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Datel Expands Line-Up With Three Products
Flashcard-news on DS-x2? Are we talking illegal stuff here? No, Datel announced two new products for the Nintendo DS including a product to play homebrew applications. Also included: news on the MAX Media Player.
Flashcard-news on DS-x2? Are we talking illegal stuff here? No, Datel announced two new products for the Nintendo DS including a product to play homebrew applications. Also included: news on the MAX Media Player.
Datel has revealed new details on it's product line-up. Three products up for discussion today: - the Datel MAX Media Player - the Datel MAX Media Launcher - Datel's Communicator Headset
The Datel MAX Media Player
This is one of the greatest add-ons in the history of handhelds. The MAX Media Player turns your Nintendo DS into a powerful home entertainment device, with movie playback, music on the move and a convenient picture viewer.At the heart of MAX Media Player for DS is Datel's exclusive MAX Media Player. Just insert the cartridge into your DS's game slot and boot up our fully-featured browser. From here, you can play your MP3 audio tracks, watch videos and view your JPEGs on your DS's screen. You can even use the browser to activate executable programs!
But where do you store all this media? Simple. MAX Media Player for DS comes supplied with a 4GB hard drive unit, which you plug into your DS's GBA cartridge slot. It draws its power directly from the DS – no additional batteries are needed. And 4GB is a lot of storage space. Enough, in fact, for up to ten full-length movies. Or over a thousand music tracks. Or thousands of digital pictures. Or numerous other file types, such as data programs and executables...
MAX Media Player for DS is easy to use. Just connect your HDD unit to your PC with the USB cable (supplied). Open the Media Manager PC application (also supplied), and use it to transfer your media to the 4GB hard drive. It's easy – the PC application even converts movies to a format your MAX Media Player can understand, and resizes your digital images so they fit perfectly on the DS screen. Now you can kill time on that long journey by watching movies on the move, or listening to your favourite sounds. You can take your digital holiday snaps round your granny or down the pub without printing them out too!
MAX Media Player uses the USB 2.0 protocol, so it offers great transfer speeds. It's out in late April for £129 / $189.99. Datel thinks it's a bargain, we just let you decide for yourself.
The Datel MAX Media Launcher
Hardcore gamers the world over invested in Flash Carts for their GBA handhelds, running homebrew games or programs shared among users or downloaded from the internet. Then came the Nintendo DS. Fully backwards-compatible with the GBA, but you could only use a Flash Cart in GBA mode. There was no easy way of accessing DS programs on your Flash Cart. Until now...MAX Media Launcher for the Nintendo DS and DS Lite is the perfect solution for accessing DS media from any GBA flash storage device. Simply snap in the Max Media Launcher cartridge, and that's it! Media, freeware, executables and other files stored on your flash card can be launched. The Flash Cart revolutionised the GBA home brew scene, and with MAX Media Launcher, it will do for the DS too.
MAX Media Launcher is compatible with most types of flash cards including M3 and NEO. It's out in late April for a mere £12.99 / $19.99. Of course, you're only supposed to use the product for legal activities.
Datel's Communicator Headset
Talk. Strategise. Control. Datel's Communicator Headset puts a whole new perspective on DS games with talk or voice control features, especially online. Featuring a comfortable, over-the-ear design and snazzy hi-tech look, the Communicator Headset works with both the original Nintendo DS and the new DS Lite, and is fully WiFi-compatible, whether using Nintendo's device or Datel's own WiFi MAX.The Communicator Headset works with any DS game with voice control. Take Nintendogs. You get your pooch to do as it's told by speaking commands into the console's built-in microphone. In high-noise environments, or situations where you'd rather not utter your commands too loudly, the Communicator Headset is a must. Why bark your orders with your console inches from your mouth, or shout out loud and risk annoying those around you when you can talk into the Communicator Headset and keep your eyes on the screen?
The Communicator Headset is also ideal for online DS games which allow voice communication. For example, in Nintendo's incredible Metroid Prime: Hunters, you can chat to your online opponents in the virtual lobby before and after the game. Discuss strategies, swap hints and then take to the mean arenas and blow each other away, before having another good old gossip about it afterwards. With the console's in-built mic you can pick up a lot of background noise, but with the Communicator Headset, you can make yourself perfectly understood even when your opponent is the other side of the world, and listen to their own rantings through the headset's crystal-clear earpiece! And this is just the beginning. There dozens more voice chat-enabled games in the pipeline, and they'll all be compatible with the Communicator Headset.
The Communicator Headset for DS is in the shops this month, and costs £9.99 / $14.99.
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Amazing!
Oh my gosh! The media player is amazing! I want it now!
they ALL sound cool
I wanna see screenshots :(
ive known about the media player already, and i still think its overpriced the homebrew card and headset is a good idea with a good price
I don't think the media player is too overpriced, but I'd have to save up. Is this a European or U.S. release? Or both? Or neither?
Expencive
take that psp NDS will never be defeated
the ds just got pspified x 2 and x boxcifiedx1
I want the media launcher! So much cheaper than a MagicKey, and doesn't need a cart stuck in it! I can't wait to get my homebrew on!
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