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Merge V.Smile and V.Smile Pocket

The V.Smile Pocket is simply a handheld version of the V.Smile device. It seems to me that the two together make a better article than they do standing alone. -- Zytron 07:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup

Well, I've just actually BOUGHT a V-Smile, and will start to tidy this article up. There's not much information available on the net about these things, but I'll try to link to everything relevant. One thing that I think it's desperatey in need of is a list of games.. I believe there's only about 10 of them, and they all have various age rankings. Technical specs are hard to come by, as well. I _have_ found them before, and will try to find them again. Xrobau (talk) 22:35, 3 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think there may be more, and sadly many have only been released in certain regions. That's how I found out that the V-Smile is region-free: I actually bought a Noddy game from the US whereas my console is a PAL console sold locally. I also have a Care Bears game that was released in Australia, Europe and the US, but not in Asia. You could try searching the V-Tech website for both US and UK- that should at very least provide a list of recently published games for both the North American and European regions. RAM (talk) 14:52, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Processor and technical information

I cannot find any processor or technical information. The v.Smile Flash article claims ARM9 processor but that unit is significantly different. Anyone have a reference to technical information on the v.Smile? So many things are ARM9/XScale now it's hard to find unique architectures anymore. --KJRehberg (talk) 19:40, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

V.Smile is not a game system

V.Smile is not TRUE video game system, but for educational purposes primarily. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.30.21 (talk) 23:27, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The concept that video games are generally supposed to be marketed towards adults is more of a side effect of the kids who had video games marketed towards them in the 1980's being adults in the 2000's. Not only is that an entirely socially-based definition, it's one that has never been nor do I think it ever will be consistent between people or generations. The technical definition of a video game is a game that you play by watching a screen, which even relative to the 80's was still a pretty new invention, and a video game system is defined as being the piece of computing technology specifically created to take all the 1's and 0's on that little hunk of plastic and/or silicon that you bought and turn it into Pac-Man (or Cyberpunk 2077 nowadays). By all accounts of the technical definition, it is a "true" video game system. Kajagoogoo2112 (talk) 03:06, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

08, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

The Games

A starter list of games:

Blues Clues: Blue’s Collections
Bob the Builder: Bob’s Busy Day
Cars
It's Wiggle Time
Kung Fu Panda —Preceding unsigned comment added by Michitakem (talk • contribs) 21:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have Care Bears: A Lesson in Caring and Make Way For Noddy: Detective For A Day. Additionally, I also have the fist generation Cinderella's Magic Wishes (came with the pink first generation V.Smile Pocket) and Zayzoo: An Earth Adventure (came with the V.Smile Cyber Pocket). For the V.Smile Baby, I have Care Bears: Play Day and Learn and Discover Home. RAM (talk) 06:18, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Homebrew games?

Does V.Smile qualify as a education system or homebrew system? I think this console is for homebrew puporses. The Junk Police (reports|works) 01:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

As far as I know, I've never heard of people homebrewing software for it. RAM (talk) 19:27, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I saw at least one guy who went so far as to cracking the file formats for the V.Smile's CD-ROM-based variant, the V.Flash, although there aren't any known warez groups or homebrewers who haxed the console as of now, probably because of its niche status. Blake Gripling (talk) 12:05, 12 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Considering the very clearly high-effort development that went into both this and it's successor, I'd imagine that the games aren't architecturally very different between those two consoles. If someone was able to crack the file format of the V.Flash, I'd imagine it's only a matter of some basic technical engineering or some tracking down of what-pin-does-what on a V.Smile cartridge to get this homebrewed. I can't imagine that they used something other than Flash/Shockwave to program the games on both consoles Kajagoogoo2112 (talk) 03:16, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More games.

I have a V-Smile Motion and 7 games, 2 of them are not listed on here while one of them are in Spanish. The important part is that I have 2 games you can't find on the page:

Action Mania (Made specifically for the V-Smile Motion)

Spider-Man and Friends: Where is HULK? (Extra features with use of V-Smile Smartbook)

You should look it up, just remember to use the term "v smile" or you would get unrelated adult content. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.233.52.144 (talk) 17:39, 26 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know if Source 9 actually counts as a source

I was attempting to look into the both credited and uncredited claims in the "Criticisms" section and upon reading source 9/the 3rd source linked in the "Criticisms" section as I'm writing this, it not only took me a significant amount of time to be able to find why that article was relevant as a source for that claim to begin with, but once I found the quote in question which appears to be where this claim was supposedly sourced from,

"Here is wisdom: No one is going to make a better video game than actual video game developers. Period. Vtech aren’t game developers and the games they put out suck shit like some sort of shit sucking Hoover." [sic]

Is this article really a reliable source for this claim? The entire article linked is stylized along the lines of Buzzfeed articles essentially requoting and posting screenshots of hyper-specific tumblr posts. Hoping for clarification on the matter from a more well-versed user; and if it isn't something considered reliable I am actively (but early) in the process of trying to find a more reliable source for both that quote as well as a source in general for the claim that Disney Interactive was their only 3rd party developer. Which if that is true then I'm 99% sure that not only should it be linking to Disney Interactive Studios instead of Disney Interactive (the former being at the time their game development studio and the latter appearing to not really have been tapping into the video game market in that way during V.Smile's lifespan of 2004-2010), the Disney Interactive Studios article should probably be referred to/linked as "Buena Vista Games" Kajagoogoo2112 (talk) 02:50, 17 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It was released in Korea as well

Old days.

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