Nintendo DS games that use the microphone

[randombs]

hey all. i've been fixing a bunch of ds lites recently but quite a few seem to have mic problems.

i have an R4 DS which has two homebrew apps i use for testing - one is a basic sound recorder, the other is a touchscreen app that places a cross below the stylus so you can scan around the screen to make sure it's calibrated well, instead of relying on the four squares in the ds's calibration setup.

anyway, i was trying a lite that would sometimes record using that app but mostly not, and then i tried brain training on it and had to read out colour names and it seemed to respond, but i'm not sure how well the mic works as the game was sometimes accepting a quick tap on the mic as my having said the correct colour!

i had a us nintendogs but sold it, and it had a save on it already with the record that i could use to test the mic, but i have jap nintendogs but it's clean with no saves so i dunno how i'd get the record again.

are there any games that i can use to test the mic quickly, without wading through reams of text, tutorials or all that palaver? even better would be a game that had some sort of mic test in the options menu, so i can see if it's actually working.

i know phoenix wright uses it, but again i can't sit there for ages waiting for a point in a game where i can use the mic only to find it really is buggered

cheers for any replies

[Link83]

Electroplankton uses the microphone - dont know if thats any help?

[randombs]

does it? i've got it here somewhere i think...

[Link83]

Yep, two games modes that definitely use the microphone are:-
(copied from Wikipedia)
"Rec-Rec ? There are four Rec-Rec. They swim repeatedly from the right side of the screen to the left, and loop back around. Tap one of the Rec-Rec to make it eat four seconds of sound (coming in from the DS' microphone) on the next loop. Rec-Rec play the sounds they have eaten in a loop. Pressing right or left increases or decreases the speed at which the Rec-Rec swim and play their sounds. Pressing up or down changes the background beat. Pressing Select empties all of the Rec-Rec at once"
and
"Volvoice ? Volvoice is best described as a simple sound manipulation program. Tapping the main body of the Volvoice lets it record up to 16 seconds of sound. It then plays back the sound in different ways, depending on its shape; you can make the Volvoice change shape by tapping one of the icons located around the screen. Tapping the little orb at the tip of the Volvoice's flagellum will zap its memory."
Hope that helps

[randombs]

ooh i'll try that. i've been using brain training which is quick to get into, but it doesn't play back the sound.

on the one hand i'm glad a couple of these lites i have actually do work (so it was the homebrew app crashing, although it works on my own lite) but a bit miffed as i sold them off cheap as i thought the mics were buggered

well that about wraps it up. cheers link you've been a great help mate

[Link83]

No problem, glad to help