Nintendo's New DS Controller

[JKKDARK]

via IGN

Stylus not enough control for you? Then you'll want to pick up Nintendo's newest DS game. The latest issue of Famitsu has the first word on Slide Adventure: Mag Kid, a new DS game that will make use of a bundled "slide controller" peripheral.

The slide controller plugs into the Game Boy Advance cartridge slot and, laying beneath the system, looks somewhat like a stand. As you slide the DS around on a table, the controller picks up your movements. This is how you move the main character about the overhead fields of play.

The main character in question is the Mag Kid of the title. This peculiar circular creature has special magnetic properties which makes things attach to him. You'll have to use this special power to solve puzzles that take place about a house.

Mag Kid has a few special moves that make use of the slide controls. Sliding the DS in an enemy's direction makes Mag Kid ram into and paralyze the enemy. Paralyzed enemies can be attached to Mag Kid, giving him, depending on the enemy type, special powers, including lasers and fire breath. Finally, when you've lost interest in your support crew, you shake the DS to release them.

Mag Kid seems capable of attaching a small army of enemies to himself -- at least eight from what we've been able to gather. Some stages require that you create chains of enemies in the correct order.

As one example of the gameplay we can expect from the game, Famitsu details a boss fight in which Mag Kid faces off against the flames from four burners on a stove (the Four Flame Brothers, as they're known). To defeat the boss, you attach water drops to Mag Kid, then toss them at the flames.

Sounds like another cool gameplay concept from Nintendo, although we're wondering if the game will support the stylus for situations where you can't place the system on the ground (like on a train, or when you're hang gliding). A Japanese release for Mag Kid is set for 8/2, so expect further details to surface shortly.

[voteforpedro36]

Mag Kid? Who the **** started naming Nintendo's characters...

[acn010]

jkkdark.... arent u tired of posting???? do you get enough sleep???

[Gold Line]

whats a mag kid?

[spinal_cord]

We hombrewers have had the DSMotion card for a little while now, it's much better. I don't think a sliding stand will be any use for a handheld system what so ever.

[F2bnp]

What's the dsmotion card actually,cause I've seen it in many places.

[spinal_cord]

It is a cart you can use to detect motion in the DS. You can tilt it in any direction and it knows how far you have, you can rotate it and it knows how fast (but not how far though). It even detects gravity, so you can move it up and down. There is more information at http://ndsmotion.com/

[F2bnp]

And what do you use it for?

[spik3yb0i]

what games support the ds motion?

[spinal_cord]

Currently I think only the homebrew on the nsdmotion page supports it. My SensitiveDS game (link in sig) supports it, there may be a few not on that page, but I think he updates the list quite often. there are some useful posts here.