Do Nintendo DS games work on the DSi?

New as well, I got a DSi & had ordered a Kanji writing game 250 that has
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

Still no response so guess this group is dead?

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

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Bojutsu1.TakeThisOut@webtv.net (David
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...:-/

Thanks for responding though. Least to know the group is active.

"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

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Bojutsu1 DeleteThis @webtv.net (David
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:

>Thanks for responding though. Least to know the group is active.
>
>"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

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...

Ahh ok, sorry. Yes, I see now that it is repeated in the preset
signature.

So then the regular DS does have internet wireless capacity???

Bo

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Bojutsu1.RemoveThis@webtv.net (David
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:

>Ahh ok, sorry. Yes, I see now that it is repeated in the preset
>signature.
>
>So then the regular DS does have internet wireless capacity???

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.

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:42:00 +0200, Nils Tanner
wrote:

>Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Bojutsu1 DeleteThis @webtv.net (David
>O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:
>
>>Ahh ok, sorry. Yes, I see now that it is repeated in the preset
>>signature.
>>
>>So then the regular DS does have internet wireless capacity???
>
>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.
>
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

<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 "


<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

On Oct 20, 7:35 pm, Bojut....TakeThisOut@webtv.net (David O'Daniel) wrote:
> <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 "
>
> <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

the DS has an onboard what?

Why is a mushroom called mushroom? As usual, Bojutsu1 DeleteThis @webtv.net (David
O'Daniel) got it all completely wrong and wrote:

><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 "
>
>
><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

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...

Nils Tanner writes:
>><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?
>
> 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.

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

--
Clarionet, n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his
ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarionet -- two
clarionets.

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.

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