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The Nintendo DS can emit radio waves that can affect the operation of nearby electronics, including cardiac pacemakers. • Do not operate the Nintendo DS within 9 inches of a pacemaker while using the wireless feature. • If you have a pacemaker or other implanted medical device, do not use the wireless feature of the Nintendo DS without first consulting your doctor or the manufacturer of your medical device.
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Shih Tzu Beagle Boxer Chihuahua Cavalier K C Spaniel Pembroke Welsh Corgi Miniature Pinscher Labrador Retriever Spend some quality puppy time with Nintendogs! Train your pup, walk it, and enter it into tournaments... Isn't everything in life better with a puppy?
Starting a New Life With Your Puppy Insert the Nintendogs Game Card into your Nintendo DS and press the POWER button. When the Nintendo DS start-up screen appears, touch the screen. On the system menu, touch the Nintendogs panel to begin your new life with a puppy.
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After you bring your new puppy home from the kennel, follow the on-screen instructions to name your puppy using your own voice and text. It is important to hold the Nintendo DS about six inches from your face and say the name clearly into the microphone. If you pronounce the name the same way each time, your puppy will understand it better.
Interacting With Your Dog Touch Screen Touch the icons that appear on the Touch Screen to access the different menus. + Control Microphone Adjust the camera Use the microphone to call Change the camera's target on the angle on the Home your puppy's name or say Home screen.
Living With a Dog The Home Screen Touch a dog icon to zoom in on View info about your puppies that dog on the Top Screen. and save your progress here. Touch it once more to zoom out. Save (pg. 9) Supplies List (pg.20) Touch this icon to access your many dog supplies.
Training Your Puppy Through careful training, you can teach your dog to perform a variety of tricks. You can train your dog from the Home screen (pg. 16) and on the interaction screen (pg. 17). At first your puppy will only be able to do simple tricks, but if you spend time with it, it can learn a wide array of tricks.
Supplies & Toys It is important to get familiar with your pet supplies early on to take proper care of your dog. To access your supplies, touch the icon on either the Home screen or the interaction screen. Then just choose the type of supply you want, and then the particular supply you want to use.
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One of these is the white record, which you can use to record your own voice message. Your recorded voice message will be sent to other Nintendogs owners when you communicate wirelessly with them via Bark Mode, so be sure not to record personal information (pg. 32).
Going Shopping Touch the on the Go Out menu to go shopping. Next, just touch the icon for the store you want to visit. Go Back Pet Supply You can purchase all the supplies you need at the Pet Supply store. Interior Decorator Select a new decor for your home here.
Walking the Dog Touch the icon on the Go Out menu to choose a route and take your puppy for a walk. You can have a lot of fun exploring the town together. Choose Your Route Use the stylus to draw the route Return to for your walk on the map.
Life With a Dog Contests Touch the icon on the Go Out menu to enter your dog in one of three different types of contests: obedience trials, agility trials, and disc competitions. Each contest has five different levels of competition. When you place in a contest, you’ll move up to the next level.
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Disc Competition This is a competition to see how many points your puppy can earn by catching discs you’ve thrown within a given time limit. The points earned for catching the disc depend Slide the stylus to on how far the disc was thrown. throw the disc.
On the Go Out menu, touch the icon to communicate wirelessly with another Nintendogs owner via Bark Mode. To do this, you simply put your Nintendogs Game Card into wireless mode, and then when you pass by another Nintendogs owner in wireless mode, you will automatically communicate.
Touch the icon to change the name, birth date, comment, or trainer icon used in the game. Initially, the information in your Nintendo DS system settings will be used automatically, but even if you change your trainer info, it will not affect your Nintendo DS system settings. The information you’ve input will automatically get sent to another trainer when you communicate with them wirelessly in Bark Mode.
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Sleep Mode. In some cases, the PictoChat chat room you’ve found may become inactive before you are able to switch from Nintendogs to PictoChat. Please refer to your Nintendo DS hardware instruction booklet for help using PictoChat.
What personality your dog ends up with will be affected by you, its trainer. When I use a different Nintendo DS system to play Nintendogs, I can't go for a walk or enter any contests...
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Staff List GENERAL PRODUCER UI PROGRAMMING Shigeru Miyamoto Yuzuru Ogawa PRODUCER Hiroyuki Kono OBJECT/UI PROGRAMMING Hideki Konno DIRECTOR Soichi Nakajima OBJECT/WIRELESS SYSTEM Kiyoshi Mizuki SYSTEM DIRECTOR PROGRAMMING Takayuki Shimamura Yasushi Ebisawa DOG/SCRIPT DIRECTOR DESIGN DIRECTOR Kunio Watanabe Junji Morii OBJECT/WALKING-MODE 3-D DESIGN DIRECTOR Michiho Hayashi...
Nintendogs Game Card One for each player Steps 1. Make sure that all DS systems are turned off, then insert a Nintendogs Game Card into each system. 2. Turn on the power of all the systems. The DS menu screen will appear.
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Cross Over to a Brand New World Live an alternate life in this all-new sequel to the wildly popular Nintendo GameCube game. Join up to three of your friends in the same virtual town and interact in real time — either through wireless LAN or over the Internet.
NINTENDO AUTHORIZED REPAIR CENTER will repair the defective hardware product or component, free of charge. The original purchaser is entitled to this warranty only if the date of purchase is registered at point of sale or the consumer can demonstrate, to Nintendo's satisfaction, that the product was purchased within the last 12 months.
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