Video: What's it Like Playing DS Games on 3DS?

1UP's 3DS came in from Japan today. While we don't yet have our hands on any 3DS games, that didn't stop Jeremy Parish from unboxing it and running us through its initial start up. He also put the system through a number of tests involving original DS games, including Dragon Quest IX and Contra 4.

Although it might be somewhat difficult to see in video form, the video upscaling that the 3DS enables by default tends to make DS games look pretty bad. Alternatively, you can enable a 1:1 mode that doesn't upscale (thereby avoiding unnecessarily-bad-looking DS games). On the downside, the amount of screen real estate that's used in 1:1 mode is fairly small -- noticeably smaller than the size of the screens on a DSi.

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