#nintendods — Public Fediverse posts

I'm currently exploring the weirder corners of the DS library. The heck is this? Pokemon Go before it was cool?

Best as I can tell, it's a game where you walk around collecting 2.4 GHz wifi signals. Gotta cache them all! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_World

#NintendoDS #TreasureWorld #WiFi

So, I was talking #Castlevania with a friend of mine, and telling her about how cool Shanoa is.

I'll admit, Order of Ecclesia is my favourite game in the franchise.

But I can't believe I had totally forgotten about this absolute gem of a line from the game.
10/10. Absolute bad-ass.

Perhaps it does help that it is a clear reference to Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, another one of my all-time favourite Castlevania games.

#NintendoDS

#Disneyfriends for #Nintendods is surprisingly addictive comparble to #socialmedia. Or #tomagatchi games. This surprised me for an offline title when I randomly picked the game up physically out of curiosity.

For a few reasons this game seemed addictive. It wasn't that it was addictive but it had curious modern smartphone or live service game- like features.

1. Daily challenges you can do once per day. For certain Disney friends such as #stitch or Simba. Such as taking specific snapshots of varying scenarios daily.

2. There are events that you get notified to attend usually based on a specific date on the ds.

3. You are encouraged to pet, feed, "chat' with and other actions to earn guardianpoints to increase your guardian rank. You can only rank up so much a day but you can rank up more points per day when you unlock more Disney friends.

4. There are even certain challenges that you can do at anytime but you'll actually be forced to wait a few hours before you can replay it again. Such as the Simba bug eating race challenge. Some again you can only do once a day.

#dslite #3ds #dsi #disney #liloandstitch #lionking #thelionking #findingnemo #winniethepooh

@COMPU73E @irgndsondepp Neat screenshots like these are one of the benefits of CFW. And I can just open a hotspot from my phone, FTP into the 3DS and transfer the screenshots. It's a fun rabbit hole - the homebrew community is wild - fan translations and modded Pokemon games, Jellyfin and Youtube clients and all kinds of interesting apps.

#NintendoDS #Nintendo3DS

"Did he homebrew this?" 🤔 SMT Devil Survivor inspired me to finally mod my 3DS :trainer:

I don't know how this got past Nintendo, but the game literally begins with a protagonist handing out consoles - that absolutely look like Nintendo 3DS consoles - with custom firmware and another person hacking the encryption 😂

@COMPU73E @irgndsondepp

#SMT #ShinMegamiTensei #Nintendo3ds #NintendoDS

TMNT with Jeremy Powers (Zenspath Entertainment Network)

Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll take it,” the video game equivalent of adopting somebody else’s very large, very established pet. They tied the whole thing to Imagi’s brand new fully CGI turtle movie and then, in an act of scheduling chaos I can only respect, shipped the game three entire days before the film hit theaters. Bold! Confusing! Possibly the result of someone losing a calendar!

And then, because apparently one platform was never going to cut it, Ubisoft just kept going. PlayStation 2! GameCube! Xbox 360! Wii! PC! A PlayStation 3 version that got paraded around at trade shows like a prize pony and then quietly put out to pasture, never to be seen again! And just when you think the roster’s full, Nintendo DS and PSP roll in with an entirely separate game wearing the same name tag, because why make one turtle game when you could make several turtle games and let the consumer sort it out. Also, bonus points to whoever in marketing decided the title needed zero subtitles, zero colons, zero numbers, just “TMNT,” like it’s the only one that’s ever existed. Confidence!

Climbing out of the sewer to help me survey this multi-console fever dream is Jeremy Powers, host and creator of the Zenspath Entertainment Network, a man who apparently collects retro hardware, works as an engineer, and still finds time to run a podcast, which is either elite time management or a full refusal to acknowledge the concept of a day off.

So track down whichever version of this thing actually ended up in your house back in 2007, because statistically there’s a good chance it wasn’t the same one as your neighbor’s, and let’s find out if TMNT earned its spot in the turtle hall of fame, or if it should’ve stayed a trade show prototype.

Learn such things as:

• Do we ever stop to think that maybe the people making these games knew what they were doing all along?
• Will we ever get that chance to see Splinter and Iroh together?
• How much retreading is acceptable when you’re the new guy making things?
• And so much more!

You can find Jeremy on YouTube @Zenspathcom and of course at the Zenspath Entertainment Network.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Behold! and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who dips pizza in honey mustard.

