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Opera on the Nintendo DS

Opera is going to be available for the Nintendo DS! This is probably the coolest deal we've made ever. Included on an optional memory card, you just plug it in and voila! the entire Web on your DS. You already take your DS with you everywhere, right? Now you can browse the Web from anywhere you can play Mario Kart online. How cool is that?!

Read more in our press release and have a look at some pictures from the Nintendo press conference (with Japanese text), including shots of Opera on the DS.

Update 1 (10:30AM): NintendoDS Advanced has some nice details about how browsing will work:

"It is also now known that the forthcoming Nintendo DS web browser will fully utilize the properties of the portable device. Web pages on the DS will span both screens of the handheld, with the touch screen functioning for forms of input. The browser will also fully recognize stylus movements associated with the touch screen in order to adjust the viewing angle of the bottom screen."

I'll keep posting more interesting links as I get them. Here's an appetizer:

February 15, 2006

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swing your arms

Posted by Helen on February 21, 2006 at 9:29am GMT

from side to side - c'mon everybody, let's do the mario!

soooooo, hi! trisha, immanuel, and i were all singing old school nintendo songs in "do-do-do"s last night. :D i thought about putting zelda all in "do"s and asking you to guess what it was, but "do" rhythms don't translate well through text.

packing yet? :D :D :D

You need to watch this

Posted by Tim on February 21, 2006 at 11:32am GMT

You need to watch this video. And no, the movers are packing for us. :)

HA!

Posted by Helen on February 24, 2006 at 10:28pm GMT

okay, so i just sent an e-mail out to five people sending them that link, after showing it to jax and having her say she needs to send it to brian... good work, master grasshopper. do you recognize the ninja song???

Mortal Kombat? You know,

Posted by Tim on February 25, 2006 at 6:55am GMT

Mortal Kombat? You know, like the guy screams....

I think the first part is entirely Mario Brothers. First, it's the normal above ground. Then, when you're low on time. Then, when you have a star. Then it goes to Tetris. Then Mortal Kombat. Then back to Mario Brothers dungeons. Then Zelda. I think.

zerg

Posted by Capt. Jean-Luc Pikachu on March 10, 2006 at 4:05pm GMT

How do we test what our websites will look like on the DS?

You can use the "Small

Posted by Tim on March 10, 2006 at 4:11pm GMT

You can use the "Small screen" and "Fit to window width" menu options on the View menu.