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The dream of PictoChat on the Nintendo DS lives on in this iMessage app

PicoChat is an iMessage app that recreates the classic messaging tool pre-installed on the Nintendo DS.

PicoChat looks like a version of PictoChat that’s been squeezed into the lower-third of your iPhone, complete with alphanumeric and emoji keyboards, and controls to change the line weight of your drawings. PicoChat can't fully recreate the small, personal feeling of PictoChat while strapped on top of iMessage, but if you miss the cumbersome, but considered messaging of your DS days, it's a pretty great hit of nostalgia. Alibaba is giving people free access to its generative artificial intelligence models that can produce highly realistic videos and images.

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