Will/When will we see a GC DS Player ?

[VR46]

After the success of the GBA one seriously hope Ninty bring one out (I'm assuming the DS is compatible and all that)

[AllYourBase]

How would they get around the no touchscreen on your tv thing though?

[rjpageuk]

You mean as in playing DS games on the TV via the GC console?

There is the small problem of the touch pad to get around .

[VR46]

yeah had thought about the touch screen but guessed the dpad/stick on a CUbe controller would be used instead ?

[Saurian]

I'd love to see someone blowing out candles or shouting words using a D pad It seriously cant work - unless they brought out a handheld touchpad + stylus with a mic built in.

For a lot of functions an analogue stick wont work - like if you have to touch a certain area of the screen, even a crosshair via analogue control wouldnt work right.

[The Guppy]

No analogue stick is analogue enough to even let you write properly, let alone enable you to tap an exact point, quickly drag an object, or scribble like a mentalist. A heldheld touchpad would need a screen built in too, so you know where you're touching. Then you'd probably need to build in a second screen, because it would be difficult to keep shifting focus between the touchpad and the TV screen. Then there'd be no point having a picture on the TV at all.

I can't think of any way a DS player could be done. Wait... anyone remember lightpens?

[charlesr]

I had a lightpen for my C64. Came back from school one day to find it melted and not working. Never did figure out what had happened....

[MartyG]

I can't think of any way a DS player could be done.

Very very easily, have you people never used graphics tablets?

[The Guppy]

I've got a graphics tablet. It doesn't have a screen on it though. Here's an example of why it won't work. One of the games in Made in Wario requires you to squash a flea on a dog's back. It's hopping around. It's not hard, you just jab it with the stylus, but you only have a couple of seconds to do it. How can you possibly do that on a tablet while looking at the TV?

[MartyG]

Perhps your tablet doesn't work terribly well or you lack a bit of hand eye co-ordination; my pen doesn't have to be in direct contact with the tablet to work out where in proportion to the edges it is, so it would be pretty easy with a pointer on the screen. It's a bit of a moot point though, you'd have this hybrid controller/graphics tablet, which I can't see Nintendo creating.

It'd be okay for PC emulation.

[The Guppy]

Well then I bow to your superior hand-eye coordination. (and you're right about the point being moot.)

[Ginza]

David. its impossible to do unless they bring some kind of touch screen technology to the Cube which i dont really think is necessary. Id rather they concerntrate their efforts on Cube games, DS games and the revolution.

[VR46]

OK, it was only a thought .....