11th August 2005, 4:18 PM
I uh... I tend to prefer my system using the least amount of resources required for any given task, including dead time. It's why my computer isn't home to several thousand apps sitting in the background. The Animal Crossing clock is cute and all, but I think I'll just be uninstalling that. However, I think it's important Nintendo has a good idea what setups they can expect, so hey let's all fill out the survey.
...You may want to put all those haxored romz some of you say you have on some external drive before you run that thing... :D
ABF: I *LAWSUIT... 'D*
Well, I will say this. I don't have a wireless card on my computer. As of yet, there has been no need. I just jack into my router which jacks into my cable modem. The router itself is wireless. That does allow anyone within range to just use my network (I never bothered password protecting it, no malicious hackers within 30 meters of the thing, at least that I know of). However, it does not allow my computer to directly access the wireless functions of my router to directly access anything that isn't looking FOR my computer or allowing it access. That basically describes only my DS, which is only designed to look for other DS systems unless a game says otherwise. So, I can't browse files on my DS like one can on a PSP, that is unless a game lets me do that. I only bring this up because the DS does not have a built in way to look for firmware updates online. So, the very first firmware update (the one that adds that feature basically :D), would need to basically "trick" the DS, and that'll only work if I have a specific wireless card in my PC. So, the only way to get a nice firmware update going is for ALL games with that lovely wireless online play thing to go ahead and just update the firmware to support that themselves. That way, no need for too specific a hardware setup.
I think that should do the trick, since, well, the only reason you would want to be getting some firmware updates would be after you are using that DS online anyway, and if they all give that first update that allows you to search for more from the DS main menu, then that's handled.
...You may want to put all those haxored romz some of you say you have on some external drive before you run that thing... :D
ABF: I *LAWSUIT... 'D*
Well, I will say this. I don't have a wireless card on my computer. As of yet, there has been no need. I just jack into my router which jacks into my cable modem. The router itself is wireless. That does allow anyone within range to just use my network (I never bothered password protecting it, no malicious hackers within 30 meters of the thing, at least that I know of). However, it does not allow my computer to directly access the wireless functions of my router to directly access anything that isn't looking FOR my computer or allowing it access. That basically describes only my DS, which is only designed to look for other DS systems unless a game says otherwise. So, I can't browse files on my DS like one can on a PSP, that is unless a game lets me do that. I only bring this up because the DS does not have a built in way to look for firmware updates online. So, the very first firmware update (the one that adds that feature basically :D), would need to basically "trick" the DS, and that'll only work if I have a specific wireless card in my PC. So, the only way to get a nice firmware update going is for ALL games with that lovely wireless online play thing to go ahead and just update the firmware to support that themselves. That way, no need for too specific a hardware setup.
I think that should do the trick, since, well, the only reason you would want to be getting some firmware updates would be after you are using that DS online anyway, and if they all give that first update that allows you to search for more from the DS main menu, then that's handled.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)