Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Type	Virtual Console
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release date(s)	Nintendo DS JP May 19, 2005 NA April 16, 2006 PAL June 9, 2006 Virtual Console JP Aug 5, 2015 NA Apr 14, 2016 PAL Jun 13, 2014
Genre(s)
Mode(s)
Input methods	Gamepad
Compatibility	Runs
GameIDs	Missing IDs
See also...	Search Google Wikipedia page

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! known as Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old Is Your Brain? in PAL regions, is an edutainment puzzle video game. It was developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. Nintendo has stated that it is an entertainment product inspired by Tohoku University professor Ryuta Kawashima's work in the neurosciences.

Known Issues

1. Graphical issues - shows additional black bars, pixels and boxes when playing. This prevents the user from seeing the prompt or question so they have to draw a random answer with their stylus and hope they get it correct.

Gameplay Videos

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Testing

Testing
1.27 Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes 1.27.1 Windows 10 USA AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Six-Core Processor Nvidia GTX 3060ti 8Gb Tester01 60 Unplayable On Single-core interpreter on vulkan and opengl It coreinit.OSPanic
2.0 Version OS Version Region CPU GPU Tester FPS Status Additional Notes 2.0-91 Windows 10 Pro USA AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor Nvidia GTX 3090 24Gb RScar77 60 Runs Runs fine on default settings but at 60 FPS it seems to be running faster than native performance. May need to configure to manually slow it down to 30 FPS or otherwise run at 0.5x speed. Also encountered black pixels that blocked questions and prompts, which made me have to guess on my answers during the Daily Training's initial test.