Nintendojo has posted what may be leaked DS specs, translated by Nathan Heckle, who goes to my local university.

Quote:It would appear that through a leaked "Nitro" document we may very well have before us the technical specs for Nintendo's DS, which basically confirms it to be a portable Nintendo 64. While still an unsubstantiated rumor, the file appears to be legit. Click the image below for a look at the full sized document.


NITRO Function Summary


CPU Core

Main Processor: ARM946E-S (67 MHz)

Cache: 8 kilobytes for instructions, 4 kilobytes for data

TCM: 32 kilobytes for instructions, 16 kilobytes for data

Sub Processor: ARM7TDMI (33 MHz)


Memory

Main Memory: 4 megabytes (8 megabytes in the debugger)

ARM9/ARM7 Shared: 38 kilobytes (16 kilobytes x 2)

ARM7 Internal Work RAM: 64 kilobytes

VRAM: 656 kilobytes

LCD

Screen Size: 256 x 192, RGB pixels, two screens

Number of Colors: 262,144 (18-bit color)


2D Graphics Engine (A, B)

Backgrounds: Up to 4 layers

Objects: Up to 128 sprites


3D Graphics Engine

Coordinate Conversion Ability: Up to 4 million vertices/second

Polygon Drawing Ability: Up to 120,000 polygons/second

Pixel Drawing Ability: Up to 30 million pixels/second


Sound

16-channel ADPCM/PCM (Up to 8 channels of PSG can be established)

Microphone Input

Wireless Communication

Original protocol based on IEEE802.11

Input Device

Touch-panel

Digital-pad, A, B, R, L, Start, Select (X and Y are under examination)

Power Control

Can deal with sleep mode (wakeup is possible at a chosen time interval or due to wireless reception), 2D engine, rendering engine, geometry engine, and the LCD's power control.

There you have it; make of it what you will. Major props to Nintendojo contributor Nathan Heckel for his translation of the text.

Congratulations on passing 20,000 posts! Approximately 93% of them were pointless but even still! You officially have no life whatsoever! Hooray!

http://cube.ign.com/articles/496/496698p1.html

Quote:DICE 2004: Nintendo Still Skeptical of Online
Latest comments from NOA on the subject.
March 04, 2004 - At a DICE held roundtable in Las Vegas, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of corporate affairs Perrin Kaplan commented on online gaming and what it means to Nintendo. The figurehead reiterated Nintendo's stance on the developing gameplay mechanic as something that lacks a profitable model and hasn't appealed to a wide enough audience.

"I think from where we stand it looks to us that it's going to be fairly niche for a long time," said Kaplan on online gaming. "I think some of our interests instead lie in building community on the wireless play front as opposed to the online one."

Kaplan, on a panel with executives from Electronic Arts, Ubisoft and THQ was the only person to question the future of online games. The three other publishers all have online games in development.

No not that other discussion, at least not mostly...

Anyway, I know many people say that Oracles follow up LA, but based on the games that's impossible! Just play them. While the LInks look similar he's a whole lot younger in Oracles than in LA... and the LA one is identical to the one in the LttP manual... the only thing I don't know is what the LOZ/AoL Link looks like. Could anyone help there? :) If that also looks like the LttP Link then LA could be after several games... OoT/MM? I don't know. You'd need to accept that Link doesn't leave for years because as of MM that Link is still young and the LA Link is older. LttP makes the most sense, really. I know it's not a definite but it's about as certain a maybe as you can get. :)

So the question is then when is Oracles? I know it's some generic time but it'd be nice to pin it down a bit more because everything else fits... but Oracles? It's a quite young Link, but he's not the WW Link for sure and he can't be the LttP Link because that one's too old when he starts out his quest much less after it's over... OoT/MM? I don't know. It could be. Link looks kind of similar and is also young. And in the intro he's on a horse... again I don't know what the Zelda 1/2 Links look like. I'd need the game manuals I think, to rule that in or out. But I'd bet he'd be too old... though it could go in between the games or something? But you need to factor in how the Triforce is there, in the castle, at the time. I don't know when it was for sure... but between the horse and the age I'm kind of leaning towards OoT/MM...

So why did I bring this up again? Well I was looking through my GB manuals (and the new LttP one) and noticed how LttP Link is the same as the one in the LA intro (and similar to the older Link in OoT, you know...) and then checked Oracles and noted the age and if you believe that the theory that OoA/S comes either after LA or after LttP are all impossible.

Old news? Maybe, I don't remember. But I wanted to say it anyway. :)

DO YOU REMEMBER ANDREW ANTONE?



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Only at Wal*Mart, baby!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=st...lar_bill_1

Quote:Police: Woman Tried to Pass Fake $1M Bill



COVINGTON, Ga. - A woman was caught trying to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at a Wal-Mart, and was later found with two more of the bills in her purse, police said.

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The United States Treasury does not make $1 million bills, but people can buy souvenirs of such a bill at some stores, police said.



"It looks real, but of course there's nothing real about this," Covington Police Chief Stacey Cotton said Tuesday. "People do crazy things all the time. I think it's just another example of some odd things that occur."



A clerk at the store immediately noticed the bill was fake when 35-year-old Alice Regina Pike handed it to her on Friday, Cotton said.



Pike then tried to use two gift cards with only $2.32 of value on them to buy the merchandise, but when that didn't work she again asked if the clerk could cash the $1 million bill, Cotton said. The store then called police.



Pike, of Porterdale, was charged with forgery. There was no listing for her phone number in directory assistance, and she could not be reached for comment Tuesday.



Covington is 32 miles southeast of Atlanta.

http://www.lanceandeskimo.com/flash/quest.html

73 - A Truly Evil Plan

Eh.. guess there are no U2 fans here. ...

From Nintendojo!

Quote:The latest Issue of the United Kingdom’s GameCube magazine NGC, contains an exclusive interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, legendary game created and one of Nintendo’s top producers. In the interview, Miyamoto-san revealed that he is in fact working on two mystery games that could be released by the end of year 2004.

Miyamoto was quoted as saying, ”I am however working closely on Pikmin 2 and two other undisclosed titles alongside it.” He continued, “I hope we will be able to release both of those titles before the end of the year.”

What are these games? Are they updates to existing franchises or entirely new concepts? Do they feature bunnies? Stay with Nintendojo for all your Shiggy needs. (zp)

Source: NGC

...this game needs to get a stateside release! Just check out these screens from IGN. Most impressive 3D GBA engine I've seen so far.