indosnm 0 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Son's wanting a DSi for his upcoming birthday.. Thinking about getting the new colors from Japan BUT it appears that there may be no option for English. Any of you game heads (or folks with groms) know if English is possible on the Japa releases? Cheers Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted March 22, 2009 Share Posted March 22, 2009 Nintendo aren't generally interested in putting English menus on their systems and games as well. Don't know about the DSi but every other Nintendo console I have seen in Japan (pretty much all of them apart from handhelds) do not have English option. Perhaps the DS does though..... Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Don't know about the menus but all games from anywhere in the world play on any DS. (I'm pretty sure about that). Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 They play, but they are not all in English. Child #2 bought Guitar Hero DS while we were in Germany and it is not able to be played in English. The eldest has a couple of games bought in Japan that have only got Japanese instructions - but that is OK as he can read them. Link to post Share on other sites
NutteyCubey 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Nintendo games themselves often don't have multi-language - it's a space (and probably region thing). So while all games will play on all DSs from anywhere in the world, the language might be a problem. Solution is to buy the games from places you know will be English. Not sure about whether the OS can be swapped to English. This is Nintendo, so probably not! Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Chhers, most of that I knew. I looked at an aussie version of the DS an in it's settings it had about 6 languages to choose from, including Japanese. Japanese isn't a problem as he can read it, I think he just wants one like his friends! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted March 23, 2009 Share Posted March 23, 2009 Thats kids for ya Indo. Get him one like his mates Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted March 23, 2009 Author Share Posted March 23, 2009 Yeah, leaning towards the OZ release. Just makes things easier (ac adapter, warranty etc) Though the newer Japanese colors would be cool! Link to post Share on other sites
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