Must Nintendo Make a Mobile Phone? 155
Hiroshi writes "Earlier this year Engadget uncovered a patent filed in 2001 for a Nintendo cell phone but as we all know, nothing came of it. Now CNET is highlighting the Nintenphone once more, stating that it must be built if cell phone gaming is ever going to get better. Interestingly, CNET Photoshopped a DS Lite with Android and a virtual keypad, and while this probably wouldn't be what a Nintenphone would look like, I can't help feeling like the DS would make an awesome phone."
Re:Form Factor? (Score:3, Interesting)
So people playing games would intuitively start using it for other things. Capture the 12-17 audience and keep it going. When they are in there 20's you will own the market.
You are right, it would be very difficult to muscle into the current entrenched users.
iPhone games (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Super Game Boy (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A little behind the times (Score:3, Interesting)
There's a flag in the DS ROM header that tells the DS to skip the normal boot sequence and boot directly into the game. I'm not sure if Nintendo has ever used it, but they did put the functionality into the DS firmware. It's not a hack at all.
While not a truly hardhack, it is still basically a mod chip and questionably legal since it helps skirt around the copy protection of the games.
It's not a modchip in any way. It doesn't modify anything. It's just a DS cartridge with removable storage. It doesn't skirt around copy protection in any way, it just passes the ROM directly to the DS. Flash cards actually won't play copy protected games - of course, the copy protection in DS games is trivial and can be removed from or added to a rom with ease using the homebrew dev tools.