{"id":274,"date":"2007-11-21T10:52:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2007-11-21\/grandpa-ds-question\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T16:52:36","slug":"grandpa-ds-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/21\/grandpa-ds-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa DS Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"single2.jpg\"Great question from a GamerDad reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I am getting my two grandsons, each a Nintendo DS and am<\/em><\/p>\n

relying heavily on your reviews. Thank you. Query: If I buy<\/em><\/p>\n

just one copy of Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, can<\/em><\/p>\n

the boys play with each other on their separate machines?<\/em>
\nIn your write up on Pokemon Diamond and Pearl, you suggest<\/em><\/p>\n

this is a good choice for siblings, although they are somewhat<\/em><\/p>\n

violent. The same question is asked. Can they play the same<\/em><\/p>\n

game with the two DS machines?” <\/em><\/p>\n

Answers follow:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

First off when you read that Pokemon is violent, what that mainly<\/p>\n

means is that the Pokemon fight. There’s no blood or realistic<\/p>\n

violence at all. Pokemon is beloved by all ages. So, I’m sorry<\/p>\n

if my review misled you at all.<\/p>\n

Second of all, yes, both of those games, Mario & Luigi & Pokemon:<\/p>\n

Diamond or Pearl cab be played with a single game cartridge for<\/p>\n

two players. There is a way to find this out. If you look at<\/p>\n

the back of the box on any DS game you’ll see a symbol that tells<\/p>\n

you if you need multiple copies for however many players it supports.<\/p>\n

Some games do require separate games per player (these are almost<\/p>\n

never from Nintendo directly) and some games limit content if you<\/p>\n

only have one game cartridge (meaning: you can play together but not<\/p>\n

everything in the game is available).<\/p>\n

But since Pokemon and Mario & Luigi were meant to be played by multiple<\/p>\n

players, I’m confident that you’ll only need one cartridge per grandchild.<\/p>\n

Just be careful, they are playable in single player and having only one<\/p>\n

game might make for some minor Pokemon-style violence in your own home.<\/p>\n

The picture at the top of this post indicates a SINGLE Cartridge is needed<\/p>\n

for 2-16 players. Note the white or clear windows in the symbol above.<\/p>\n

\"multi2.jpg\"This picture means multiple cards are needed. Note the dark<\/p>\n

windows in the second DS.<\/p>\n

Hopefully some of our other experts can chime in.<\/p>\n

I longer have either of those games so I’m only 95% sure my answer is<\/p>\n

100% correct.<\/p>\n

-GamerDad <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great question from a GamerDad reader: “I am getting my two grandsons, each a Nintendo DS and am relying heavily on your reviews. Thank you. Query: If I buy just one copy of Mario & Luigi Partners in Time, can the boys play with each other on their separate machines? In your write up on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}