Found a major flaw in the Nintendo DS :(

Hobbes

Nice little machine but... ITS A PAIN TO USE IF YOUR LEFT HANDED.

Your expected to use the controller and pen while left handed.

Retr0gamer

You are obviously playing Mario 64 DS. There are two other control methods but by far the best is to forgo the use of the stylus and use the d-pad.

flogen

Hobbes wrote:

Nice little machine but... ITS A PAIN TO USE IF YOUR LEFT HANDED.

Your expected to use the controller and pen while left handed.

yeah, the Metroid demo shows how to overcome this as the x,y,a,b buttons operate the same way as the d-pad, which is a nice idea. I'm sure games will include something like this in the future, perhaps give you the chance to switch so the up, down, right, left buttons swap with the others for functionality.

TheAlmightyArse

WarioWare Touched asks you which hand you use, and adjusts all the important stuff in the minigames to be on the appropriate side. And you can mirror Yoshi's Touch & Go if you're a leftie, too.

Which games, exactly, are you having trouble with? Perhaps there should be some Daily Mail (but useful) style name and shame sticky in the Nintendo forum of games that are unplayable for lefties. I'm not sure if you can switch the side of the screen the binoculars are displayed on in Zoo Keeper, for example (it does make a difference, btw).

ExOffender

Left-handed? No such thing. You're ambidextrous - you just don't know it. Free the right hand! Free the right hand!

i_am_dogboy

Heh, it's funny, in Nintendo's attempt to bring in more gamers they pretty much automatically reject 1 out of 5 people.

astrofool

its closer to 1 in 10 afaik

evad_lhorg

nearly all the games have options for controls!!!! there's no fault with it. there is a fault with you!

Creamy Goodness

astrofool wrote:

its closer to 1 in 10 afaik

i like them odd's leftie's of the world unite.

i've never had any problems playing ds games and i'm left handed, but then again i've only got one game (mario64) and a demo (Metroid Prime) so.

dearg_doom

i_am_dogboy wrote:

Heh, it's funny, in Nintendo's attempt to bring in more gamers they pretty much automatically reject 1 out of 5 people.

That's pretty harsh! The DS is the first console to allowyou to 'switch' the d-pad and face buttons from left-to-right(which most games support) so they were actually trying to appeal to this forgotten market segment... I hear lefties hate using the PSP with it's single nubbin yoke.

Anyway, ye lefties shouldn't be moaning too much, it wasn't that long ago when ye would've been burned at the stake for being Devil's children

K.O.Kiki

I'm a right-y, yet i use my left hand for complicated movement, while my "dominant" right is used only to hit some buttons.
So the lesson is: we are all equal (well, on consoles, anyway...)

As for the DS, I'm guessing it'll be companies like EA who port a lot that'll forget about the switching controls thing.

Yes, I hate EA

1huge1

well im left handed and ive had no problems with it really in metroid prime hunters and other games like were you need to use the stylus like that it usually gives you the choice to go to settings and swap it around

problem solved

Pete Doherty

theres another flaw too with the ds. it`s ****e!!!!

johnny_ultimate

Pete Doherty wrote:

theres another flaw too with the ds. it`s ****e!!!!

That's harsh! I smell a PSP fan...

Malafus

Pete Doherty wrote:

theres another flaw too with the ds. it`s ****e!!!!

There's another flaw, too, with the DS. It's ****e!!!!

Very mature and helpful comment there.


Edit: Yes Aristotle, quite correct... what a foolish mistake I made. Error corrected.

Malafus

Malafus wrote:

Its ****e!!!!

Actually that should be It's

qz

Pete Doherty wrote:

theres another flaw too with pete doherty. he`s ****e!!!!

Stinger.

K.O.Kiki

Pete Doherty wrote:

theres another flaw too with the ds. it`s ****e!!!!

I'm guessing he didn't read this: Fanboys - A Warning

Hobbes

Splinter Cell. Looks nice but it a serious pain in the hand for me to use.

The only other recent game I got for the DS is "Another code: Two memories" which should allow you to slap the protaganist. Slow going game.

I got Yoshis Grav... forget the name but is good fun. You have to move the DS around to move the stuff in game.

flogen

unless you want a game that will last you 20 seconds before bordom, don't get Yoshi Touch and Go!, it's a bloody tech demo.

Anyway, back onto the topic, I still have to try Splinter Cell, but I'd say most games will support the control switch option, but like all new tools on offer it may take a wave or two of games before they're used properly

rainbow kirby

I think he's talking about Yoshi's Universal Gravitation... the GBA game with a tilt sensor that isn't called WarioWare Twisted.