Ni-Fi: Impressions

[nmaster64]

I've posted a nice lengthy review of my first impressions with the Wi-Fi games over at Nwizard. Check it here.

Also, Mario Kart DS finally convinced my roomate: his PSP will be on eBay shortly and a DS in his hand when the money comes through.
Sony = PWND

I'm sure some of you are aware of my "I'm-very-proud-I-pulled-this-off-in-only-my-first-couple-hours" achievement, seen here. Feel free to try to beat me, I want to see all your names on those boards! Better yet, join my Sk8 Crew and let's PWN the world together!

oh, Nintendo...how I love thee...

[Trentendo™]

"We'll PWN the would together"...
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...Well... good luck with that

[17R3W]

I'm thinking Nintendo has screwed this up pretty bad...
Don't get me wrong, Mario Kart DS works just great, but I have a few problems.
First only 20 tracks and NO battle mode?
But aside from that, it's way to hard to search for friends.
And your limited to a mere 60?
I can see a little blue man on the top screen when I'm playing, but I can't comunicate that I want to play with "whoever" this blue guy is.
Plus, that blue guy can't tell what I'm doing.
Why, Can't I call up a list of all my friend who are online at the moment and see what they are up to?
Why if Nmaster64 is racing his 3/4 race, why can't he tell me that he'll join me after he finishes?

Okay, beyond that, these 60 friends are stored on your cart. Imgine if your MSN list was stored on your computer, and not the net, and everytime you logged on from a different computer you had to re-enter the whole list?

So, if I want to see if Mormon will pwn me as bad in Metroid Prime Hunters as he has in Mario Kart DS, I have to re-enter his friend code (or a brandnew one I guess).

But the biggest problem is they are ingnoring the biggest rule of "Object Oriented Programming" - code reuse.

Every game cart has to have all the software for the wifi network, and if they want to add picochat or DSpeak to the wifi network, they have to add to the physical game packs.

So, even if MPH has picochat, Mario Kart DS still won't.

[fischju]

Well if you wanted nintendo to release online games next year around the holidays they could add that

[17R3W]

Originally Posted by fischju

Well if you wanted nintendo to release online games next year around the holidays they could add that

If they knew what they we're doing and stoaring things in the firmware and on the online sever, they could do it whenever they want.

For example each one of your connection settings is saved on your game pack. If these setting we're saved on the firmware then anygame could "painlesslly" get to them.

So, if you have 10 wifi games, and 3 servers you use, your going to need to enter "some" info (like the WEP) upto 30 times.

No fun my friend.

And if they do update picochat, the IP-Stack, picochat and all the other wifi stuff will have to stoared in each and every wifi game cart.

What a waste of space. :S

[bignds]

Originally Posted by nmaster64

I've I want to see all your names on those boards! Better yet, join my Sk8 Crew and let's PWN the world together!

oh, Nintendo...how I love thee...

sk8land is worldwide wi fi isnt it? cool, i can join if you'll except my fuzziness

[chuddy_2001uk]

Slightly off the subject but i'll join in later, Nwizard, would you like me to change the title of the thread? Exchange the N for a W...

...or am i just being stupid and it's meant to be like that :S

[17R3W]

Originally Posted by chuddy_2001uk

Slightly off the subject but i'll join in later, Nwizard, would you like me to change the title of the thread? Exchange the N for a W...

...or am i just being stupid and it's meant to be like that :S

Nifi is something else, it's slag for the DS's "bluetooth" like capabilities.
like Nintendo - Wifi : Nifi.

[Frisky_Biscuits]

im not sure if im gonna get mario kart or not

[nmaster64]

Originally Posted by chuddy_2001uk

Slightly off the subject but i'll join in later, Nwizard, would you like me to change the title of the thread? Exchange the N for a W...

...or am i just being stupid and it's meant to be like that :S

Yeah, that was intentional...

I'm just getting tired of writing out "Nintendo Wi-Fi" and figured that was good shorthand, despited the fact that's actually a reference to something different. I'm lazy...(If you want to change it to "Nintendo Wi-Fi" to avoid confusion, be my guest).