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ps. Nintendo DSi is almost upon us. Yeah
With only 1 week until the new Nintendo DSi handheld hits Europe make sure you get your pre-order in to avoid dissapointment.
The Nintendo DSi has already been released in Japan in late 2008 and is due for Europe on April 3rd.
To pre- order your Nintendo DSi now click on the link.
Available in both Matt Black and White
Nintendo DSi bundles also available.
For anyone wondering what the R4 card is, it is a small card which plugs in to the back of your DS or DS lite and is the same size a regular cartridge. You then purchase an SD Card to store your games on. This plugs into the R4 card which enables you to play the games stored on your SD Card.
The R4 card, will not work in the new Dsi (released April 3rd in Europe). That’s right unfortunately the R4 card which has made friends with many will no longer be able to function with the latest handheld model, the new Dsi. This has been officially confirmed by Nintendo. There has been announced that there is a few cards already available but they only function in DS mode. This means no access to any of the DSi-specific functions. These are cards like the Acekard 2i.
The Nintedno DSi is not the only thing Nintendo are going to launch in April. The nintendo points card will be released at the same time. This is going to be a re-vamp of the old Wii points system. There will be a 2000 card which has already been released (6th March) and the 1000 and 3000 points cards released on April 3rd. The points can be used to buy exclusive products from both the Wii Shop and DSi Shop. The products can then be downloaded direct to the console.
There are a couple of new titles to look forward to following the release of the Handheld Nintendo DSi.
With just over 2 weeks to go the new Nintendo DSi Handheld is just around the corner, remeber you can still pre-order by click the banner on the right. After release you will be able to find Cheap Nintendo DSi Consoles available in store.
The new Nintendo DSi is to be released on the 3rd April 2009. Available in matte black or white (at first), this Nintendo DS upgrade has 2 built in cameras, carries an SD memory card slot, can play music and has the option of being able to download software updates. The physical difference from the DS is the new DSi is 12% thinner and has a larger screen.
The built in cameras can be located in the middle of the hing when the console is opened and the other on the right corner of the lid on the outside. Having both cameras means the user can take pictures of themselves using the internal camera and pictures of others using the external one. The cameras software comes with face recognition and lets you interact with photos by using the pen. This includes features such as
With all these features the Nintendo DSi becomes your own person picture diary. View your pictures in various styles and have the ability to send them via wireless connection to other DSi’s.
Record and play with sound, changing the speed, pitch, sound filtering and effects. As well as using it as an portable music device which supports aac format.
You can even get online with the Nintendo DSi, Shop in the DSi store and download games. Also earn points when you buy “DSi Ware” items.
Probably most importantly this new console is fully compatible with the older DS version which means you’ll be able play all your old games.
To find the best possible price on this new console check out our web store pages, Cheap Nintendo DSi and Nintendo DSi Bundles.
How can you make your purchase of your Nintendo DS Cheap? Well if you count up the price of the Nintendo Handheld Console then add on the price of the 2 or 3 DS games that you want to accompany the Nintendo handheld Console you are talking a lot of money.
One way that a lot of people are getting round this to enable them to purchase their Nintendo DS Cheap is the use of what are called ‘moonshell’ cards. These cards come in many forms and started off with the introduction of the r4 card that supported upto 2 gig of micro sd memory.
The origional R4 card sold in the hundreds of thousands and by the end of 2007 the stocks were so scarse that stock could not be found anywhere. The price at the time was around $60 (£40). Since that time many clone of the R4 have appeared in the form of the R5, N5, R6 and as of late the R4 pro and advanced, which are not actually made by the same people that produced the R4.
People still have to be carefull with these cards however, as after the release of the N5 card; lots of people found that after inserting into their Nintendo HandHeld Console that it actually over loaded one of the internal Handheld DS capacitors and blew it. This rendered the users Nintendo Handheld Consoles bricked and unusable.
These card have been produced to enable home made moon shell games and software applications to be ran on the Nintendo Handheld Console itself. Simply load the firmware then add your moonshell software to the root then boot up and away you go as they say.
In reality though what these cards actually do is bypass the rom protection on the Handheld Nintendo Console and play downloaded rom games from numerous torrent and other peer to peer sites.
The legality of these card is in dispute however, as current law enable you to have backup copies of your purchased electronic media as is the case with Computer games, DVD and CD’s that you buy. So you could simply download the games you have and put these on a single card for convenience.
However, in reality due to the over priced games many people simply buy the cards and download the games that they want for minimal costs. How could nintendo combat this? Well the obvious solution would be to reduce the price of games to a level that people would not mind buying them.
Another way that nintendo will clamp down for furture console is with the introduction of the new DSi that is due for release in the US and Europe in the spring. This will contain regioned software compatibility as well as other anti-piracy features but as with most of the consoles and chipping technologies it will only be a matter of time before a similar card is released.
