Talk:List of Nintendo DS games (0–C)

If you find a DS game not on the list, add it!

If you can CONFIRM that this game exists or will be released in the near future then add it into the list. Don't bother cluttering up this discussion page with questions like "Is paper mario DS out yet?" either. I'm deleting all of these pointless sections. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SeQel (talk • contribs) 18:14, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Genres

Why don't we include a column for the genre of the game? Dbmayur 08:13, 14 June 2007 (UTC)dbmayur

Ultimate Spider-Man conflict...

I added Ultimate Spider-Man under 'U', but there is already a listing for the Ultimate Spider-Man comics of course. I don't know if we should add a seperate page for this console/handheld game version of the comics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RoyalFool (talk • contribs)

Well, It's always been when a computer or video game based on a movie comes out, it's listed under the movie. So, Toy Story for the Game Boy would be listed under Toy Story, not Toy Story (game) - Joizashmo June 30, 2005 00:02 (UTC)

Using country flags instead of abbreviations

After checking A Link to the Past's last edit [1], I think it would be better to use the SVG free flags. However, it may be not useful for non-graphical browsers. Just an idea. Opinions? -- ReyBrujo 02:12, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it could look like the List of Nintendo 64 games, or for a more simpler aproach, each flag can be added next to each game. For example, to add the flag of Japan next to a game type *''[[Anygame]]'' {{flagicon|Japan}} to add the Japanese flag. Overall, I think simple is better. Ceros 17:57, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

List Cleanup.

This list is in need of an update. References need to be added for each game. I placed the {{Cleanup-list|date=November 2008}} and {{Expand list|date=November 2008}} templates for now. Ceros 18:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Better design?

I've started to redo this page to put the design in line with the design used on List of Nintendo 64 games. You can see the work in progress here. Let me know Stump

The design for the List of Nintendo 64 games is actually based off of the List of Virtual Boy games. One of the editor's goals was to get it in line with the List of Virtual Boy games. If you want I can help out. Also, there's a way to get the setup done quickly by using a word processor and a text editor. Ceros 18:36, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

WE NEED SOURCES AND CLEANUP!

Can someone please look through this article and provide sources for everything and clean it up? thanks. dposse 14:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Games that have articles don't need sourcing. Assuming they have a box art image or something at least.--SeizureDog 12:46, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Look up. Are you telling me that Europa Universalis II, which has an article, is an actual game for the DS? It was released in 2001. Sources will help cut down on the amount of spam and vandalism. dposse 20:52, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

suggestions:

1. Use the wikimedia citation program in conjuction with the nintendo website for the citations
2. While your there, why not add symbols and a legend to show types of connectivity avaible such as wi-fi, single-pak, etc.
3. Stick to the North American release names and keep the Japanese and European release names for the corresponding language section of Wikipedia, or put the alternate names in a separate article itself.
4. Adding some other external links to games that have their own site might be good.
5. Continue updating the information as new titles are released.

74.117.69.16 18:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Re 3. This is not the American Wikipedia, it is the English Language Wikipedia. Some games released in Europe (and Great Britain) have a different English Language title to the American title. JP Godfrey (Talk to me) 20:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

My list.

[2] Please make improvements, using Animal Crossing: Wild World as an example. - A Link to the Past (talk) 23:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

List Format and Cleanup

This list is horribly cluttered and the format is terrible. The (UR),(NA), (WF), etc. just take up unnecessary space. They and the release dates perhaps should be replaced by a "Regions Released" column like that of other video game lists. This list should replaced in favor of one similar to the List of PlayStation Portable games or A Link to the Past's List of Nintendo DS games. --Toxicroak 00:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Irrelevance in the list

What's the point of making an NDS-list if all the games aren't linked to the specific NDS-version? As there's such a huge difference between the xbox 360 version of NFS Most wanted and the NDS one, the article gets quite irrelevant. The GFX on the different consoles isn't really on par with each other.

