Nintendo DSi Sells Out Quickly, Reviews Coming In 72
The Nintendo DSi was released in Japan on Saturday, and the initial production run of 200,000 units has already sold out. 1Up has done some comparisons to the DS, and they have a video feature tour of the new hardware (which, predictably, has already been hacked). The image editing software is reported to be rather bare-bones, and the browsing is slow, but both features could likely be used with games in interesting ways. Nintendo will be launching a series of WarioWare games to demonstrate the DSi's capabilities. The DSi will likely reach North America next summer.
Hello World already running on DSI (Score:4, Informative)
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=113637
Re:Important info missing (Score:5, Informative)
I read on gbatemp earlier that WPA support was indeed there (see thread about Yasus hack/video for the post in question.)
Why shouldn't it work with older games to? I think the network part is rather separated from the games, considering you have to restart the DS between configuration and using the network in Metroid Prime, and it always looks the same.
Re:Important info missing (Score:3, Informative)
I understand that the network layer is not separated in the DS as you would expect. So the GP is correct, WPA will not work with older games *unless* Nintendo do some very fancy tricks to fool the game.
This has been a critism of the system by developers from the start.
Re:no GBA?! (Score:3, Informative)
Because they wanted to remove the extra ARM7 processor, probably.
Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered (Score:3, Informative)
Last I heard, no. This thing apparently kills off support for at least 10 different types of mod/homebrew carts including the R4 ones.
Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered (Score:5, Informative)
Ok, more specifically, the following carts are purported to have been tested and failed on the DSi:
* R4DS
* EZ Flash V
* CycloDS
* G6 DS Real
* M3 DS Real
* Supercard DS One
* iTouch DS
* FCard
* NCard
* M3 DS Simply
* U2DS
Re:Important info missing (Score:3, Informative)
A rapidly shrinking majority, if it's not already a minority of potential DS + WiFi users. At least here in the UK the biggest ISPs now ship pre-configured wireless routers with WPA enabled out-of-the-box. That means DS, DS Lite, and perhaps DSi owners with older games will have to have to reconfigure their router and every one of their computers and other devices to make the DS work. People are not indifferent to having to do stuff like that. Not supporting WPA in the DS has been an epic fail for Nintendo.