Nintendo DS
The Nintendo DS is a handheld game system released by Nintendo in 2004. It features two 3" screens, (one of which being touch sensitive). It also introduces many new features to the Nintendo handheld lineup such as stereo sound, audio input (microphone) and 3D graphics. As with previous major Nintendo handhelds, the DS also provides backwards compatibility for GBA games (though this does not support multipayer).
The DS is also the first Nintendo system to have a built-in wireless connection, allowing it to link up with other DS's without any wires or add-ons. This was also the first system Nintendo made to go online (Mario Kart DS being the first Nintendo made online game), using the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Nintendo DS Lite
A newer model named the Nintendo DS Lite was released in 2006 and contains all the features of the original Nintendo DS with some new features such as a significantly brighter screen (with four adjustment options) and a smaller overall size (this one having the negative side effect of where a regular Game Boy Advance cartridge would protrude out from the bottom in a similar fashion experienced when playing a Game Boy or Game Boy Color cartridge in the Game Boy Advance).
The system is also lighter than the original Nintendo DS.
Game Gallery
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Trivia
- In Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time Shroobs call Shroob UFOs using a silver, flip-top communicator. Because the Nintendo DS has the capability to send verbal messages to friends, this may be a reference to the Nintendo DS.
- Additionally, Professor Elvin Gadd is shown to own a Nintendo DS in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, he uses this DS's apparent time radar to locate Princess Peach at the beginning of the game and later operates the Hydrogush 4000 with it.
- A stage based on the PictoChat included in the Nintendo DS is in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Additionally, the stage has its very own emblem; the DS emblem.
- In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, one of the names that can appear whenever a player presses the random button when they're naming their custom stage is DS. DS is a reference of the name of this handheld.
- In Mario Kart DS, one of the courses is the Nintendo DS.
- In Super Paper Mario, in the Cafe, there is a digital recipe book with the Nintendo DS Lite Design.
- DS stands for Dual-Screen.