At the present time the price of the NDS cards for the Handheld Nintendo has dramatically dropped and even the best of the current batch of NDs cards is only at a lowly $17 (£11). But what is recommended to buy if you are going to buy one to ensure that it will not damage the Handheld DS?
Well the best card aroud at present is the Edge DS card and includes the ability to play video and mp3 files on your console. How cool is that!! Pretty cool I say.. But where do people get such cards from?
Most people seem to purchase their cards from a hong kong based company called ‘deal-extreme’ (www.deal-extreme.com) who ship the goods for free; though from reports they do seem to take around 10-12 days from purchase to delivery. Though how far you would trust memory cards from the site is another issue. Most people purchasing the cards seem to buy the micro sd cards that are required to run the software from places like play.com or amazon.
How do I get a Nintendo DS Cheap ? This is a question a lot of people are asking at the moment. With the credit crunch hitting people hard and people losing their jobs; times are tough at the moment. However, there are still a lot of opportunites to get some of your purchases a lot less expensive.
Ok, so who do we get out Nintendo DS Cheap then?
We could get our Nintendo Handheld Console second hand from ebay, but we have to use a very specific strategy to get the cheapest price possible. This is the stategy that we MUST use:
Note the we use these times as this is the time when most adult are picking up children from school, doing tea time meals or travelling back from work.
Now we need to set a snipe to get our sale so if our bid is the highest then we cannot be outbid by a manual bidder. So goto ‘goofbay.com’ and signup for a free account. I have used goofbays free sniper tool for around 2 years now and have got some tremendous bargains (including a multi-gym for £12).
Now take your ebay list and the auction items ending in the next 24 hours between the times above and these are our targets. Add a snipe for your target item via goofbay, I would make it the lowest price of your list.
And thats how we snipe for our Nintendo Handheld Console via ebay. The same strategy can be used for any ebay item.. When you get a bargain please give a bookmark via the link at the bottom of the blog post 
Our next strategy is to get a NEW Nintendo DS Cheap online using one of the major retailers.
This strategy involved the use of cash back sites like ‘quidco’ or ‘cash back kings’ whom I have used used for a number of purchased over the past 3 and a half years. There are two parts to this strategy and they must be followed exactly.
First we need to signup for quidco at ‘www.quidco.com’ then we find a good percentage cashback within ‘electricals->superstores’. We will use ‘kays’ or ‘littlewoods’ as an example as they offer 8%.
We can now purchase through the quidco link and get a 8% cashback on the sale back into our bank account, so if the Nintendo Handheld Console costs us £99 we get £8 back. But we can go further with the cashback sites. Imagine if we get a ‘credit card’ before this purchase, buy the item with cash then not use the card and close the account?
If we took up this strategy we could get a ‘Halifax credit card’ and receive a £20 cashback once the application is accepted then once we have receive the cashback, close the card account without even using the card so no interest or payment to pay. We just receive £20, so with the 8% off the price we get our Nintendo DS Cheap for a price of £71-72 brand new.
As I always say ‘the cash is better off in your pocket than theirs’
Hope this has been helpful to anyone buying goods.
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Nintendo HandHeld Console ? would you buy one? if so why?
This is the question. Why would a young child (6-10) want a Handheld Nintendo Console.
If you can answer yes to any of these questions then maybe your child needs a Nintendo Handheld Console to learn with. They may think… woooow a handheld nintendo console!!! but your thinking about buying games that they will enjoy but that will stimulate the additional brain activity in play.
So they play and progress learning at an accelerated rate. This is rubbish you may be thinking.. but it is actually true. My son is now 6 and has had his Handheld DS for 2 years now and the first things he started to play (games I bought on purpose) was ‘scrabble’, ‘my word coach’, ‘brain training’ and ‘maths play’ I think its called. he did also get ‘super mario brothers’ and ‘mario karts ds’ as well.. I’m not that cruel to only buy learning software.
The main thing we have noticed is that after a couple of months of using the ds and software he started in year 1 of school and he was already reading books fluently. He didnt alays understand all the situations in those books but he understood all of the word and how to spell them. By the end of year 1 (july 2008) he was reading year 3 books for his reading homework.
The same has happened with his maths work as well.. to be honest it has been pretty amazing to see and put a lot of it down to working through the maths lessons on his Handheld DS. It may be partially in his genes on the maths side as I’m an software engineer and am pretty good in that area too.
But I dont believe so. He has also been invited to a 4th year maths session that they carry out once a week for an hour too. So you can image how proud I am at the moment.
The thing is he didn’t show any exceptional talent before he started using the learning software on his Nintendo Handheld Console, so i do believe this is what accelerated his learning and something that I believe other parents should at least look at.
Much of the software mentioned can now be bought pretty cheaply on places like ebay and at play.com and other similar sites.
I’ll post more information on the particular parts of the software themselves that seem to be more relevant to the learning process.
