GameBoy DS wishlist

We know we're getting dancing Pokémon and new Wario Ware, but what else do you want the DS to do? I really hope the Game Boy DS has some kind of wifi signal finder. I'll never buy one as a standalone gadget, but it seems like the kind of thing that Nintendo could and should build onto the DS.

Comments

[Rob Drimmie]

Just some things that came up in discussion with friends this weekend.

I would like the DS to be able to connect to the GCN in the same manner the GBA does currently, to be used as an extra screen and controller.

If a wired connection is necessary for this functionality (see below for another option) then it would be great if the DS would act as a wireless NIC to connect the GCN to the Internet so I don't need to buy a broadband adapter as well.

It would be niftycool if there were a WAP peripheral for the GCN that allowed DSes to wirelessly connect. There would then be no need to limit the number of players to 4, if each player has a DS they have their own screen and controller, so why not 8 or 16 players all at once?

Droolishious.

With the DS's voice abilities you could have that fancy Internet chat stuff going on, too. Not as good as a headset, but perhaps better than nothing?

[Wiley Wiggins]

Wireless file transfers from my Mac for loading homebrews and extra apps.

[Karii]

It will be wifi capable, I saw it on the Nintendo Press Conference video.

[Rob Drimmie]

I strongly doubt Nintendo will support independant development. As much as I'd love love love to see a console mod community developed, it doesn't seem to be in the cards.

I'd suspect XBox would get there first in fact, because of the strong ties to the PC gaming community, which is heavily mod influenced.

Although if Nintendo really wanted to change the face of gaming, encouraging independant development could be a brilliant way of doing it.

[dj]

This discussion seems familiar... :)

Clearly, someone is going to hack their way into the DS's internals via the wifi connection within a week of the DS release. So I think there's a chance Nintendo will open up some kind of easily accessible dev kit. But, who knows.

[Wiley Wiggins]

There's a huge GBA mod and homebrew community, they just have to use quasi-legal (and expensive) game-wallet devices to load their software. Unfortunately this is largely used for game piracy, so it's obviously doubtful that there would ever be any nintendo-provided connectivity between computers and gameboys.

[Dustin]

it would be awsome if you could care for your own pokemon. you know, choose a pokemon like eevee or charmander. watch them evolve, play with them, pet them (with the touch screen)
feed them. just like a virtual pokemon pet.

[lane]

it would be nice if the GBADS had a team mode when they get there nintendo ds in the box it would come with a screen name.

example: my frtiends screen name is froger say i wanted to team up with him. i would put in his screen name and it would tell me if his nintendo ds was on if it is it would send him a message seeing if he wanted to play that game.

[Michael]

I think it would be wicked awsome if the gbds couldhave an extention adapter to be able to play the regular N64 games, of coures the port would need it's own batteries, but it would be really cool to be able to play reg. N64 games in the car on the way to Gram's!

[drew]

u could make music cartridges for the gameboy ds

[Steven]

I think that the things the DS can do are already amazing, I just want the DS to have games that apeal to older gamers like myself.

[lia]

How old is old to you, Steven? And what sort of games would you like to see?

[stevn]

i you should battle on the net or any where you go and you would buy a little card to verse them.

[DJ]

This Is a cool Game I must have 1

[kung fu kid]

i wonder if the ds has a light like the sp and i also wish there would be a way to have like a box that connected you wirelessly to the internet so you could chat with any one in the world or even in your own state would be cool.

[brandon]

i strongly support the music idea, being that there is a headphone jack for personal entertainment. Maybe it could be some sort of mp3 sytem in cartridge form.

WHO KNOWS?!?!? THE POSSABILITIES
ARE ENDLESS, I SAY, ENDLESS!!!!

[polg]

technically there's no "GBADS"... it's NDS :p

[Wiley Wiggins]

USB flash linkers are evidently still operational for the Nintendo DS. This is good news to anybody who plays homebrews or uses any of the other cool applications that have been written for the GBA (NES and SNES emulators, movie players, etc)

This is the only flash linker that has a loader program for OS X:
http://www.gameboy-advance.net/flash_linker/f2a_usb_linker.htm

[fd]

this is the internet

[Bill]

I wonder, does Nintendo ever plan to make an adapter, etc. like the Gamboy player for the DS games? It would be great to play some of the DS games on the TV also.

[Tristian]

"It would be great to play some of the DS games on the TV also."

sorry, that won't happen. unless you have a magical touch screen tv.

(put wireless into it and use the DS as a controller)

[Ahir]

V-Pocket for DS could have a movie player, mp3 player, use Wi-fi for net, GPS, and could use compact flash/sd cards for storage. Sync with computer through wi-fi, with contacts and phone numbers. Could even have voice recorder and voice activation. Could even chat with others who have V-Pocket. There are no limits. 3d Graphics, touch screen, microphone, wireless, and dual arm processors, Nintendo just has to do it.

[Dashmeet]

i'v heard nintendo is making something for the ds to connect to the internet
i'm not sure exactly where in the world but it could be world wide through a satellite or something

[ncaa football fan]

I just wish that EASports would make a DS version of NCAA Football. If so, I would definitely buy the DS / DS Lite. THAT would be awesome.

[alyssa relova]

it would be awesome if you would have an internet games in it and free to search because nintendo sp have it an internet in gameboy!