Pezzar 03:20, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Suggestions

I have been updating this list for the past two weeks and it just keeps getting longer and that isn't to good for those with slow browsers. I suggest that we change the format to match the list of GameCube games or the list of Wii games to make it a smaller page.Bovineboy2008 16:02, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

I would suggest switching to the format used by the List of GameCube games. That's what I've slowly been switching the List of Game Boy Advance games to. --Toxicroak 20:18, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Could someone please change "Release dates" to "Countries released in" or something like that? And do you think we should mention which games have Wi-Fi? Pezzar 03:20, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

How do we now, sort the entire list by release date? We can't.

Unnamed games

Are we listing unnamed games--games that are confirmed but don't have a title yet? If so, does it go under "U" for Unnamed? -- VederJuda 16:38, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

They go under "Untitled", like Untitled Sonic RPG. Mushroom (Talk) 17:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Games not released yet

Should games that aren't yet released, such as Oban Star Racers be included in the list? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Koji toa of ice (talk • contribs) 23:27, August 29, 2007 (UTC)

Yes, they should, if there is a reliable source that states they will be released. Mushroom (Talk) 17:20, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Game references

Are references for every game really necessary? The other 7th generation game lists do not have this mandatory policy, and as the number of DS games go up, the footnote list is gonna get really bulky and unwieldy. I say it's time to get rid of this requirement. Richiekim (talk) 13:22, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I think references for every game is necessary, and useful. We are trying to make a comprehensive list that would be the unique source in the near future to know all the Nintendo DS games released up to date. The official websites could not maintain the info forever, but the wiki does. This is one of the most important things wikipedia is know for.

What I propose is divide the list into smaller ones. I don't have the proper technicall knowledge to perform such a task but that is cut&paste for advanced wikipedians. RG4ever (talk) 14:08, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Reference tags have now been changed to ID tags, i.e. there is no longer a reflist Bovineboy2008 (talk) 02:48, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Smackdown 2008 Mistake

Under WWE Smackdown! vs RAW 2008, it says unreleased as opposed to the flags of countries it's in. Could somebody fix that up? Steeldragon493 (talk) 18:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Regions released is very wrong.

For example Animal Crossing Wild World is claimed to only be released in Japan, meanwhile I own the game and I bought it here in America! This section needs updated. --SeQel (talk) 18:33, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

The region listed is the region in which the game was released first. When more than one region is listed, then the game was released first in both of the regions on the same date. Bovineboy2008 (talk) 20:34, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Proposal to include Genre Information

It seems to me that listing the games' genre would be both an improvement to overall informativeness and a possible alternate solution to the current somewhat inelegant method of dividing it by title. The only issue I can foresee with this proposal is that many of the games are somewhat genre-defying, but by listing hybrid-genre games by both applicable genres and perhaps the creation a separate list for "Unclassifiable" games would resolve this easily. I confess that this is my first effort at contributing to Wikipedia herself and so my own capacity for carrying out this rewrite is limited, but I would gladly offer my services for any "Heavy Lifting" that this reformatting might require. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.211.87.237 (talk) 08:21, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

There are three major problems with that. Defining the genre could be considered POV. Listing the genre is not that notable for an article like this. And adding a format for every game would make these already long articles really long. BOVINEBOY2008 21:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Including genre's not POV and would improve the article, since it gives the reader idea what type of game each game is, however all games with target article seems to include its genre and many other console and platform list on wikipedia already list the genres.

Switching format similar to the other "list of" articles.

Is there a possibility that we could go about having this list go according to the List of Wii games with/without the genre? I think it would be a smart change to do so, what do you guys think? Zacharyalejandro (talk) 03:41, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Incorrect Dates and Release Information

A good number of games on this list have, at the very least, incorrect release date information; I was able to find at least two examples (Winx Club 2009 and Pokémon Black 2). Winx Club 2009 is listed as having been released in 2000 (before the DS was even out), while Pokémon Black 2 is listed as having been released in 2009, which would be incorrect both in the USA and Japan. Can somebody correct these mistakes, and point out any others if they find any? Thank you! LavaringX (talk) 02:40, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Missing items

I've been looking for a complete list of all ds carts and this list comes up often as the closest thing to it. But right off the bat I noticed it seems to be missing some things. At the top its noted that Disney two pack is the last game released for the ds but its not included in the list. I suppose this is because the two games on the one cart are listed individually. But if this is so, what other multi-game carts are missing from the list because their games are listed individually, and if it's not, should it be added into the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.157.253.253 (talk) 19:25, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

ROM numbers?

