Must have DS RPGs

[Hazerd]

Here's another game youll require knowing Japanese or having a Flash cart:

ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat

These screens are from the Translation.

[Exhuminator]

Just tried DeSmuME out for the first time resizing the screen took about 10 seconds just had to open up the config file

That is one way to do it. There is a way to do it through DeSmuME's own menu as well:
View -> Window Size -> X X=whatever multiplier you want.

It's worth noting PSP has also gotten quite an impressive emulator lately as well:

http://www.ppsspp.org/

[CavZee]

Just tried DeSmuME out for the first time resizing the screen took about 10 seconds just had to open up the config file

That is one way to do it. There is a way to do it through DeSmuME's own menu as well:
View -> Window Size -> X X=whatever multiplier you want.

It's worth noting PSP has also gotten quite an impressive emulator lately as well:

http://www.ppsspp.org/

I might have to seriously consider using these emulators in the future. Wasnt aware of how far along PSP emulation was getting in particular. I own a good amount of DS and PSP games now and could certainly play through them on original hardware easily but having them on a large screen with a controller is tempting too.

[darsparx]

There really is an insane amount of quality RPGs on the DS - it's kinda mind-boggling. I'll add Knights in the Nightmare to the list, as well as The Dark Spire.

It's true. It's really the only way that I can play RPGs, I can't do it on a home console (Maybe I'll pick up some of the good ones for the SNES).

Final Fantasy III
Dragon Quest games for the DS
Paper Mario: Sticker Star It's a 3DS game
Are we counting the Pokemon games?

Wow sadly I'm in the same boat as you guys(don't know why but jumping in mid-series has always bothered me, once I noticed I did it once it bugged the crap out of me). The good thing is I own a nes and hopefully soon a snes so I'm going to play them in their original form then play the newer iterations as soon as I catch up but I have too much of that to do(especially with the fact I play some playstation as well and have a vita and 4 so there's a lot of classic games available on there too which is great )

[Fragems]

Picked up Children of Mana yesterday looks interesting but haven't gotten a chance to try it out yet.

[darsparx]

Picked up Children of Mana yesterday looks interesting but haven't gotten a chance to try it out yet.

I need to pick that one up next chance I get.....


Also I don't know if it's on here and because I just thought of it I'll add it in this post: Spectrobes. Not the best graphically, and there are some dry spots but other than that it's a great game(the wii game is even better ).

[prfsnl_gmr]

Spectrobes. Not the best graphically, and there are some dry spots but other than that it's a great game(the wii game is even better ).

Thanks for the heads up on this! Given the publisher, I thought it was based on a Disney franchise. In fact, the Wii Spectrobes game is a very well-reviewed, original JRPG. Best of all, used copies of the game are less than $3(!) at Gamestop. I will definitely be picking this game up the next time I see a copy.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Picked up Children of Mana yesterday looks interesting but haven't gotten a chance to try it out yet.

It's a really fun dungeon crawler. Probably the best game in the series since Seiken Densetsu 3.

[Fragems]

Spectrobes. Not the best graphically, and there are some dry spots but other than that it's a great game(the wii game is even better ).

Thanks for the heads up on this! Given the publisher, I thought it was based on a Disney franchise. In fact, the Wii Spectrobes game is a very well-reviewed, original JRPG. Best of all, used copies of the game are less than $3(!) at Gamestop. I will definitely be picking this game up the next time I see a copy.

Picked up the entire series a while ago. Spectrobes was under $1 at gamestop, Beyond the Portals was new for $5.84 shipped through Amazon, and Origins was only $3-4 at gamestop. So the whole series only cost around $11-12 it was supposed to be Disney's attempt at a "Pokemon Killer".

[Exhuminator]

In fact, the Wii Spectrobes game is a very well-reviewed, original JRPG.

Another big plus is that the game is co-op. The second player controls the "pet monster" as it were, during battle. That's the whole reason I bought the game and many other Wii games at that. (I'm something of a co-op addict and the Wii is chock full of local multiplayer goodness).

Since we were talking about DS RPGs and emulation at one point, you guys might find this interesting. There's a mod of DeSmuME that allows for internal high rendering of the graphics... and it's pretty tight.

The modded emulator is here:
http://shikaver01.webcrow.jp/

Some good screenshots of it in action over at NeoGAF:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=798812