Platform: Nintendo DS
Time Hollow
Super Scribblenauts
Mario Party DS
Professor Layton and the Last Specter
Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker
Again
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
Ed, Edd n Eddy: Scam of the Century
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Crazy Frog Collectables: Art School
Daigasso! Band Brothers
Giana Sisters DS
Final Fantasy IV
Flushed Away
Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
Keroro RPG: Kishi to Busha to Densetsu no Kaizoku
Nanashi no Game
The Bee Game
Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker x Ninja
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Tipton Trouble
Harvest Moon DS
Alvin and the Chipmunks
MySims Kingdom
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
LEGO Batman: The Videogame
Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
WarioWare: Touched!
One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 - New World
Dragon Ball: Origins
Dragon Ball: Origins 2
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
MySims SkyHeroes
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
Shrek: Ogres and Dronkeys
Pokémon Black Version
Monster Rancher DS
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship 2007
Sonic DS
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness
Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Mario Kart DS
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There is an unused button called a "DEBUG" which is only present on development units. It is however possible to get this to work under emulation.
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In the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Instruction Booklet, the fake WEP Key used is '8675309', a reference to Tommy Tutone's "8675309/Jenny".
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A trademark filed by Nintendo in 2004 suggests the Nintendo DS was originally going to be named "City Boy," expanding on the Game Boy brand and putting an emphasis on taking the device with you in your everyday life.
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The 'DS' in Nintendo DS is short for "Developers' System" or "Dual Screen".
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The Nintendo DS is based on a prototype system called Iris, which was intended to succeed the Game Boy Advance. The name Iris comes from the Japanese Iris plant, or Iris Ensata. This is evident by the name of Intelligent Systems's official DS emulator provided with DS development kits: Ensata.
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A Nintendo DS system has been to the top of Mt. Everest, and even faired better than many other electronic devices on the journey.
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The Nintendo DS having two screens was suggested by former Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi to then-current president Satoru Iwata, and was inspired by the Game & Watch LCD game series' clamshell two-screen design. In a 2016 Retro Gamer interview with former Nintendo designer Satoru Okada, he delves into its origins:
"The project was moving forward at a good pace but during the development, something at unexpected happened. President Iwata then came to see me. He was obviously bothered and he said: 'l talked to Yamauchi-san over the phone and he thinks your console should have two screens... A bit like the multi-screen Game & Watch, you see?' [...] at the time, everybody hated this idea, even Iwata himself. We thought it did not make any sense. Back in the Game & Watch days, it was different because a second screen allowed us to double the playing area and the number of graphic elements on display. But with the modern screens, there was no point. We were free to choose the size of our screen, so why bother splitting it into two? Especially considering that it was impossible to look at both screens at the same time. This is why we did not understand his idea."