Aren't Walmarts infamous for having pretty varied prices from store to store? From my time in the Bargains thread, I seem to remember hearing that. I'd say that if you can find it for $40, it's well worth the money, especially the Famicom version if you're a collector of Famicom stuff.

Our Wal*Mart has a ton of them too and I believe they are $39.98 a piece (I'll check when I go this afternoon). We were gonna grab a pair for the kids for Christmas, but we're gonna hold off and get them DS Lites for their birthdays this summer, or get them next Christmas.

to the Castlevania players....


what level were you guys on when you beat Death?

How about those 2 vampire daughters?

I was pretty low on the first battles with Death and the 1 daughter. Those are pretty easy fights. Towards the tough end bosses I was up in the high 40s. I think I was in the low 50s for the final boss. I did a lot of exploring though to try and complete the map and quests.

ahh, that was going to be my next question.


I beat their arses on level 35, but I can't say i was expecting that bad ending. Do i have to do some side quests or something?

Anyone willing to help out an OLD gamer? Today I bought a D-Link Xtreme N wireless router so my kids could play on-line against their friends. I've set up the router. Now how do they set up on-line gaming? Any help would be appriciated.

They were marked $59.98. Oh well.

You have to be running WEP. You'll need the first key, and you'll have to have the DS and a game with wireless support like Mario Kart DS. You choose the wifi play option and set up the router in the menu.

I finally got 1000% on the castle and have completed all but two quests. Great game, but I think I'm ready to move on. Bring on Kirby.

Oh yeah how about them vampire daughter babes. I'd be like who's your daddy, who's your daddy.

I finally beat the final song with 3 stars on EBA. That was incredibly hard, but incredibly satisfying. There actually is a 4 star challenge setting. However on this setting the flaw of playing a game where you have to look at the screen while constantly touching it really comes through. My hand ends up blocking part of the screen, and that invariably ends up being where the next numbers will show up. It's very frustrating, but luckily I don't seem to get tired of the songs.

As the credits were rolling through I noticed that there was a song that I don't remember getting. It was Maybe I'm just blanking on having played it since I didn't look back at previous difficulties, but was that in there? Is it yet another bonus stage? I unlocked the other 2 bonus stages already.

I'm through the first 3 worlds of Yoshi's Island DS.

It's a good game, but not great...probably around an 8.0 at this point.

The level design is getting a bit stale and frustrasting at times---lots of times you need a certain baby to get to something, and there is no switch station on that section, so you just have to replay the level and remember which babies you need at which section. The dead zone in between screens also causes some frustrations.

But still worth a purchase, but just don't go in expecting it to be as good as the original.

thanks for the responses Darkside. I basically save this game for myself when I'm at work

It's in there and early on, it's just really, really difficult to recognize. It sounds absolutely NOTHING like the original song.

so my DS just got wet(totally submerged) and now its messed up. the touch screen is really dark now and the top screen comes and goes with its bright picture. I dried it out as much as a could and now I have it sitting in front of one of my heater vents. whats the chance that it will work again when it dries completely out? probably not much, huh?

My wife successfully washed and dried my old NES Edition GBA SP and it worked great after the fog under the screen had cleared.

Have no idea how a DS will handle it.

You dropped it in the crapper didn't you

close. the bathtub.

I'm a few songs into the 3 star setting. The last song (jumping jack flash) on 2 stars already gave me headaches; took me around 50 tries to pass it, but it was great fun. And once I passed it, I realized I could pass it pretty easily now because I remember all the right moves to do it. The gf was also playing, and it took her some 100 tries to pass it; she really got crazy cranky because she couldn't pass it before I did. I bet the 3 star songs toward the end are pretty nuts.

Question about Friend Codes... If I were to buy another DS and I play all my DS games' carts on that new DS, will my Friend Codes still have to change as well?

I think I remember this for Animal Crossing but I'm not 100% certain.

You can link up the DSes and transfer you wifi info, including your friend codes, to the new one.

It's weird because after I beat the 2 star Jumping Jack Flash the 3-star boards weren't that difficult. Except of course the Napolean Dynamite song which I always seem to have trouble with. However then the difficulty shoots up again for the second to last and Jumping Jack Flash. Then on 4 I can beat them in a few tries, but I'm expecting a HUGE jump in difficulty again on the usual problems. I can't even remember how many tries Jumping Jack Flash and level before it took me.

Dammit. I want Command & Conquer: Red Alert DS!! NOW.

How did it turn out?

You probably shouldn't have turned it on until it was completely dry. Try taking the battery out. If it really doesn't work anymore it is a good excuse to buy a new one. Was it a lite or the phat?

I was just coming here to update. it is working like normal now(knock on wood). I let it sit near one of my heat vents for about 12hrs without touching it. I nervously picked it up and turned it on and everything fired up like normal.

from now on this thing is not allowed in the bathroom.