Nintendo DS anyone?

[Cimmerian Nights]

So someone just re-gifted me a DS.

Which I've heard there's good games for out there...
What does it have in the way of good RPG or strategy or just plain good gameplay?

I got a Japanese DS, anyone know if that will prevent me from playing US games?

 

[Hobo Elf]

You can always buy My Japanese Coach, learn to speak Japanese and then import games from Japan and play them with the help of your newly learned language skills.

 

[Catalina]

The DS is region free, so you can play games from any region.

 

[Kingston]

I'd imagine ScummVM would work nicely on one.

 

[clockradiospeakers]

ScummVM DS works, but playing a squashed, bastardized Monkey Island 2 on a 2-inch screen with a stylus instead of a mouse is about as much fun as it sounds.

As for games worth playing... well, there's not much. Etrian Odyssey is a classic dungeon-crawler that is properly difficult and low on plot. Shiren the Wanderer is a port of the great SNES roguelike. For turn-based strategy, there's Rondo of Swords and the two Advance Wars games (neither of which are as good as the GBA ones). Hm.

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

You can always buy My Japanese Coach, learn to speak Japanese and then import games from Japan and play them with the help of your newly learned language skills.

I know Japanese, but it's irrelevant, I can't be fucked to go to the trouble of acquiring Japanse games. Why would I?

This thing came with a nipper copy of Super Mario. Basicaly the same game I played on the NES 20 years ago. If that's all this system has to offer, then I'm Ebaying this shit.
And the chick who gave it to me has the english learning program and her english blows.

I thought this system had some decent strat games or is it all Donkey Kong and Mario typr shit because my appetite for that got played out in 1985.

edit:

The DS is region free, so you can play games from any region.

Cool, thanks.


What's ScumVM an emulator?

 

[MetalCraze]

Does nintendo ds have stilus pen (or something)?
DosBox also runs on DS iirc - so you can play any DOS RTS from PC using it.
As well as DOS RPGs (including Fallout 1)

What's ScumVM an emulator?

LucasArts adventures or any other games that use Scumm engine (like Beneath A Steel Sky)

 

[Dadrious]

Does nintendo ds have stilus pen (or something)?
DosBox also runs on DS iirc - so you can play any DOS RTS from PC using it.
As well as DOS RPGs (including Fallout 1)

What's ScumVM an emulator?

LucasArts adventures or any other games that use Scumm engine (like Beneath A Steel Sky)

I've been considering getting a DS for some time now, but if you can actually play DOS rpgs on it then i'm sold...

 

[Zeus]

What does it have in the way of good RPG or strategy or just plain good gameplay?

Age of Empires DS is pretty good. It's NOT an RTS game. It's been remade as a turn-based strategy title. There's some simple grid-based city building, random treasures on the map, five campaigns, customized battles, etc, etc. The combat is resolved a little like Advance Wars or the old Shining Force or Civ or something. There's a unit cap so you can't just crank out a bunch of troops.

The only problem is, it has one of the WORST VIDEOGAME BUGS OF ALL TIME. (Self plug! *grins*)

Seriously, if you get Age of Empires DS, be careful what you name your profile.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

DosBox also runs on DS iirc

link? that would be pretty fucking awesome. the other day i was just discussing with a compatriot how great it would be if there was an x-com port for the DS.

 

[SuicideBunny]

you can run dosbox, you just can't run anything in dosbox.

 

[MetalCraze]

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15255

Apparently there is a port but the author stopped working on it due to a very slow emulation speed (because of DS hardware) so it contains lots of bugs

I also mistaken DS version for PSP one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaEUp3Om4d0

 

[Lingwe]

シメリアンナイツは日本語を分かる! 全然知らなかった. どこに勉強しました, それとも日本人ですか?

 

[Jasede]

Dosbox has never been ported to the DS. They dried once, but gave up.

My recommendations: Contra 4, Etrian Odyssey 1&2, Dark Spire when it is released, Kirby Superstar Ultra Deluxe, New York Times Crosswords and Harper Collins 100 Books Collection.

Edit: ユ ファ キン グ ウィアブス

 

[Lingwe]

ジャセデ、それは失礼。

 

[Jasede]

Hell yeah it is.

 

[shihonage]

5 words for you:

Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars

 

[Andhaira]

Dragonquest 4 and 5. I am considering buyin the DS just for those two games plus dark spire.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Chrono Trigger
Etrian Odyssey
Worms Open Warfare 2
Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword

 

[Araanor]

I like the Castlevania games for DS.

 

[Fat Dragon]

I've been playing a puzzle game for DS called Professor Layton. It's pretty fun and the puzzles are rather clever. Art style is a bit childish though.

There's also fun multiplayer fighting game called Jump Ultimate Stars that plays a lot like Super Smash Bros but with manga characters instead of Nintendo guys. Pretty fun with a fucking shitload of playable characters but you'll need to import it from Japan.

 

[Hobo Elf]

Pretty fun with a fucking shitload of playable characters but you'll need to import it from Japan.

Too bad all of them are for pussies except Kenshiro, Raoh, Jotaro and Dio

 

[Grog]

I heard a request for RPG/Strategy on the DS?

I suggest Fire Emblem. It's turn-based strategy with RPG character building, and brutal real death.

The guys at Atlus release some interesting stuff too, such as the previously mentioned Etrian Odyssey, Etryian Odyssey 2, and the upcoming Dark Spire.

 

[Fat Dragon]

I could never call Fire Emblem a strategy game. Combat is a simple rock-paper-scissors system, and you always get a character in the very beginning of the game who is capable of obliterating every motherfucker with ease throughout the first half.

 

[NiM82]

5 words for you:

Grand Theft Auto : Chinatown Wars

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