Would be nice if ROM numbers could be added, because titles are often not correctly in the many collections and samplers available, but ROM numbers always are.--Mideal (talk) 21:17, 27 April 2019 (UTC)

Missing games - Beastly: Frantic Foto?

It caught my eye the NDS game Beastly: Frantic Foto is not listed in this article at all. Is there something about the game why it's not included, or just an oversight? I mean, it's a fairly obscure game, and I can't figure out why it's not listed here other than just for its obscurity. Dutzga (talk) 13:32, 30 June 2019 (UTC)

Korean Releases?

So far, there have only been a select few games released in Korea, but if they were they were also released in Japan, but now I'm coming across games only released in Korea, what am I supposed to do?

For now I'm just putting a Ya under Japan, but there really should be a solution for this. Same goes for Latin American/German/Spain releases, but you can just put a Ya under NA or EU for those situations

 — Preceding unsigned comment added by MontztheMan (talk • contribs) 21:26, 31 December 2019 (UTC) 

I want to let you know that we do not, include GameFAQs information because GameFAQs uses user generated information that is NOT acceptable on Wikipedia.

@Sergecross73:, @Dissident93: could you help me get him up to speed on this information? I tried getting Dissident's help, but I somehow didn't get a notification about your response, so I wanted to go ahead and include Serge in this discussion as well, to see what he has to say on the matter. I know we have rules here about using this user generated site, but as far as I know, people don't care. Zacharyalejandro (talk) 01:40, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

• Is the issue about adding Korean-only games under a Japanese checkmark, GameFAQs as a source, or both? ~ Dissident93 ^(talk) 02:56, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

Well he stated that he added all of the lettered games from GameFAQs and Metacritic, I don't know if Metacritic is considered reliable though. Besides Korean-only games, I don't know. Zacharyalejandro (talk) 03:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Help !

I tried to add a game but I screwed up. Can someone please fix it ? I have no idea how.

Maxime12346 (talk) 22:31, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

Sort by release date is not working

Nice table, but i cant sort them by release date correctly, i would thing you could use YYYY-MM-DD style to fix that but i guess there is some better by marking that field as date type, but i dont know how, ill import that to LibreOffice calc and do so but it would be grate if someone with more wikimedia knowledge could do that here. Thanks --2001:16B8:6089:100:317C:B97:30B3:8D40 (talk) 17:41, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Missing Game

Hello I don’t know how to edit and add to the actual page but I noticed I Spy Universe was missing. (: Sunitrema (talk) 02:37, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Condensing wikitext

This page is currently the longest on the wiki. However, unlike the other top pages in Special:LongPages, this page is less about the actual length and more about the amount of wikitext. Recently, an edit was made that changed many of the templates to links to change the PEIS. While this did fix that issue, it also made this page over 1 megabyte long, and none of the other pages in Special:LongPages even come close. So rather than suggesting a split like I normally would, I am simply suggesting replacing the templates and links with just “Yes” and “No” without any fancy colors or text. However, I will need someone with a very powerful computer to do this. 24.151.90.132 (talk) 19:33, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Sorry that was me, I forgot to log in. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:34, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

We could format it similarly to how other lists of video games by platform are formatted. Those pages are formatted with just the initial release date in JP, NA, and PAL regions, without any checkmarks or X's. Finnaboing (talk) 13:56, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok. I was thinking of just removing the checkmarks and Xs altogether and just having it say “Yes” and “No”. Is there a script that could quickly replace all of the wikitext. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Blubabluba9990 (talk • contribs) 23:06, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

