Knockoff DS rumble pack - opinions?

[Hatta]

The 3-in-1 also enables GBA playback. IIRC you can't do that with the R4 without a slot-2 card. It also has extra RAM for Opera, or more importantly Quake/QuakeII. I haven't actually tried the rumble function on mine. A vibrating cartridge just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

[Ivo]

The 3-in-1 also enables GBA playback. IIRC you can't do that with the R4 without a slot-2 card. It also has extra RAM for Opera, or more importantly Quake/QuakeII. I haven't actually tried the rumble function on mine. A vibrating cartridge just doesn't seem like a good idea to me.

The extra RAM is also used by NeoDS

I've had the rumble enabled without issues so far.

Ivo.

[alienjesus]

What games support the rumble pak except for metroid prime pinball anyway? I always wondered. I have MPP, but I was wonderign if any of my other games could use the pak if i bought it. I had the same issue as Hobie - 2nd hand MPP, no rumble pak included.

[Opa Opa]

What games support the rumble pak except for metroid prime pinball anyway? I always wondered. I have MPP, but I was wonderign if any of my other games could use the pak if i bought it. I had the same issue as Hobie - 2nd hand MPP, no rumble pak included.

List from good ol' wikipedia:

Air Traffic Chaos
Akagawa Jirou Mystery: Yasoukyoku
Animal Boxing
Bomberman 2 (Custom Battler Bomberman in Japan)
Club House Games (42 All-Time Classics in Europe)
Custom Robo Arena
Diddy Kong Racing DS
Dirt 2
Elite Beat Agents
Ferrari Challenge
GRID
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Higurashi no Naku koro ni Kizuna: Dai-Ichi-Kan - Tatari
Higurashi no Naku koro ni Kizuna: Dai-Ni-Kan - Sou
Higurashi no Naku koro ni Kizuna: Dai-San-Kan - Rasen
Iron Man
Jam with the Band (Daigasso! Band Brothers DX in Japan)
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West
Magnetica (Actionloop)
Mahjong Fight Club DS: Wi-Fi Taiou
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Feature removed from US version)
Metroid Prime Hunters (Rumble Pak came with some of the US version)
Metroid Prime Pinball (Rumble Pak came with US version)
Moon
Need For Speed: Undercover
Need For Speed: Nitro
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2
Orcs & Elves
Picross DS
Power Pro Kun Pocket 9
Power Pro Kun Pocket 10
Professional Fisherman's Tour: Northern Hemisphere
Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary
Race Driver: Create and Race
Sega Superstars Tennis
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Space Invaders Extreme
Space Invaders Extreme 2
Star Fox Command
Star Trek: Tactical Assault
Super Princess Peach
The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
Theta
Tomb Raider: Underworld
TrackMania DS
Treasure Gaust: Gaust Diver (Deep Purple)
Treasure Gaust: Gaust Diver (Crimson Red)
V8 SuperCars Australia 3
Viva Piñata: Pocket Paradise
Wario: Master of Disguise
Wild West, The
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008

[YoshiEgg25]

What games support the rumble pak except for metroid prime pinball anyway? I always wondered. I have MPP, but I was wonderign if any of my other games could use the pak if i bought it. I had the same issue as Hobie - 2nd hand MPP, no rumble pak included.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_Pak ... le_games_2

Notable games:

Diddy Kong Racing DS
Elite Beat Agents
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (except U.S. )
Metroid Prime Hunters
Metroid Prime Pinball
Moero! Nekketsu Rhythm Damashii: Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan 2
Sega Superstars Tennis
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing
Space Invaders Extreme
Space Invaders Extreme 2
Star Fox Command
Super Princess Peach
Wario: Master of Disguise

[Opa Opa]

Notable games[...]

I see a disturbing lack of Moon and Orcs & Elves in that list.

[YoshiEgg25]

Notable games[...]

I see a disturbing lack of Moon and Orcs & Elves in that list.

I'd never heard of either of them. There were games I'd heard of that didn't make that (huge) list, so...meh!

[alienjesus]

Custom Robo Arena
Elite Beat Agents
Jam with the Band (Daigasso! Band Brothers DX in Japan)
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Feature removed from US version)
Metroid Prime Hunters (Rumble Pak came with some of the US version)
Metroid Prime Pinball (Rumble Pak came with US version)
Picross DS
Star Fox Command

Oh hey, thats rather more games I own than I was expecting. Some pretty notable games I want were in the list too (hotel dusk, last window, sega racing, 42 all time classics, space invaders extreme, super princess peach, viva pinata). However, I have to wonder why some of them have it - what on earth can rumble add to hotel dusk, picross, or all time classics?!

BTW, Bowsers Inside Story says rumble was removed in the US - is that true of the european version too?

[YoshiEgg25]

BTW, Bowsers Inside Story says rumble was removed in the US - is that true of the european version too?

I don't think so. That's actually pretty new; when I got mine, that page didn't say anything about the US version of BIS not working with the Rumble Pak.

[Opa Opa]

I'd never heard of either of them. There were games I'd heard of that didn't make that (huge) list, so...meh!

I get ya.

However, I have to wonder why some of them have it - what on earth can rumble add to hotel dusk, picross, or all time classics?!

The rumble pak can immerse you into the game just a little bit more but it really depends on what game. Some games work with it really well (ex: Hotel Dusk, Metroid) and others are absolutely terrible (I'm looking at you Space Invaders ).