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Originally Posted by Suprmallet
I would love if it people who regularly import Japanese DS games could compile a list of the good ones that require no Japanese to play (either there's no need for directions, or the directions or so simple that a few minutes of playing will be all the training you need). I really want to get into some of these Japanese games, but I'm not going to import a game if I can't understand it.
The only game I imported was Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. It's not too difficult to figure out how to play it as its a music/rhythm game so it's import friendly. However the game is great, it has a lot of personality and is pretty zany. It also has a lot of replay value, some of the harder modes are really tough. You may be able to figure out what is going on if you can't read japanese from the manga that is blazing by on the top screen but it moves really fast, the animation helps too, but I have a feeling even if I could read all of it I probably wouldn't get what was going on anyway in some of them (the one with the coach and the schoolgirls had me puzzled but it was still funny). www.play-asia.com is where I got it from. edit: I found a link to some of the famitsu scans for the games: http://www.dsrevolution.com/images/i...0_ouendan1.jpg http://www.dsrevolution.com/images/i...0_ouendan2.jpg The games got style like you wouldn't believe ;). You might recognize from the song list Ready, Steady, Go! is the theme from Full Metal Alchemist. |
Wow, great reviews so far for Age of Empires. Can't wait to pick it up.
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I'm all over that AoE tomorrow. And Outlaw, I will check that game out. I was just curious if there were more games that were good and didn't require much knowledge of Japanese.
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Heh, Nintendo just announced the Opera web browser for DS. It'll be an add-on (not built in to the DS Lite). Also announced a TV tuner add-on.
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How should the browser come into the DS?
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New Super Mario Bros. comes out in May in Japan!
Dynasty Warriors DS will be Wi-Fi compatible! Oh, and there's that web browser and TV tuner for people into that nonsense. |
Originally Posted by Suprmallet
I was just curious if there were more games that were good and didn't require much knowledge of Japanese.
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Let's get some words to back up those pictures!
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/02...endo/index.php
February 15, 2006 8:07 am ET IDG News Service Nintendo to offer browser, TV tuner for DS handheld By Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Nintendo Co. Ltd. plans to boost the features of its Nintendo DS handheld game by offering a digital TV tuner and Internet browser for the device later this year, the company said Wednesday. The Internet browser from Opera Software ASA will be launched in Japan in June this year and will cost ¥3,800 (US$32), the company said. Internet access is already possible via the device’s built-in Wi-Fi adapter and is currently used for gaming. The Nintendo DS has two screens and the browser will make use of both. The lower screen will show an overview of the entire Web page while the top screen will show a magnified view of an area selected by the user. The company did not announce plans to sell the browser outside Japan. The digital TV tuner will be available in Japan before the end of this year and will be compatible with a new broadcasting service due to begin in April. The service will send a QVGA resolution (320 pixels by 240 pixels) MPEG4 signal intended to be received by portable devices. The service will run alongside a digital broadcasting service for televisions and will carry all of Japan’s major TV networks. Already, several cell phone makers have announced plans to build tuners for the service into their products. Nintendo did not indicate a price for the tuner. Nintendo’s chief competitor in the portable gaming market has already built an Internet browser into its handheld. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. offered the browser via a firmware update for the PlayStation Portable last year, and recently added support for audio podcasts to the device. The PSP doesn’t have a TV tuner, although it can be used as a viewer for Sony Corp.’s Location Free TV system. Chris |
An even better story!
