Do Nintendo DS games work on the DSi?
Pat P
would like to get the 100 classic books (made for the DS)- will it work OK
on the DSi?
Pat P
Nils Tanner
Yes, no problem at all!
David O'Daniel
not arrived yet (though I had ordered the game first & the DSi days
later).
I can't find any connections apparently late at night & when I tired at
5PM there were 3 or 4 but all locked. Not that I understand how to enter
what code or whatever setup if it were unlocked.
How do you do the internet connection? Is it just connecting to the
"store" or actual full internet or what? Do I need to get something
else, some "router" or whatever? Can you download games for FREE or got
to give out some credit card number? Also, IF it ever connects to some
unlocked point somewhere, would it be stealing access from someone else
& slowing their access down?
Apparently there is no direct wire computer connection IF I had a
computer to actually connect it to anyways. So it seems that it all has
to be accessed via the wireless signal that I can't get working.
So till the actual game arrives, I'm stuck with playing with the
calendar, photos & not much for the sound stuff.
Bo
David O'Daniel
I finally got tired of waiting for a Kanji writing game to arrive that I
won on ebay & got a couple of games at wallmart. Though a couple of days
late, of course the "same" day that I buy the wallmart games, apparently
the kanji game shows up....
Works great. WIsh the screen was a laptop size but otherwise looks good,
though small. Stil no internet connection to it though.
Bo
Nils Tanner
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>Still no response so guess this group is dead?
I don't have a DSi, so...:-/
David O'Daniel
"as usual"??? though. Though this was the first times that I had posted
to this group. So the regular DS has no internet wi-fi, searching, etc?
Is then that what the "i" in DS"i" stands for, DS"i"nternet????
Bo
Nils Tanner
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
If you're referring to the "as usual" in my header, it's part of every
post I write and meant in a comical way, nothing personal.
And I don't know what the i stands for, I always assumed it's for
"eye", as it has a camera...
David O'Daniel
signature.
So then the regular DS does have internet wireless capacity???
Bo
Nils Tanner
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
No. You can play against other players over the internet (if you've
got wireless internet access at home) with both Ds versions, as long
as the game support it. You can't browse the internet, write
mails...and so on though. I seem to remember that there was a
cartridge you could buy which enables you to surf the net, but I'm not
really sure about that.
Chris F
wrote:
yeah, a web browser was released for the DS, which requires a ram cart
which goes in the GBA expansion slot, because the Ds doesnt carry
enough internal memory.
this is rendered obsolete by the DSi, obviously, as it has more
onboard memory. (plus it doesn't have a GBA slot either ;)
David O'Daniel
"yeah, a web browser was released for the DS, which requires a ram cart
which goes in the GBA expansion slot, because the Ds doesnt carry enough
internal memory.
this is rendered obsolete by the DSi, obviously, as it has more onboard
memory. (plus it doesn't have a GBA slot either ;)"
<Bo>: Interesting. Now if I can only get that internet connection
hub/point. Is whatever wireless part that goes on the computer, in some
of the "accessary" packages/bundles: 11 in 1 or whatever? It "sounds"
like it would be something that would plug into the computer with
internet, then from the computer, the plug-in sending out & receiving
the wireless signal? Or is it some big box thing that has to be
connected & sits by the computer, nearly as big as the actual computer
hard-drive?
Remembering that I do not have my own computer, just webtv.
Bo
Steven9DS
the DS has an onboard what?
Nils Tanner
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
No, probably not. There used to be a special Wifi-Dongle from
Nintendo, which plugged into a USB port of your computer (a computer
with internet access, of course), but they're not very good.
I don't know whether you could use them on webtv, they come with an
additional CD and you need to install some stuff...
Miles Bader
>><Bo>: Interesting. Now if I can only get that internet connection
>>hub/point. Is whatever wireless part that goes on the computer, in some
>>of the "accessary" packages/bundles: 11 in 1 or whatever? It "sounds"
>>like it would be something that would plug into the computer with
>>internet, then from the computer, the plug-in sending out & receiving
>>the wireless signal? Or is it some big box thing that has to be
>>connected & sits by the computer, nearly as big as the actual computer
>>hard-drive?
