Nintendo Ds - Rumor Type Thing
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<div class="IPBDescription">Wireless Repeater? WOO</div> <a href='http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/09/28/2012202.shtml?tid=207&tid=193' target='_blank'>http://games.slashdot.org/games/04/09/28/2...tid=207&tid=193</a>
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> A recent flury of rumors ...
The DS could act as both a wireless 802.11 device and as a repeater hub. In other words, you won’t need a wireless router nearby to get online with these things - you’ll just need someone close enough to connect to, and he’ll be able to connect you to someone just as close to him even if that person isn’t so near you, and so on. Potentially-huge networks of gamers could appear organically and play against one another regardless of pre-installed routers or proximity.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hope to god this is true. It would be so sick-nasty.
Edit: here's a quick link to the thread with all the clues given: <a href='http://www.gamecubicle.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3035' target='_blank'>http://www.gamecubicle.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3035</a>
and here's a quick link to the article: <a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/4182100443364188/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/4182100443364188/</a>
The one at the top is for the slashdot post.
<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> A recent flury of rumors ...
The DS could act as both a wireless 802.11 device and as a repeater hub. In other words, you won’t need a wireless router nearby to get online with these things - you’ll just need someone close enough to connect to, and he’ll be able to connect you to someone just as close to him even if that person isn’t so near you, and so on. Potentially-huge networks of gamers could appear organically and play against one another regardless of pre-installed routers or proximity.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I hope to god this is true. It would be so sick-nasty.
Edit: here's a quick link to the thread with all the clues given: <a href='http://www.gamecubicle.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3035' target='_blank'>http://www.gamecubicle.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3035</a>
and here's a quick link to the article: <a href='http://www.engadget.com/entry/4182100443364188/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/entry/4182100443364188/</a>
The one at the top is for the slashdot post.
Comments
now if only they could support WiMax...
Firstly, ive read some of the rumor threads, and theyre extremely vague, no one has said anything serious about the repeater-inclusion. its vapor as of now. but it would be really amazing.
some people have talked about the range, thinking it could link nets of people for a dozen miles... not true at all. remember these things run on handheld batteries. the repeater will probably have a 25 foot range or less, allowing a group of people in ONE room or building be able to just walk by and sit down and start playing mariokart together.
how awesome would it be to go to a coffee shop and just start palying something with the guy on the other side of the room, who was playing with the girl in the floor above you. It could also help gamers meet each other, and the best line ive heard is that it will spread amongst highschools like an STD. once nintendo has sold three of these to a suburb, theyll have sold a thousand.
Well, technically. If it's within 10 feet, you can already play wireless with the GBA <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
While the miles thing is completley wrong, This certainly could get, for example, an entire school filled with wireless from just one or two people sitting in a hot-spot.
I don't know if this is true, because as said, it is only rumors at the moment, and I am having some trouble visualising how this could work with only a 30 foot range, but by god... If they come up with some great way to use this, I don't know. I'm already planning on buying it, so I can't say if it's true I'd do that... And I'm already trying to get my friends to buy it...
Whatever, anyways, point is, Nintendo Rocks.
Bow down before the DS!
Does that require a special adapter that not many other people have? i dont know, but i dont think my brother's GBA has that feature...
also, i am envisioning something of an indicator on the spare screen to notify you when players are nearby and avaliable without you having to have even met the person!
(sounds great for walking around the mall (to abduct little kids))
Nintendo DS varies a ton from the previous gameboys... Unless that's what you meant... They don't even call it gameboy now.
Nintendo DS varies a ton from the previous gameboys... Unless that's what you meant... They don't even call it gameboy now. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
That's because it's not a Game Boy. It's the DS, it just happens to play GBA games. The new Game Boy will come out after the DS, and will probably only have one screen. Think of the DS as a Virtual Boy, except without the suck.
Does that require a special adapter that not many other people have? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yes, special adapter. Debuted with Pokemon Leaf Green and Fire Red. Actually, with the originally GBA, when you put it on, it's backwards ( don't know about the SP ).
Other than battle of course you can chat, there's an indicator on the top right that shows how good the connectivity is.