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"The Nintendo DS is chock-full of features, but some of them go relatively unnoticed by developers. Here are three such features which I feel deserve far more attention."

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I need me more pot-closing action, dang it!

actually for the last feature, I can think of 2 games that use it for gameplay and they are the legend of zelda phantom hourglass when you have to imprint something on your map and in hotel dusk: room 215 where you have to flip a puzzle over....but still not too many games that use it and I also agree with the lack of use for the DS microphone. Oh also I just remembered in New Super Mario Bros. if you close the DS I believe Mario says"bye-bye!" and he says something else when it is opened too but I forgot what it is...

(Insert_Username_Here) wrote:Oh also I just remembered in New Super Mario Bros. if you close the DS I believe Mario says"bye-bye!" and he says something else when it is opened too but I forgot what it is...

In Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2, Mario sometimes shout "Heeey, come back here, you big monkey!". Mario can be so mean :<

Still, that's not many games. Also, there's the fact that your character goes to sleep when closing the DS online in AC:WW, but I thought that too minor to include.

I was going to mention the Phantom Hourglass thing, but seems I_UN_H beat me to it. That puzzle actually stumped me because I never thought to close it.

Another (sort of) underused feature is Wii connectivity. How many games have Wii-to-DS connectivity. I can only think of one off the top of my head: Pokemon Battle Revolution.

WJUK wrote:I was going to mention the Phantom Hourglass thing, but seems I_UN_H beat me to it. That puzzle actually stumped me because I never thought to close it.

Another (sort of) underused feature is Wii connectivity. How many games have Wii-to-DS connectivity. I can only think of one off the top of my head: Pokemon Battle Revolution.

Geometry Wars: Galaxies uses it, too.

The best breaking the 4th wall moment in gaming would have to be the Psycho Mantis fight in MGS.

Closing the lid in DS game, though, sounds a little bit gimmicky.

ryanrab1 wrote:The best breaking the 4th wall moment in gaming would have to be the Psycho Mantis fight in MGS.

Closing the lid in DS game, though, sounds a little bit gimmicky.

It can be gimmicky at times, but man, play Trace Memory. Then tell me it's gimmicky. That puzzle had me screwed for a week because I wasn't thinking outside the box.

Note: I'm not saying what puzzle it is so as to not spoil it for anyone.

The Psychomantis fight was legendary: "So you like to play Castlevania?!"

It's totally a WTF moment.

The thing about these features though are that they shouldn't be over-used. Only put it in games where it makes sense, don't shoe-horn them in just because you can.

I agree with the WJUK's post. If the leaked facts about GTA DS are true, hopefully the touch screen minigames such as hot wiring cars are implemented more seamlessly.

Hot wiring cars is good and all, but I don't want to do it all the time. Maybe it doesn't happen when you steal a car; but only in "training". Where you can improve the speed in which you can hotwire a car.

I wouldn't mind that. I like how it's done in GTA IV too. You can speed up the process of hotwiring by repeatedly hitting the RT & LT. Seamless.

What we need is DS firmware 2.0, to add a GPS, a way to download your VC games, (except for N64) and maybe a phone service, over wi-fi. That's all I can think of now.

I'm not sure how Nintendo are going to distribute a new DS firmware but it'd be a good idea. If my DS was a GPS I would use it a lot more.