DS #3663: Jewel Quest - Solitaire (Europe)

[dice]

^^ndsrelease-4811^^

 

[Spikey]

First DS game with an intro. The intros, they are BACK!

 

[tinymonkeyt]

oooooh i love solitaire!
and kinda jewel quest..
so...
jewel quest + solitaire = win?

 

[Icey]

I believe this is one of the 3 games in The Quest Trio..so just get that.

 

[morphius]

i was JUST about to say that. Its been available since 2620 - The Quest Trio (U). As far as intros go... i remember a time (the c64/amiga scene) when if it didnt have an intro..it WASNT a release. I have always liked intros...would love to see a comeback.

 

[BlueStar]

Sweet, gonna get this for the intro alone

EDIT: Nice little scroller, could do with a chip tune though - hopefully next time

 

[Jei]

Now now, where are the nointro patch... I've always hated those intros

;;

 

[Donato_Dobango]

Do we have confirmation that this is the same as in Quest Trio? Because the description makes it seem like it's a separate thing.

In Quest Trio, it was just Solitaire. Here it looks like you can do that or do this new mode that has Jewel Quest built into it.

 

[BlueStar]

Now now, where are the nointro patch... I've always hated those intros

;;

XPA have included a no-intro patch in the release to placate the whiners. I remember Capital starting to do the same with their GBC releases, although I think it was more because no-intro patches would be made anyway and they didn't want the people making them to get credit for it rather than giving a flying about people who didn't like the intros.

 

[Harry Potthead]

i was JUST about to say that. Its been available since 2620 - The Quest Trio (U). As far as intros go... i remember a time (the c64/amiga scene) when if it didnt have an intro..it WASNT a release. I have always liked intros...would love to see a comeback.

Yeah. let's bring back these nice Intros

 

[iNFiNiTY]

The problem with intros is flashcart compatibility, and no music due to the DS architecture. Its very annoying compared to GBA.

 

[iNFiNiTY]

edit: double post because it took so long to load

 

[Maz7006]

I'll actually bother checking this out

 

[bunsy]

and no music due to the DS architecture.

You just need to inject some ARM7 code since that's what has access to the sound hardware. A little bit extra work, but mostly the same once you have it figured out for the ARM9.

 

[kjean]

I'll actually bother checking this out

You mean the intro? then, same here.

EDIT: too simple intro without music. boring. the game itself is not bad though.

 

[morphius]

the funny thing is that the ds community could probably benefit from intros. Back in the old days...wayyyyyy back when, intros served a few purposes. They basically put a stamp on a release...saying "we did this". They often times defeated copy protections as well. we could use this on quite a few ds releases.

 

[cosmiccow]

an intro by XPA? now i need to check this out.

Save the intros! - They help bring attention to otherwise overlooked games.

 

[BlueStar]

I'm glad their first intro wasn't on a major release so there's not pages and pages of whining, people saying it should be #XXXX or whatever. Now when a game loads of n00bs want to play comes out with a 'tro and they start moaning we can just point out it's not the first game with an intro and there's already a precident for it being deemed a valid release. Might spur some of the other groups with coding skills to show them off more too. I'd like to see a Squire intro, their MPH trainer menu looked sweet.

 

[BlueStar]

OK, is it me or is the touch screen completely fucked in this game? I keep having to tap the cards about 4 times before it registers, dragging them is no better and sometimes it selects the card to the far left of the screen when I tap or drag one in the middle, it's absolutely unplayable. Had to load up some other games to make sure my DS wasn't dying!

 

[cosmiccow]

i like this game actually. yes, it's not perfect maybe. but i have to tap the cards 2 times max. already played some hours. it's a good game.

as for the intro: it's a start.. time for other groups to make better ones now.