Obvious HowTo: Nintendo DS Surround Sound
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…
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.
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.
I do this in my Toyota’s AuxIn jack on my lunch break. I just sit in the car and play for a while.
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…
thankk youu…
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
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.
i find TWEY has some kickin’ techno also the Pokemon Battle theme is rocking when pumped to 11