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[blueoakleyz]

crap! my new DS might have a plastic covering SL1?

[fablebyte]

Only one way to find out.  Unscrew your battery cover and find out for us.

[Koji]

crap! my new DS might have a plastic covering SL1?

If it does, it's not really a very big deal. Just take a drill and very lightly drill untill you make a hole. The SL-1 contact is still there and as long as you don't shove the drill in, you won't damage the innards.

[rocky]

Or you could just open the DS to avoid ruining it and flash it while open, but then you do have a good chance of the battery falling off.

[zektor]

I have not heard of one single report of this being the case. If so, I would like to see a picture of the back of the DS that does not have the SL1 hole.

[socket]

supposedly it's been confirmed, but i'd like to see a picture still...

http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=confirmed&p=12768#12768

[Koji]

Or you could just open the DS to avoid ruining it and flash it while open, but then you do have a good chance of the battery falling off.

You have to have the battery making contact for the DS to start, but there is no easy way to hold in the battery once you remove the casing (or so I've been told)

And really, have can you screw up drilling a small hole? You have a good centimeter or so between the case and the DS mainboard from that position.

[blueoakleyz]

supposedly it's been confirmed, but i'd like to see a picture still...

http://www.scdev.org/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=confirmed&p=12768#12768

but was a sticker there??? Mine has a sticker but I didn't check under it

[CodFather]

I think the new DS is sexy-real, just like the Micro Gameboy. How do Nintendo keep the design of such things? I guess the cost will be same or near as the existing DS.

[Koji]

I think the new DS is sexy-real, just like the Micro Gameboy. How do Nintendo keep the design of such things? I guess the cost will be same or near as the existing DS.

They hire designers... or they steal them from Apple. One of the two.

The price is going to be 16800 yen, or about $140USD.

[sneef]

None of Nintendo's Gameboy's had a screen brightness control if I recall.  The GBA SP had an option to turn off the front-light with a button (the DS can do the same on the main menu), but nothing on brightness control.  Sony started it off on the PSP, and now Nintendo is copying off them.  

the GB Micro has brightness control.  Actually, looking at the pictures of the buttons on the "DS lite", it looks like they are very similar to the micro buttons (a huge improvement), and the brightness control is another similarity to the micro...

[VikoZurita]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, the DS has frontlit screens and the new SP, the Micro and the DS Lite have backlited screens.

I like better the screen in my Micro than the two big screens in the DS (wich I presume are backlited), so, It is an improvement (at least on screens).

Still, if the Lite is smaller, does that mean the battery is smaller as well? Are the two screens smaller also? I think screens remain same size but, maybe you could tell me.

[m2pt5]

Correct me if I'm wrong but, the DS has frontlit screens and the new SP, the Micro and the DS Lite have backlited screens.

You're wrong. The DS has always had backlit screens. The old SP was frontlit, and the new SP and the Micro are backlit.

Also, the screens are supposed to remain the same size.

[VikoZurita]

Thanks, and, what about battery life? Could it be compromised? Comparing to normal DS batteries.

Thanks in advance

[fablebyte]

the GB Micro has brightness control.  Actually, looking at the pictures of the buttons on the "DS lite", it looks like they are very similar to the micro buttons (a huge improvement), and the brightness control is another similarity to the micro...

Yes, but the Micro was released months after the DS.