Evil Avatar refers a post on the WarpPipe forums where a poster has discovered that Nintendo's new DS is emitting a weak anomolous signal that can be picked up by TV antennas.
Whether the unintentional result of poor shielding, or an intentional hidden feature that Nintendo was going to introduce down the road through some sort of tuner peripheral, this effect makes my designer's brain spin with possibilities. Imagine a multiplayer game with one player's screen duplicated on the TV, while the other (up to 15 on a DS wireless LAN) work privately on their own screens. We've seen Nintendo try things like Legend of Zelda: Four Swords, and multi-player Pac-Man that might indicate future intent (whether using some sort of stand-alone tuner, or a future console add-on that uses the wireless network). I'm excited.
Then again, the DS might just be possessed by ancient evil.
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Posted by: kuwang | 09/19/2006 at 02:29 AM