💿👾DS Tour !!! 👾💿
Welcome to my DS tour! I’m using this as a fun little opportunity to show off my DS, as well as to mark the 8 year anniversary of me owning it.
My DS is a New Nintendo 2DS XL in white and orange, and I received it as a gift for my 11th birthday. I was so pleased to get it, as I’d been wanting to play animal crossing new leaf for what had seemed like forever, and tomodachi life and miitopia seemed super exciting too!
Since then, I’ve totally fallen in love with the DS family of handheld devices. I even had this happen all over again when I hacked my DS and realised truly just how much it could do.
Overall, this has accumulated to about 3400 hours of play time on my DS. And I regret nothing !!!!! It’s been a really great time, truly.
Unfortunately, Tumblr only lets me post 10 photos at a time, so this is going to be posted in many parts instead of as one big chunky post, however once the full tour is done I’m gonna upload the whole thing to the 3DS fanatics community so please feel free to go and read from there (hello 3DS community I love you) !!!!
Anyways, without further ado let’s get into this!
This is the case I keep my DS in! It’s a Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth themed case which was an exclusive with the special edition of the game back in the day. However, I got mine off of eBay as I don’t buy physical copies of 3DS games anymore. It’s a really nice case, and it does a good job of keeping my DS safe. I’m really happy with it :)
These are the keyrings on my case btw !!! The pop it one was gifted to me by my old college teacher, and the rest are all bought from small artists !!! My draculaura and KAITO keyrings are from @channyluart (whose stuff I actually adore so so so so much absolutely beautiful) and my old woman yuri keyring is from @sjonni33 my beloved mutual who will be mentioned again later on >:3
Here is my other case, modelled after my beloved favourite yokai, komasan !!! I use my komasan case for when I’m going out because he has straps so he can be used as a bag (not pictured because omg they are so difficult to take pictures of lol), so I take him for any time outside where I’m not carrying a lot but I’m bringing the 3DS with. He’s actually the most cutie patootie ever I cannot :’)
And here is the keyring on the komasan case, courtesy of the wonderful @doriandotexe !!! I’m actually deadly obsessed with this keyring it’s beautifulllllllll
And these are my cartridges !!! I actually have 2 more: steeldiver and tomodachi life, however I never use them so they don’t live in either of my cases. I don’t play steeldiver because it’s not really my type of game, and I don’t use my tomodachi life cartridge as it’s incompatible with the gay mod. Out of these three I’d say my favourite is miitopia, it was a game I was so excited to play when I first got it, and even though I’ve never actually finished it, I love the vibes it gives off and the updated mii maker colour options I am so obsessed with the options it gives me lol.
So, now it’s time to open up the case !!! I’m sure we’re all very excited about what’s inside.
I love the inside of this case sooooooo much dude like the black and purple just looks so good. Ofc I have a bisexual pin not because it fits the colour scheme but just in case I forget my sexuality whilst playing fire emblem /j the little pocket to hold all my games is so epic too !!!!!
Here it is empty as well because I love koromaru :] actually iconic
And here she is, the DS herself !!! Back in the day I used to stick my stickers straight on, but now I acknowledge my own indecisiveness and I keep all the stickers under a protective case. Gives me peace of mind about worrying the DS will break too, even though it’s already been abused to high heavens lol. The case I have is a TPU one from Zedlabz, who are my personal faves for 3DS cases and replacement styluses if you’re interested.
As for the accessories themselves, the majority of my stickers ( I 🩶 yuri, burger pikmin, both fishies and the pink and purple birthday themed stickers) are once again made by my bestie mutual @sjonni33 !!!!! I love these stickers so much it is actually immense. Unparalleled swag.
My mii need a break sticker (absolutely fantastic I know) is from @poison-p1nk and perfectly encapsulates my emotions at any given second. I’m just a mii who needs a break dude…
Most unfortunately, I cannot remember who made the Miku charm/sticker, or the Misa one :’( of any of you know please let me know !!!
The tarot card on the top half of my DS I actually found in a library book, and then I lost it and found it again in a library book, so I like to keep it there with me :] I think it’s cool that life can be like that.
The picture of Dan and Phil is a photocard that I got from their tour, and beside it is a piece of confetti that I stole from the stage lol.
I also wanted to mention this since I haven’t seen anyone else do it !!! The 2DS XL is the only DS to my knowledge that has no charm loop. Obviously not the end of the world, it just feels like it lol. I see a lot of people looping their charms around their clear cases, but I really don’t like that personally as it makes the case fit weird. So, what I opted to do was loop my charm around the little hole in my stylus :) it doesn’t fit into the stylus hole the same way it used to, but it’s still fully functional and I’m really happy with it.
And now to open my DS !!! Apologies for the background change, I did not know until I’d taken all the pictures that the room in which I was in had way too much sunlight to make anything on the screen visible :’) anyways, this is the beginning of what I think is a pretty strong theme on my DS of yuri, Death Note and Dan and Phil. This is my favourite splash screen on themeplaza. I love it even more than the one I made myself (link here btw if you want a Destiel confession splash screen) it just looks so ozzing coooooool
Now for the Home Screen! The theme I am currently using was made just for me by my lovely friend @ozzycide isn’t that so special :] it’s mitsuaya from the green yuri guys holy shitttt
Thank you to Ozzy also for the Maya fey plush badge, I’d recommend checking out their themeplaza profile here it’s all peak over there.
