4cr Presents: The DS lite Buyer’s Guide

weird. Mario Kart doesn’t make it as one of the top 7 games to get? I plan it to be the second one I get.

That was neat. I’d like to see more places do things like this.

Digg it!
(Firefox link)

Any reason this was exported FlashPaper instead of just browser-independent JPGs?

It looks neater? I like the hip-hop influence near the middle, funny stuff.

Maybe you guys can help me with this… I still haven’t gotten an answer. When using headphones and low volume, the original DS always put out this ringing noise in the background that was incredibly annoying. I’ve noticed this on several DS’s, so I know it’s not just mine.

Has this been fixed on the Lite?

Awesome job!

Looks really great. Handy and funny at the same time. Send it to Nintendo, they might consider to use it for marketing.
Funny Podcast-advert.

Nice job , guys it remind me of the escapist !! ;), anywho, I’m gonna wait for the black ds lite, since I have a red DS ( wich I love ), is there any official news about the black color coming to the US ?????

More features with superstars of the rap game! Informative and hilarious – exactly what I like for my videogame news. Nicely done, 4cr, nicely done indeed.

Your guide is useful and the overall design is great !

I didn’t know about flashpaper before reading your guide, and it’s a nice way to present articles. Much quicker and a lot crispier than PDF…

I just want to give a fat kudos for the work you guys put into that. Really well done, 4CR has always been known for quality, you guys never let me down. I usually am pretty snobby when it comes to all things visual too.

Wow. I’m quite impressed. Really nice. I’d love to see another one of these for other products *cough* Wii *cough*.

Great job.

I love my ‘fat’ DS and can’t justify buying a DS Lite until they add protocol support for WPA/TKIP.

Nice work… The guide looks awesome, what program did you use to make it?

Now you guys cannot say that there is no ultra-secret 4CR magazine in the works.

Don’t even TRY denying it.

Wow nice little design!

Wow, thats amazing….. most professional looking 4cr creation yet.

Great job guys, neat and stylish.

Very nice concept indeed.

Somebody, or group of somebodies, is thinking design portfolio or advertisers it seems. It does look like the Escapist, which isn’t a bad thing at all, and I’d love to see individual games given this treatment – “experience reviews” with style.

I’ve actually never seen Flash Paper, but it worked well and I’ll avoid launching Adobe Reader or Mac Preview to view a document any time.

Nice work.

wow i found that rapper part hilarious…. More of these would be awsome

“Can you remember how to make the fireworks to go off?”

He he he. I found a mistake!

Anyways…nice guide. Actually found out a little bit of new info. Will be great resource to show people to get them to buy one.

Wicked, I plan on putting this in a new section of my dresser which I’ve only just made. It’s name? 4CR awesomeness. Keep’em coming.

I like the FlashPaper presentation, and I appreciated Rebel in Japan’s article towards the end. I may just have to buy 2 Lites now.

Your server is beginning to get lagged, I would digg it but I’m baneed from digg for flaming stupid video/origami/OMG NINTENDO HEADPHONES posts.

It’s very iPod lounge-esque of you 4cr, but I must admit, it’s a quality publication- i’m sure it will bring lots of potential Nintendorks to your site and join the fun.

Hahaha my rumble pak brings all the guys to the yard.
50 cent has 50 custom made DS units, he loves it apparently- as does Marilyn Manson and Jack Black, the DS is the system of choice for playing on tour/filming it seems.

I have to say, it’s very professional- while I feel Mario Kart should have been there over say Animal Crossing you’ve done a good job, it’s extremely well produced and quite amusing in places- perhaps a little too much emphasis on accesories, I don’t think people ‘need’ them as much as companies who sell them make out.

But it’s informative I guess and the adverts are very tasteful! Over and out.

son of a b**** that was effin b*tchin

That Flash paper is nice! The article was good too…

replace 2Pac’s pic when one of Styles P (for the stylus) have you have your self a hit!!

MAKE A MAGAZINE NOW

I now have a reason to get a lite… my original broke :oops:
I suspect the black DSlite will come out in the US, or you could just import (Don’t know what you will have to do about the Voltage difference in our plugs.)
Fantastic Guide guys! Very professional, you have really out done yourselves!

Do more of this. It was a good guide. I want more from u guys.

I DONT APPROVE METROID PRIME HUNTERS as a must have game!
:oops:

Castle vainnia is a much better choice!