New version 0.1.5 of LodjurDS, #AtariLynx emulator for Nintendo DS https://github.com/FluBBaOfWard/LodjurDS/releases/tag/v0.1.5 #atari #nintendods

Preview for Metroid Prime Hunters on Nintendo DS.
Taken from NGC Magazine 117 - March 2006 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html

#retroGaming
#Nintendo
#NintendoDS

Review for Resident Evil Deadly Silence on Nintendo DS.
Taken from NGC Magazine 117 - March 2006 (UK)

This issue can be downloaded here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html

#retroGaming
#Nintendo
#NintendoDS

About every five years or so, usually when I'm cleaning up, I find my copy of this cursed game. Its single solitary upside is that, back in the day, I got paid to review it.

I should have held out for more money on reflection. The PTSD is real.

#retrogaming #nintendoDS

Myst DS -- homebrew port of #MYST on #NintendoDS

github.com/Warioware64/...

#ndsdev #3ds #retrogaming #nds

Nintendo-DS-Emulator: SeedlessDS in erster Beta-Version für Android erschie­nen https://www.computerbase.de/news/gaming/nintendo-ds-emulator-seedlessds-in-erster-beta-version-fuer-android-erschienen.98770/ #seedlessds #nintendods #handheld #retrogaming

Naruto Path of the Ninja with Merrilee O’neil (Fear Coded)

By the mid-2000s, Naruto had pulled off something most manga-to-anime properties never manage: it wasn’t just popular, it was everywhere, spinning off a small army of video games across nearly every system with a screen, like Naruto himself used Shadow Clone Jutsu on the entire games industry and nobody thought to stop him. Somewhere in that flood of Ninja Councils and Clash of Ninjas sits Naruto: Path of the Ninja, the entry that decided the best way to honor Kishimoto’s story wasn’t just punching (though there’s plenty of that too) but actually letting you live through the Land of Waves and the Chūnin Exams one turn-based battle at a time.

Path of the Ninja debuted on the Game Boy Advance in Japan back in 2004, then took a leisurely three years to reach American shelves in 2007, arriving on the Nintendo DS instead, because by the time they got around to localizing it, the GBA already felt like last decade’s news. You pick from six familiar faces, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru, Neji, and Rock Lee, pair them into formations for bonus combo attacks, and work through more than 90 jutsu, some of which you cast on the DS touchscreen by frantically scribbling a shape with the stylus, which is either a clever nod to hand seals or just a fun way to give yourself a cramp. The story runs all the way to the Chunin Exam invasion and a face-off with Shukaku, and if you’re wondering whether you can also fight Itachi as a secret bonus boss, the answer is: only if you own the Japanese version. The English release quietly deleted that fight but somehow forgot to scrub his name from the end credits, which is the video game equivalent of hiding a body and leaving the shovel leaning against the wall.

Making another through the Play Comics dojo is Merrilee O’Neil of Fear Coded, last seen on the show trying to keep pace with the Flash. This time she’s trading super speed for shadow clones, hand seals, and a Konoha headband, so at least the running is a little more sustainable.

So form your hand seals, grab your kunai pouch, and let’s find out if Path of the Ninja earned its headband as a worthy trip through early Naruto, or if it should’ve stayed back at the Academy with the rest of the genin.

Learn such things as:

• Isn’t the world today better, with games coming out worldwide at basically the same time?
• How can you use a console’s gimmick to really lean into the gameplay?
• Can a game stick to the established story a bit too well?
• And so much more!

You can find Merrilee being the main driver of the Fear Coded account on BlueSky @fearcodedpod.bsky.social on her podcast Fear Coded.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.

If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.

A big thanks to Kaiju Comicast and Anime Field Guide for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who probably has a pretty sick collection of headbands.

Episodes Featuring Merrilee O’neil

Older consoles just where built differently. Booted up my 3ds again (after well over a year of laying around): still full battery charge.

My switch after like 5 minutes of being "off": deep-discharged and wont even show me any sign of life until I charge it for hours.

#retro #nintendo3ds #nintendods #nintentoswitch #nintendo #retrohardware #retroconsoles

When entering and before going to the upper floors, they had 2 tables full of handhelds with a bunch of games you could play. And some couches to sit on of course. #nintendo #gameboy #gamegear #atarilynx #nintendods #gba

i got a little carrying case for my #3DS off of Vinted :)
it's super cute and it fits quite well in there!

#nintendo #nintendo3DS #nintendoDS #nds #games #gaming

Review for Yoshi Touch & Go on Nintendo DS.
Taken from NGC Magazine 107 - June 2005 (UK)

You can find this issue here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html

#retroGaming
#nintendo
#NintendoDS

Review for Electroplankton on Nintendo DS.
Taken from NGC Magazine 107 - June 2005 (UK)

You can find this issue here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/NGCmagazine.html

#retroGaming
#nintendo
#NintendoDS