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/busine..._Nintendo.html
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 · Last updated 2:58 a.m. PT Nintendo DS machine to work as portable TV By YURI KAGEYAMA AP BUSINESS WRITER TOKYO -- The Nintendo DS handheld video-game machine will work as a portable TV with a card equipped with a tuner and antenna that allows people to watch digital broadcast, the company president said Wednesday. An Internet browser feature is also in the works for the machine, which has two screens, including one touch panel. The machine already comes with a Wi-Fi wireless connection. Nintendo said it has no overseas plans for the digital broadcast card but is considering offering the browser feature abroad. Sales of Nintendo DS in Japan have grown to 6 million since it was introduced here in December 2004. That's faster growth than Nintendo's Game Boy Advance or Japanese rival Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 2, which took about 20 months to sell that many, said President Satoru Iwata. The new features will help boost sales of the machine, and Nintendo is targeting sales of 10 million in Japan sometime this year, he said. Worldwide, Nintendo Co. has sold 13 million of the machines since they first went on sale in November 2004 in the United States. The Kyoto-based company, famous worldwide as the maker of Super Mario and Pokemon games, said the browser function will be available in June in Japan but did not give details of the dates or pricing for the digital broadcast. Digital television broadcast is set to start in Japan in April. Mobile phones that display digital broadcast are already going on sale because digital broadcast delivers better quality streaming video. "We are aiming for an unquestionable proliferation of Nintendo DS as a gaming platform," Iwata said at a Tokyo news conference to lay out strategy for this year. The Internet browser will come from Opera Software of Norway, according to Nintendo. Users will be able to write words for searches on the touch panel, or use both screens to view Web pages. Iwata also announced that a slimmed down Nintendo DS Lite will go on sale in Japan March 2 for 16,800 yen (US$143), and will come in white, pale blue and navy. Several games for Nintendo DS have sold a million units, including "Nintendogs," in which puppies jump around in the screen and can be petted with a plastic pen. The software has been a hit not only in Japan but also in the United States and Europe. The new kinds of games, including a brainteaser catering to the Japanese market that tests intelligence levels, are attracting older people and women, Iwata said. Traditional games that focus on sports, shootings and fist fights tended to draw young males. New software being developed for Nintendo DS will turn the device into mobile dictionaries with translations in English or Chinese popping up on the screen. Another kind of software works as a dictionary for Japanese characters. That would suck if we never got both of these things here in the States! Chris |
More info:
The Opera software will release in June for roughly $32. Additional items of note include a May Japanese release date for New Super Mario Brothers (helloooo, import), a budget price for Tetris DS, the announcement of several games like Calligraphy Training DS and a cooking title, footage shown from Children of Mana and Xenosaga Episode 1-2, and "brief talk" concerning games such as Super Robot Wars, Dynasty Warriors, and Winning Eleven Nine (with the latter two titles getting Wi-Fi support). |
Not to rain on the DS parade, but from my PDA experience the Netfront browser is the best portable browser (also in the PSP) and the Opera portable browser is one of the worst. I'm sure the DS version will be optimized as much as possible, but I can't see it being much of a browser on the small low res DS screens and I definitely can't see it being worth $32. Hopefully I'm wrong and its good, but $32?
The TV tuner seems just as pointless. Why not just release a DS version of the Play Yan instead. |
Originally Posted by YURI KAGEYAMA
Traditional games that focus on sports, shootings and fist fights tended to draw young males.
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Apparently the Opera browser will come with a Ram add on to speed up the surfing on the DS. That makes the $30 price tag seem a bit more understandable, but it still seems like a reach to me. Don't surf very often on the PSP and would definitely not pay extra for that feature.
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DS Reviews from the new EGM.
Age of Empires was tied for game of the month and got a 9.0, 7.5, 8.5. The other game of the month was Drill Dozer for the GBA. Super Princess Peach: 7.5, 7.0, 8.0 True Swing Golf: 8.0, 7.0, 7.0 Also, in their annual awards, the DS was the system of the year for 2005. :thumbsup: |
Wow those are actually glowing reviews for EGM. Getting an 8 from any of them on a portable game is like pulling teeth. I tried to get Age of Empires today, but it wasn't in stores yet. I'm definitely going to have to buy Drill Dozer soon.
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I would love to use my DS to help me learn Japanese.
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Originally Posted by Josh Hinkle
The other game of the month was Drill Dozer for the GBA.
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Q: How do you sell a DS Lite to a current DS owner?
A: Show them this picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Comparison.jpg |
Originally Posted by gimmepilotwings
I would love to use my DS to help me learn Japanese.
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Originally Posted by PixyJunket
Q: How do you sell a DS Lite to a current DS owner?
A: Show them this picture: The only downside for me would be the loss of homebrew stuff like SCUMM VM. |
nice, depending on how much trade-in value i can get, i just might have to pick up the ds lite. what is the msrp again?
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Damn you Pixy!!! DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
now I have to get one.........so does anyone want to buy my basically brand new Red DS on the cheap? :lol: |
Holy crap, that DS is tons brighter!
I'll probably keep my red one, for the coolness of the color. But I will be getting the lite. Oh yes. Also, AoE should be out today. I hope. |
I guess that pic answers my question on the brightness. It's going to be much harder for me to cancel my order through Play-Asia and wait for it to come out here after seeing that pic.
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