Ds headset compatible games

But it's taken Nintendo of America more than two years to "officially" address this port on its Nintendo DS handheld. Oh, sure, there have been third-party headsets that provided both output and input audio function, but this is Nintendo, people.

When Pokemon Diamond and Pearl hits the scene on April 22nd, the company will also release the aptly branded "Nintendo DS Headset" for one of the key functions of the Pokemon experience: voice chat with friends over the internet. Once you break through the impenetrable shield that is the plastic shell preventing retail theft, you're left with a pretty barebones cardboard box housing the Nintendo DS Headset.

YES NO. Was this article informative? In This Article. Comic Mischief. Release Date. Presented by truth. IGN Logo Recommends. Game of Thrones Jared Moore 6. Several games for the Nintendo DS use the system's onboard microphone for commands and communication. You can talk to your dog in Nintendogs , shout legalese in Phoenix Wright , and even voice chat with friends over the Internet with Metroid Prime: Hunters and Pokemons Diamond and Pearl.

Unfortunately, doing all these things usually means awkwardly crouching over the portable's tiny microphone--located on the front edge of the original Nintendo DS and in the hinge area between the two screens on the DS Lite. Or you can pick up the Nintendo DS Headset. It's an extremely simple one-ear headset with a boom mic for voice chat or voice commands in compatible games. The attached cord is about 40 inches long, and because it's terminated with the proprietary DS remote plug, you won't be able to use it as a headphone for anything else.

It slips over the main section of your ear, in the same fashion as some cell phone headsets. After plugging it in, the headset supplants the DS speaker and microphone. The microphone carries voice decently, and can certainly help in the few DS games that are voice-enabled. Fellow Pokemon Diamond players could hear us just fine, and not having bring the DS up to our mouths was a relief.

There is one caveat: in games like Spectrobes , where you're asked to blow into the mic, the headset won't be a good choice.