European Nintendo DS Question

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My parents live in Spain and Im thinking of getting my Mum a DS for Christmas. Had a couple of questions that I want to clear up.

If I get a Spanish DS (So that it has a Euopean plug and it saves me shipping it from the UK) Im assuming as its PAL that UK games will work fine?

What about language settings? Is the DS like the Wii in that they are the sam bar maybe the instructions? I did have a DS last year, but I really cant remember.

Anything else I need to be aware of?
 
Nintendo, I believe, ships all it's European games as 6-in-1. IE, it has language options for German, French, Spain, Italian, English and Dutch/Portuguese (not sure on these two). All manuals would therefore have English in.

When the DS first boots, if memory serves, it gives you language choices (including Jap/Chinese etc) and the games themselves take language settings from the consoles settings like the Wii does.

She may find some games have different names in Spain (stuff like Brain Training, they'll be in Spanish, obviously) but I believe the games will still have English.

As has been said, ALL DS games are region free.
 
The manuals don't have English. The games do contain the 5 in 1 symbol but I have bought about 5 or 6 games here(Germany) with the symbol on them, but the covers and manuals are just for the specific country.
 
I've got a Japanese DS lite, you'd never be able to guess it was as like Syph said, it has language options on first boot.
 
The manuals don't have English. The games do contain the 5 in 1 symbol but I have bought about 5 or 6 games here(Germany) with the symbol on them, but the covers and manuals are just for the specific country.

That's good to know, my girlfriend is currently on placement in Germany and has her DS with her that I bought her last xmas. I told her that she could buy DS games and they should have English on them. When I went to visit we were in Saturn and they had a load of games with German boxes but the games are marked as "EUR".
 
That's good to know, my girlfriend is currently on placement in Germany and has her DS with her that I bought her last xmas. I told her that she could buy DS games and they should have English on them. When I went to visit we were in Saturn and they had a load of games with German boxes but the games are marked as "EUR".

As long as they have the symbol you have nothing to worry about(Nintendo Published games only). In terms of all other games they will usually say if they are German only.

Generally with DS games there isn't a problem as they don't have that many violent games on the DS. Therefore it doesn't have to be altered for the German market, which is usually when they make it German language only.
 
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