It felt wrong seeing the iconic DS logo on the top screen while holding a 3DS. On the home menu, the little PictoChat icon—a hand holding a stylus—sat nestled between Mario Kart 7 and the eShop icon. Leo tapped it with his stylus. The system’s fans didn’t kick up; it didn’t need much power to run a chat room designed for 2004 hardware.

It’s 100% accurate. You get the authentic boot jingle, the pixel-perfect drawing latency, and the ability to switch between PictoChat and other DS apps without installing ten different forwarders.