Here I’m showing off some of my favourite games. I’ve been sure to get at least one from each page so y’all can see every single game I have on here !!! If you’re unsure as to what any of them are tho feel free to ask :]
And here are some snaps from my animal crossing town :333 animal crossing new leaf is the game I’ve spent the most hours on, currently at about 1262. I’ve had this town for about 2 and a half years, and that time has been where the majority of these hours have come from. Infact, for the first year that I had this town, I played for a year straight without skipping a day and amassed 700 hours !!!
My villagers, in order of appearance on the map from left to right, are: Diana, Bam, Zucker, Pekoe, Julian, Keaton, Marshal, Lobo, Rosie and Muffy !!! They’re my selected faves after years of playing. I can’t lie though I’m a real hater when it comes to Al, Alfonso and Rodney. They’ve all ruined my shit evil style time after time. They still have the audacity to rock up to my town like nothing happened. Absolutely abhorrent.
Anyways, I hope that y’all like the shadow the hedgehog face cutout standee, and hopefully I’ll be able to show some people around properly when pretendo get the dang servers back up !!!!! :)
Some of my favourite games I’ve played on my DS are in the ace attorney series !!! Ace attorney trilogy was one of the first games I downloaded on my DS when it was newly hacked, and I became absolutely hooked. In fact, it was the game that made one of my friends cave and buy a 2DS, lol. I’m currently on the great ace attorney, and I’m really enjoying it !!! I miss Kazuma tho :’( but despite that it’s been so fantastic playing this game and getting to have ace attorney from a whole different perspective with a whole new vibe and play style. Just fantastic, and looks totally stunning too.
Also contrary to popular opinion I fucking love the 3D ace attorneys ???? Dual peakstinies and spirit of peak ???
And this is my persona Q2 save !!! I’ve literally JUST finished the game, I completed the story and then went back to beat the reaper/velvet siblings’ asses. I know I took forever to beat it but that’s just my vibe okay I take forever for everythingggggg.
As you can see, the team I used was Akihiko, Shinjiro, Yosuke, Kotone, Naoto and Fuuka. I didn’t use any of them for a particular reason beyond really liking their characters lol. If it’s worth knowing btw I also played on hard mode !!! Big step up from easy for OG Q lolz. Also some insight into how I map I know literally nobody else does it like this but <3 I’m special okayyy
Yokai watch is a game I’ve always had a lot of love for, but never properly played until this year. I used to watch the anime on Nintendo anime channel back when it still worked, and I had the bony spirits demo, but this was my first opportunity to properly play through the games, and now I’ve completed both ykw 1 and 2 (psychic specters) !!!!! I can’t wait to start playing the third one :)))
My team in yokai watch 2 is consisted of: arachnia, shadow venoct, dracunyan, sailornyan, komajiro S, and damona.
And here’s a couple fun little bits from my fire emblem awakening save :] I wasn’t sure what I would think of fire emblem tbh as it’s different from what I normally go for but I have become OBSESSED !!! Married Lucina ofc because she is swag and started up my beautiful streetpass team the yurinators <333 I have the @unnofficialgayawakening mod so ofc everyone on my team gay asf too love that for them
PROJECT MIRAI DX THE SWAG THAT YOU ARE !!!!! I have so much love for this game. When I was playing on the bus to college every day I swear KAITO lived in the tropical resort for like 2 months lol. These are 2 of my fave songs atm, absolute bopssssss :] gotta love the electric chair mod as well lmfaooo

And here are just a couple fun lil pixx from other games I really enjoy !!!
Gotta love shadow the hedgehog and his boyfriend Tony hawk like what the epic … and ofc his fave food is monster energy.
The Kira game I don’t really have a full comprehension of bc I skipped the tutorial but it’s still fun to play when I have a couple spare minutes.
And rock band 3 oh my god this is like the most underrated ds game I swear !!! This is the closest you can get to guitar hero on tour for the DS when using any device like a DSi or newer.
I haven’t played a whole bunch of rhythm thief, but god I’m having so much fun with it! The professor Layton vibes, French atmosphere and banger rhythm games are making me feel so hyped for the whole thing. It’s so fun !!!!
And ofc my silly fandom behaviours on the DS >:3 why is this thing surprisingly good for YouTube and ao3 tho ??? I also used to download Dan and Phil videos for the offline video player to watch on my breaks at work lol. Haven’t done that in a while bc I value my storage but it’s such a vibeeeeeee
And here’s my activity log !!! A lot of hours here lol. Just goes to show what my faves have been so far as well :] and how much time I’ve spent using ao3 on my DS but we don’t have to talk about that okayyyyyy
Anyways tho I hope y’all enjoyed checking out my DS, I’m so glad to have shared it with everyone !!!!! It’s my absolute pride and joy so it’s amazing to be able to show off all the ins and outs of it ahsgsgsfsggddhhd. I love being a part of this community of people keeping such an amazing handheld alive, you guys are the best !!! And to have had my childhood device for so long and for it to still be so exciting to use, it’s an absolute pleasure and privilege. To 8 years of my DS !!!!!
