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.
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.
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.