Nintendo 3DS

So the new Nintendo 3DS is out in South Africa and I had a peek at the photos and marketing material. I still need to see it in action but I am tempted to get one.

The marketing material says it can play DS games and the original GameBoy and GameBoy Color games. I am guessing it can play GameBoy Advance games too. I would probably need to rebuy them online but it should be cheap.

The 3DS games look brilliant though, so that already will make it worth the money. I should probably first finish all my PSP games before buying a new hand held console, but it is very tempting.

Official 3DS page.

Playstation 2 Emulation

Recently I started playing all my old NES games on my PSP using emulation. Replaying all the old games I bought over the years is great fun.

I own a PS2 and a few PS2 games but with my new HD LCD TV the PS2 games just look bad. So eventually I decided to ask the Googler if there was something I could do about it and that is how I found PCSX2.

PCSX2 basically emulates a PS2 console, but I can now make use of the nice goodies in DirectX 10, so my old PS2 games really look much better.

Paired with my XBox360 wireless controller these games play just like in the old days, but with better graphics.

Tilda console

One thing of Linux in general I like and prefer is my console. For me the console is really not a nightmarish thing to fear, as a matter of fact I always had one console window open in Windows XP. I also installed Launchy on my Windows XP box because I find that typing what I want to do is faster than clicking the "Start" menu etc.

I recently subscribed to the Debian Package of the Day RSS feed and I was pointed to this amazing little application. It is called Tilda and it works a lot like the Quake console when you press the "~" key.






This is definitely a very nice application if you like consoles like I do.