Super Mario 64 DS is a Nintendo DS exclusive video game, developed by Nintendo's own internal Entertainment Analysis and Development studio, and published for the portable device by the Japanese company itself, released on November 21, 2004, in North America, December 2, that same year, in Japan, on February 24, 2005, in Australia, and on March 11, 2005, in Europe, as a remastered version of the original Super Mario 64 that appeared first on the Nintendo 64 home console back in the late 1990s.
The new game doesn't try to change the basic mechanics of the extremely popular original, as the gameplay is pretty much unchanged, but the studio did improve on the visuals, by taking advantage of the more powerful DS hardware, while new characters, like Yoshi or Wario, were added besides main hero, Mario, to keep things fresh.
HINTS
More mini-games To unlock more mini games in the rec room, catch a rabbit with the character you want more mini games with. For example, catch a rabbit with Luigi to get another Luigi mini game.
Spike After you have been in Princess Toadstool's (Peach's) room with the big dresser and all the drawers, go outside in the front yard of the castle. You will need to be playing as Yoshi. You will see three rabbits grouped up together. If you go near them, they will run away very fast. Run after them and catch them with your tongue. The rabbit will plead to let it out. You will automatically spit it out. After it complains about you about almost swallowing it, it will give you a key to the drawers, which will unlock more mini games in the rec room for Yoshi. You will get three keys, because there are three rabbits.