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| - In the original Game Boy Advance trilogy, which was only released in Japan, the court record uses a scrolling system in which the player cycles through individual profiles and pieces of evidence with the d-pad. The game shows various details on the selected item, and some items can be examined more closely by pressing the A button. The R button serves to flip between the evidence and profiles. The Nintendo DS and WiiWare games introduced an additional mode of browsing through the court record. By default, the player enters into an overview mode in which items are represented as icons. Eight items can fit in each page, and the player can press "left" or "right" on the d-pad or the touchscreen to navigate between pages. When an item is selected, the court record switches to the scrolling system from the Game Boy Advance games. In this detailed mode, the DS and WiiWare games make use of the touchscreen and remote-pointing functionality of the DS and Wii, respectively. "Court Record", "Check", and "Back" buttons are added to the screen to be "pressed", and the player can also "swipe" the court record to show an adjacent item. In the WiiWare games, the court record is accessed through the - button. In DS-specific episodes, every item can be checked, with most being in a 3D examination mode that is similar to "Examine", except the item can also be rotated by dragging one of two dials in the touchscreen. The dials can also be accessed by the d-pad by holding R/-. In the Nintendo 3DS games, the two modes of browsing used in the DS and WiiWare games are combined into a single menu. The player highlights items on an overview menu, and details on a selected item are shown above the menu. In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies, to fit the detailed view into the screen while maintaining the use of the square evidence icons, five items appear in a row on each page. The player can also use the vertical buttons on the d-pad to move between pages. Moreover, during investigations, there is a "Notes" section that provides notes on what is going on in the case and what to do next. The player moves between evidence, profiles, and notes using the shoulder buttons or by pressing the tabs at the top of the touchscreen. In Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, evidence icons are smaller, so that up to eight items can still appear on a single page, but the vertical d-pad buttons are not used to switch pages.
- A court record was a record of legal proceedings. Court records could be invaluable sources of information when performing genealogical research. While researching her ancestor Shannon O'Donnel, Kathryn Janeway preferred such "raw material" sources to various histories of 21st century Earth, as she found them to all be biased. (VOY: "11:59")
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