This looks so professional! I love it! I need more now!

http://tinyurl.com/zov6b

Cool guide.

@ Someguy
You need to post this up on the main site, that was brilliant. Or you could post it in the forums. In Soviet Russia, Mario is big and mean.

I can’t say anything to add to the praise this has already received. So I will just say that the quality of “Buyer’s Guide” impresses me greatly but surprises me none. Keep up the great work guys. More of this!!

Wow: looks awesome. Not just the DS Lite, but the guide itself. If the 4cr guys did a magazine, it would look awesome.

I plan on holding on to my original DS when I get my lite. That way, I can finally get some local connection multiplayer joy from Meteos.

none of my friends own a DS.

You shouldn’t be doing this 4CR…Nintendo should.

Anyways, awsome job! Really funny.

fat bottom ds’s make my rocking world go ’round

So the stylus is heavier? Anyone know how it compares to the normal ds’s battle stylus?

If I wasn’t already going to get a Lite on Monday, that probably would have made me decide to get one.

Is this some new trend, to put up “magazines” in static, web-unfriendly print-only format and then use a page size that doesn’t correspond to any paper known to man? Is this the next incarnation of the hyper-l33t floppy disk “zines” from the days of the Amiga and ST?

Come on, guys, you could have done every bit of your funny layout tricks using CSS and some graphics, it probably would have been smaller than the PDF or SWF anyway, and I wouldn’t have to squint to see your retarded Futura font.

Buh?

How is Flash web-unfriendly?

Flash is for applications and pretty graphics, not the presentation of articles. PDF is for printing. Both are ill-suited for traditional web content. You can’t override them with high-visibility fonts, disable annoying style sheets or just scroll through the document from top to bottom, reading comfortably.

But I think a picture is worth a thousand words.

http://www.kudla.org/yeahthatlooksawesome.png

That was really well-done, guys. Nice work.

Haha you guys just don’t stop That was fun.

Very nice work on the content. That’s the first time I’ve seen Flash Paper and it worked great. Nice layout and design sense too.
But oh wait, RAINDOG the all knowing aparently thinks it would have been far easier to code the entire thing in CSS, which would be oh so much easier. So maybe you shouldn’t do this anymore. (completely soaked in sarcasm)
I would say you should print a mag, but it would probably be much more cost effective to do this type of thing.

Oh god, watch me post a screen cap of the article working on my own website. Or not.

nice feat!

some suggestions:
on my dial-up connection at home, the flashpaper took about 7 minutes to load 100%
if it is possible to do the same in html, I´d go for it

good job-ive never seen such an awesome and through review-A+

Thanks for all the feedback guys. This is our first try at this and we want to know all about how it is working for you.

Neat lil’magazine. I’m definately gonna get that USB charger. Now back to playing my DS-Lite~ Thank god for the independant game shops that don’t care ’bout street dates. ^_^

nicely done hope to see more of this in the future

Heyhey, any news on good deals for the white lite? Perhaps a trade in deal, DS lite for your olskool and a couple more bucks?

Sure. Rumor is, EBGames (or is it GameStop?) is working with a trade-in deal for your original fatty DS. You’ll apparently snag about $50 or $60 towards your DS Lite, which is a pretty good deal if you mean to grab money ASAP!

Yeah, the USB charger looks great, I just ordered one. Faster charge too.

I kinda dislike that rapper part in the middle. I mean, Tupac has been dead for like 9-10 years now. You wanna paste Kanye in there, thats cool, but Pac’s image in there makes as much sense as a pic of Kurt Cobain to show how “grungy” your old DS is.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that was an official Nintendo publication!

Oh, and thanks for NOT putting Kanye in there. I hate him soooooo much.

Congratulations you guys! the buyers guide is on joystiq!

Don’t forget to digg it people.

i was wondering where can i get the usb recharger??

carlos: right here

Actually, Adam, the screengrab was of the Flash Paper version, not some CSS mockup I did. I posted it to demonstrate an especially sucky feature of Flash Paper…. you have to scroll up and down to read each individual column of each article. You also have two scrollbars, and you have to scroll the outside scrollbar down to get to the bottom of the inside scrollbar.

Also, it definitely would not have been easier to create that magazine using HTML and CSS…. and they wouldn’t have been able to finish it up in Photoshop CS. But it would have been possible, and it might even have been done right.

