DS Facts You Probably Didn't Know

Jan. 12 7:45 PM by Alicia Ashby

Old? Perhaps. Awesome? Undoubtedly. Portable Video Gamer serves up a list of DS trivia facts that are actually... well, full of trivia you probably didn't know. Frankly, I'm embarrassed by how much of this list I did already know, but here are some gems.

  • Although everyone knows it as the Nintendo DS, at one time the system was code-named Nitro. The name was later changed back to Nintendo DS. [Lynx's Note: The Nitro name has, to a degree, survived. The name of the Nintendo-produced gadget you have to use for taking DS screen caps is the IS Nitro Capture.]
  • The Nintendo DS is available in China and is known as the iQue DS, which features a larger firmware to accommodate Chinese character glyph images.
  • The virtual gap between the systems screens equates to about 92 hidden lines of pixels.

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