Ds

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Yay, just got one finally - everyone on shift at work seems to have them, so it's my turn now. Delivery turned up at 11am this morning just as I was dozing off so spent a couple hours faffing with it to get some ROMS loaded onto it.

Spent a fair whack on getting it kitted out with accessories, and stuffs expensive here as it is, so all in all paid like $350 or something.

It's a really nice little bit of kit, got a couple of dead night shifts to download some ROMS and faff around getting the SNES emulator working on it.

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Very nice :D. I went with the more expensive PSP route which I'm very unhappy with, and now I'm kicking myself for it. Just about $400 later it sits in my closet collecting dust :(.

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Very nice :D. I went with the more expensive PSP route which I'm very unhappy with, and now I'm kicking myself for it. Just about $400 later it sits in my closet collecting dust :(.

Seems to be a fairly common story, everyone I know that bought one only uses it for watching movies / tv shows on the go after they've encoded them to work on the PSP. It does have a fantastic quality screen for sure, shame about the lack of games and the crappy UMD format. You could maybe ebay it and get a DS :)

I remember when they both first launched, my local movie/music/game emporium had a little shelf for the DS hidden away and pride of place for the PSP, thats all been reversed now.

But, the DS is just damn good as a games machine - lots of great and innovative games on it, great battery life - and with some chinese silicon (hello ezflash4) it has 1GB to throw ROMS onto. Will be interesting how it works with the Wii too.

[rabb1t]

Yeah, I'm in that PSP category. I was not totally impressed with the screen on the DS, so I never picked one up, but pretty quickly after I got the PSP I was wondering why I did. I broke my 'four game rule' (which is I say to myself, ok self, only buy the console when there are at least 4 games for it that you'd play.) Here I am years post launch and I only really play 2 things, and both are collections of old-school games.

Worth the $350 for the unit + like $75 for the 128-meg flash rom at the time? Maybe if you divided up the hours I played and did a per hour cost, but certainly not in the sense 'I got my money's worth'. I'd say it is worth about $150 or so, tops.

Yeah, the media thing was a cute idea, but honestly they probably would have been far more successful had they gone with a detachable DVD reader and then it just burnt the media onto an internal 2 gig flash rom and you just unplugged that and played straight off of the flash rom. Whoever thought peeps would pay more than $5 for a shrunk down DVD that can only be viewed on the PSP needs to be slapped. Priced at $20 they are just talking crazy talk.

Would I have played more with the DS? Very likely. The types of games I was expecting to come out with the PSP just haven't come out (I originally saw someone playing a FF game on the DS and that's what convinced me I should get a portable system).

Still scary and impressive that it has more power and better res than the PS1.

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Still scary and impressive that it has more power and better res than the PS1.

Technically, it's outstanding - its near enough PS2 levels. Keep banging on about this, but the battery life is key in a portable system. The DS is closer to a N64 really.

Spent last nights shift getting some ROMS, and filled my SD card up with about 25+ games, most are great fun to play. Haven't even looked at GBA or SNES emulation yet.

[Snake]

I will have to eventually pick up a DS because of the crazy square enix support its getting. I have a psp, and i still use it every now and then.

[rabb1t]

Stickied a handheld threads if peeps want to take the DS chat in there. :)

[Kalyper]

I like my DS. I think it's more in line between the N64 and Gamecube. Metroid Prime Hunters convinced me of that and the power it can push. My only beef with the system is the poor choice of speakers, I just can't get it as loud as I would like it. But then again, it's best with headphones anyway. ;)