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Picked up my DSi from the Midnight Sale at gamestop last night. This thing is almost too much fun before you even start to get to the games. You'll probably ass around with the camera for a good long time. Its not high-res, but it is a step above the cell phone cameras out there.
Like the previous models, there's a little setup and profile process, you'll even take a picture while getting started. After that you can go through the camera tutorials, play around with the new mic and audio features or setup an wifi connection to update the firmware and visit the DSiWare Store.
The DSiWare Store is pretty slim pickings, but Brain Age Express: Math and Art Style: Aquia are the best of what's presently offered. Once you link up your DSi with your MyNintendo account, you get 1000 Nintendo points to spend. Nice.
Just don't get Wario Ware: Snapped. That is, unless you actually like horrid shit like the Eyetoy games on PS2. This isn't much better. Bleh, that was 500 points I could have saved toward Brain Age.
Games can be transferred to SD card as it turns out, btw, there had been some confusion about that in the gaming media. You can keep the games in the 256 MB internal memory or store them away on SD cards for later use.
The bigger screens are nice and the sound is a lot better than prior models. GTA: Chinatown Wars was the first game I fired up and it really showcases the new sound of the system.
The music player only uses AAC files, not MP3, but that's easy enough to convert, so just a minor hassle.
Overall I'm liking it a lot, if you can't tell. Gonna hook up my own wifi router in a few weeks so I can stop leeching off the neighbors. Got Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Final Fantasy III, Etrian Odyessy II and GTA: CW to keep me occupied in the meantime.
Like the previous models, there's a little setup and profile process, you'll even take a picture while getting started. After that you can go through the camera tutorials, play around with the new mic and audio features or setup an wifi connection to update the firmware and visit the DSiWare Store.
The DSiWare Store is pretty slim pickings, but Brain Age Express: Math and Art Style: Aquia are the best of what's presently offered. Once you link up your DSi with your MyNintendo account, you get 1000 Nintendo points to spend. Nice.
Just don't get Wario Ware: Snapped. That is, unless you actually like horrid shit like the Eyetoy games on PS2. This isn't much better. Bleh, that was 500 points I could have saved toward Brain Age.
Games can be transferred to SD card as it turns out, btw, there had been some confusion about that in the gaming media. You can keep the games in the 256 MB internal memory or store them away on SD cards for later use.
The bigger screens are nice and the sound is a lot better than prior models. GTA: Chinatown Wars was the first game I fired up and it really showcases the new sound of the system.
The music player only uses AAC files, not MP3, but that's easy enough to convert, so just a minor hassle.
Overall I'm liking it a lot, if you can't tell. Gonna hook up my own wifi router in a few weeks so I can stop leeching off the neighbors. Got Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon, Final Fantasy III, Etrian Odyessy II and GTA: CW to keep me occupied in the meantime.
Star Ocean.
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