Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 11:09:36 AM
Post by: Kunoichi on November 27, 2004, 01:03:05 PM
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on November 27, 2004, 01:21:11 PM
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 02:30:57 PM
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Originally posted by: kirby_killer_dedede
You are foolish03.
Why call me foolish. If your not going to add anything helpful or inciteful into the thread dont reply. Why should I spend five minutes downloading multiplayer maps when I have the cart in my DS. You should be able to host games and have people join up, as well as allow someone who DOESNT have the cart to download the game.
Post by: Mario on November 27, 2004, 02:51:27 PM
Post by: VideoGamerJ on November 27, 2004, 02:51:27 PM
Another begging question that NOBODY has brought up, what the hell happened to the DS alarming you when another DS is nearby. I've tried this and it DOES not do anything.
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 03:10:02 PM
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on November 27, 2004, 03:16:14 PM
Oh...and your last post, Nintendo of America just comfirmed they're first class @$$es, they announced they "didn't have enough time" to encorporate that "automatic wake-up" in the North American build of the DS.
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 03:39:51 PM
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lol...all I was saying was that it's kind of impossible to just randomly start playing a DS game...unless it's already constantly downloading stuff...what is it, foolish? Ten more clams for your DS, or you actually have to press the "Download" button?
Oh...and your last post, Nintendo of America just comfirmed they're first class @$$es, they announced they "didn't have enough time" to encorporate that "automatic wake-up" in the North American build of the DS.
Your not getting it are you. Try and understand as I explain it to you. In mario DS it downloads the multiplayer maps from the other system. If you have two carts that means each person already has the maps(no need to download). Of course when you play wirelessly the two games need to be SYNCHRONIZED. I see no need to download maps you already have inside the system. I never said I want to randomly play a ds multiplayer with someone. Me and my brother both booted up mario. We each went into the game and chose versus. All it does is sit there waiting for players to join. There is no option where one person can host while the other searches for a game. The m hunters demo lets you do this. Instead one person starts up the multiplayer while the other has to exit mario and choose "DS download play". After you choose this it takes 6 or 7 minutes downloading the damn maps. It all boils down to poor game design. Everything else about mario is superb. This is my only gripe.
Post by: joshnickerson on November 27, 2004, 03:59:00 PM
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Originally posted by: kirby_killer_dedede
Oh...and your last post, Nintendo of America just comfirmed they're first class @$$es, they announced they "didn't have enough time" to encorporate that "automatic wake-up" in the North American build of the DS.
Hrm, couldn't this be fixed using a future update patch? Similar to the "Berry Upgrade" for Pokemon R/S?
Post by: VideoGamerJ on November 27, 2004, 04:03:46 PM
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 04:10:39 PM
Post by: nitsu niflheim on November 27, 2004, 04:25:55 PM
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 04:32:33 PM
Post by: Stimutacs Addict on November 27, 2004, 05:13:56 PM
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Originally posted by: foolish03
Too bad Ds doesnt have some type of storage device. If it did we could get patches via the wlan. t
- GBA cartridge slot
developers can use the gba cartridge slot to create much more storage (potentially)
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 05:19:22 PM
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Originally posted by: nitsu niflheim
It has some kind of storage device because it stores the setting you put in when you first turn the system on. If it didn't, then we would be putting in those setting each time we turn the DS on.
Yeah thats the system bios. I know in regular computers you cant add any type of additional programs to it(excluding the new virus' that take advantage of the bad hardware design). The ram has 4mb of memory but that is cleared every time you turn it off. I wonder if nintendo will come out with an add on peripheral(an SD adapter or something like that), that will allow users to download patches and additional stages via the wireless kiosks they say theyll have. That would be great.
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on November 27, 2004, 06:25:53 PM
I thought you were referring to one-card play...sry, my bad.
Post by: foolish03 on November 27, 2004, 07:06:35 PM
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Now I'm getting it :-P
I thought you were referring to one-card play...sry, my bad.
No prob!
Post by: Renny on November 28, 2004, 04:46:25 AM
Post by: Perfect Cell on November 28, 2004, 10:10:37 AM
plus whats the message for then? the one you input when you input your nickname?
Post by: foolish03 on November 28, 2004, 11:02:32 AM
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Are you sure the detect was taken out? IGN said that if its your birth day it will send that to other DS to know that..
plus whats the message for then? the one you input when you input your nickname?
Not sure. I do know that from my own experiance it doesnt work. Me and my brother have a ds and not once did it alet me know another ds was in the area. Ill search to see if nintendo made some official announcements. What I heard was only hearsay so im not for sure if they took it out of american DS's.
Post by: VideoGamerJ on November 28, 2004, 01:12:53 PM
Post by: JGarcia050 on November 28, 2004, 01:38:24 PM
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on November 28, 2004, 03:45:01 PM
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Originally posted by: Perfect Cell
Are you sure the detect was taken out? IGN said that if its your birth day it will send that to other DS to know that..
plus whats the message for then? the one you input when you input your nickname?
My birtday was on the 21st, the same day the DS came out, and I bought it as a birtday present for myself. After turning on the system and setting up all the configurateions, I went to check out picto-chat. Right when I entered a chatroom, a message showed up saying that it was my birthday. I was actually surprised that it did that, although no one else was in the room to care. And yes, the name was the name you inputted for you nickname.
Post by: foolish03 on November 28, 2004, 04:48:50 PM
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I thought that if two people wanted to play a DS game, only 1 person would need to have a cartrigde while the other downloads it. But thats not true. I have Mario 64 DS, Madden, and the Metroid demo, and only mario 64 uses the 1 cartridge download system (i don't know about any other games). You need 2 cartridges for the other 2 games. My brother brought home madden the other day and i was so excited that we can play together via the DS download, but i read that u needed 2 cartridges for multiplayer and was pissed.
It only uses one cart downloads if the developer programs it that way. Im guessing the games with larger multiplayer will not utilize this feature. It might be too much memory for the DS's ram. Marios multiplayer is only four small stages(its still quite fun though). Im not sure why metroid needs two carts to play multiplayer.
Post by: Myxtika1 Azn on November 28, 2004, 09:43:41 PM
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Im not sure why metroid needs two carts to play multiplayer.
I'm guessing that this is only on the demo version. The demo comes free with the DS, so whoever bought the system will have it. Unlike Mario 64 DS, everyone will have the Metroid game, therefore making downloading unnecessary.
I think that the full version of the game will have both single and multi-cart features. That way people can download the maps if they don't have the game, or just start playing for those who do.
Post by: UncleBob on November 29, 2004, 06:32:55 AM
Actually, I suspect we'll be finding out that it's not the "BIOS", so to speak, but "Firmware" - Software that is written within the hardware. And Firmware can be upgrated - if it was initially designed with that in mind.
A system "BIOS", if I'm correct, is also a type of Firmware. In fact, an older computer I had actually had a BIOS upgrade come out shortly before Y2K to upgrade it so it would be Y2K Compliant.
So it's entierly feasible that NoA could release updates in the future (Via NiFi, WiFi or cartridges/cards that upgrade when they're played for the first time).
The thing that would make all of this interesting is to see what "hackers" could do to your system... Just think, someone is downloading what they think is an illegal ROM of Mario's latest adventure, they start up their DS and *blammo* - a $150 paper weight. And, of course, Nintendo wouldn't fix it....
Post by: joshnickerson on November 30, 2004, 02:25:56 AM
Post by: UncleBob on November 30, 2004, 02:58:21 AM
Post by: foolish03 on December 01, 2004, 02:52:23 AM
Post by: AGENTDICKLAURENT on December 04, 2004, 04:56:42 AM
