Secret DS conference, Online, FF3, and whole bunch of shit...

NOA PR MACHINE GO NOW!

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On Nov. 14, Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Ushers in New Era of Free Wireless Gaming

REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 5, 2005 – On Nov. 14, Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection will begin a new era of easy, social gaming. For the first time, characters from the Nintendo universe will be playable online, as part of a unique wireless community, accessible inside or outside the home. Nintendo DS™ games like Mario Kart® DS, Animal Crossing®: Wild World and Metroid® Prime Hunters will require no additional charge for online play. Each is scheduled to launch in the coming months, along with the first third-party title using Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, Activision's Tony Hawk's American SK8Land, developed by Vicarious Visions.

From home, if the user already has a Wi-Fi network, the Nintendo DS unit will connect directly to it with minimal setup procedures. Those who have a high-speed Internet connection such as cable or DSL, but no wireless network, can use the Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, sold separately, that will plug into a computer USB port to create a wireless access point to connect to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

Outside of the home, players will be able to connect in a variety of ways, including at thousands of free Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots nationwide. More details about these hotspots and how to connect outside of the home will be announced shortly.

Nintendo DS is just the first Nintendo system to connect via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The same service will be incorporated into Nintendo's next-generation home console, code-named Nintendo Revolution, set for release in 2006.

"Nintendo has taken the online video gaming model and rewritten the definition of community," said Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing. "With easy setup and no added service fees, players far and wide will log in and play with one another as easily as if they were sitting in the same room."

Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection will create a welcome, inviting atmosphere where video game players of all kinds can log on wirelessly and begin playing. The service will be used in different ways for different games. In Mario Kart DS, four players at a time can race over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Racers can pick opponents from their roster of friends, match up randomly against strangers of comparable skill levels or simply choose to race against anyone in the world. Mario Kart DS launches Nov. 14.

People who hang out in Animal Crossing: Wild World can travel to other players' towns or invite up to three other players to visit their own towns, simply by opening the town gate. The four players then can interact and play together simultaneously in one town. Players must know one another and register to their respective friend rosters before they can connect. Animal Crossing: Wild World is set to launch on Dec. 5.

Activision's Tony Hawk's American Sk8land will let players compete head-to-head in multiplayer games in a variety of modes. Players also can create custom skateboard art and graffiti tags, and share them with other players via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. The service will track global high scores and stats. Tony Hawk's American SK8Land will launch on Nov. 14.

Games in development include Metroid Prime Hunters, slated to launch in the first quarter of 2006. Players can hook up for play with registered friends, automatch with other players based on a skill-level match or play with anyone; Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection quickly finds the best match with other players online.

The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game systems. Each year, hundreds of all-new titles for the best-selling Game Boy® Advance SP, Nintendo DS™ and Nintendo GameCube™ systems extend Nintendo's vast game library and continue the tradition of delivering a rich, diverse mix of quality video games for players of all ages. Since the release of its first home video game system in 1983, Nintendo has sold more than 2 billion video games and more than 353 million hardware units globally, creating enduring industry icons such as Mario™ and Donkey Kong® and launching popular culture franchise phenomena such as Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere.

For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.nintendo.com.

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Originally Posted by maruchan

I want a ds,now but damnt i want the White one... nitnendo release that here, you released the orignial gba in white...

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IAWTP (I also have the Pearl White SP). But rather than waiting, you could buy one of the available colors at Best Buy and get a 2-year Product Replacement Plan to go with it; Then you can return it as defective and swap it with the color of your choice if/when it comes out.

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Originally Posted by Dylan1CC

Those AC scans are great, thanks Shidoshi, who is the fellow in the pics?

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The game's producer. I'm pretty sure you can only be humans in the game, like the previous versions.

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Originally Posted by Interpol

Why the fuck did I sell my DS? :(

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WHOOPS.

I remember I got my DS mostly so that I could pick up the game my friend worked on, and, you know, maybe one or two other interesting games that might come out for it.

Haha. Had I only known.

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Originally Posted by Nomi

How long have you been using a Mac? Seriously, -never- expect anything to be compatible, just learn to be pleasantly surprised if it is.

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This is why we can't have nice things. That is a shitty attitude. The correct thing to do is annoy the piss out of companies that don't support Macs, until either a) they do, or b) someone else writes drivers/software for that purpose.

What pisses me off is that even if it does work on Macs, I probably won't be able to use it here. I hooked up an Airport Express in my room and my college's shitty IT took me right offline, and after I argued with them for something like an hour, they told me if I did it again I'd be fined. We're allowed up to two machines registered on the network at any one time, but god forbid we use them both at the same time on a properly configured wireless router. Irritating, considering we supposedly have a wireless network on campus, you just can't get reception anywhere.

FF3 looks really nice. Worth the wait for info.
Quick Rundown:
Bleach=!
Online MP:H=!
FFV & FFVI=Double !!

Is that Pokemon Pearl/Diamond I spy among shidoshi's pics?

I'm really glad I bought a DS now.
If the games keep on coming at this pace, which is entirely possible given the relative simplicity of DS development, then I really don't see how the PSP can compete.

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Originally Posted by Grave

What pisses me off is that even if it does work on Macs, I probably won't be able to use it here. I hooked up an Airport Express in my room and my college's shitty IT took me right offline, and after I argued with them for something like an hour, they told me if I did it again I'd be fined. We're allowed up to two machines registered on the network at any one time, but god forbid we use them both at the same time on a properly configured wireless router. Irritating, considering we supposedly have a wireless network on campus, you just can't get reception anywhere.

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There's no way they can detect anything behind your router if you have it configured properly.

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Originally Posted by kedawa

There's no way they can detect anything behind your router if you have it configured properly.

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That's not the problem. The problem is that they detected that it's a router... is there anyway to make it show up as a single computer? Then, perhaps, I could play on XBL and not have to drag the ethernet cable around every time. That'd be cool.

You can start by cloning the mac address of one of the computers, and if that isn't enough, there's plenty of info out there on networking issues.
If worse comes to worse, you can always toss another NIC in a PC and use Internet Connection Sharing.

I guess Nintendo turns up the pressure when they get some serious competition?

EDIT: ... except that theory makes no sense (see: N64, Gamecube).

Now that the online is super official (you know, actual dates have been set and stuff), SNK has NO EXCUSE not to make Card Fighters Clash Wi-Fi compatible.

I want a red DS, but I'm willing to import one if one isn't available by the time Card Fighters Clash Online makes it to the U.S.

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

I guess Nintendo turns up the pressure when they get some serious competition?

EDIT: ... except that theory makes no sense (see: N64, Gamecube).

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Handhelds. They had something like 97% of the market share for handhelds a while back. I guess they're motivated to hold that title.