pdRydia

Compiled from GameFAQs and NintendoAge, with supplementary data from RFGeneration & eBay.

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Assumptions made in the compilation of this list:

• A TWL code means a game is a DSi enhanced game cartridge (hereafter abbreviated as "TWL").
• A game with boxart claiming special DSi features is a TWL game.
• Gamers make mistakes in entering codes in databases, sometimes entering NTR for TWL games (GameFAQs) or TWL for an NTR game (ROM sites).

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*** This information is drawn almost exclusively from Nintendo's HANDHELD library. Also, I've examined the GB, VB, and DS libraries more closely than the others.

*** I'll be looking more at the other libraries over time, but I wanted to write down these thoughts before forgetting them. ***
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Nintendo labels their cartridges, manuals, and packaging with identification numbers. RF Generation, another game site I go to, keeps track of...

For those who don't know, I'm a Spanish major. As a result, it is of interest to me that the Real Academia Española--the "official royal institution responsible for regulating the Spanish language" (based in Spain, but recognized by other hispanohablante nations)--has decided to radically change the rules of the language I've been studying for the last 15 years.

I won't go into excruciating details about the changes, but the major change is a vast and phonetically logical...

In Q-billion, you are a mouse. You are in a building and yet you want out. In order to reach the outside, you must make your way through 40 rooms, each with a myriad of stacked boxes. Problem: you are an obsessive-compulsive mouse, and cannot leave a room that has stacked boxes.*

If you wish to leave the building, you must unstack every box. Being a mouse, you can only shove a single box at a time; you cannot shove stacks around. Nor can you shove a box out from under the boxes...

[From the backloggery; Yossarian asked me about 2nd player on Super Mario Galaxy 2. I'll come back later and take out the abbreviations (a result of the character limit).]

2nd player in SMG2 takes control of an orange-colored, nigh-indestructible luma. We will call it Bob.

Now Bob's pretty dumb. Even though he's practically immortal, he pathologically insists on sticking *right* by Mario's side. This results in hilarity whenever Mario slips off a ledge and falls wailing...