To buy or not to buy.

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#1  Edited By ahriman22

My birthday is coming up... Fast. In 6 days (Because it's 1:17 in the morning) I'll be 17, which means presents! Yay! 
 
As I was thinking about what to get I compiled a list: 
Rock Band 1 - Game only 
Rock Band 2 bundle 
Black DSi 
Kingdom Heart 358/2 days 
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside story 
New Super Mario Bros  
Xbox LIVE 12 month membership card (Obligatory) 
 
Now, I'm still unsure whether it's a safe bet or not. I used to have a DS (Lite, to be specific), but I ended up selling it to buy something else, I forget what. I definitely want the DSi, but I'm unsure whether it would be a purchase I regret. 
 
The games I picked for it seem solid, except for Mario & Luigi. I love New Super Mario Bros Wii and I love Kingdom Hearts though, so if the decision to get the DSi becomes final, then I'm definitely getting those games. 
 
However, I still want to have some spending money afterwards, just in case I see other things I want to get, whatever those may be. With such an expensive list I decided to ask for 50$, although I would like to have more. 
 
What I ask of you is to help me choose something I won't regret, like getting a DSI just to have it sit and collect dust like my PSP does (Although the loss of my AC adapter does have something to do with it).

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#2  Edited By Kyle

Nothing on that list really seems to jump out at me. The DS is great, but if you already had your fill of it before, I don't know if it's worth going back to. Mario Bros DS is NOWHERE NEAR as good as Mario Bros Wii, I love Kingdom Hearts, but 358/2 days is pretty dry and slow going, there's no reason to get Rock Band if you want Rock Band 2... so I guess I would say Rock Band 2, but it depends on how much you like music games. I used to be an enormous fan of music games, but I got burned out and haven't played Rock Band 2 in months.

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#3  Edited By Kyle

And as a person who had their DS Lite stolen and replaced it with a DSi, I can tell you there is pretty much nothing about it that makes it better than a Lite. And you can't even play GBA games.

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#4  Edited By LeetBalla

GBA support > DSi store. Go with the DS lite.

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#5  Edited By zanzibarbreeze

You should rock back on the DS/DSi purchase for a while. I guess prices are expected to drop pretty soon because of the 3DS announcement and impending release. I'm waiting until the very last moment to get the DS, because I want to get both a DS (for the GBA functionality) and the DSi at the same time. So I think you could probably look to pick up other things first, and perhaps leave Nintendo's portable stuff on the back burner for a while.
 
As an aside, can the DS Lite play Game Boy and Game Boy Color games? Because as I understand it the GBA could, and since the DS has a GBA port, theoretically... (sorry about the naive question, but I've never had a Nintendo portable system before apart from the Game Boy so I'm not really up with the landscape.)

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#6  Edited By Kyle
@ZanzibarBreeze: No, unfortunately the DS Lite only plays GBA games. And I would say that getting a Lite and DSi at the same time is CRAZY. If you've never had a GBA or DS, just get a DS Lite. Trust me, you're not missing anything. And I wouldn'r expect the prices to drop either, because the 3DS wont be out for probably another year and a half at least. That's not really how Nintendo rolls.
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#7  Edited By EVO

Get Rez.

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#8  Edited By BenX02

Mario and Luigi, I can not even explain how good that game is. It might be my favorite RPG I've ever played.

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#9  Edited By ahriman22

OK well, after thinking about it I changed the list to: 
Rock Band 1 
Rock Band 2 bundle 
Crimson/Black DS Lite 
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days 
The World Ends with You 
(Unknown fighting game) 
 
I want to get rock band 1, but only the game since I've never played Rock Band and I want the songs featured in the first game. Might as well get Rock band 2 with the updated hardware and game. No GBA support is pretty stupid, so I'll go with the DS Lite, plus they have it in my favorite color combination (Black & Red). I'll just continue playing New Super Mario Wii instead, at least until I can try the DS version and I'll see from there. 
 
Also, my friend got a DS herself the other day and she said she got an Acekard 2. I look it up, but I have no idea what it does, other than allow you to put in a Micro SD card. 
 
It's a Hello Kitty DS... Ew.