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Friday, March 27, 2009
Games

Nintendo Reminisces About Shelved Concepts, Including Dual-Card DSi, Touchscreen GBA

10:45PM John Herrman | Kotaku caught a GDC presentation by Masato Kuwahara, Nintendo’s DSi Hardware Group leader, where he ran through some Game Boy concepts that fell off the fast track at one point or another. More »
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Games

DSi Drops GBA Support (and the Homebrew that Comes With It); Old DS Cool Again

1:05AM Mark Wilson | Bad news, folks. We totally missed it in the wake of poor battery life specs, but Nintendo’s new DSi will completely ditch support for GBA titles. That not only means no more playing GBA backups (they only loaded from the now extinct GBA slot), but even if you were to load some sort of GBA emulation through the DS slot, chances are that the DS’s processor wouldn’t be fast enough to handle it (integrated GBA hardware processed these games before). Also, no GBA slot means that the lightly supported but excellent DS rumble pack and similar accessories are dead too. I can’t speak for everyone here, but the DSi is becoming a bigger disappointment by the second. [Kotaku] More »
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