I wonder how they’re use the touchscreen. If they use the top screen for the actual game and the touchscreen for an easily-accessed and pokeable menu screen for equipping items/weapons then this will be AWESOME.
Between Castlevania, Kirby, Advance Wars and with this, Mario Paint, Phoenix Wright and FF3 on the horizon the DS is the best console ever.
^^^ Buy one. You won’t regret it. I bought mine back in December and got maybe three games for it in the last 8 months but now dear LORD a ton of awesome shit is coming.
The Lunar DS game is supposed to suck quite hard FYI.
Also FF3 is somewhere between SNES and PSX at least, assuming my eyes aren’t deceiving me and those are pseudo-3D models.
What’s that? This is going to be Legend of Mana with a less interesting story and poor control system? Well, I say, then I don’t think it will be so amazing, after all.
In other words: I don’t trust the Seiken Densetsu franchize in handheld form, at least not enough to buy a console I will play nothing else on, especially when that console is still hideously overpriced.
I vowed to not get another handheld. I just didn’t play it enough and I hated squinting at small screens. If Nintendo decides to make a “Super DS” (device that would let you play DS games on a Revolution), I’d get it in a second though.
I’ve never had a problem with handhelds. In fact, they’re almost a prefered cosole of mine. And Xero, that is a possiblity since Nintendo has done the same with the GC and GBA games (not sure if that worked with lower than GBA games) and the SNES and normal GB games before that. Though the question is how Nintendo would incorperate the touchscreen.
There is a small group of GB and GBC and GBA that can not be played on a TV Via either Super GB or Gameboy player for NGC. Most had specail carts or required the GBC’s Infra red port.
It will be one of best ones in the UK releases. At least the ones I can find.
Since It’s magic Rocks… (Sorry SG) Still once date is found for the UK, DS buying time…
I thought of that right after I posted. I suppose that would be a problem. My hope is that not all DS will use it, namely this one at the moment, so it can more easily ported. Most RPGs for the DS now only use that second screen for a map, so perhaps this proposed add-on can do a split screen mode of some sort, or maybe have command to switch between the two screens quickly.
Handhelds have become secondary to me. When I’m out, I’m out, I don’t need to be playing games. I can see why the Japaense love them because they spend so much time commuting on trains that they actually have to use handhelps for some period of time longer than five minutes. They are used to smaller screens than we spoiled Americans, who enjoy our large screen plasma televisions.
My school is a magnet, so it’s about 45 minutes away from my house, Bahamut. Oh, and my family has only ever purchased one teevee, and it’s tiny and not even digital or high defintion. Or, for that matter, from the '90s.
The abundance of nifty games for the DS really has me considering getting one in the not-too-distant future. I’m still peeved about GBA only backward compatibility, but hey. I could keep my GBA for when I want to pull out some old DW games.
There won’t be a super-gameboy DS type thing for the GC. If anything, the Rev will get one, but don’t hold your breath. It took YEARS for the SNES and GC variants to be made after launch.
Looks spiffy. I’m glad they chose to adopt a blend of styles from past SD games instead of just making it look like LoM (which was what I feared). I’m also glad they stuck to 2D. The idea of a 3D FF3 remake is making me feel a bit unnerved.