Nintendo DS Firmware ‘Prototype’ Reveals System’s Distinctive Boot Up Sound Impact

Nintendo’s preservation web site Forest of Phantasm has managed to amass one other uncommon piece of gaming historical past. It has been capable of archive a Japanese prototype of the Nintendo DS X4 firmware, recovered from an X4 prototype unit.

In keeping with the supply, “virtually each facet of this model is completely different from the ultimate business launch.” One of many highlights is the house display screen. As a substitute of that includes the Nintendo DS emblem, it seems to be a GBA placeholder display screen and a sound file of youngsters yelling “Nintendo” (you possibly can hear it under).

The menu can also be very completely different from the ultimate model. The slicing room flooring particulars how the placeholder menu options DS and GBA boot choices, wi-fi play, and Nitro settings, which comprises person info (console identify, date of beginning, and coloration ), date and time, language choices, contact panel settings, and extra.

A contributor to Slicing Room Flooring additionally factors out how “components” of this prototype bear a powerful resemblance to the primary DSi setup app:

@trashbandatcoot – “I ought to point out that components of this prototype look rather a lot like an early DSi Settings app, primarily the format of the menu settings and the contact calibration menu.”

Some DS lovers even have the firmware up and operating on their very own drives, because of the efforts of Forest of Phantasm:

Nintendo beforehand confirmed prototypes of the DS at E3, which was recognized internally as Nitro on the time. What do you consider this a part of the firmware historical past? What’s up with that boot sound impact? Go away a remark under.