Alpha Dream's Homebrew DS Hilarity
Sharp-witted folks on the Gaming-Age forums have pointed to a Japanese-language interview with Alpha Dream, the developers of Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time for DS, via the Official Nintendo Online Magazine website. [Here's a particularly mangled translation via Altavista.]
Fortunately, the particularly choice part of the interview is visual - a snapshot of Alpha Dream's 'development DS' which the team concocted before the real Nintendo DS hardware was available. As they explain: "The っ which 2 is attached to the top and bottom being able to connect GBA with the け て communication cable, because the っ which means 4 being the button, it is, you attached the controller of the super Family Computer, it is, (laughing)." Hah - well, I guess that doesn't explain it too well - but it's a SNES controller plus two Game Boy Advances connected with a link cable, and it's absolutely priceless.
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Possible translation here...
AD staff : I connected 2 GBA virtically with GBA communication cable. I'd heard that
also there'd be 4 buttons. So I put SNES contoller on it. (laugh)
Nin staff: Seeing this machine at the spring of last year, I surely felt I got good response
from them. So, on my side, we stuck 2 TVs with 2 Gameboy player on a kart, then
carried it for presentation. On the way to Iwata's room, one of TV fell and made
nice sound.(laugh)
Posted by: higon | January 4, 2006 4:07 PM