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I was never a particular fan of DS Demos. They never really fully showed of the DS Stylus controls potential.

I want to start by saying I don’t think this would happen. I could totally frame this as a “I heard from a dude who was sitting in between a Nintendo employee and a snake on a motherfckin’ plane” … but I wouldn’t do that to you people. I respect you, you know, as a woman.

That said, I don’t see why Nintendo couldn’t capitalize on Opera DS to distribute downloadable demos. Technology wise, it seems like a slam dunk. The reason, I imagine, Opera DS won’t support flash is that nobody wanted to write the third party application to support it. The way plugins work with a browser is pretty simple, albeit a little clumsy. If the browser tries to fetch a reference to a media type it doesn’t understand, it looks for a plugin to handle it instead.

While it’s understandable that Adobe didn’t want to put in the effort for a DS Flash player, it’s less understandable why Nintendo couldn’t write a DS demo player. Click a link, Opera DS denotes the filetype as being a demo and kicks it off to the same code which Nintendo uses to download a demo from a wifi station. Now when you’re sitting at home reading about a new game, you just browse to Nintendo’s site and give it a try. Like downloading a demo from Xbox Live … anywhere you have internet access.
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