>
> Nintendo, which plugged into a USB port of your computer (a computer
> with internet access, of course), but they're not very good.
Nintendo also sells its own wireless router of a more conventional
design, which can just be plugged into your internet wall connection
(and then plug in your computer/webtv/whatever into the wireless
router). So it does "sit by the computer", but I can't call it a "big
box thing" though, because it's tiny... :)
It's around $50 or $60, but I don't know the availability; I originally
heard it was to be sold only in Japan, and only via mail-order, but I've
actually seen it for sale at Japanese video game stores too...
This is what I mean:
http://socuteurl.com/dizzybuzzyfoof
(or http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E4%BB%BB%E5%A4%A9%E5%A0%82-203141011-13695901)
-Miles
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David O'Daniel
Someone had asked me about that before, thinking that I could maybe just
plug in the DSi to a computer & I couldn't find any such port in the
DSi manual listing of parts & what's what.
Webtv has no disk input of any kind. If not for other things coming up,
I just need to save up & get around to getting a real computer one of
these days. If I ever get there, I now think that the public library may
have the wireless hub needed to connect but I'll have to wait & see.
I mainly wanted a DS/DSi in the first place to have a Japanese writing
game/software. I'd ordered 1 version of the writing game that I had
wanted to start with, back in mid Sept on Ebay from a guy in Japan but
it seems that that one is lost. I ended up ordering a more advanced
game, Sonomama, that is a dictionary but a bit too advanced for me & the
manual is also in Japanese. I can change the top screen (results) size a
bit but the bottom screen with the options of what you are looking for
is quite small.
The other game has 2 or 3 versions, the oldest 200 (I think men or maybe
20 million people used it so study), then MAYBE two versions of the 250
version. The main or perhaps only difference seems to be that one has a
vertical rectangle with white background & japanese text, and the other
has a slightly smaller red or orange rectangle in the same spot. The
internet graphics are too small for me to tell if the writing is the
same or not and the descriptions are limited so no hint of they are
actually different in any way; such as maybe 1 for Japanese natives
learning Japanese and one for English speakers learning Japanese.
Now, if anyone can tell what the difference is, if any, with the 250
Kanji writing games, please let me know. Since the one I had ordered in
Sept seems to be lost, I'll probably have to try buying another one.
Bo
Nils Tanner
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>As far as I can tell, the DSi doesn't have a USB or whatever port.
>Someone had asked me about that before, thinking that I could maybe just
>plug in the DSi to a computer & I couldn't find any such port in the
>DSi manual listing of parts & what's what.
The DS doesn't have an USB port, but doesn't need it. The USB dongle
goes into a computer, and the DS wirelessly connects to the USB
dongle.
Miles Bader
> same or not and the descriptions are limited so no hint of they are
> actually different in any way; such as maybe 1 for Japanese natives
> learning Japanese and one for English speakers learning Japanese.
>
> Now, if anyone can tell what the difference is, if any, with the 250
> Kanji writing games, please let me know.
I've never bought one, so can't offer advice in that sense, but ... the
vast majority of Kanji writing software for the DS seems to be aimed at
Japanese high-school/college students and adults aiming to improve their
writing. So good Kanji reading skill is often a prerequisite.
[On a vaguely similar note, I've wanted to find is a _Korean_ study game
for the DS, but most seems very limited (e.g., only covering Hangul
writing) -- and the only series of software I've found that seems to do
more features that _super_ annoying Korean guy from "Winter Sonata", Bae
Yong Joon. I can put up with a lot, but not staring at his plastic face
and saccharine smile! (Seriously, is that his real face?!)]
-Miles
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a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however,
is a most useful work.
Garfield
kanji ds" and this was one of the top links...
http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/04/10/learn-kanji-with-your-nintendo-ds-video/
seems like the japanprobe website has users doing the same thing as
you, learning japanese kanji off a DS... good luck, it looks like you
will find many similar users there also.
- Garfield