Recommendations on new Nintendo DS games?

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What are friend codes? Please explain to this old fart. All this home gaming is new to me as I was a child of the 70's & 80's and only played in the arcades.

On the Nintendo Wii and DS, online games give a randomly assigned number that allows you to play with your friends over the internet. Did I explain it good?

Each game has a code, you exchange it with your friend, and play the game online with your friend.

Brothers in arms: DS Is a great game. Touch screen controls are fiddly, but great once you get to know the game.

This is interesting Moop. Where is the number shown in the DS game? I've never noticed anything like that. I have yet to utilize my DS Wi-Fi capability because I do not have any friends who are gamers and appartently no one at my apartment complex has a DS as I have tried hoping to connect to another where the game searches for a connection. I guess maybe I am old to play games but it was recommended I start gaming because I have a brain injury and supposedly it helps rewire the brain to play.

Do you need a high speed internet connection to play online with friends?

You need to go to the WiFi connection area in the game (like in pokemon, it's the basement floor of the pokecenter, and in mario kart it's in the menu), and it will make a code. You need a wireless router and a high speed internet connection. If the game can go online, it will give instructions in the manual.

Ehh...didn't think much of it at all =/



That didn't stop Rare from releasing Diddy Kong Racing and Viva Pinata for DS, or DKC trilogy and Sabre Wulf for GBA.

I just found the Chicken Shoot game real cheap on Ebay so got it. It did get good reviews.

Anyone know if these games are lame? Lego Batman or Sims Castaways??

I could imagine Lego Batman being good; The only issue I have is that if a game is released on both console and handheld, usually the handheld version is vastly inferior to the console version; Be forewarned.

As for recommendations, I can only echo two other people in this topic:

The World Ends With You
Chrono Trigger.

Enough said.

I actually thought the DS Lego Star Wars (complete saga or whatever) was a bit better than the console/PC ones. When I was playing Lego Star Wars 2 (which Traveller's Tales didn't port) I kept wondering how the console version compared...but the Complete Saga (which TT did port) I was having too much fun to care. Then I got to play the PC demo, and I still kind of preferred the DS one...the levels were a lot more compact and streamlined, and required a whole lot less dinking around, and the camera was a lot more tolerable.

Haven't really gotten to try the console/PC Lego Batman yet, but I thought the DS one was pretty good. Just kind of dumb that they force you to use the touch screen to activate special powers...you either keep your stylus in hand while you play, or you smudge up your screen =/

That's why they make screen protectors! I won't play on my DS without one. That said I absolutely hate the whole touch screen crap for gaming. I only bought the DS because I wanted a portable color system.

as i said before buy a cyclods evolution and you have all games that exists (its some sort of game with a microschip in and you can download games to it and play them on your ds its really so goddamn easy)

Ok I just got my Chicken Shoot cartridge in the mail. Its worth the $4 I paid. But its not for advanced, or should I say skilled gamers. But for someone who likes just shooting at things its a real blast. Its fun when the chickens scream "mama" as they fall out of the sky. It probably appeals more to people like me the kids of the 70's when basic games came out. Those of you of the Nintendo/Playstation and beyond generation will consider this a kindergarten game. I might add that I am having a hard time advancing out of the first level and have only done it once. There's something to be said for buying a game with an instruction manual but for $4 its worth figuring out on my own. I imagine the Wii version with the gun would be a lot more fun.

I just need to know how to change to the machine gun. It changes into that sometimes I just haven't figured out what I did to activate it yet so if anyone knows I'd appreciate the advice. I haven't found a manual online or any cheats for it yet.

I'd suggest the main Pokémon games. Platinum is set to come out in March...It sold over a million copies within the first month it came out, and that was only in Japan, so that's a serious top seller.
They're very fun games and can be played in a variety of ways and focuses. And the plots are surprisingly interesting, even though they're short...by "short" I mean that you can beat the actual plot after about 50 hours, but you can continue to play for basically as long as you want. I beat the plot in Pearl version last year and still have plenty of things to do, and Platinum has an extended plot as well as more mini-games and the opportunity to rebattle more opponents (although I really wish you could rebattle the main bad guy, but sadly you can't).

If you get one, let me know your friend code and I'll give you some good stuff.


I can't vouch for the DS version since I don't have it (yet), but Chrono Trigger was fun when I played it on the PSX. I'd also suggest pretty much any Final Fantasy game as well--my favorite is VI, and while it's not available on the DS itself, you can play the Game Boy Advance version on a DS.

I recenrly got Pokemon mystery dungeon; explorers of darkness and I have thought it is an interesting change for the series, it is kind of fun moving a charmender along and having a bit of strategy of movment, not just turnbased. Made me want to go and start a game on my fire red to migrate a charmender over to my Pokemon Pearl, also a good game. Another fave of mine is Yugioh, world championship 2008, but that might because I am a fan oif the card game.

I haven't have much luck with GBA games in my DS. I bought a used GBA of Quidditch Match and the machine doesn't recognize that it is inserted. Which makes me hesitate to buy other GBA's such as Street Fighter and Centipede that I would really love to have.