It might be a bit less of a headache to edit the revision prior to the gargantuan edit - it'd certainly make it way easier to see what to replace. Though in terms of automation, I don't know the full capabilities of Find and Replace features within programs like Word, but if I have the time tomorrow (I likely won't, so sometime soon) I can try to give it a whirl. Last I checked, my computer's capable! --Velvetune! t • c 05:47, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

I did try doing that, but I lost patience. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:26, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

Let me ping @Onetwothreeip: here since he just reverted the other user’s edit. PEIS is the main problem on this page so just getting rid of all of the wikitext is probably the best solution. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:27, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

He's honestly not exactly wrong though, quintupling a page's file size is not a tenable solution and this article (in my opinion) should be split regardless of its file size. Either way, the wikitext does need to go at some point, if for no other reason to line it up in style with other articles.

It's just a matter of "someone needs to do it." @Blubabluba9990:, you wouldn't have happened to save the edit you attempted to do thus far, no? If you did, could you put the parts you had done on your sandbox? I can try to carry the torch here. --Velvetune! t • c 22:18, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

I didn't save it. I only did like the first 10. Is there a script that can easily replace all of the wikitext? That and every time I made a mistake, I had to reload the page again. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 23:24, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

@Blubabluba9990 and Velvetune: I've made a different and hopefully more usable edit - I swapped out {{vgrtbl}} for {{#invoke:vgrtbl|main}}. It's still a little bit ugly but workable, and gets the PEIS under the limit. I've also optimized one of the navboxes. For future reference, the find and replace dialog (on the Advanced section of the wikitext editor) makes these edits extremely easy, although you may find your browser unresponsive for a while if there are thousands of changes to make. User:GKFX^talk 16:31, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Ok. It wasn't what I had in mind but at least it deals with the PEIS problem and it is better than quadrupling the size to over 1 KB. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 17:39, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

@GKFX: Thank you! I've just been using Microsoft Word for my find and replace functionalities, but that'll do ^-^ Would it still be worth splitting the article, or no? It's still definitely a bit hefty on the length. Velvetune! t • c 18:21, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Technically, the article is safe now - PEIS is a hard limit not one which is dependant on server load etc. Personally I think that splitting the article would make it harder to use. However, if you want to add lots of citations it will break again. It would still be possible to optimise the ticks and crosses to make room for citations, e.g. you could write "No" for the crosses and leave the ticks as-is which would look fine and make loads of room. User:GKFX^talk 19:15, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

The length of this article was not the problem. Luckily this issue is fixed now. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:34, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

@Blubabluba9990:so what edits need to be done? i might try my scripting skills. should it be formatted like List of Game Boy games. Serprinss (talk) please ping on reply. 07:45, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Yes, that is what I had in mind. I suggested replacing the yes and no templates with just regular text saying yes and no. Blubabluba9990 (talk) 19:36, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

@Blubabluba9990: so replace it with the text no rather then Template:unreleased like in List of Game Boy games?Serprinss (talk) please ping on reply. 05:23, 15 June 2021 (UTC)

Yes, that was my initial idea. However, the page is now fixed so we don't have to worry anymore. Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 17:41, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Missing game

i believe there was a minecraft for nintendo ds, or is that already on the page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ryan busse (talk • contribs) 19:00, 7 July 2021 (UTC)

I’m not completely sure (i’m on mobile and at work so I can’t do a thorough check) but I think you’re thinking of the 3DS version of the game - it never released for the original DS. Velvetune! t • c 18:40, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

How could we split this article?

It's pretty obvious that this list is painfully long and hard to navigate. Do you think we should split the list, and in which ways? Eridian314 (talk) 14:21, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

PEIS size broken, splitting article

This article has gotten so long that the PEIS size is broken. I suggest splitting this article, perhaps alphabetically. Since the games are not divided into sections, there isn't really any way to tell how to divide this article alphabetically without counting. I would like suggestions as to where we should split the article. @Zsteve21, Onetwothreeip, and NPI WOL: Blubabluba9990 (talk) (contribs) 22:37, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

I STRONGLY recommend splitting it alphabetically into (A-M) and (N-Z) just like the List of Nintendo Switch games zsteve21 (talk) 23:00, 17 January 2022 (UTC)