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DS Motion Card: Tilt those dual screens

Posted Dec 8, 2006 at 4:19PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: motion-sensing, SIXAXIS
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DS Motion CardEver wished that you had the SIXAXIS's tilt technology wherever you went? Well, we're not about to tell you to lug your PS3 around town, but we do have an alternative which you can put into your Nintendo DS. And it's actually more of a three-axis instead of six.

In any case, for US$ 25 at sites like DSPassMe, you can get yourself the DS Motion Card, which, according to the product page:


Contains a 3-axis accelerometer and a single-axis gyroscope, and plugs into the DS card slot to enable full motion sensing on the DS and the DS lite. It is the first tri-axis accelerometer that can be used for homebrew DS development, and the first and only accelerometer/gyroscope combination available for handheld gaming.


This basically means that plugging in this card to your DS will allow it to sense gravitational acceleration (acceleration caused by a change in velocity), as well as the speed of rotation around an axis perpendicular to the lower screen of your DS. At the moment, its features include Tilt Sensing, Motion Sensing, Twist Sensing and Gesture Recognition.

There's also no need to worry about running out of games to use this technology on, as games and apps can be coded to work with the DS Motion Card using the C Code which is provided at the official site.

So, can anyone code up Loco Roco for the DS using this new thingamajig?



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# 1stGuest 2006-12-09 04:40
ds sux

why have two gay screens when psp has one huge screen

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# Dumbass...Guest 2006-12-09 05:59
Why play crappy ps2 ports on the psp when you can play original fun games on the ds?



*happy DS and PSP owner ... PSP ++ Homebrew only.

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# hmmGuest 2006-12-09 08:41
yea ds sucks...thats why its owning psp in sales

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# PSPvgit 2006-12-09 08:51
just think of Loco Roco...a huge sucess and its on the PSP. theres an original game for ya...name the most succesful orginal game on the DS right now.

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# Sales?Guest 2006-12-09 09:59
Look on the sales chart for that information. And it's sad you think 1 success for the PSP means it's taking over. Fat chance.

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# supGuest 2006-12-09 16:09
DS FOR LIFE DS FOR LIFE, PSP STINKS LIKE POO

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# SUXASSES' tilt sensor?Guest 2006-12-10 05:39
Shouldn't that be wishing you have the Wii's tilt sensitivity? I mean Sony wouldn't have added it to the SUXASSES if Nintendo hadn't thought of it first.

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# SIXAXISvgit 2006-12-10 11:59
the tilt-sensative controller will be in every futuistic controller w/the system..this is a great start to something that will be used many times over the next 20 years or so. "QUOTE ME"

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# You're retardedGuest 2006-12-10 15:12
DS has hell of a lot better games then PSP though PSP is cool but when I buy portable gaming system I expect to play awesome games like on the DS not ports of *****ty games like about poster stated Thoguh I am looking forward to mGS portable ops. So shut the ***** up sony fan boy

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