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Nintendo DS Game and Music Composer All in One 48

Posted by Zonk from the cuuuuute! dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In the shadows of launch titles like Super Mario 64 DS, Feel the Magic XY/XX and Wario Ware Touched! is Daigasso! Band Brothers (the working title is Jam with the Band in America). This little gem is a music game similar to a Bemani title. It features over 50 songs with a blend of J-Pop, TV themes and Nintendo melodies. What is hidden inside the title is a full out MIDI composer. You can use the stylus and the touch screen to write your own songs." An aspect I found interesting with this title is that it can use the microphone to sample sounds, which can then be mixed with the composer.
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Nintendo DS Game and Music Composer All in One

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  • Mario Paint 2! (Score:3, Interesting)

    by generic-man ( 33649 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @02:49PM (#11312084) Homepage Journal
    A band called "The Electric Family" composed an entire album using Mario Paint's composer and named the album after the game. I can't find any useful info about the album on the web though.

    Finally, a worthy successor to Mario Paint, at least! The touch screen makes a tolerable substitute for the SNES mouse, but I wonder if anyone will make a wireless mouse to work with the game...
    • Homestar Runner was apparently originally created on the Super Nintendo using Mario Paint.
    • Here [hyperreal.org] is where you can download the album. I got it off Xarph.net [xarph.net]. It's pretty decent stuff. They are put out by a publisher who provide their recordings for free, but ask that you still buy the CDs. Though I'm not sure exactly where you can get the CDs, you can get their merch Here. [cafepress.com]

      By the way, Google is very useful. I plugged in "Mario Paint" + "Electric Family" [google.com] and got those results instantly. Try Googling well before saying you can't find any useful info on the web.
      And someone might want to make som

  • Rivel PSP (Score:4, Insightful)

    by superpulpsicle ( 533373 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @03:01PM (#11312246)
    Is this Nintendo's way to prove that the DS can be more than just a video game player? I think they are beginning to regret not launching the DS like the PSP as a multi-purpose video/mp3 player out of the box.

    It'll be a matter of time before they realize the DS was launched similar to the N64 missing CDrom capabilities. Go ahead laugh at the PSP battery issue. Watch that be the only weakness.

    • Clearly you can't read. This was a launch game in Japan. The DS launched before the PSP, so how can Nintendo be copying Sony with this one? By your logic Sony is copying Nintendo by making the PSP a multi-purpose player since Nintendo has done this on the Japan launch.

    • Re:Rivel PSP (Score:3, Informative)

      by SetupWeasel ( 54062 )
      Last I checked the PSP doesn't have a rhythm game/music composer.

    • Re:RivAl PSP (Score:1, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward
      "Go ahead laugh at the GameGear battery issue. Watch that be the only weakness."

      -1991

    • It's a video game (Score:1, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward
      " Is this Nintendo's way to prove that the DS can be more than just a video game player?"

      Given that this is a video game, no, I don't think this is Nintendo's way of proving it can be more.

      It's a rhythm game, like DDR, Samba de Amigo, Donkey Konga... you know?

      It's just that the put in a fun mode where instead of playing along to the song, you play your own song, and a mode where you can sync your performance with other DS' over the wireless network. That's kind of fun, it means you can create a DS band w
    • I don't think you can fit a CD in a PSP either..

  • Considering this is the same company that famously did not include a headphone jack on the GBA SP (opting instead to charge me $$ to buy a custom jack, play in silence or piss people off), I have to ask if there's going to be any practical way to get your MIDI compositions off the DS (as opposed to sharing between DS's) once they're done.

    Now if there was just a way to transfer songs over a wireless ethernet card to a computer we would be in business.

    Ah... another adapter to come, I assume.

    Seriously

    • Ah... another adapter to come, I assume.

      Uh, isn't wifi one of the most famous features of the DS?
      • Yeah, but you know how much Nintendo likes to screw over the loyal consumer by selling a pointless, reduced-function gewgaw to enable functionality already in the system, like their "DVD Playback Kit" that's just a barebones remote and IR receiver that takes up a controller port. No, wait.
    • Some talented people are trying to crack Nintendos version of WiFi (dubbed NiFi i think) as to upload developer games onto the DS or to play DS games online.

  • What is with these launch titles? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by inkless1 ( 1269 ) on Monday January 10, 2005 @03:13PM (#11312404) Homepage
    We get a Mario 64 port. OK, decent - but like 99% of the world has played it.

    Ping Pals, a chat program for a platform with a free chat program.

    Sprung - a dating sim.

    Feel the Magic - a dating sim on acid.

    Now a MIDI composer?

    OK sure, Ridge Racer, Spidey 2 and Madden at least round things out - but about half of the titles for DS right now are odd enough to make Sega shake their head.
    • I don't know why Sega would be so surprised with the weird launch titles, considering that Sega themselves published Feel the Magic.
    • I wouldn't call Feel the Magic a dating sim per se, but more of a standard, you're the hero - get the girl by playing a bunch of mini games.
      I think it's more along the lines of the Wario mini games with a lose plot than anything.
    • We get a Mario 64 port. OK, decent - but like 99% of the world has played it.

