In constructing their own list of desired applications for the DS, Nintendo Gamers Online might have failed to recognize that the homebrew community is hard at work to come up with solutions to these issues. Someone is attempting to create a fairly decent GPS program, VoIP is already possible and Nintendo already released their own mp3 player in Europe.So, we figured it would be best if we asked some folks who knew best about the DS: you. What kind of applications or functionality would you like to see come from the DS? Sure, some more fleshed-out DS/Wii connectivity would be nice, but that's the obvious choice. Come up with some good ones!
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9-23-2007 @ 6:32AM
James said...
WPA Agreed
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9-23-2007 @ 11:51AM
jeems said...
AIM and MSN clients already exist and are quite nice. As does a couple great weather apps, IRC clients, DSOrganize, which has many features, including the ability to play web radio and a mostly-text browser that actually works quite well so far.
Some sort of official download service would be really great though. Either through store kiosks, wifi, or via the wii. It could probably use the ram expansion card to store downloaded content temporarily (while it remains on, like the gba could) or with an official micro-SD card adapter. How cool would it be to buy a game on the wii, play for a bit, then have your DS download it - saves and all - so you can play on the run? When you get back, transfer save back to the wii and you lose no progress. I can already do this with snes roms on my DSPCPS2xbox, so why not make it something official? cmon ninty.
As for media players, meh. Moonshell and DPGPlay are both quite nice, but the screens are fairly small to actually watch something worthwhile on. I carried a few episodes of beakman's world on my sd card to watch on train rides when too tired to play. But mp3 playback is fine as is, and they released an official player in the UK. Not to mention datel's games n music thing, which given it's name can play music.
Best bargain is getting something like an R4 and 2gb card, or a cycloDS and a nice SDHC card with a bit more storage space, load it up with homebrew/backups/music/videos, and be good to go.
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9-23-2007 @ 11:39PM
RoboJoel said...
How about an app that helps SNK Playmore not make Metal Slug 7 look like Ass?
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