February 21, 2008

Obvious HowTo: Nintendo DS Surround Sound

Filed under: how to — leadingzero

This may seem like a pretty obvious How To article, but admittedly, I discovered this by accident and sheer boredom. Over the weekend, I was driving around some friends. We were listening to my Zune that I had connected to my car’s sound system with a casette adapter. After a while, my Zune’s battery died and we were left to listen to the radio or stare at each other blankly. To avoid both of these disastrous scenarios I reached inside my dash console and pulled out my Nintendo DS. Eventhough the audio out jack on the DS is proprietary I crossed my fingers and risked both life and limb to see if what I was envisioning would actually work. We plugged the cassette adapter into the DS jack, turned it on and voila - instant DS surround sound. Great for those long road trips, or when you just gotta hear that soundtrack from Contra 4.

The Breakdown:

Step 1: Insert cassette adapter in car stereo.

Step 2: Plug adapter into audio-out of DS.

Step 3: Nintendo DS audio coming from all speakers!

I wonder how this would sound with Elite Beat Agents…

7 Comments »

  1. The jack is not proprietary. This is the most insignificant waste of time ever. More so than an elephant and a cat getting it on.

    Comment by your mom — February 21, 2008 @

  2. well I’d say that your elephant and cat scenario is anything but insignificant. If you have any documentation of said event you could probably get published in a peer reviewed journal. I’d certainly be willing to post your findings here if you were willing.

    Comment by leadingzero — February 21, 2008 @

  3. I do this in my Toyota’s AuxIn jack on my lunch break. I just sit in the car and play for a while.

    Comment by STP — February 22, 2008 @

  4. I have to note that I tried this as my Cobalt has a Mini-plug (i.e. “External”) input, so I gave it a shot, it was cool to hear…

    but immediately after trying out that trick (about 3 months ago), the speakers on my beloved DS Phat died. I have no idea what happened, but I’m wondering if it was an electrical backfire or something. The headset port still worked, but I had to replace my DS Phat because of it. :( Haven’t tried it since, since I don’t want to replace my DS Lite…

    Comment by Tamakun — February 22, 2008 @

  5. thankk youu…

    Comment by prefabrike — March 25, 2008 @

  6. Thats superb I never though of that, combined with a flash cart you have a portable MP3 player for you car as well!!!!

    thanks man

    Comment by free nintendo wii — April 17, 2008 @

  7. If you have any documentation of said event you could probably get published in a peer reviewed journal. I’d certainly be willing to post your findings here if you were willing.

    Comment by mario oyunları — June 21, 2008 @

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