Massive Nintendo DS News Update

[wraggster]

Lik Sang have posted a massive amount of news concerning the Nintendo DS, heres just a snipett of it:[br][br] Microphone Port & GBA Cartridge Slot accessible for DS games[br][br]Here we go with some more confirmed tech details: the second port right next to the (standard) headphone jack is a Microphone. As you can see on the user guide above, the NDS seems to have a built in "MIC" and an external microphone can be connected as well.[br][br]Furthermore, developers confirmed that the GBA Cartridge Slot is accessible from within NDS games, which opens the door for all kind of new developments. Just imagine an NDS game that could take over your saved game from the GBA cartridge, or get all your collected characters from the battery save of the GBA game.[br][br][br]Worldwide Wireless Voice Chat through Nintendo DS[br][br]It's been reported in an electronic entertainment industry update, that the recently revealed "headset" port on the Nintendo DS will be used in conjunction with the built-in wireless 802.11b network to offer voice-over-IP (VoIP) chat, allowing gamers to use the DS to make free phone calls at wireless network hotspots.[br][br]It's not know at this moment of time if this just works openly over the internet with industry standards, or if this will be some kind of Nintendo proprietary service users will have to subscribe. From the technical point of view, the unit could connect us all for free over the internet. It's also not yet known if this allows NDS to NDS chat only, or if VoIP gateways can be used to call normal telephone lines. [br][br]The rest of the quite long and inforamtive newspost can be found at Lik Sang

[josephiles]

Is that Voice chat within the game? or just a chatting thing?

[portner]

yeh thats a tricky bit...
what abt the pictochat software?
issit sort of like MSN messenger where u add buddies and when ure in a hotspot region u could drop them an offline/online msg?