

I also played through Trace Memory

Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan is also really fun, but I'm sure you already knew that.