Nintendo DS Lite: GBA compatibility, screens and battery life
The DS Lite plays DS games and Game Boy Advance cartridges, and its battery lasts up to 19 hours at the lowest brightness. Here is what it supports and how long the battery lasts.
| History | |
|---|---|
| Release | Japan 2 Mar 2006; NA 11 Jun 2006; EU 23 Jun 2006[2] |
| Display | |
| Screens | Two backlit LCDs; lower is a touch screen[1,3] |
| Compatibility | |
| GBA Game Paks | Supported, single-player only[1] |
| Power | |
| Battery life | 15–19 h (lowest brightness); 5–8 h (brightest)[3] |
| Battery wear | May drop to ~70% of new life after 500 recharges[3] |
| Processor | |
| CPU | 67 MHz ARM946E-S + 33 MHz ARM7TDMI (DS family)[2] |
| Memory | 4 MB RAM (DS family)[2] |
| Physical | |
| Dimensions | 133 × 73.9 × 21.5 mm[2] |
| Weight | 218 g[2] |
Game Boy Advance games
The DS Lite has two cartridge slots: one for DS Game Cards and one for Game Boy Advance Game Paks. Nintendo says it’s compatible with the GBA’s entire back catalogue, but in single-player mode only.
Battery
According to the manual, the battery lasts 15–19 hours at the lowest brightness and 5–8 hours at the brightest, depending on the game. After 500 recharges, battery life may drop to about 70% of what it was new.
Note Nintendo’s DS Lite pages have no technical-details table. Processor, memory, size and weight come from Wikipedia’s Nintendo DS article.
The earlier handhelds: Game Boy family compared.
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