I remember pictochat getting banned on my school bus because we were saying bad stuff like “butt” and “ass” and probably drawing pictures of dicks. Ahhh what a time to be alive
Amazing
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This ad is freakishly '90s considering it’s for a DS
Does anyone know how it worked? Did it use something like bluetooth? Iirc the ds kinda had wifi.
Probably wifi. The DS had it but it didn’t work with many routers because it used the old WEP encryption that stopped being supported.
DS had full WiFi, just nothing to do with it unless a game needed it, but yeah pictochat did use that receiver. As far as I know it was a proprietary protocol so not actually WiFi, but same antenna and bandwidth and everything.
I feel like I read it uses ad-hoc capabilities not unlike what’s used on Switch nowadays. Ad-hoc networking isn’t used that much though outside of that for some reason.
Yeah that’s right. No routers needed.
All local wireless gameplay on the DS is the same ad-hoc networking, too. Some games, like Mario kart, could use ds download play which is the same thing but a host would send over full game data before playing, too.
The 3ds also used it for local streetpass.
Nintendo experimented with it a bunch, honestly, although I always felt it was relatively unexploited in the ways they did. DS download was cool though because it was a mobile console’s split-screen gameplay, instead of selling you 4 games to let 4 people play.
America Online Instant Messenger.
But what if the people in my area are not gay and pretty?
Well, there is one person… 🖤❤️
I wish…
Oh yeah let’s all use a proprietary system designed by Nintendo. I can’t see this ending badly…
i don’t exactly know what your point is, but pictochat is entirely local and requires that everyone is close to each other.
Lets not forget that it on a device that has been out of production for over a decade
Chris chan is that you???
Make IRC great again
Let’s go back to “he’s not home, call back later”.
Does pictochat still work?
Yes, it doesn’t rely on online services afaik.