      It's not just a port. It's got new levels and four distinct playable characters.
    • yeah, the DS has kind of a lack of good titles right now. There's a lot in the future, but Mario and the metroid demo are the only ones to really push the system. They added a few levels and adjusted some existing ones to fit the new control scheme, so I think it's been worth playing through again. I've not played ridge racer, so I can't comment, but I've heard it pales in comparison to the PSP one.

      However, I'm looking for the full metroid, mario kart, Castlevania and Soul Calibur titles sometime this year

  • 1 Picture = 4kb (Score:3, Informative)

    by MiceHead ( 723398 ) * on Monday January 10, 2005 @03:21PM (#11312522) Homepage
    IGN has a number of videos [ign.com], from which you can glean single-player gameplay. They also have footage of Nintendo's conference presentation [ign.com], which talks about the multiplayer aspect. The latter is more interesting, as the former seems similar to other games in the genre. (Tap the controls in time with the music.)
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  • Some recent concerts (Score:2, Interesting)

    by astrokid ( 779104 )
    Here are some recent 'concerts' of people using the game. It looks very interesting, IGN has a few videos of what the screen looks like during gameplay.
    I can't wait for it to be released over here.

    These were posted on a msg forum. Mario Theme [1101.com]
    Original [1101.com]
    ??? [1101.com]
    Skip to ~2:10 [1101.com]
    • I can't wait for it to be released over here.

      Before you start waiting, start praying that this is going to be localized... cause as it stands, there has been NO word for a North American release.
      • There has been some word, atleast they changed the title which, to me, shows that nintendo is a little bit interested about bringing the title over. From the article:

        "In the shadows of launch titles like Super Mario 64 DS, Feel the Magic XY/XX and Wario Ware Touched! is Daigasso! Band Brothers (the working title is Jam with the Band in America).

        and also

        Also seen

        here [ign.com]
        Though Nintendo of America has given this game a new moniker as Jam With the Band, the company hasn't given a potential release date for

  • gameboy music (Score:2, Informative)

    by scottind ( 838186 )
    as an avid bemani fan i got this when it launched in japan. i was quite disappointed at first. The sound engine is a straight port from the original GBA project Gameboy Music, so the MIDIs sound quite tinnish, it doesnt show off the DS capabilities at all. Let's say the songs sound like nokia polyphonic ringtones; horrible! -_-; Im any case, playing the game solo is no fun. The REAL fun is actually hooking up with other DSes and playing at a band. here is where you can look past the sound quality and have
  • Games of this type are much harder than you'd think, but when you get good at them, it's amazing, fun and addictive! I've played mostly Beatmania IIDX, and I always felt that a note editor would be fun to play around with. IIDX is sequenced, though, so editing on the existing sequence would be challenging.

    This game's editor looks more like Jester Interactive's Pocket Music for Gameboy Advance. It's main limitation is memory. It's other big problem is bass. But otherwise, you have so much freedom that

  • Well (Score:1)

    by Kizzle ( 555439 )
    It's not the first time we have seen a music composer on a PDA. No that is not a typo. The DS is a god damn PDA.
  • This is great.

    This is GREAT!

    I'm serious guys, this is just so awesomely cool. I can't believe there are so many people down on this here, they're releasing a cartridge with a full music composition tool in it! Here's a sampling of comments:

    "Is this Nintendo's way to prove that the DS can be more than just a video game player?"

    Oy, what's with all the antagonism? Does everything have to be through the reacting-to-Sony filter? One thing about Nintendo, you can't honestly say they plan products just t
  • This just doesn't impress me that much. You gotta be near a wireless hub to watch video, you can only see what makes it through Sony's narrow rights filter, and it's unlikely you'll be able to save a copy of what you watch.

    A TV tuner, a piece of technology you could get way back for TurboDuos and Game Gears, would actually be cooler. There's already one announced for the DS, but that doesn't mean much since a third party will probably make one for the PSP in short order.
    • Wrong story there bub. You want the next one down.
    • I'd say TV tuners are junk, but i'd never touch one to review it since I don't watch TV, but there are 3rd party mpeg players for SP that are compitable with the DS, also nintendo will be releasing one of there own as well that will use flash memory to play mp3's and divx.
      • Yeah, and there's also the video cartridges for GameBoy Advance, beloved of all who want to watch low resolution, tiny-screened versions of Pokemon, Nicktoons and kiddy anime for about the same price as it would cost to get the same stuff on DVD, if not more.

        A TV tuner, at least, would enable watching *other* bad shows.
  • I imported the game a couple weeks ago, so I've had time to play with the editor. It's extremely powerful compared to things like Remix mode in Frequency and Amplitude. You pick treble or bass clef, adjust the key of the song, pick a tempo, and start placing notes. The music theory behind it is very solid (I assume - I know very little about music theory). You can also have the game generate chord progressions and harmonies based on key signatures that you choose. It's extremely impressive overall. The max

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