A number of DS enthusiasts like myself have been wondering what the limits were on how downloads on the DSi could interact with physical software, i.e. games. Now news has come out that Dragon Quest IX will be getting extra side quests from DLC, opening up a brand new world for developers and giving even more incentive to upgrade to the latest model. Exciting!

That's awesome!  Now only if Mario Kart DS had DLC.......

That's pretty cool.

I wonder what the price ranges will be...200 to 400 points for examples such as DQ IX's quests?  What do others estimate?

Didn't some games like Pokemon Ranger have DLC before the DSi came out?

" Didn't some games like Pokemon Ranger have DLC before the DSi came out? "

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" Didn't some games like Pokemon Ranger have DLC before the DSi came out? "

There have been DLC on earlier systems.  Although most is contemporary stuff.  In Professor Layton, you would get different puzzles to download for a week. "

A week? does that even count?  "

What annoys me is that this capability could be brought to earlier systems if they just looked at the homebrew community. The DSi has an SD slot so it in theory has "dedicated DLC support" but if a game was to have DLC the cart could just have some extra flash storage on it (or have more space than needed to leave for DLC). The code is there to allow downloading from a database on the internet (DS Organise does it allowing you to download homebrew straight to the DS). I doubt they would ever do this (though they have some something similer with the Snes where carts could (and often did) have extra hardware inside them) because it costs more money to do.

I think Picross DS had DLC.

That's awesome, even though: 1. There will be like 6 games that support it and 2. I don't own a DSi and wouldn't get one even if my launch-era DS chunky broke because I still play GBA games from time to time.

Now the Moai party really don't stop.

Does this include patches?

DLC is awesome, but I want some old school games. The Super Mario Land's, the Wario Land's, Link's Awakening and more.

Patches could be useful, as well. Good question, Snail. Nintendo systems are slowly catching up with their online capabilities. Damn you, friend codes!

" Didn't some games like Pokemon Ranger have DLC before the DSi came out? "

Awesome! But didn't this game just come out? Haha, oh Square Enix, how you play the masses.