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If you have a DS, chances are you love it and play it to death. You know it can play GBA games, and you know it has two screens, Wi-Fi capabilities, touch screen input support, and many good games for all sorts of genres.

But here are some fact about our beloved handheld you may or may not have known:

Known as the Nintendo DS, the system was eventually code-named Nitro. The name was later moved back to Nintendo DS

The Nintendo DS was Nintendo’s first gaming system to be released in North America prior to Japan

Each DS screen has a resolution of 256 x 192 pixels

The DS has two processors, 4MB of RAM, and 256 KB of flash memory

The DS was Nintendo’s first handheld device with stereo sound without the use of headphones

By September 2007, the DS had sold 50 million units worldwide, making it the fastest-selling handheld gaming device to date. As of writing, the system has sold over 65 million units around the world

The Nintendo DS is available in China and is known as the iQue DS, which features a larger firmware to accommodate Chinese character glyph images

Nintendo DS systems can play any DS game except iQue DS games. However, the iQue DS can play any DS game

Actionloop, the European version of the DS puzzler Magnetica, is bundled with a DS Rumble Pack

DS game cards can hold up to 128 MB (1 Gigabit) of data, with the rare exception of the game ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, which features a 256 MB card. The standard 128 MB DS card has twice the capacity of the largest Nintendo 64 titles

The ‘virtual gap’ between the system’s screens equates to about 92 hidden lines of pixels
The system is designed to render 3D graphics to one a screen at a time, making two-screened 3D graphics difficult to achieve

Up to 16 people can connect to an specific room in PictoChat

There are over 500 unique DS games in North America alone

I am sure some of you knew all this already, but i found it interesting...

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I knew all of them except two o_o

Lol, when did the DS Lite actually come out?

Nice post, some things in there I didn't know

as soon as i started thinking about buying accessories for my DS. then they stopped making DS stuff and focused everything they had on the Lite. fudgers...

some of these facts were interesting. the virtual gap one piqued my interest, cause i remember watching some of the scenes in games that took the gap into consideration and allowed the "one image" to be cut in two without looking awkward or anything, but a lot of the games just give you two seperate images and scenes or viewpoints instead of working them together. they should really fix that >.>

Nice find.

"The standard 128 MB DS card has twice the capacity of the largest Nintendo 64 titles"

I found this the most interesting.

Great find. That was really interesting.

ya know that happened to me too i wanted a nerf cover for a DS phat and all you can find are lite covers, i gonna have to look on the internets for some phat accessories

hmm i didnt know half of that stuff.

of those 500 games, take out about 150 crappy movie games and brain age rip-offs, and 350 is still pretty good shape.