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I bought the NDS version back in the day and let me tell you it was not worth the 40€ of my pocket money.

• Wowfunhappy 4mo ago
  I remember how, if you wanted to swap the top and bottom screens, it would spin and spin and spin… definitely a painful experience. I actually think it was worth the money though, at least for me, because having a pocketable device that could access the internet was so special at that time. Also, the DSi’s web browser was legitimately good. In addition to being fast enough, the zoomed out bottom screen and zoomed in top screen was great for browsing designed-for-a-desktop websites.
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• mrguyorama 4mo ago
  I ended up getting that "Not really a flashcart" Datel DS flashcart, and I loaded it up with DSOrganize, a homebrew "OS" https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/DSOrganize https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/DSOrganize It had a semi functional web browser included, without the RAM expansion cart! It somehow managed to browse most simple web pages on the inbuilt RAM from a hobbyist! It also had an IRC client, and that was my introduction to IRC And Internet Radio! You could point it at an internet radio station with a special "playlist" file that had a URL, so that's how I helped feed my Technobase.fm addiction at the time, before smartphones. I could carry around my DS and listen to internet radio!
  • KeplerBoy 4mo ago
    Now Datel is a name I haven't heard in a while. Reminds me of those action replay devices which modified the console's memory to cheat. Ahh the nostalgia.
• m-p-3 4mo ago
  yeah, I had low expectations but not that low. I ended up using it on "lite websites" to read the news while commuting to work on the free wifi.