celebrate nintendo dsi us debut with electronic peep show
April 8th, 2009 comments (22) stumble it! digg it! by: alisha k.
Nintendo’s current handheld has mutated over the years (as their handhelds are wont to do), from a hefty brick Phat model to the sleek lines of the latest iteration, the DSi. That latest system celebrated its US debut this week, and already the poor thing has been stripped, her guts revealed in a greedy technological orgy of discovery.
Watch as the DSi is pried unwillingly open. Oh! How she resists! But that didn’t stop the folks at ifixit from tearing the DSi down completely… and by completely here, I mean completely. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, I see this all the time, circuit boards, battery, whatever. And sure, they went there.
But here the ifixit folks went that extra mile, and succeeded in their epic quest to see just how many different pieces they could get out of one DSi–without breaking anything, of course.
Best of all, they’ve got a step-by-step breakdown up alongside photos of the dismantling, as well as some comparisons to the DS Lite. You even get witty bonus commentary regarding the extra-thick DSi manual, and really, what innards-ogler can ask for more?
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April 8th, 2009 comments (22): stumble it! digg it! by: alisha k.
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whow there is a lot of things inside
Ironically, I read this post and am writing this comment on my new black DSi. It feels kind of strange looking at the disassembled guts of an exact copy of my DSi on said device.
I just bought two new DSi systems from Game Stop for both of my kids (ages 10 and 6). We are very disappointed for the following reasons. The DSi claims to support AAC music files. However, after four different conversion software attempts and $40 in conversion software fees, it won’t recognize the AAC files, as claimed. I gave up on trying to convert the music files and tried to find a site where I could just ‘buy’ AAC format music files. Guess what, there aren’t any. You would think that since this is the only type of music file the DSi supports, and that since you can’t convert any music files to AAC, Nintendo would have the common sense to have a site where you can download AAC music files from. (Duh!) I suppose buying AAC music wouldn’t work anyway since you can’t download “anything” from the internet, even if you have a SD card in the slot. When I called Nintendo customer support they tell you that you have to use music files with the following extensions: Mha, mP4, or 3Gp. So why isn’t that in the manual???? So, back to the drawing board and two days of frustration under my belt. I’m still not convinced these other file formats will work either, and really just want to return these over rated and overpriced items. As for the web browser (if you can even call it that), practically none of the sites that kids go to (Nick.com, Disney.com) will even load because the sites have flash animation built into the sites. You get a message telling you that you need to load the latest version of flash. However, the DSi won’t support the download. I’ve tried numerous other sites as well and can’t get them to load, with a different message, “A plug in is required that is not available…”, but you have no idea what plug in is missing and no way of getting it anyway cause like I said earlier you can’t download anything from the net. We can’t even get onto my kids’ elementary school web page! I sure hope everyone likes Wikipedia without being able to see the downloaded pictures, and that everyone is content with performing Google searches without being able to open any of the search result links, cause that’s about as good as it gets. As for the games that you’re supposed to be able to download to the SD card, I challenge you to find a single one. I’ve searched the net for two days and haven’t found a single one and neither has no on else unless they’re hooding out on us. What is also disappointing is that there are only approximately 7 games available from the DSi on-line Shop. They give you 1000 game points when you buy the DSi (which sounds like a lot) but the only decent games are how many points? You guessed it! 1000 points. Another word or caution. If you just purchased from Game Stop, don’t open it. Turn right around and take it back. If you open the package, they won’t refund your money. They only will give you trade-in value, which is a fraction of the price you just paid. They talke you into trading in your old DS (which by the way has all the capability of the new DSi, including internet, additional use of R4 cards, but no camera). When I called Nintendo Customer Support, they didn’t have a refund program and claimed they were appalled at Game Stop for not refunding my money and claimed they were going to call Game Stop personally. When I asked Nintendo customer support if there was going to be any updates to the system, now that we’re stuck with these low tech items, they had no idea if and when any upgrades would be made. Maybe I wouldn’t feel so cheated out of over $350 if I knew that there are going to be some upgrades in the future. And just so you know, you can’t play videos on the DSi, nor does it look like you will ever going to be able to. Video formats are not supported and the customer support didn’t know of any video download capabilities in the future. Nintendo really missed the mark on videos. Why they don’t have an app that allows video downloading (since they already have the internet access) for kids is beyond any reason. So, before you go screaming out the woor with hair on fire to buy this very expensive .3mp camera, cause the camera app is the only feature that the held either of my kids attention for more than 15 minutes, think about getting the I-Touch or the PSP instead. Don’t make the mistake I did. In today’s economy, who has $170 to literally throw away?
