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 Posted: Thu, 5th Oct 2006 09:27 Post subject: |
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Get a Nintendo DS.
In Europe, its 130€ + 100€ for the stuff required to play backups, and there are many fun games suitable for your son.
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Oct 2006 11:50 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Oct 2006 17:35 Post subject: |
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DS for sure, although you'll need to purchase external equipment to "crack" it's protection. Once you have it's as simple as finding your ROMs and moving the files over.
The game selection for DS is much stronger and more suited to your situation I'd say, the game are just simply too good for words, the way you can interact with the game via touch is unlike any other thing.
PSP on the other hand, has a few good games, but mostly re-hashes and re-makes. However, to "crack" it you don't need to buy anything. You just download the hacks to the included memory stick and you're good to go. You can load any game to date without problems.
Further with the ease of use with a PSP you won't even need to buy a huge memstick as you can load any image from your computer via USB. Sure you can't move around anymore, but it's a trade off like any other. 
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Oct 2006 17:35 Post subject: |
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if he is 7 then get nintendo that is the rule of all console gaming
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| Posted: Thu, 5th Oct 2006 23:32 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 6th Oct 2006 05:13 Post subject: |
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I seen the ads for fleshlights are they eh em ...any good?
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| Posted: Fri, 6th Oct 2006 10:08 Post subject: |
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lmao. I know someone who has one and apparently they are ...
May the NFOrce be with you always.
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| Posted: Fri, 6th Oct 2006 16:17 Post subject: |
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It's not a bad deal, but you may want to get the Lite version instead, although no actual difference in funtionality, the lite has better brighter (and adjustable) screens and a more powerfull battery, therefore with a level 2 light setting (apparently level 2 is slightly brighter than the old style DS brightness) you will get more playing hours before a recharge is needed.
For a flashcart in the UK I can reccomend this store (prices include delivery), ..... http://www.supercardstore.com/ Chris the owner only sells Supercards, which are very good for DS roms and homebrew but has flaky GBA rom support 80-90%. For a flashcart that does GBA roms well too you would need an M3, which with UK prices can work out very expensive.
Items you will need...
1) A Flashcart... Supercard and M3 are the most well known and supported
2) A passkey/passcard.. basically this is the hack, enables DS roms to be played/run via the GBA slot. (note there are new devices (DS cart based) now appearing which do not need this, but are literally just launching or launching in the next few weeks.
3) For Supercard or M3 you will need a memory card too, this can be any size you wish, though a good standard size would be @1GB, enougth for 20-30 DS roms.
A good site to find info on flashcarts is http://gbatemp.net
I looked up "gormless" in the dictionary, it said "without gorm" .... so i looked up "gorm" but it wasn't there ????
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Oct 2006 18:26 Post subject: |
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Apparently the Lite version has a better screen but becuase its smaller, its more difficult to use (Buttons close together etc). But I guess seen as he is only 7 he will have small fingers / hands so shouldnt be a problem..
George W Bush -
'...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas.'
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| Posted: Wed, 11th Oct 2006 03:34 Post subject: |
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Go with DS, would pay half the price then PSP and have more fun.
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Oct 2006 16:14 Post subject: |
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Hmmm only problem i seem to have is saves wont reload.. ive read up a bit on this but cant find a satisfactory reason why not.. any ideas? am i doing something wrong.. should games be saved in a 'different' way if playing off a supercard? thanks
btw this refers to both the nds and gameboy - saves wont reload on either
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| Posted: Sun, 15th Oct 2006 16:20 Post subject: |
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Sounds like somethings wrong with it, with ds games it should save straight to the save file created by the client ( ds rom and save file should be paired in the same directory) the saving procedure for DS roms should be completely invisible to you meaning it should work and save by itself with no intervention, just like a real ds cart. With gba games however you do have to use a button combo (L+R+Select+A) to backup the sram content to the memory card (during game).
btw.. what model did you get miniSD ?
I looked up "gormless" in the dictionary, it said "without gorm" .... so i looked up "gorm" but it wasn't there ????
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