DS Wifi Bounty?

Nintendo Specialist Joined: 23 Jun 2004 Posts: 1889

I saw a site on attack of the show that are giving away over $1000 for the first person to hack the ds wifi. If the code still exists they could turn it in for money. The boundy collected could be donated to kai for future development. Here is the link:

http://sc.tri-bit.com/DS_Wi-fi_Bounty

The Site reads:
"StoneCypher has established a bounty on the first Nintendo DS TCP/IP implementation to be released to the community as open source.
Current Bounty: $ 1387.15

If you'd like to help, but cannot afford to, try pushing this to your favorite news service(s). As of recently, they've shown to be quite helpful - even ones in subcultures that don't seem terribly involved. If the word gets around, site traffic picks back up, and interested people get to this page which haven't seen it before. Remember, there are still some people holding out for the $2k mark, so we do have another goal left to reach.

Milestone One is almost complete. There are three people in grasping range, though none of them quite have it, yet. Once milestone one is in place, milestones two and three are in reach of the general programming populace. Gentlemen, if you haven't yet started your engines, now's the time. Pushing lwIP or its equivalent onto embedded could win you almost $800, and if this page gets onto news services, quite possibly a much larger amount."

Its just a thought Smile

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:07 pm

This won't do much for XLink Kai, even though its cool.

The bounty is for someone to write a TCP/IP implementation for the DS, so that HOMEBREW apps can use the DS's WiFi and go online.

That means DSLinux can go online and homebrew web browsers and other stuff can be released.

However, to tunnel the DS (what XLink Kai was doing) is the opposite; make the PC understand the DS's NiFi.

XLink was trying to make the PC understand the DS's 'NiFi' protocol. These guys are trying to make the DS use a different protocol so it can go online on its own with homebrew. They're completely different things.

Still, it would absolutely rock if someone did this.