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A Beta Fu7ure wrote:

kawaiipikachu wrote: Well the DS had the face training camera
So in the end the only things the DSi had that the rest of the DS line didn't have is really the eshop download service.

No version of the regular DS had a camera, Kawaii. Some peripheral that only came with an obscure Japanese only game is not the same thing as an inbuilt camera and software. However poor it was.

The Shoemaker wrote:

TheGreatNads wrote: I'm sure interested in hearing about that supposed battery life improvement though. Maybe I should wait for the XL version of this "new" 3DS.

I think it's only extended by 2 hours, estimated 3.5-7 hours. But the fact that you can remove the back of the system easily makes me think you'll be able to replace the battery.

The ShoeMaker" wrote:I wonder if this will effect the Virtual Console at all. It`s speculated that the 3DS can`t properly emulate SNES and GBA games, perhaps this New 3DS can.

kawaiipikachu wrote: I'm sure interested in hearing about that supposed battery life improvement though. Maybe I should wait for the XL version of this "new" 3DS.

I think it's only extended by 2 hours, estimated 3.5-7 hours. But the fact that you can remove the back of the system easily makes me think you'll be able to replace the battery.
Well Nintendo has yet do an Apple as all of there portables do have user removable batteries so you should be able to order new batteries from your local Nintendo distribution center.



I wonder if this will effect the Virtual Console at all. It`s speculated that the 3DS can`t properly emulate SNES and GBA games, perhaps this New 3DS can.
Well early adopters of the 3DS had a bunch of GBA games, thou how GBA games behaved as compared to other VC games which leads me to believe that the GBA games more or less be emulated via virtualization or otherwise a "Virtual Machine".
They may need to fully emulate the Zilog z80 to do a full GBA emulation.
Then again Nintendo already knows how to emulate a Z80 chip on the 3DS as via the GB/GBC games on the VC.


In fact depending if you can virtualize a Z80 or not Nintendo might have been able to do a GBA VC on the DSi via the Z80 instructions withing the systems 33MHz CPU as it's basicly a leftover by having the same chipset as a DS.
then again the Z80 being an oder design might limit the number of GBA games that the DSi could run.

so to cut this short the 3DS could run any GBA games if they could port the Z80 emu code to the GBA Virtual Console platform & have it running along side the ARM VM code.

link64 wrote:It's not Z80 it's a Sharp LR35902 that the Gameboy and GBA use.

Wikipedia wrote:CPU: Custom 8-bit Sharp LR35902[19] core at 4.19 MHz. This processor is similar to an Intel 8080 in that none of the registers introduced in the Z80 are present. However, some of the Z80's instruction set enhancements over the stock 8080, particularly bit manipulation, are present. Still other instructions are unique to this particular flavor of Z80 CPU. The core also contains integrated sound generation.[20]

Yasume wrote:Ugh, horrible move. Needs at least 5 quality exclusives to convince me. Xenoblade Chronicles is one of them, though.

Slurmee wrote:Wait I'm confused does this new console not play games the original 3DS does?

I'm thinking it might be worth upgrading this from my original 3DS as it hurts to hold after a while. Think it would be worth it? Or should I go for the Original XL?

Slurmee wrote:Wait I'm confused does this new console not play games the original 3DS does?