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So, I was playing my totally legal copy of WarioWare: Touched! on my *cough*emulator*cough*, and I reached 9-Volt's awesome stage. I finished it and sighed, since completing Mike's stage was necessary to get to Wario-Man, but impossible since I was playing on my totally existant DS *cough*laptop*cough*. But since I hadn't seen the introduction vid, I decided to see it since I had nothing better to do. Then suddenly, it got to the mic training session, and it said "Blow!" so Mike could blow some dust out of the window. And suddenly, out of the blue, Mike blew (pun intended...i think) on the dust! I was like "ZOMGWTFBBQHAX!!!11!!". I then realized that I COULD do Mike's stage, as it had picked up some noise from my room through the DS's *cough*laptop's*cough* integrated microphone! And playing the level, I noticed that almost ALL you had to do on ALLLLLL the microgames....was blow!! I mean, come on! That's a lot of wasted potential!

The point of all that, is that now I ask, what kind of microgames do you think would be fun to do with the DS's mic? I think a game that asked you a question and you had to answer yes or no would be pretty cool.

I don't think the DS mic is capable of processing speech. It can only tell if there is noise, or isn't noise. Yes, I know, there's that parrot item that can record what you say, but, as far as I know, it can only play back the sound, not actually process it or examine it and have different things happen depending on what you say.

I actually thought they did an okay job with Mike's games. Yeah, I agree, there are a few too many "just blow" games, but there are definitely others, such as the one where you must blow the car into a place where it wouldn't be crushed, the one where you must time your blow into the guy's ear, the boss stage, and the one where you (gasp) DON'T blow! Also, you played those games all on level 1; a good bunch of them becomes more than "just blow" on levels 2 and 3 (blowing the old man, for example).

Then again, I didn't play the game for a really long time, so I may just be babbling nonsense here, hehe.

I wish I had a DS.

And somewhere out there, a DS wishes it had you. :'(

fourinone wrote:I don't think the DS mic is capable of processing speech. It can only tell if there is noise, or isn't noise.

*cough*Brain Age*cough*

Actually, In the Nintendogs games, you can teach your dog a trick, give the trick a signal word, and whenever you say that word, It'll perform the trick.

The DS mic isn't all that powerless. Don't underestimate it!

Darn. Niklaw beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing.

Also Four, don't get me wrong. I loved Mike's stage. They really did come up with some creative ways to just use the blow, and (double gasp) DON'T blow.
Also, the music is great.

"Doo-doo-dooroorooroodooroo-GO GO MIKE!"

Whelp, looks like I've been proven wrong. I've never played Brain Age or Nintendogs before, so yah.
Warioware Touched was developed rather early in the DS's life, so I guess they didn't know how to use the mic very well yet.

MY NAME IS MIKE, COME ON, LET'S ROBO-KARAOKE!

I guess this topics life is over. *rolls up topic into a ball, passes on to mods for disposal*

We Should have like... a clean up day to get rid of all the really old topics that nobody uses...