And so... it's my justice

So, the new Nintendo DS refresh is out in North America after launching in Japan and Europe. The new features of the DSi intrigued me enough that I decided to see if I could snag one of my own. As it turns out, unlike the Wii, the DSi wasn't very difficult to get at retail at all. I even managed to get the color I wanted, black. The blue looked a little too neon for my tastes, despite being a North American exclusive. To be sure, I believe the blue color was not random; it strongly resembles the blue previously used on the Wii box and in the Wii menus.



No, I didn't get no lovely cakes or gift boxes. I had to get mine from the stores, like the peasant I am!



Upon firing up the DSi, you'll be asked the usual system setup options. Additionally, you have the choice to take a snapshot you can use as a wallpaper for the top screen of the DSi when in the system menu. Here's what photos from the DSi look like when transferred to SD card for use everywhere:



Barely cellphone camera quality, as you can see. More for silliness, I suppose. And what silliness you can have; when going into the Camera menu, you're also invited to try the photo tutorial where you can take a picture of your magnificent self and play around with it using several customization options.



I stuck with Graffiti, as I could use it to hide my hideous face further enhance my GORGEOUS features as you can see:



Played around with the audio, and initially couldn't figure out how to get the darn thing to play music files off of SD card despite them being in AAC format. Did some research and discerned that .m4a files created by iTunes worked, and having purchased something off of iTunes a little while ago, I decided to give it a shot and transfer it onto the SD card. Loaded it up on the DSi music player, and it worked! I'll need to do some more research into this. In the meantime, it appears iTunes will be your friend for DSi music playback; just get the program to convert your desired tracks into AAC format, and copy them over to your SD card.


Nice little visualization I chose. :)

Downloaded the DSi browser after linking my Club Nintendo account to my DSi account. Neoseeker certainly looked... interesting through the DSi. Actually it didn't look too bad at all! Takes a little work to browse, but you can swap the screens to choose between navigating a smaller or larger portion of the webpages. Seems to run out of cache really fast though.

Of course, I played some games too. :P So far I haven't noticed a marked improvement, though the color reproduction might actually be better. Audio is also a little clear, so hey, maybe things will work out gameplay-wise! :laugh:

That's it for now. I dig the cut of the DSi's vibe, but maybe I'm just a damned N-tard after all.



It shall be engraved upon your soul, Tsukasa!!!