Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

Re:Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade by JansjoFromIkea on Thursday September 17, 2020 @07:56PM (#24511391)

I would say a DSi XL is the best choice for original DS games though, you get a larger screen with the exact same resolution as DS games play in and you get possibly the nicest and most durable of Nintendo's portable designs. The DSi as of last year is pretty hackable in itself too.

I got one basically as a bonus in an ebay auction a few months back along with a 3DS I was getting for a friend and I've found myself playing original DS games on it more than I ever did on my own New 3DS XL so I was almost certainly picking up on the iffiness of the upscaling to fill the screen.

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Re:Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade by DCKing on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:16AM (#24515330)

The DSi is great too of course, but if the scaling of DS games is a problem for you on a 3DS you can display the games unscaled/letterboxed by launching the game (or TwilightMenu) while holding Select or Start. I too much prefer displaying them without the bar scaling. The same trick works for Virtual Console games including GBA titles.

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