DSI or DS Lite - Which One Pulls Your Strings the Most ?

[albadross]

I have both and find that it is horses for courses. I use both my machines differently.

The DSL : I have a WPA protected network so I can't access the internet with the Lite machine. This, however, means I am protected from Nintendo firmware updates blowing up my flashcart and they can't prevent me from playing homebrew and DS backups.

The DSi : I do use this a handy portable internet browser. I also like the camera as a backup (Nintendo don't seem to want to let you get the photos onto your PC easily - but my laptop reads the memory card just fine.) I also have a DS iPlayer so I can watch my avi files on the move and play homebrew emulators as well as GBA games (despite the lack of a Slot 2).

With the DSi, you are prey to Nintendo firmware updates - but I have got everything working fairly quickly so far once the 'solutions' have been published. I am used to manufacturers playing with their firmware and not giving you anything good or new - I have had PSPs for far too long!

So you pays your money, you take your choice. But I like having both :thumbup:,

David

[Keitaro Urashima]

I think, I stick the most is DS Lite. This is only handheld work on flashcart, unlike DSi. Some flashcart will not work if Nintendo planning update to 1.5 or so on... You never know what Nintendo up to.

[fuser]

Just my 2 cents - I have both and I hardly touch the DS Lite. The bigger, clearer, brighter screen on the DSI really does make everything play better.
I've got an R4i card and use it to run Doom, Quake, SCUMM and various megadrive/snes emulators as well as music videos, MP3s etc - I find that the R4i works every bit as well as the R4 did on the DS Lite.
I use it to surf the net also if needed, and the camer is a bonus.
To make it clear, you do not HAVE to upgrade the firmware if you are connected to the net - only if you want to use the DSiWare shop. And Mario Calculator hasnt really persuaded me to pass up on the homebrew yet......

So, DSi all the way for me!

[JDvorak]

No DSi for me as it would render my pedometer for My Weight Loss Coach useless as it uses the GBA slot. Oh well dslites are plentiful here in the States and besides I have had 5 of them but one limited edition Dragon Ball Z broke and the rest are working great. Only a missing pixel or two but with the Pixel Fixing homebrew it has fixed that. Don't really care about the digital camera or faster browser, Opera sucked on the dslites and can't imagine it much better on the DSi. Anyway I may get a PSP GO as I use it to have my scriptures on at church (I converted them and the church hymns over to html for the browser). I have a 1000 and 2000 but would like a smaller model to read in church!

[DanTheManMS]

The GBA emulator works on every DS system ever released. Just because the cart is named the iPlayer doesn't mean it only works on the DSi.

Nevertheless, I'm sticking with my DS Phat for now. No real reason to upgrade at the moment, not until DSi mode is cracked and applications are made that can make use of its additional horsepower.