That sounds mental and cool!

How is this dark magic supposed to work?

I always thought magnets + hardware = bad things? Or is that just hard disc drives and CRT monitors?

Hey, I submitted that news!

Woo!

This looks delicious. I love Wicca and magnets! Hooray!

so are kids gonna be climbing power lines for the sake of a Treasure-Gaustian version of mew?

meh, call me when they start utilizing radioactive gamma rays.

I don't even know what to say to this.

DaveKap: The danger of magnets around hardware is real, but quite overstated. With hard drives and other magnetic memory, there is a risk of altering the data on the drive with the use of a magnet, but it would take a very strong magnet to do so. As for CRT monitors (and TVs), magnets do pose a problem, as they can decalibrate the electron gun (I swear I'm not making this up!).

But as far as a DS cartridge, I don't see much risk, especially as I imagine this game is set to pick up on the smaller magnetic fields, not those of earth magnets and MRIs. I think the choice of magnetic fields as the games "randomizer" is actually pretty clever.

@Davekap

Nope you are 100% correct! Magnets and electronics equals bad news unless you are talking speakers. You can do some funky stuff with magnets and electrons and guess what computer chips use to send information...yep electrons.

I guess you wouldn't put this near a drive platter either....how wierd. Maybe the magnetic field detector is simply ultra weak or ultra sensitive

Much like how I cheated in Boktai by using a UV lamp, I will now cheat in this game using a Neodynium magnet.

It'd be cooler if it had a huge electromagnet that would turn on in time with the game so you could dodge flying metallic objects while playing for extra realism.

Looks like a magnet pro/con debate is brewing. First one with a PhD in physics to respond gets my blind faith.

If you show mastery over the system, do you unlock Magneto?

Actually TomSkylark, shouldn't that be anyone with a Masters in Electrical Engineering?

Did anyone else have Barcode Battler or something similar? I could never get any barcodes to work.

Barcode Battler is awesome; I still HAVE one. I got it only a few years ago, because I couldn't when I was younger. Nostalgia is wonderful.

I love this idea (since clearly I also love the Barcode Battler idea), but I can see kids managing to seek out magnetics powerful enough to screw with their systems. It will be hilarious.

I wonder if this game is gonna be called 'the Brain Tumor Game' in the future, and if we will all wonder how stupid people in 2007 were to let their people search out magnetic fields...

"As for CRT monitors (and TVs), magnets do pose a problem, as they can decalibrate the electron gun (I swear I'm not making this up!)."

In theory, it stands to reason, since the electron gun is mounted in a fixed position, and magnets are used to redirect the electron flow as it passes through the tube. In practicality, yeah, it pretty much works like that. I once held a drink-coaster-sized magnet in front of my TV just to see what effect it would have, and I ended up overdoing it at some point and putting a miscolored blotch over about 1/3 of the screen. Fortunately, waving it in front of the screen really fast had the effect of degausing it, and everything worked fine after that. Now, a friend of mine kept one speaker on the top right of his TV and another one sitting next to it on the left side. His TV had _permanent_ discolored blotches next to those speakers, and no amount of magnet-waving hoodoo was able to change that.

"Looks like a magnet pro/con debate is brewing. First one with a PhD in physics to respond gets my blind faith."

If I tell you that I have a PhD in physics, will you blindly believe me? Cause if so, then yes, as far as you know, I do. :)