I am doing a little checking right now on the DSi. So far I have found a video/picture converter that looks promising. Audio conversion seems to be more work than it had to be but possible. Sadly the PSP had more capibilities then the DSi in the video/pic department 4 years ago. Hopefully Nintendo will make some improvments.
The games that you download you get from dsi shop from the home screen. And you can get them put to the sd card, and you can take them to other dsi systems. You can find aac music files but they might be in japanese.
When you say they’ll be in japenese will the songs be in japenese?
The only thing i agree with you on is the Internet surfing restrictions. Thats it. You are able to download games via the “shopping” app and your mistaken, as of right now there isnt one game in the whole DSiWare store that is a 1000 points. The highest and the funnist game (Brain Age: Math Express) is 800, but thats resinable for such a great game and there are several others for 200-800. And many more to come, you have to give nintendo a chance to upload them to there US Servers. And if you cant convert your music to AAC then google it for Pete’s sake and quit whining. As for using R4 cards your absolutely right they will not work, but thats why the people from http://www.themott.com invinted a little thing called the Acekard2i and it does work as well as it will allow you to play all your favorite movies. So with all that being said you shouldnt be complaining so badly. What did you expect it is not a super computer. And for someone who bitched about prices, the nintedo DSi is much cheaper then the iPhone/iPod Touch, and if you cant afford the DSi then you damn sure can not afford the iTouch.
Thanks for the website with the card!I can’t wait to get it.As soon as i do I’m putting on a bunch of movies and games.
P.S. If you want a amazing music player, great video player, and all the games (wrongfully acquired and the like) then i reccomend you get this awesome peice of equipment that has been around for over five years. it has infinate updates and will always give you exactly what your looking for. It is super portable and it will never disapoint. It’s called a LAPTOP. Nintendo makes games/gaming systems, not magic machines that please everybody. Lets see you enginier something better then the DSi. You make iit sound like it would be the easiest thing in the world. So set an example. Do something other then bitch.
You are funny. Thanks though.
the audio format is not supposed to be AAC its supposed to be m4a
This is really annoying.I don’t get very much money and i wasted $12 for an SD card that I can’t get music to!and i can’t go onto youtube or anything like that which is also annoying.But I’ve heard alot of ppl are trying to Jailbreak it.
The DSi actually uses m4a (MPEG Layer 4 Audio) AAC files. Common Winamp 5 (free or pro) can do the conversion.
Simply add songs to convert to the Playlist Editor
Select all and right click on the selection
Choose “Send To:” -> “Format Converter”
For the encoding format use “MP4/aacPlus (HE-AAC) Encoder”
Place the resulting files on your SD card.
Stay under these limits:
100 files per folder
1000 folders or folders more than 8 layers deep
3000 total files per SD card
Also, supposedly songs downloaded from iTunes work as-is but, never having used iTunes, I cannot confirm.
i download songs from limewire will this still work?
There is a program that converts all your music files for playback on the DSi. It’s called ‘Daniusoft Digital Music Converter’. Just got a DSi for my daughter and felt frustrated with playing songs on the system but I googled it and the information was available.Everything is on the net all that is needed is a little patience…research, research, research.Hope this helps someone like it did me.
Ok, I have looked and looked. The DSi is able to play video but I will be dammed on how to make it work. Any ideas?
same here i didn’t know it could even pllay video’s!(I’m happy it does)
as far as I know you have to buy a Acekard for $40 or jail break it.
OK its not that hard to get music just import or buy from iTunes right click and press convert to ACC format.That easy! Then just drag it to your SD card
We could ask for a point to this.
a point to what?