List of Nintendo DS accessories

Nintendo has emphasized that its primary intention for the inclusion of a GBA cartridge slot was to allow a wide variety of accessories to be released for the system, the Game Boy Advance compatibility titles being a logical extension.

[citation needed] As the Nintendo DSi and later models lack a GBA slot, Option Paks are not compatible with it, rendering certain games unplayable.

A specially designed Rumble Pak was released in Japan in late May 2006 for the Nintendo DS Lite.

[citation needed] The headset was released in North America on April 22, 2007, alongside Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, two games that have built-in voice chat.

[5] On February 15, 2006, Nintendo announced a DS version of Opera,[6] a cross-platform web browser.

[citation needed] The "Slide Controller" is an Option Pak that connects to the underside of a Nintendo DS, making the entire device act as an optical mouse.

In order to move the Mag Kid across the screen during the game, the player must slide the entire Nintendo DS system with this controller at a slant angle on a table surface.

The external antenna plugged into the side of the DS TV itself through a standard headphone jack.

While the TV tuner was a Japan-only accessory (due to it only using 1seg signals), it works with all DS and 3DS models.

Its only display is an LED which changes its colour and flashing pattern once the user reaches their daily step goal; all other information has to be viewed by transferring it to the Nintendo DS cartridge.

There is a clip built into the meter's battery door allowing it to be attached to a person's clothes or a dog's collar.

The Pokéwalker (ポケウォーカー, Pokewōkā) is a Poké Ball-shaped pedometer that can connect to Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver game cards via infrared signals.

Depending on which route the player takes (such as in a grassland or by the sea), they will encounter different wild Pokémon and items.

One criticism of the Pokéwalker is the ease of "cheating" or "hacking" in which players will intentionally create artificial situations mimicking walking.

This has consequently led to multiple varieties of Pokéwalker cheats causing Pokémon to gain experience without the user actually expending the intended effort.

[23] Due to its efficient accuracy when compared to some other pedometers,[24] the Pokéwalker's technical design had since been reused to work for other titles, such as Wii Fit U, which is compatible with the Fit Meter pedometer, an accessory which shares hardware and design with the Pokéwalker.

Astroarts Hoshizora Navi uses the DS direction sensing card to figure out one's current orientation and adjusts it on the screen star chart accordingly.

It has embedded magnets on the back and can be closed and hung on a metallic surface such as a refrigerator (for use with cooking, music or exercise programs).

The original DS came with a special wrist strap, which included a small piece of smooth plastic intended to be used as a stylus with one's thumb.

They came in assorted colors, including the most common one, white (which came with the game), followed by black, pink and silver, each sold separately.

It is essentially an upgraded version of the Glucoboy for the Game Boy Advance, which Wessel developed for his son Luke who often lost his blood glucose meter.

Wessel later founded his own company, Guidance Interactive Healthcare, to pursue the creation of children's blood glucose meters.

The peripheral came with a pack-in game entitled Knock 'Em Downs - Worlds Fair developed by Sensory Sweep Studios, which is a series of minigames where players are rewarded with bonuses and power-ups should they regularly check their blood sugar levels.

[34] Lunar Knights added solar sensor functionality by utilizing the three Boktai games in Slot 2 ("W-Gate") as Option Paks (DS/GBA Connectivity).

Both feature a vibration feedback that players using the stylus will feel based on movements and commands in the game.

A number of unlicensed or generic third party rumble paks were released by various companies in lite or original formats as stand alone or conjunction with a flash cart.

Most of these came in black or white options (but at least one off brand included transparent shells like the Lite Memory Expansion Pak).

Ewin produced a North American version of the lite option pak following the June 11, 2006 release of the system.

Although they are still compatible with the DS, Slot 2 flash carts originally intended for the Game Boy Advance have been superseded by more modern DS flash cards which use Slot 1, such as the N-Card, M3, Supercard, EZFlash Vi, G6DS Real, DSTT, Acekard, and CycloDS Evolution.

The GBA Movie Player plays films and music from flash memory cards,[46][47][48] and comes in both SD and CF versions.