Nintendo Patents New Cartridge Design

[raulpica]

It has nothing to do with piracy.

It's obviously additional hardware, and it's for DS.

Also, in figure 2, you can see two additional "things". One seems like a insertion-detection switch (it has the lower part rounded), and the other a normal "up-down" switch to activate or deactivate something.

 

[Splych]

Hmm... Motion games...? That's what comes to mind from me. I saw Yoshi Topsy Turvy for GBA and noticed the cartridge was bigger than the average one.

 

[zuron7]

Maybe for some special thing or else I'm leaving the DS.

 

[_Chaz_]

More space = more data+other features such as rumble?


DO WANT!

 

[ProtoKun7]

or maybe if there a new cart like this that stick out the ds then if people have same game on a small cart they get caught???

That reminds me, I was playing New Super Mario Bros. outside one day and then the police confiscated my DS...oh hang on! That never happened!

 

[o0ICE0o]

is it true?

I remember reading that - like years ago.

 

[Jamstruth]

The only reason I can think of for this is to fit bigger memory chips onto the cartridge allowing larger games to be created. Personally I think this will fall dead in the water as people have squeezed upwards for 200mb out of the DS cartridges for music games and RPGs haven't ever used that much.

 

[Sir-Fritz]

Maybe they got too many complaints from all the casual gamers that bought the ds that the carts were too big/too hard to get out of the ds.

 

[Rydian]

Or maybe even if this is a new DS cart it... hold on, this is a novel idea...

Maybe, just maybe, it won't be used for every game, just one or two! =D

 

[VashTS]

Nintendo is wising up and releasing their own flash cart. its going to be the N4i

 

[Dark Blade]

The cartridge looks a lot like an action replay.

It's more dangerous though....swing the DS too much and out it goes.

 

[Dr.Killa]

The cartridge looks a lot like an action replay.

It's more dangerous though....swing the DS too much and out it goes.

no, more like hit the bottom of the ds too much and out it goes.

 

[shakirmoledina]

its not entirely understandable as to what it could be but for sure, the system inside the cartridge will be different (and possibly having more than the older DS)
one thing is for sure, they seem to have taken "benefit" from carts and their designs and probably will make something like blue ray which will be hard to copy and pirate

 

[Demonbart]

Wait, what? That must be for the DS2, otherwise I'd say Ninty's retarded. No one's going to buy something like that, unless it proves itself VERY worthy.

Well it might be the rumored accelerometer, in which case it would be worth it.

 

[toxicflash]

Looking at the "button" on the side it looks more like a release button as the tab sticking out near pin end of cartridge is hook shaped to obviously stop it falling out, but as to what it is, i have no idea , maybe its a star constallation mapper, or maybe we use it to play against aliens on different planets!!!

 

[YayMii]

Nintendo is wising up and releasing their own flash cart. its going to be the N4i

And Nintendo will probably charge for ROMs, like the Virtual Console.

 

[Slyakin]

Maybe that has a slot for inserting a DS game, and it will copy your DS's game data to your DS2 system? But wait... that would have to make Nintendo release a DS2 with 20gb of installed hard-drive space. Not that it is not impossible, just that it would be expensive.


And we all know how greedy Nintendo is!

 

[unopepito06]

It's a 3g adapter for streaming... I dunno, netflix? Pr0nz?
Either that or it's for communicating and playing games with alien life forms. Nintendo has always pushed for the social side of gaming...