Nintendo DS gets RAM Beef Injection

once paid for, is browsing the internet free?this would be really cool as it means u could get free internet anywere in belfast.

Free as in if you have a free WAP then yes.

Opera is NOT a wap-webbrowser, it is a full browser. And as far as I can understand it, Opera for DS will feature the full webbrowser.
So if you have WIFI-access you can surf the web with your DS.

Banjo Tooie did not require the use of the Ram Expansion.

wow, if you can play browser based flash and java games on DS that would be too cool.
(or post on the spong forums even) :)

I was expecting this at some point, since the DS tech is very N64 anyways. To sharpen the games and web browsing it'll do nicely.

How much for the price? Good question, judging by the fact that DS card use around 1GB and the drop in the use of carts and GBA cart prices in general, I'd reckon about 128-256mb on a cart would be enough to tweak games and keep your browser nippier when online.

This should make it an even more interesting proposition for a lot of games companies - this would be good for the Resident Evil titles, for example.

That's what kriv meant. In this case WAP means Wireless Access Point.

I, personally, doubt that there would be Java on there (that is still a separate package, even in Opera, at least I think so). But indeed that would be cool.

One word: stupid.

Far too many add-ons for the DS. The RAM and rumble features should be built into the DS Lite.

Let's face it, no-one's going to be able to buy more than two of these increasingly stupid add-ons because they'll have run out of ports.

I like the functionality, but I'm not going to lug around a ram upgrade, internet cart, rumble cart, TV tuner, probably VoIP cart plus a game to play and/or various combinations of these.

I don't think this ram upgrade will be used in games.
I reckon it'll be uased as the cache for the browser, I can't see how much it would benefit games.
The N64 memory expansion made a big difference on games, a couple of them wouldn't run without it. Once I got used to seeing them running high res on the tv I just could not get used to seeing them low res anymore.

But high res on a 2 inch screen?
I can't see the point of that.

It is a good idea to increase the functionality of the DS, but I do wonder if bringing out add ons and extra bits is the right way to go about it.

So:

Do we agree that this whole thing will be free then?

As Nintendo has got these deals with BT/MyCloud hotspots which make wi-fi access via your DS free.. why would it cost anything more?

So thats good.

Plus - if someone's using the PC in the house and you can just whack your wi-fi dongle in and you're away..

Finally..
If you can access the web from your DS whats to stop you downloading things onto your DS??

There's potential here.. for both Nintendo and prospective pirates.

Oh yes, let's also agree that the DS and all of it's games should be free too. It'd be better if we don't have to pay for stuff.

Very poorly worded statement.

I think that if third parties think these add ons will sell and wanna make them then why not.

The DS card size work in our favour so lugging around a tv tuner, a 4gb hd and a few games shouldn't be a problem.

If the ram helps the web browsing then I'll invest in one of them too.

Oh my god.
Dude. You're a loser.

Why bother man?

I dont post here often at all - and you're exactly the reason why.

Good bye.