DS Onlines News!!!!1!!1

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

"Just before we went to press, Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata announced the first details regarding the company's plans to take the DS online. Nintendo will partner with GameSpy to create a"

Yah - I chopped it off early.. the G word was all I needed to hear Smile

Any chance this crap had just died.. I wonder if Gamelver could get a NES into a small box with a little wifi chip - we could take the DS on graphics wise, and destroy it online wise Smile

TD

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 2:10 am

linky please Razz

Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 0

Some dude on warppipe said it... lol.. they flamed him for repeating existing news - so i guess its real.. Very Happy

TD

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 3354

Partner with GameSpy? Have they ever used GameSpy? What crack head would want to take something that already sucks (IMO) and make it work with something else that sucks worse? Well good luck DS, guess it’s just another Nintendo nightmare

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 11:55 am

This is not good new at all. Gamespy is a load of shite. I totally agree with Funk on this occasion.

Kai Regular Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 94 Location: Sweden

TheDaddy, behave, dont lower yourself to "fanboy" levels... Rolling Eyes

(I'm so going to be kicked in the ass for this..) Wink

Still.

Think this have been in development for quite some while now, (years) because we heard the rumour years ago that Nintendo signed with Gamespy on this.

And I dont think they will go with it if it will not work.

I don't think NDS games require as much data transfers like Xbox, PS2, GC. and fewe games on PS2 use Gamespy (I've heard) and they do not lag or whatever.

Another thing though...

ALL games that currenty is in development to have "W-LAN" but not Wi-Fi over Internet can be "updated" before releasing them...

Also, "according to Iwata, developers currently working on short-range wireless games should be able to easily expand many of their projects to include wireless internet play." So, perhaps we'll be seeing more online DS games than we thought we would.

Source: http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=4590

Edit
All the damn spellingerrors.. Embarassed

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 3:32 pm

Gamespy

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 3:03 am

Actually, I think they could do worse. GameSpy is at least better than the old MPlayer, and if you take out all the FREAKIN' ADS and terrible loading times and buggy interface (they'd have to make a new interface from scratch for the handheld, so that could fix all the problems) it would be good.

Since Nintendo won't want the ads, it'll probably be much simplified, so goodbye slow loading times and buggy overlapping interface and ads. That could make it a version of GameSpy that WORKS good. Laughing

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:23 am

Gamespy. . . Gamespy sucks. . . every game I've played on a gamespy server has sucked and lagged a crapload. Ah well, I'm not getting a DS so it doesn't really matter to me.

. . . Gamespy. . . omf(reaking)g

-DC547

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 5:11 am

DemonChild547 @ Mon Mar 21, 2005 4:23 am wrote:

Gamespy. . . Gamespy sucks. . . every game I've played on a gamespy server has sucked and lagged a crapload. Ah well, I'm not getting a DS so it doesn't really matter to me.

. . . Gamespy. . . omf(reaking)g

-DC547

Well, GameSpy's servers have always seemed to work very well, it's just their program (GameSpy Arcade) that sucks TERRIBLY. So if the DS uses their services but doesn't let GS do the interface...

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 2:08 pm

AW, POOR FANBOYS!

DS is going online, yes xlink couldn't do it(and I guess lied about their progress?). Cry me a riveerrrr

Team XLink Administrator Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 4061

DS online? yeah we will see how great it is..... Yeh right.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 1:38 am

I fucking hate Gamespy someone should hack Nintendo to figure out how to get the DS online working with Team Xlink.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:58 am

How the hell are they gonna get Pictochat online? BIOS update for DS with a tcp stack....my bet is gamespy is getting all the info on Nintendo wi-fi protocol and is gonna tunnel the data....how else are they gonna get pictochat to work.

Just like gamespot unofficially tunneld XBox.

Which means all DS games could go going online and that this always was Nintendo's intention. That why you can see other peoples ds names in game download and even in the lobby of most multi cart games.

If this is true it's pretty smart imo.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:36 am

i don't care nintendo can go fuck their self the DS will be the last system of theirs i buy and im not going to waqit for a Revolution. The PSP will drop like $50 or ore by christmas so ill pick one of those up on top of that the games that are are $50 now will be like $30 later.

Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:18 pm

Blackrose88 @ Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:36 am wrote:

i don't care nintendo can go fuck their self the DS will be the last system of theirs i buy and im not going to waqit for a Revolution. The PSP will drop like $50 or ore by christmas so ill pick one of those up on top of that the games that are are $50 now will be like $30 later.

Geez, what's your problem?

The DS has some great games coming out this year, calm down a bit.

Kai Admirer Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Posts: 369

Praxis @ Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:18 pm wrote:

The DS has some great games coming out this year, calm down a bit.

The word you are looking for is great "titles". the games could and maybe will suck arse.

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 2:23 am

Some of my favorites:

Advance Wars 3
Age of Empires DS (yay!)
Animal Crossing DS (this is confirmed to be online)
Another Code (this is supposed to be good, dunno)
Baten Kaitos (never played one of these games, but people have said its good)
Castlevania (never played it but its supposed to be good)
Metroid Prime: Hunters (the release date has been bumped back to the same as AC, therefore it may be online!)
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent
MegaMan Battle Network DS
Mario Kart DS (rumored to be online, we know it supports 16 players)
Nanostray
Need for Speed Underground 2
Organizer Plus (PDA software???)
Sonic DS
Soul Caliber
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (YAY)
A brand new Super Mario Bros game
A new Legend of Zelda game (this was announced by Nintendo already)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
Viewtiful Joe DS (The console version rocks)

They can't ALL suck...

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 11:42 am

Yea well i still get a PSP heres a list of games cooming out thius year.

NBA Street
NFL Street
Need for Speed Underground Rivals
GTA San Andres
Rumored So-Com and Everquest
Metal Gear solid
Gran Tririshmo 4
and so many others i would condider those great games

Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 3:52 pm

Well imho this is good news Smile

Ds online can only be good Smile