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More and more lately I’ve been wanting to get a Nintendo DS. Especially since I first read about people getting under their hoods and shall we say, extending their functionality. So about a month ago when I was in California, I was at a friend’s place, her DS was laying around, so I checked it out while we chatted a bit. This again peaked my interest so I mentioned my interest in getting one. She said one of the games she plays is Mario Kart DS. My money situation being what it is, deficient, and also feeling the need to get something nice for myself I splurged.

…so to make a short story shorter tonight (monday night) I decided to get myself an Onyx Nintendo DS Lite, and as a starter game I got Mario Kart DS for a couple reasons, I knew that would be a safe bet to start off with for a first game for multi-player action with friends or even random people over the internet it should work over the wifi I have blanketing my house. ( It didn’t work at first and after some reading up and a couple modifications all was fine. )I actually had to retard, and I say this nicely, one of my access points to 1-2mbps, as apparently 11mbps is too much for these lil toys. So to make my DS feel special, not that it actually can, it has it’s own SSID and access point on my network at home, “OPEN4BUSINESSds”. No more fumbling with it anymore, it just works fine, I played a few people earlier over it and they kicked my ass pretty good.

Oh yeah, I got a friend code after I got online with Mario Kart DS, so I’m putting it on here mostly for a point of reference, maybe/hopefully it’s the same for all the online multi-player DS games.

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Another reason I wanted to get the DS lite, is I’ve been running out of Xbox games to rent from GameFly. I’d feel foolish just giving them money and not renting video games or playing the games, as they tend to sit around stagnant for weeks on end sometimes before being played. I need to make a list of all the games to try out for the DS. One game I definately want to try is Brain Age. Which is in my queue, and hopefully will get to me before I get to California next week.

It would be most helpful if I could get some opinions from the other known DS junkies including some favorite games and helpful comments.