Need some advice on DS games

[LaParka]

Ok, the wife wants me to get her a card based game and MahJong (sp) game for the DS, (apparantly Wario is for 3 year olds )

For MahJong theres this lot

Minna no Mahjong
Mahjong Taikai
Yakuman
Simple DS Series Vol. 1: The Mahjong

Anyone know if theres much to seperate those lot? What about language difficulties? I'm tempted by the last one as its cheaper but its not out for a good month and a half.

Finally, is there any good card games for the DS. One with a few games on it would be preferential, not simply poker etc.

cheers guys

[Ouenben]

There will be a ultimate card games for DS in a couple months or so.

[LaParka]

will that be Jap or US?

[Ouenben]

USA I'd of thought.

It's supposed to be able to go online so it'll def be a while

[The Mole]

Its infact out at the end of the month in the USA and its online.

I would go with that one as the GBA versions were fantastic.

[LaParka]

ok so the card game is sorted - cheers. Anyone play any of the mah jong games?

[The Mole]

The brain games from the same company features Mahjong and many others.

Again its online and looks like it could improve on the GBA game.

Just wanted to add its out on the same day as the card game.

EB USA has the box art with showcases the following games.

Go
Reversi
Chess
Backgammon
Sink The Ships (Battleships)
4 in a Row (Connect 4)
Mahjong
Checkers
Dominoes

[LaParka]

Cheers - going to pick those two up. The online function should be pretty nifty. Connect 4 w00p

[Julio III]

the brain games has Mahjong in it! woo! no need to get a separate mahjong game when i can get this and learn to play Go at the same time

[LaParka]

If only it had Go Johnny Go Go Go Go!

[Koizumi]

Ultimate Brain games (GBA) has only Shanghai mahjong: (don't know about the DS version)



Yakuman DS scored 8 in Famitsu and somebody is working on a translation:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/game/924913.html

[LaParka]

More questions. Anyone tried the play-yan or GBA movie player. the GBA movie player is only about ?15 fancy picking it up.

[The Mole]

Ultimate Brain games (GBA) has only Shanghai mahjong: (don't know about the DS version)



Yakuman DS scored 8 in Famitsu and somebody is working on a translation:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/game/924913.html

Which is the version where you find two tiles in play that are the same, its the version on GP32 games RU version.

[Concrete donkey]

More questions. Anyone tried the play-yan or GBA movie player. the GBA movie player is only about ?15 fancy picking it up.

I have the play-yan. MP3's work fine, which I use everyday, but I have not got the movie function to work. I also hava a PSP so I havn't tried to hard. The software which comes with Play-Yan for video conversion only works with a Japanese version of windows. (or when XP is set to Jap language which I have not yet tried to do.) If anyone knows what software does work with the play-yan and what settings to use with it, it would be appreciated.

[TreeFrog]

Ok, the wife wants me to get her a card based game and MahJong (sp) game for the DS, (apparantly Wario is for 3 year olds )

One thing to bear in mind is that there are many rules variants of mahjong (if you're meaning multi-player rather than solitaire) and the Japanese games presumably use Japanese rules, so it's probably best to buy a mahjong game from whichever regions rules she's familar with.
Combined with this, there will be at least a small language barrier (knowing enough kana to differentiate chii/kan/pon/riichi etc.) so (unless she already plays Japanese rules) probably stick with a western release if possible.

If it's solitaire mahjong she wants to play, I wouldn't bet on any of those Japanese games offering solitaire play, but the US brain games collection does (according to IGN).