I can confirm that white bar on the bottom screen during the intro vid on my CycloDS too. Not sure why it shows that, but the retail cart just has a blank screen on the touchscreen while the intro vid plays. After playing and getting the hang of the game and re-starting, I've played about 5 hours worth last night. Whatever is up with that white bar, it doesn't appear to affect anything in the game at all. I would just ignore it.
So far, the only thing I would "complain" about is during battles. I really wish it would just stay on the screen with my command buttons and not keep switching to that completely useless bridge view with absolutely no purpose at all during enemy attacks. It kinda takes away from the intensity of the battles when you are waiting for it to give you your controls back. And why the hell is your ship so stupid and ALWAYS sets the default target to anything but the lead ship during multi-ship battles? The manual(s) both tell you over and over to attack the ship in front first and work your way back. EVERY TIME there is a multi-ship battle, the targeting is set to some ship in the middle or in the back of the formation and it makes you switch to the ship in front manually. Whoever heard of a targeting system that never just targets the closest enemy?
When you blow up an enemy ship, the explosion could have sounded better too. That explosion sound they used sounds very cheesy to me.
But those are minor complaints at best. I'm having loads of fun playing this game. Maybe it's just because I've been so starved for a good sci-fi inspired games that I'm willing to tolerate almost anything for my sci-fi fix. It's also nice of them to include the pdf manual since the game has a bit of a learning curve.
I'm still waiting for a good 3D space shooter the likes of Wing Commander or Descent Freespace on the DS. Even an X-Wing remake would be nice. Don't get me wrong, Infinite Space is very nice and I'm enjoying it for what it is, but I love being in the cockpit of a fighter blasting enemies. Why have games like that all disappeared?