Seriously, I understand the need to embrace your inner magazine publisher. Been there, done that. But we have this thing called the web now, and it really works better when you don’t try to force it to look like a 9×5″ slick.

Very impressive. Please let me know if you do another, I’d love to contribute an article – if I can.

WOW!
So very beautiful.

but but but but… why so much hate for the french canadian?!?

What hate?!

We love the French Canadians!

Mitch loves them so much he writes French Canadial fan fiction about a group of ordinary French Canadians who stumble up on a secret military weapon that turns them into the “French Canadian 5!” Fighting crime in 2 mandatory languages.

There is no hate here.

This is sooo cool, I printed out a copy and was advertizing around my town, I got at least 12 people to go buy one on the 11th!!!

Okay, I have a question: will my old DS assign itself a new ID for online play once I’ve transferred its existing one to my DSLite? I don’t want to remove online play capabilities from what will become my girl’s DS.

–
M

FoolsRun: Yes, it will grab a new WFC ID after you transfer the setting off of your old DS and it reconnects. no worries.

So when I’m transfering my Wifi data across, do I have to do it for everyone Wifi Game? Or just once?

just once

Benji sez:

I love my ‘fat’ DS and can’t justify buying a DS Lite until they add protocol support for WPA/TKIP.

Bazackly! Yeah, the lite has better backlight and all, but my Phat works just fine, except for the little inconvenience that I can’t use my new fancy encryption system. Also, even though everyone whines about the Phat’s strange placement of the power and Start/Select buttons, I like them there. Nice and thumb-accesible.

I’d just like to point out… that we f-ing rock. Go us. We’re also pretty modest, and that’s always a good thing to be. Modest, that is.

I figured you guys might like to know that GameCrazy is linking to your guide from their main page.

Yep! We are linking to it on our site (with proper approval, of course) because this is the best DS Lite Buying Guide on the inter-weber-nets today.

4cr did a great job in promoting the DS Lite that we carry in our stores and GameCrazy.com wanted all of our users to know about it.

This is the best I have ever seen, nice job 4cr.

hey hey whaz up i have nothing to say and please don’t ask why i’m here but there ain’t a party til’ i’m here!!!!

yo peeps! the NDS Lite is out tomorow and I reserved one for me! Jealous? I thought so!

I Got my DS Lite! Awesome! You guys NEED to buy one!

Very nice PDF. I didn’t look at the Flash one yet. I like the links to the product ecommerce sites. Thru this, I discovered http://www.play-asia.com. They have tons of Japanese-market items for cheap shipping rates. I just placed my order!

I feel fully psyche to go out and by a DS lite come the 23rd. And will be looking out for those useful accessories highlighted. Thinking about a wireless router to enjoy my DS online – anyone got a suggestion for a cheap compatible router?

I love my DS Lite

Yes, there are quite a bit of after market stuff… there is also liksang and renchi.com who just came up with a million ways to pimp your DS!

Yes, there are quite a bit of after market stuff… there is also liksang and renchi.com who just came up with a million ways to pimp your DS! ..oops, the url – http://www.renchi.com/renchi/NewsDetail?newsID=765

50 Cent is a snitch who’s afraid of getting shot again, and Kelis just plain sucks ass.

How is Ds light diferent from Ds besides the briteness

ls it just me or is the new ds look more like a apple product than a nintendo product?

It was nice layout wise, but the top 7 games is a bit off.

You put Pheonix Wright on there (which is impossible to find outside of ebay and the last few remaining copies at game stores), and left off Trauma Center, one of the highest rated DS games out there, not to mention one of the most innovative when it comes to using the touch screen and stylus. I mean, come on, the series is even getting a Wii sequel on launch, give it more props than a rare point and click adventure game! (as good as it was, Trauma Center is way more of a “must have”).

When will the black be out in the US? I might get it then. Otherwise, I loves my PSP.

I just want to be able to walk around with my laptop, PSP, DS Lite, PDA Phone and feel like a geek lol…

FYI, you guys are posted on GameCrazy’s website under the DS Lite’s Buyer’s Guide section. Nice job guys!

i reall see no difference in the new ds light but all i know is that i want one so i can get the new pokemon game pearl and diamond.

i think the ds lite is awsome well i dont have one yet but im saving up to get one so farr i have 110dollarsoh and it doesnt suck if anybody has anyold games for ds ill take em

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