Modding your DS, huh?

Actually, you don't need to solder any kind of chip in your Nintento DS to run homebrew software or play backup games. You can simply get any of the SLOT-1 or SLOT-2 devices and plug them in to flash the software in your DS.

A few of the popular ones are the R4 DS, M3 DS Simply, the TT DS and the more expensive Edge. As you can see, not such original names :)

If you see any SLOT-2 devices (the GBA slot using kind), these are kind of old fashioned. Get a SLOT-1 ones, they are cheaper and easier to use. Read more about this at Wikipedia.

FlashMe is by far the most popular tool which is used to run software on your DS. It is a piece of software that is 'burned' into your DS so it runs every time you turn on your DS. When run, it allows you to run any kind of game or program plugged into your DS (in the normal SLOT-2).

Easy, right!? Get one of the products by following one of the ads above or below. Enjoy your DS! :)

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Video: Part two of Disney Epic Mickey's opening cinematic

During his keynote speech at PAX yesterday, Warren Spector revealed the second half of Disney Epic Mickey's opening cinematic, which you can find and watch right after the break. The first half, you'll remember, set Mickey up as a mischievous type who'd played around with a magical paintbrush and eventually fallen into a spinning vortex of darkness.

In this half, Mickey is dropped into a mad scientist's castle in the Wasteland, where we get to meet Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the Phantom Blot and a cast of other characters who will undoubtedly appear elsewhere in the game. And just like the first half, this one is presumably full of old school Disney animation references and in-jokes, none of which we actually get (although Google helped us out with this one). Any Disney scholars want to call out Spector for showing off?

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Sarcastic announcer Easter egg uncovered in Wave Race: Blue Storm

A NeoGAF forumite going by the moniker "Raoul Duke" recently uncovered a timeworn Easter egg hidden within the folds of the aquatic GameCube racer, Wave Race: Blue Storm -- and appropriately enough, this egg is awfully rotten. By entering in a super-obscure code on the game's audio settings screen, players can change the typically pleasant (and omnipresent) pit crew commenter to a sardonic so-and-so who talks smack about your every action.

You can check out a video of this old-new Easter egg posted just after the jump, or, if you feel like taking a hit to your self-esteem for some reason, you can learn the arcane measures you have to follow to find the secret voice track over on NeoGAF.

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Retro City Rampage preview: A Hodgepodge of Homages

There are all of those inside jokes, those gaming and pop culture references that we slip into conversation now and again, eliciting a chuckle from those "in the know." Now imagine you had enough knowledge to make a game and decided, "Hey, what the heck? I'll go ahead and put in a nod toward this classic in my game." That's kinda what Brian Provinciano did.

He came up with Retro City Rampage, a self-professed "open world action parody" that started out as Grand Theftendo, an attempt to create Grand Theft Auto 3 on the NES. It kinda snowballed from there and eventually ended up being Retro City Rampage, a retro sandbox game with plenty of moxie.

Gallery: Retro City Rampage (WiiWare)

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80 percent of Power Gig setlist is new to music games

Here she is: the full Power Gig: Rise of the Six String setlist -- all 70 tracks of it. As promised, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band and Kid Rock are all on board (for the first time ever in a music game, no less), along with John Mayer, Paramore and harder rocking from the likes of Mastodon and Incubus. 80 percent of the tracks have never appeared in a music game before at all -- pretty impressive for an original IP. Power Gig will have plenty of competition this fall, but it looks like the setlist won't be a weak spot.

Take a look at the tunes after the break, then scroll back up and answer this question: What's the absolute best song on the list? If you said Bad Religion's "I Want to Conquer the World," you're exactly right.

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