Twitter comes to Nintendo's DS

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A new entrance to the Scenery Beta 2008, this time in the category of applications for the DS.It comes in first for the contest, and with it we can conveniently enjoy the phenomenon Twitter.Blogs, so fashionable lately, are evolving into social networks such as this, where you can post at any given moment what you're doing or see what your friends are doing (and now, thanks to DSTwitter, using the DS anywhere) . Certainly an original application, simple to use and with details so appreciated as multilanguage support (detecting the language of the DS automatically) or use of cache for downloading icons.

While Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch platform(s) are being taken further and further into the gaming sphere, the Nintendo fanbase is playing with developments - much of them “homebrew” - to extend the powers of the DS past its core gameplay design. And one such item comes by way of an individual known as Jorge S. In short, Jorge has put Twitter in the hands of DS owners everywhere.

Well, not everywhere. Lots of places, though. Over what appears to be term of just a few months, Jorge has put to the public a design he calls DSTwitter. It has gone through iterations 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2, before arriving this week at 1.3, which the creator has released under the GPLv3 designation. The invention has only been noticed by a select few news outlets. Shiny Media’s Tech Digest being one of them. But the limited review is understandable. Why? Installation takes some effort.

Twitter functionality on your Nintendo DS is pretty difficult. In all seriousness, you should probably remain content with sending tweets from your handset and / or computer, but those who just can't turn a blind eye to a hack won't be able to look beyond this one. For starters, the Twitter for DS application is based entirely in Spanish, so unless you're halfway fluent in the language (or are just really good at deciphering Google's translations),