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When Metroid Prime Pinball hits shelves next week, the game will come packaged with a Rumble Pak accessory that shoves right into the Game Boy Advance slot of your Nintendo DS system.

The Rumble Pak, called quite simply the Rumble Pak, vibrates when the Nintendo DS tells it to. Code within DS software will trigger the innerworkings of the cartridge to spin and vibrate, which, in turn, causes the Nintendo DS system to vibrate as well.

The Nintendo DS system will note that the Rumble Pak is installed on the system menu screen with a special DS Option Pak inserted message where Start GBA game would show up. Putting the Rumble Pak cartridge in a GBA system will not work -- the system won't boot up beyond the Game Boy screen.

The only game that officially supports it right now is the game that it comes packaged with it. Games will have to be written with the Rumble Pak in mind for the vibration feature to work. Metroid Prime Pinball puts the Rumble Pak to work by offering jolts and shimmies when the Samus ball whacks into obstacles and hazards.

Either our cartridge is broken, or the DS Rumble Pak is one of the noisiest Rumble Paks Nintendo has ever built. When playing Metroid Prime Pinball, we can hear the rumble mechanism more than we can feel the rumble effects in the system. It's so loud, in fact, that it sounds like a metallic chirp whenever the rumble is activated. We'd rather just not put it in the system at all. Good thing it's free, because at this point we wouldn't bother buying it as an extra.

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http://ds.ign.com/

http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=5326 for the picture...

Offtopic but still wroth to look;

[DeVS]

Sweet!

[Koji]

We've known since shortly after the DS was released that this was something that was going to happen. Not sure I'd ever use it unless a game forced me to... and if a game forced me to use it, I'd probably never buy that game.

[exzapel]

Too bad it won't work with supercard...

[754boy]

Well I went to a local EB Games and got it slightly used for 20 bucks. Well worth it   That rumble pak is a neat little accessory to have

[Major]

what if u got a flashme with a SC? =)

[blueoakleyz]

you can get it at store.Nintendo.com
pretty cheap too I think, like $10