DS Hardware

Birthday Surprises:
Enter a chat room in PictoChat on the date that you entered as your birthday in the system settings. The message "Happy Birthday! Today is [your name's] birthday!" will appear. Also on your birthday, when you turn on the DS you will hear a different sound.

Nintendo DS Soft Resets:
At any point playing the respective games (DS or GBA) hit the button combination below to return to the Title Screen.

Code - Effect:
A+B+Start+Select - Soft Reset for Game Boy Advance games
L+R+Start+Select - Soft Reset for Nintendo DS games

Tricks when Auto Mode is enabled:
With Automatic Play mode enabled, you can hold START while turning on the system to go back to the main menu. If you have both a Gameboy Advance game pak and a Nintendo DS Cartridge in your system, holding B while turning on the system will skip the Health and Safety warnings and go straight to booting up the Gameboy Advance game in your system.