Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Yoshino

Keizo Ohta

Kenji Nishida

Yoshitaka Yasumoto

Masato Ibuki

Kenichi Sugino

Teruki Murakawa

Soichi Yamamoto

Ryuji Umezu

Yutaka Iijima

Kentaro Kobayashi

Yuichi Shiro

A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a touch-sensitive display screen and a variety of input devices. The input devices can include shoulder buttons located on a peripheral side surface of the main body, as well as input devices located on the main body adjacent the touch-sensitive display screen.

Game console

An example portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a first display screen, and a cover body incorporating a second display screen. The main body is hingedly connected to the cover body along adjacent forward and rearward edges, respectively, such that the cover body is movable between closed and open positions. The main body is provided with a plurality of control buttons and a pair of game card slots for receiving game cards of different dimensions. One of the game cards is substantially square and comprises a substantially flat card body having a plurality of electrically conductive terminal strips adjacent the forward edge. One of the side edges of the card has a single continuous step configuration along substantially the entire length dimension of the card. A first notch is formed in a first forward corner of the card where the forward edge meets the other of the pair of side edges and a second notch is formed along the other of the pair of side edges, between the forward and rearward edges.

Game console and memory card

An example portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a first display screen, and a cover body incorporating a second display screen. The main body is hingedly connected to the cover body along adjacent forward and rearward edges, respectively, such that the cover body is movable between closed and open positions. The main body is provided with a plurality of control buttons and a pair of game card slots for receiving game cards of different dimensions.

A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a first display screen, and a cover body incorporating a second display screen. The main body is hingedly connected to the cover body along adjacent forward and rearward edges, respectively, such that the cover body is movable between a closed and open positions. The main body is provided with a plurality of control buttons and a pair of game card slots for receiving game cards of different dimensions. One of the game cards is substantially square and comprises a substantially flat card body having a plurality of electrically conductive terminal strips adjacent the forward edge. One of the side edges of the card has a single continuous step configuration along substantially the entire length dimension of the card. A first notch is formed in a first forward corner of the card where the forward edge meets the other of the pair of side edges and a second notch is formed along the other of the pair of side edges, between the forward and rearward edges.

A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card or other device is selectively connectable to the portable game system via in insertable connection port.

Memory card for a game console

A portable game system includes two display screens, at least one of which is touch-sensitive. A memory card is selectively connectable to the portable game system.

Game console and emulator for the game console

In each odd-numbered frame, a game image generated by a three-dimensional image processing unitis supplied to a first LCD, and then a game image identical to the generated game image is stored in a first VRAM. Also, a two-dimensional image processing unitsupplies the game image stored in the immediately-preceding even-numbered frame in a second VRAMto a second LCD. On the other hand, in each even-numbered frame, a game image generated by the three-dimensional image processing unitis supplied to the first LCD, and then a game image identical to the generated game image is stored in the second VRAM. Also, the two-dimensional image processing unitsupplies the game image stored in the immediately-preceding odd-numbered frame in the first VRAMto the first LCD. With this, in a portable game machine including two display units, different three-dimensional game images can be simultaneously displayed by a single three-dimensional image processing unit on the two display units without flicker on the display screens.

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Kyoto, Japan

Hiroshi Yoshino