DS games know their hardware?

[wraggster]

Reports are coming in that some DS games might know whether they are being played on a DS Lite as seen in the above video. When starting Mario Kart DS on the original DS, notice Mario's "Yahoo!" as compared with his DS Lite's "Here we go!"

Via Joystick

[Shilo]

Ya, it's kinda like the GBC and the GBA. If I remeber correctly, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons has a speacial shop when you played it on a GBA. This is just another reason to get a DS Lite!

[inde]

nah this is false he says both on my ds v1
infact most the time he says here we go and ocassionally says yahoo.

[V3N0M]

Very odd maby this technology could be used to prevent a DS game from working on a homebrew inabled DS. Wait and see i guess...BTW i'm getting a DS lite in a week or so.

[daninski]

it says yahoo on my dslite.

[karurosu]

It probably can detect the HW (especially if they want to add some xtra options like NDSlite brightness control). But as far as I know mario says both yahoo and here we go in my v1 NDS.

[jojotjuh]

it sayd both on my old v2 ds but since i have a v5 phat ds it only says yahoo (v5 is equal to ds lites firmware and the brightness can be done with flashme v7)

[zanysmash]

both on dslite

[jojotjuh]

i have a other theory: when i run my official cart it always says here we go but when i run from supercard it says always on me yahoo. is it mean they know you are run forom flash cart?

[TranceFormer]

Mine actually says Yahoo on my old style DS and Here we go on the DS Lite. At first, I thought it had something to do with beating the game (I tried my cart and a friends); I don't understand how MKDS would differentiate the DS Lite though because it came out before it.