Timewaster's Guide Archive
Games => Video Games => Topic started by: Spriggan on October 06, 2005, 12:55:02 AM
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November 14th! Yea! If you don't have a wireless connection you can get a usb DS "wireless card" for your computer and then the DS will use that connection.
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2005/news/10/05/wifi_screen001.jpg
So now I've got Mario cart (and that) to buy in a month, considering my shinny new Castelvania game (which reviewers are calling as good or better then Symphony of the Night) I've boughten more games for the DS in the past few months then any other system. So glad I got this instead of a PSP.
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wtomfrpg13!1! is that thing suppose to do?
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That's a DS wireless usb card. Basically it for connecting to the net if you don't have a wireless router, you plug it into your PC and the DS then connects to the net via that instead.
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Oh, how rad. I may have to get a DS now and look at... ummm, stuff on the library's wireless connection. Yeah. But that's cool.
When did you start going to school Sprig? Are you going back for something?
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I started this semester in Multimedia design.
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So the DS doesn't like my router at home, or something like that. It can connect to my router (and my router shows the DS as a connected device) but that's about it. The DS cannot connect to Nintendo's servers for what ever reason. Supposedly most Netgear router's are having this problem with Nintendo.
It's the first week so I expected some problems, was just hoping it would work. Mario Cart is a fun single player game but I'd rather play vs people instead of bots.
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I'm not sure how soon your router will "like" Nintendo DS wireless. From what I've read, there are very few routers the DS wireless DOES like. This might be intentional on Nintendo's part, as you can shell out $30-40 for a Nintendo USB wireless router thing (I don't think that's the technical name for it, though) that is supposed to work just great. Kind of a cheap trick, but nothing consoles haven't done to us before.
As a sidenote, I read an article on Gamespot today that said that Mariokart wireless was having trouble with interference from microwaves, other computers and the like. That's a problem I think they'll be able to fix soon--but for now they have the genius idea of turning your microwave and computer off . . .
(And once I get my copy of Mariokart, I'm looking forward to going out in the world and proving my skills as a player. I'll post my "friends" code here so that people can try to beat me. Go ahead. I double dog dare you.)
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Na, it's not anything on purpose. Nintendo and Netgear have both said they're working on fixing the problem with their routers. If Nintendo wanted to force people to buy their USB adapter don't you think they'd actually be selling it in stores? You can only buy it via their on-line store.
I was thinking it was a firewall problem, but I've tried disabling it as well as adding my DS's IP to the DMZ and that doesn't work.
As for the routers DS doesn't like, that list is for only how hard it is to initially set up the DS for wireless with once you get them configures they work like any of the routers the DS does like.
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Here's the kicker, it works beautifully at work, though the CT's Wifi only covers the back of the hotel so I can't play it at the front desk. >:(
It took all of 30 seconds to connect and configure.
Anyway here's my friend code
493980-785524
I'm going to try and play a game or two at work once it gets slower.
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Well I got 2 games in (4 tracks each) and it's much better then single players. I won my first match and then tied for first on the second on.
A few thoughts, it's very simple there's not any game options for the wifi matches. ie you cannot set how many races in a game, it's always 4, nor do you have much choice in who you play unless you're using the friends options. The game just automatically selects opponents for you.
It is sad that some of the best courses aren't available in the wifi do to lag issues, there are lots of things going on in them, and that there is no VS matching for wifi that I've seen. So it means you can only race and not battle.
I kinda like having no chat features or communication between opponents, it means you don't have to deal with all the stupid banter from 12 year olds, though it would be nice if friends could chat via the microphone or typing.
Now I just need to come up with a cool TWG icon for my racer.
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Just bought my own DS. Got Mario Kart and Animal Crossing: Wide World. My Kart Friend Code is: 386608-292219
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I just bought Nintendo's Wifi USB so I'll be on it on weekends.
Just added Gemm to my friend list too.
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Gemm doesn't exist.
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Yeah... kind of lost my Mario Kart cartridge. Damn things are so small. I don't play much of Animal Crossing anymore either. It's kind of lost its novelty for me. Hopefully there'll be something new out soon that'll bring me back.
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Hey Gemm, is they a way I can get your AC:WW friend code? I need a code so I can open my gates and get access to the downloadable content. If you can PM it to me that would be much appreciated.
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There's a website where I have it posted... forget what it is though...
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*groan*
Guess I won't get today's unique item. It's kind of stupid that you cannot connect to the Wi-Fi if you don't have someone's friend code because that's the way you get updates, special NPC visitors and gifts from Big N.
Well if you happen to remember where you posted it, or if you find your DS (since its on there) let me know. Thanks.
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Wow, not only is the DS getting VOIP but now it's getting the Opera Web Browser but also a TV tuner.
Have no interest in the TV tuner but I'm all for a web browser, especially if there's a DS enabled version of Flash for it.
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Hmmmm, what? How will the DS run this thing without something like a memory stick or a flash drive?
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It's supposed to be through the DS game slot. Plug one cartridge in, and you've got a browser. Plug another in, and you've got TV. That sort of thing.
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Also the webbrowser will come with a ram expansion that slides into the GBA game slot.
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Sweet. I hadn't heard that bit.
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Links? Are links to hard to support your claims with? I ask of you!?
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Ask and you shall receive
http://www.dsfanboy.com/2006/02/17/ds-web-browser-comes-with-ram-expansion/
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And consume!
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Ok Spriggan, I've finally gotten the internet in my apartment, however, the encryption I use from my router is WPA. The DS however can only work with a WEP encrytped network. A friend of mine was over trying to make it work but he could only get one or the other working with the network.
Any ideas? I'd really hate to have to buy the USB Wireless DS thingy.
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Nope, it's WPA only. I know people were complaining about this before on Nintendo's forum and all that was offered was to switch encryption methods.
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OK, I've gotten the wireless to work with my laptop and DS. I've been playing a lot (or at least more than I usually do) of Mario Kart and have found that in every match 2 out of my 3 opponents will drop out, I will never come in first in any race, and drifting is a horrible concept that ever japanese kid has taken avantage of.
I wish there were an option to turn it off in races. People might actually be able to have some fun without destroying their wrists shaking the DS to get that boost as they come around a corner. Stupid freaking "updates" to classic gameplay.
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I don't have MarioKart DS yet--hope to soon--but hasn't drifting always been a part of it--at least as far back as the N64 version, I remember using it.
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Mmmm, I haven't really adamantly played any of the Mario Karts since the SNES days. That one I played to death. (Seeing if the Wins total in battle mode could get to 100. Which it doesn't. Just rolls over 99.)
I never really played the N64 or Gabecube versions.
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Drifting isn't bad, you get use to it. As for those that drop out take heart to know that they get penalized for it, dropping out counts as loosing the match on your stats.
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I will have to disagree. Drifting brings in the class of button mashers that is always associated well with fighter games like Capcom vs. SNK and Street fighter (although if I remember correctly SF was actually well done).
Drifting is for those over-eager gamers who love to push buttons faster than they can think of what would really happen were they to tap their pencil too hard on a test paper.
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I don't know--for me, drifting makes the game have something a bit more than simple steer and shoot. It adds some more skill, and I've always liked it. Then again, I've never played it without it.