The DS lite is a very glossy, almost mirror finish. This is not too noticeable on the white one, but very noticeable on the black one. You will want to try and find a hard case if you get the black one so that you can keep it (looking) clean and for that surface to not get scratched.
I myself was going nuts about trying to keep my baby clean up until today when I finally was able to find and buy a hard case for the DS that came in this Transformers-themed accessory set. The kind of case I'm talking about generally is sold with like a set of inserts to 'theme' your DS in such a manner, but honestly, I just wanted the clear case by itself. Either way, I bought it, it looks great, and will allow the codebreaker for DS to fit no problem :)
The DS lite has more brightness settings than the original DS, which comes in handy if you - like me - decide to take it out on a bright and sunny day while waiting for the bus. Those screens are next to impossible to make out in the sunlight unless you have the brightness turned up to (near) max. I'd imagine it could be worse with the original DS because it only had one real backlight setting - on or off.
The only cosmetic nit-pick that I have with the DS lite is that in making it smaller than the original DS, it also makes GBA games stick out considerably, and this is more of a potential problem with larger cartridges (like those that have built-in rumble, or the built-in light sensor for Boktai, or if you use a Gameshark/Action Replay for your GBA games).The games work no problem; it's basically just that they kinda stick out like a sore thumb, aesthetics-wise.
Do you need to buy an adapter? It depends.
If you have a wireless router and can (or are) using WEP encryption already (or have an unsecured network :o !! ), more oft than not, you can then connect to it for Wi-Fi enabled games fine. Some routers (if you look up Nintendo's list) are unfortunately incompatible no matter what you do, and in my case, I needed at least the Wi-Fi connector because I wasn't about to downgrade our wireless network's security for ONE device.
The Wi-Fi in the DS lite I believe is 802.11b, so it on its own has some pretty good range if you decide to use a .11g router at least. The Wi-Fi connector itself though is closer to around 30 ft. in real-world use. If you're lucky to live near a Nintendo Wi-Fi hotspot, you can also connect to that, too.
In my case, the biggest pain was trying to get the Wi-Fi connector to play nice with Comodo Firewall Pro. Thing about Comodo is that it uses both a network-based firewall, and an application-level firewall, so in addition to allowing the Nintendo app to run and connect to the internet, I also had to go in and forward a few ports within the firewall application itself to allow me to successfully connect with the firewall enabled. Comodo has some obscene protection capability, which I'm grateful for, but man, trying to figure out what to do up untili someone can point you in the right direction makes it very frustrating. :oops:
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