Nintendo DS lite "Altium"
Hello everyone,
I recently bought this DS, and I'am courious if anyone have seen this Version before, since I did not found any hints about it online.
The blue logo is professionally printed using the pad printing process.
Only found out, that Altium is an australian software company, design printed circuit boards, and Nintendo is using their software.
Thanks 🙂✌️
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As you pointed out, Nintendo uses them for PCB design, in fact Nintendo uses Altium, Orcad, and Allegro for this. I wonder if this was a gift to Altium perhaps. While the serial is a little strange without a barcode, I have seen DS Lite's without a barcode and similar prefixes before.
If I had to really guess, I'm going with a gift to Altium from Nintendo that simply over time, made it on the streets.
Update:
I contacted the seller and asked for information of the origin of the DS. I was tolded, that it was raffled by altium on a trade fair back in the days.
Thanks for the update! Quite an interesting history then.