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[Squall_14]

what is the new features in ds besides online gaming and split screen,?could you play gameboy ADvance and color games? i'm planning to get it for christmas

[[N]eto]

You can play both GBA and DS games on it. Also, you can chat with people within a certain range.

[RocKer]

Dont forget the voice activation and touch pad screen (kinda like a palm polit) so it is basically like a mini-computer. But read the dead pixels post first, so you are aware of this.

[Nitrous]

Can it? I was under the imprsion that the DS could NOT play GBA Games for some reason.

Just found this:

While PSP is wooing and wowing worldwide, Nintendo are keen to prove that their handhelds can do anything that Sony's portable PlayStation can. So they have just announced the Play-Yan, a brand new plug-in device that will allow the shiny new DS and the ageing GBA to both play MP3 music and MPEG4 movies - just like PSP.

While the name hasn't yet been fixed, the finished version of the Play-Yan will be the same size as a standard GBA game and so will pop straight into the cartridge slot at the back of an Advance or the front of a DS. Meanwhile, the sounds and pictures will be downloaded on to memory card-style SD units that will fit into the front of the player itself.

With a built-in headphone socket included on-board, the Play-Yan will go on sale in February in Japan for around £25. However, a Nintendo spokesperson also confirmed that, at the moment, the company has no plans to release the device in Britain or the US.

^^ Well thats just plain stupid not to sell it in the US or UK.

[inter]

Yeah that is very stuipid if it doesnt get out of Japan

[[N]eto]

Most likely they are just saying that...

[RocKer]

Ya, so we import them ect and they get mo money

[TK 421]

*coff *australia*coof* doesnt anyone pay attention to australia?

how does it store stuff?to the cartridge or the ds if it has memory...

[~Felly~]

The games are saved on the actual game,fistface. And how do you work the voice activation? And Nitrous Oxide's post. Not selling the Play-Yan in the US and UK. That's crazy! I wish I could get one. *sob* Give the US and UK the Play-Yan! And everybody else that doesn't have it yet!