Nintendo 3DS is the most widely used music player in Japan by elementary schoolers

[DinohScene]

Pfff plebs.
I was listening to music on lmp-ng on me original DS with a Supercard SD.

Get on me level scrubs!

 

[BORTZ]

I mean I did that in high school.

I just found GBAtemp right at the second half of the DS hacking phase. Right about when 100% compat cards were becoming the norm. Like the OG R4. That was the first cart I ever got. I spend christmas break figuring out how to get Moonshell working correctly and bam, I had the best video iPod 08 could offer. I used that for quite some time, as it was superior to other music/video players of the time.

 

[Deleted User]

I listended music for hours on my DS with the Nintendo MP3 Player back in the day.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

When I was in elementary school I had a walkman. I remember recording stuff from the radio or ripping vinyls my mom had onto cassette to play them. But at the end of elementary school I got a portable CD player (with mp3 support mind you so I could rip stuff and fit a lot more onto one CD, or even download some stuff on the school's DSL connection and bring it home using a 128MB USB stick I had)
Though I didn't bring them to school a whole lot. They were a tad bulky and I was already bringing my GBC and then my GBA around with me everywhere and that was usually enough.

So I can understand using a 3DS as a media player, if I had a MP3 player on my GBA I would no doubt have used that for all my music needs just so I didn't need to carry anything extra around. And in fact I did use my DS with Moonshell for media playback, mostly converted episodes of Naruto and occasionally music in tracker formats. But I also had an iPod Nano around that time which did well for all my MP3 needs and was tiny. Didn't have anything portable for playing videos (well I could technically play them on the iPod Nano through iPodLinux but it was hardly a great experience with that tiny of a screen) though so that task was left to my DS.

Most people these days have a smartphone or tablet that they would rather use for that kind of thing, but you obviously aren't born carrying a smartphone and many parents believe very young kids shouldn't have such things (which I can understand, they can be a distraction, and kids are prone to break such things making it a rather expensive waste of money) so the only electronics they own might be game consoles and some toys, and maybe a cheap PC to do work on.

 

[InsaneNutter]

Pfff plebs.
I was listening to music on lmp-ng on me original DS with a Supercard SD.

Get on me level scrubs!

Got there and going one lower!

It's summer 2004 and I owned an Ngage QD with UltraMP3 installed, along with a 128mb MMC.

End result was MP3 playback in 16 kHz mono only.

That along with the ability to play 3d games such as Tomb Raider, Tony Hawks and Pandemonium on a mobile devices was impressive for the time. Thinking about that makes me appreciate how far things have moved on since then.

 

[Song of storms]

I used my 3DS to listen to podcasts when it came out, because I had an old Symbian phone and I didn't want to waste battery. With 256kbps VBR, it would last me one whole day. I'd say 7-8 hours of continuous playback.

 

[BlueFox gui]

pfff i would if my battery wasn't dying in 10 minutes lol

 

[smileyhead]

pfff i would if my battery wasn't dying in 10 minutes lol

Sounds like a faulty battery; it should easily last a couple of hours at worst.

 

[BlueFox gui]

Sounds like a faulty battery; it should easily last a couple of hours at worst.

i know, the old one was faulty, i bought this one but it came like that, but it was the only i could find, so better get a new battery at least working than an old one that was dead

 

[the_randomizer]

Wish it had FLAC support

 

[FAST6191]

Wish it had FLAC support

Even assuming you have ears and headphones that can tell, and care to burn the space, does the 3ds even have a digital-analogue decoder that can do it justice?

 

[OkazakiTheOtaku]

Even assuming you have ears and headphones that can tell, and care to burn the space, does the 3ds even have a digital-analogue decoder that can do it justice?

Considering the trash sound that comes out of the 3DS's DAC with 320 kb/s music, and games, definitely not.

 

[the_randomizer]

Even assuming you have ears and headphones that can tell, and care to burn the space, does the 3ds even have a digital-analogue decoder that can do it justice?

I'm thinking probably not, I guess MP3 is sufficient. But if an MP3 is less than 128 kbps, it sounds like muddy garbage to my ears.

 

[Veho]

Pfff plebs.
I was listening to music on lmp-ng on me original DS with a Supercard SD.

Get on me level scrubs!

.gba files on the GBA Movie Player V2 CF on the GBA.

Your move, bro ;O;