Ah, nothing like reading an instruction book to imagine what it will be like to have product in hand. We've got the manual and will be posting it in PDF shortly. Back in a jiff.

OK, sorry for the long delay, we had problems uploading the 3 Meg PDF to our servers.

The DS Lite instruction is a fountain of interesting tidbits and black and white drawings. We're gonna go through it, break it down and highlight, well, highlights. At the bottom of the post, there's the PDF for the manual so that you can download and check it out yourself. Okay, deep breaths. Let's begin.

Several Kotaku commentors have pointed out a new cover over the GBA slot. The manual tells users to "remove cover when using Game Boy Advance Game Paks or Nintendo DS accessories (sold separately). Keep cover in place when not using Slot-2 to prevent contamination from dust or other foreign material."

Living up to its name, the DS Lite has four levels of brightness. To display the brightness, the manual says, "Touch to select from four levels of screen brightness. (Note: Battery will discharge faster on brighter settings.)"

Another interesting tidbit, we noticed that in the HUGE section on the use of the touch screen and stylus, there is no mention at all about that worthless plastic nub on the wrist strap that was designed to be some sort of mutant thumb stylus. So, it looks like they got rid of it.

The biggest let down? Pictochat is still only local WiFi play. Damn. No internet.

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