I am now the proud owner of a DS lite, my third DS lite in fact, I sold the first one a couple of months after buying it because i was bored of waiting for a decent game to appear. The second DS went the same way as the first and was sold because of my chronic boredom with the DS catalogue of games (and also partly due to a lack of money) so i got rid of it and bought an Xbox with the proceeds!

So i have no regrets about my previous periods of DS ownership, I do feel a little embarrassed this time though (and a little pleased too) because i also bought an R4 cartridge... I know that this makes me the devil in some people's eyes but i tried to rationalize it like thus... I've bought 3 DS lites so Nintendo have made a bit of cash out of my easily-susceptible-to-media'd ass and i would never buy a brand new ds game anymore when you can get them pre-owned so Ninty never would have seen any of that money anyway. I don't think video game stores are gonna start dying at any point soon either despite the recession affecting everyone else (RIP Free Radical).

I've spent a lot of time downloading the majority of the DS games that i wanted now (many that i previously owned anyway) so now i have my shiny DS and a decent collection of games. I've also tried a couple of awful games such as Teenage Zombies, English of the Dead, TMNT and Micromachines (to name a few). I was especially disappointed with Micromachines as i have been with every release after having such happy memories of the Amiga and Gameboy versions.

This is my first soiree into pirated games and the like and i'll be honest, i like it. I'm not gonna start modding my Xbox or what have you, it's just that i really don't think that the majority of DS games out on the market are good enough to justify paying £30 for.

So... My list of Illegally procured DS games...

Advance Wars - Dual Strike

Apollo Justice - Ace attorney

Brain Training (1 and 2) I'm a geek i know, but i am terrible at maths and this kind of helps (and being an apprentice engineer i probably should try to brush up on it)

Dragon Quest IV

Elite Beat Agents

Final Fantasy IV

Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings

Grid (not tried this yet, probably wont like it but i am willing to give it a go)

Hotel Dusk - Room 215 (I've wanted to play this for a long time, so it will inevitably be rubbish)

Mario Kart

Mario And Luigi - Partners in Time

Metroid Prime Pinball

My French Coach (hmm yes, lets move on...)

New Super Mario Brothers

Nintendogs (erm... yeah, i've had to allocate a bit of space on my cartridge for a couple of girly games for Dawn)

Pheonix Wright

Pokemon Diamond (Dawn's girly game #2) - I'm not saying that pokemon is for girls, it's just that she likes it and i don't get it...

Professor Layton

Puzzle Quest

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution

Soul Bubbles

Super Mario 64

Teenage Zombies (haven't deleted it yet, the intro was quite nice though)

Tetris

The World Ends With You

Touch The Dead (not tried this yet, I know nothing about it and i'm intrigued, and if you haven't guessed yet; i quite like zombies, so this will inevitably have nothing to do with Zombies)

Trauma Center 1 and 2

Ultimate Spiderman (because i can't say no to spiderman games, even if the other format versions were rubbish)

WarioWare Touched! (Dawn's girly game #3)- This Is a girly game. absolute rubbish.

Worms

Yoshi's Island

That's the list, I would really appreciate any suggestions for games that i should look for, I'm trying to find space for Chrono Trigger but i haven't managed it yet...