I know the California game legislation is relatively old news by now, but I thought I’d share a relevant experience I had recently: I was talking to the manager at my local EB Games and asked him how the new…

Sure. I’d use the line-in instead of the mic-in, because the mic-in may amplify the signal. And you may want a Y adapter. One male mini audio connector to two female mini audio connectors. That way you can plug in some headphones and monitor what’s playing into the computer’s line-in.

I think it’s a little odd EP doesn’t record compositions. I assume — perhaps incorrectly — that the DS can’t write to the game SD card. But you’d think the compositions could be coded into a representative language that could be easily stored in a small amount of onboard memory. Then again, maybe that’s the idea: it’s different every time.