The Gamer's Quarter

[Karii]

I am pondering buying a DS now that everyone is trading them in for PSPs.
At any rate, the main concern I have is the bottom screen. All the display models I have seen are scratched to hell (but oddly enough not the one at Walmart)

Do they have a good life with minimal scratching or is it going to be destroyed quickly?

[friedchicken]

Mine's been okay. And that's after playing Warioware Touched frantically for a week. I think store and used copies are always stratched because people come in and try them without the right stylus or something. You may run into quite a few used ones that are scratched to hell though, just like used CDs.

My only complaint is that the silver paint job is beginning to wear on mine simply due to taking it in and out of its carrying case. But that's pretty minor.

Ugh. I actually considered trading in my DS this morning myself. What's wrong with me? Have I no loyalty?!?

[Shapermc]

At first I tried to be really careful with mine. Like really careful. Once you get game like Wario Ware you just kind of give up on that. While I do just kind of have at it with the stylus and the thumb pad, most of the marks can be cleaned off. Just make sure there is no lint on your screen before you start playing, that will scratch it. You will notice small marks and what not, but I have to say I have only had my iPod about half the time I have had my DS and it is easily 3X as scratched up.

Basically yea, it will get a bit marked up, but if your paying attention to what your doing it will be fine. I mean, you are drawing on it.

Also it makes GBA games look amazing.

[Legal Step]

Those peope who are trading their DS's are kind of being stupid. But I guess stupid people need somethiing to do. I like my DS, while I don't like the overall design.

My bottom screen is in good condition still.

[Szczepaniak]

Bought it three days ago and Ive been treating it INCREDIBLY delicately.

I keep it in two bags and regular remove any dust on the screens.

My old model of GBA ended up absorbing plenty of dust particles under the screen, is this the same for the DS?

Oh, and it really does make you GBA games look and sound mazing. The speaker quality is amazing, loud and clear, and the battery lasts for ages.

Does anyone notice tiny dots on the lower screen? Arranged in a square pattern.

And as for the PSP/DS thing, they are two totally different systems. I fail to see people comparing them. I bought a DS and not a PSP purely because they do and are aimed at totally different things, of which I am more interested in the DS side of things.

[friedchicken]

[Karii]

[friedchicken]

[EightBit]

[Shapermc]

I was not super impressed with Wario Ware mind you... not considering how much I loved the original. None the less it was good. I enjoyed Feel the Magic too, even though reallly short

Anyways, Szczepaniak.... that Square pattern... may be dead pixils. Also the GBA games look much better, but it is hard to tell until you go back and put that same game back in your GBA. As far as sounds better, well it is now in stero which helps, but it does not improve the quality of the audio.

[friedchicken]

I think the square pattern he's talking about is just the construction of the touch screen-- if I hold mine at an angle with the power turned off, I can see a grid of dots 'under' the screen. It's not apparent with the power turned on. Or maybe it's just me.

Man, I wish they would let me drink at work.

[Karii]

[dhex]

the easiest way to fuck with dumb people, minors or not, is to ask them reflective questions.

statement: it is way powerful more than ps2, d00d!
answer: how so?

and build from there...let them hang themselves on their own lack of logic.

[Szczepaniak]

Surely every town has a Griff? With bigger ones having several?

Horrible things, constantly talking inane nonsense about games.

Reminds me of that EGM thing where they let kids play old games and recorded their answers. Wether they made it up or not, or wether hate EGM even, the article is both eye opening and neausiatingly accurate in its portrayel of modern young gameplayers.


I ask you gaming veterans this:
WERE WE REALLY LIKE THIS BACK IN THE 80/90s?!

Surely not?
Then again, when visiting a friend I always was more excited about playing on his Turbo-Duo and Sega CD rather than his NeoGeo, due mainly to the exciting newness of the CD medium.... good lord, I HAVE changed!

[friedchicken]

[Szczepaniak]

It's probably their breeding season, hence the pheromone smell.

Just imagine, a army of tiny little Griffs might be heading our way come 9 months time.

Another thing is I think, when I was a kid being introduced to videogames, there was no us and them mentallity between young and old people, since it was the early generations of system. Sure there were older gamesplayers, but they were playing the same stuff as the younger people.... well not exactly when you take into account their greater spending power, but you get what I mean. Theres much greater divergence today.


Oh, and back on topic regarding the DS, yes the little square pattern is in fact just the surface of the touch screen. Depending on what kind of light I hold it in, I can see all kinds of strange patterns and shapes.....

[dhex]

i didn't know any game players as a kid at all.

there were specialty shops though. babbages and i think electronics boutique as early as the early 90s. and egghead software too. might just be east coast usa type thing though.

i'm pretty sure everyone's stupid when they're young. not so sure i'm less stupid now.

[Shapermc]

[EightBit]