The game Sally’s Salon is inspired by the likes of Diner Dash and Burger Rush, and has Sally as the main protagonist. Sally for one has pretty humble roots, but nevertheless has big dreams in the sense that she wants to open a chain of swanky salons, hold your breath Hollywood! She has finally managed to open her first beauty salon after toiling for years through training and saving her money. Now she is determined to make her dream a reality.

The main theme of the game is to keep the customers happy and give them the haircut that they long for. You will be provided clues about how the customer is feeling about a particular haircut through their peculiar facial expressions. You however, have to be astute enough to understand the message that the expressions convey and use the same expressions to give the customers the correct haircut.

Every customer has his own set of requirements, but you can identify what they want via the bubble that appears above their head. Quite interestingly, you have to drag each customer to a specific chair with the mouse to serve their requirements. It is of utmost importance that you gratify the customers with your services as it will ultimately culminate into cash money and useful tips that will come in handy when moving through the various levels. Using cash you can improve the salon by buying new pieces of equipment like a coffee machine to brew beverages that restore hearts to customers. You can even buy uniforms for Sally which will enable her to move faster! All these factors will ultimately help Sally fulfill her desires.

One of the game’s attractive features is that it is not overly difficult and yet keeps you involved with a good dose of challenges. Moreover, once you get caught in this delicate little game time will just fly!

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The DSLinux Wiki provides detailed info on how to install, configure, and use DSLinux. This is important because the DS Linux supports the Wi-Fi functionality in the DS; not withstanding some good games in the offing like Tetris and sudoku (yes, that’s the one everyone seems to be hooked up with!).

If your insatiable gaming appetite isn’t satiated yet and craves for more fun, there are quite a few quality open source games for Nintendo DS, including WordUp, Lemmings DS, and Explosion of an Aeroplane.

We had already mentioned DSorganizer as a must have application or accessory on your DS which can help you organize; has a calendar and also a browser to help you connect to the Internet. Moonshell media player is a popular application that supports all common audio and video formats, and even comes with a handy video encoder (can be operated on windows only). Wanted to control remote machines with your Nintendo DS like you do with your laptop or paml-helds? Perhaps you should consider looking at DSVNC, which is a VNC client that allows you to just that.

Open source software can indeed unleash the beast in your rather humble game player if you could harness its power. This is by no means an exhaustive list a mere search online would help you discover more potent applications that can perhaps redefine gaming devices for you.

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