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Tips and Tricks - How to get Nintendo DS demos via Wii (before they're gone!)

If you downloaded the Nintendo (Marketing) Channel on your Wii and opted in to share your personal usage data, you should get access to some downloadable Nintendo DS demos, right? The only thing is: Where are they?! Yes, in typical Nintendo fashion, these demos couldn't be harder to find - and, on top of that, some are set to disappear Saturday, May 18.

To access DS demos: Launch the channel, click To The Video List and then click Find Titles for You. From there, you'll see a DS Download Service button and the rest is remarkably straightforward considering the Wii's otherwise hopeless UI. One more thing: You might want to hurry up and try some of the titles before they expire this weekend. Once installed, a demo should stay resident in your DS memory until you shut it off, but - unless they extend the date - you won't be able to download any of these demos again:
  • Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
  • Eco-Creatures: Save the Forest
  • Iron Man
  • My Word Coach
  • Spiderwick Chronicles
It's worth noting that several of the more interesting launch day demos are already gone: Cooking Mama 2, Disney Friends, Jam Sessions, Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword and Rayman Raving Rabbids 2. Most demos have pretty limited replay value, but a few - like My Word Coach - you could enjoy indefinitely. Rather than set a limit on the downloads (which hurts their marketing more than our enjoyment, especially considering most people won't even find the DS service until the next channel revision makes it more discoverable!), they really should learn how to make a proper demo. Fortunately, Nintendo does have a few more demos that don't seem to have any drop dead date:
  • Brain Age
  • Brain Age 2
  • Crosswords DS
  • Flash Focus
If they ever figure out a way to offer WiiWare and Virtual Console demos along with a nice, easy-to-access library of on-demand DS samples, Nintendo might actually have a Marketing Channel worth visiting regularly. And I'm guessing that they wouldn't want that any more than an online play system you can actually use...

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