I think for battery life, its always best to compare to a stock DS/DS Lite. But how? I'm not too sure, I think running a game on both is alright, just let them run until they die or something. I'd suggest something that doesn't run a demo maybe or a demo that doesn't change randomly. People use mario kart, but I don't see how that works because mario kart runs demos at random, so even if you started both at the same time, the first demo to show wouldn't be the same as the other, making the test kinda invalid because they weren't exactly the same. The only difference should be what media is being used, real game vs rom. I think that would be a good test. Maybe use the lowest setting on the DS Lite. To me just seems like the longer it runs the more accurate the result should be. Just my opinion.
Also, I'm not sure about this, would the sleep mode battery times be different?
Also, I'm not sure about this, would the sleep mode battery times be different?