How many wish the DS had more ports?

[casterofdreams]

The DS has ports: it's got a headphone port, a power port a port to connect a little game cart to, and some models have another port for bigger game carts. It's quite fascinating. I wish it had a USB 3.0 port or even a Lightning port for that matter.


The DS has numerous ports but you did not define your interests in genres. Anyone with half a brain knows that the DS and GBA were RPG power houses in their prime. Some made several recommendations, good recommendations mind you, and look where we are now.

If you need recommendations accept what people post and sifted through the list for what catches your attention. If you are indeed looking to vent and attack others with flawed math take it to your blog.

[Exhuminator]

which is fine for a kid, but adults really can't play multiple RPGs and have a life. It doesn't work.

If you're playing multiple RPGs simultaneously maybe not. Playing one RPG at time though, yeah, it can work fine. That is, as long as you are consistent with your gaming schedule and don't mind beating RPGs via only a few hours a day. I absolutely have a full adult life with all the typical responsibilities adults have and I still manage to beat RPGs at age 35. I am able to do this because I follow two simple rules:

1. Make a gaming schedule and stick to it. Mine is from 10pm-1am, that's my gaming slot, and it's after I've finished all my daily duties and the family has gone to bed.

2. Focus on only one game at a time. If you truly want to beat that RPG you can, but only if you stick with it without distraction until it's done. That means a 40 hour RPG will probably take you an entire month to beat, but you can still beat it, a couple hours per evening. You just have to stay focused and dedicated.

[alienjesus]

I was going toreply earlier, but i saw who posted fhe topic and decided against it. Good on fhe rest of yu for giving it ago, but its been repeatedly clear the original poster has no interest in rationaldiscussion, just theid own opinion and attacking others whenever they post.

[Gunstar Green]

So cater to me.

This thread is now about gamer entitlement.

Also try Dave's article on Kotaku to help you manage your time: http://kotaku.com/how-to-beat-400-games ... 1607296068

[BoneSnapDeez]

1. Make a gaming schedule and stick to it. Mine is from 10pm-1am, that's my gaming slot, and it's after I've finished all my daily duties and the family has gone to bed.

We have the same schedule. I never play video games while anyone else is awake, except for the occasional handheld game I play on the couch while my wife watches crap on TV. My daughter has never seen me hold a game controller.

[Exhuminator]

play on the couch while my wife watches crap on TV. My daughter has never seen me hold a game controller.

I also have a daughter. I don't do single player gaming while they are awake either. I do however coerce co-op gaming both with my wife and daughter. Sometimes we even do three player co-op campaign stuff and that's a lot of fun.

[Frag Mortuus]

Seriously, OP is a dick and seems very ignorant for a 31 year old.

However, I'm 32 and try to spend my free time doing fun stuff with my family, and on a rare occasion, my friends. I generally play on Friday nights for a few hours and sometimes Saturday nights. My problem is that since I don't dedicate much time to playing games, I try to cram the most games in that I can. So on that night I may play 4 different games. So, I rarely actually beat a game. I have been trying to change that by:

1. Trying to award myself more gaming time throughout the week
2. Trying to stick to one game at a time. (which I've been failing miserably at)

I did manage to beat Skyrim (120 hours later), Oblivion (200 hours later), Deus Ex (50 hours), Borderlands (45 hours), and put a hefty number of hours into other games over the past few years.

[pepharytheworm]

There are quite a few ports to the DS. Several enhanced with extra features and better visuals, including Nes, Genesis, SNES, N64 and PS1 games among others. The coolest part is some of these never made it to the US before.

Here are some more ports and remakes.

DIDDY KONG RACING DS
SUPER MARIO 64 DS
KIRBY SUPER STAR ULTRA
DRAGON QUEST IV, V, VI
FRONT MISSION
PHOENIX WRIGHT: ACE ATTORNEY various titles
CHRONO TRIGGER
FIRE EMBLEM: SHADOW DRAGON
FINAL FANTASY IV
FINAL FANTASY III
Pokémon Heart Gold/Soul Silver
Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars
Myst
Game & Watch Collection
Legacy of Ys: Books I & II
Point Blank DS
Rayman DS
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Pipe Dream
Mortal Kombat Ultimate
Siberia
Hoshigami Remix
Great Giana Sisters
Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals
Konami Classics Series: Arcade Hits
Atari's Greatest Hits: Volume 1 and 2
Megaman Zero Collection
Namco Museum
Retro Atari Classics
Intellivision Lives!

Umm, I hate to break it to you but Final Fantasy III and IV are not ports. When I played FFIV on SNES or GBA, it didn't look like that. I played the old FF games because they "weren't 3D."

As for SMB 64, I don't care. I bought New Super Mario Bros for a reason...It plays from the side. It's not 3d. I want to run and jump from the side, like Mario was originally. Because I'm 31, and I had an NES in 1988.

I'm not going to mince words with you. I like what I like and I'm not the only one. I have money to spend and I'm not going to buy the garbage that comes out every week that is forced down my throat and proclaimed as "it's new and you need to have it, because it's new."

I am confused by your response. I said ports and remakes. I was only listing some ports and remakes incase you might not have heard of some.

The GBA has far more ports, a lot though were worse because of the resolution and sound compared to the SNES counterparts.

Also forgot to mention Devilish for the DS if you care to know.

[jfrost]

Emulators on smartphones, tablets, on the PSP, etc, offer frame skip for the more sluggish RPGs.

There you go, speed them up and play your RPGs.

[Tanooki]

I made a post in here earlier not sure why it vanished.

I wish it had more ports, especially of the N64 library that was grossly overlooked thanks to Sony and their dominance due to the media smear campaign, damn near free licenses, and the CDs they chose to go with (wisely.) For every I think 10-12 PS1s a N64 sold, so for a lot of people with a DS it would have been a new experience. Super Mario 64 and Ridge Racer made it over, showed even if you halfass it (RR64) the stuff can work well enough to enjoy, and given some real effort like Mario or Diddy Kong Racing or some others like various other Rare, Midway and Activision titles it could have been really epic. I know I would have popped for some of the N64 library again on the go. Some of it would have been far better off too like Tetrisphere or Wetrix that's for certain.

There was a pile of GBA games that were carted over from the SNES and a few AtariST or Genesis titles, and they work on DS and DSLite but that's not quite the same. There were some other titles too but they were heavily remixed (FF3 and FF4) and others pretty faithful but prettier like the DQ4-6 trilogy of titles but I think there was room.