There’s a lot to do with your new toy, and you don’t even have to slot in the game card yet to find out.  To begin with you might want to start snapping a few photos to check out the inbuilt cameras which can then be stored on an SD Card which makes transporting and transferring the photos easy or on the inbuilt Nintendo DSi memory.  The cameras software allows you to take 11 different styles of photos which can then be manipulated and using the wireless connection you can send images for free between you and another Nintendo DSi.

Similarly to the photo editing functions the new DSi allows you to edit audio sound as well.  The in built microphone allows you to record sounds which you can then play around with by using any one of the filters available.  The SD Card will let you store your tracks and creations in AAC format so you can then transfer your sound files to other devices.

Once your setup with a wireless connection you will be able to access the DSiWare store from which you can download games and applications.  If you have bought your Nintendo DSi brand-new then don’t forget that the first time you connect to the shop via your wireless connection you will be awarded DSi points as part of a limited time promotion offered by Nintendo.  You can read more about that here. (Nintendo DSi Points Promotion).  Point can then be redeemed for games and apps.  There are also free games and apps available.

All this to do before you’ve even played your first game.  The new Nintendo DSi is packed full of features and software so don’t forget to explore it all.

To find out how you can get a Cheap Nintendo DSi visit our store page.

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The games and applications in the new DSi-ware shop will have four different price levels.

• Free
• 200 points
• 500 points
• 800+ points

To buy additional points you can use a credit card or purchased a points card at various retail locations.

Additional news also announced at the same conference was the up coming release of new games and apps.  this included the new The Legend of Zelda, available on the Nintendo DS and DSi.  Also Moving Memo (name not final) which lets the user create a digital flip book using their own designs and Wario-ware Snapped which is a game involving the use of the DSi camera to create new gaming experiences.

An exciting year coming up for all gamers using the new Nintendo DSi

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The press release confrenece held on the 25th March 2009 told the public that Nintendo have exceeded 50 Million sales worldwide of their Nintendo Wii console since its release.

That is an impressive figure although to this is dwarfed by the fact that the NIntendo DS range has sold over 100 Million units worldwide. Remember to take into account that the Nintendo DSi is still yet to be released to Europe which happens on the 3rd of April 2009.

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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.

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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:

• First you must decide how much will be your top bid for an item. We will assume £60 for now.
• Get a list of all the auctions for Nintendo handheld Consoles for the next 7 days and set the maximum price to £60
• Within the list check for all the items that end between the times 4:30pm and 6:00pm
• Filter them down even further to the ones ending during the week.
• This is our target list of potential under priced sale items

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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This is the question. Why would a young child (6-10) want a Handheld Nintendo Console.

• Does your child like to learn interactively?
• Does your child often get bored and need something to do for an hour or so?
• Is your child learning to read?
• Is your child learning to count?
• Is your child learning colours (this is more for younger children like my 3 year old)

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.

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