Platform: Nintendo DS
Captain Tsubasa: New Kick Off
Mega Man Star Force 2: Zerker x Ninja
Cartoon Network Racing
Over the Hedge
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
One Piece: Gear Spirit
Metal Slug 7
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
Mega Man Star Force: Leo
My Stop Smoking Coach with Allen Carr
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Nicktoons MLB
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
WarioWare D.I.Y.
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Jetix Puzzle Buzzle
Drawn to Life: SpongeBob SquarePants Edition
Game & Watch Collection
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's Stardust Accelerator World Championship Tournament 2009
Science Papa
Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2
Disgaea DS
Super Pac-Man Pinball
Spanish for Everyone!
Contact
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!
Pokémon Diamond Version
DK: Jungle Climber
Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis
Mega Man ZX Advent
Heathcliff: Frantic Foto
Nintendogs: Best Friends
Scribblenauts
Mind Quiz
Pokémon White Version 2
Rune Factory 2: A Fantasy Harvest Moon
Call of Duty: World at War
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
Metroid Prime Hunters
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Mega Man Star Force 3: Red Joker
Hotel Transylvania
Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!
Mega Man ZX
Adventures of Pinocchio
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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."