Wii/DS friend codes

[kane_magus]

To follow up on my last post, yeah, I have Wi-Fi for my Wii (again) and new DS now, so I thought I take this opportunity to post various Friend Codes, if anyone cares.

Wii Console: 0589 2522 4608 9440
Super Smash Bros Brawl: 3652 1795 7174

DS Games
The Legend of Zelda - Phantom Hourglass: 4725 9208 5902
Contact: 0516 8529 2078
Castlevania - Portrait of Ruin: 2750 2359 0970

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

I've been pondering getting a Wii lately, although the price is still a bit high for my blood. How do you get online with it? Do you hook it up to your internetz via the router or is there some more twisted pathological technique required?

I won't be able to actually get one until the tax refund clears (probably by the end of the month at the earliest) but even then I might wait for the price to drop some more.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Also, how do you connect your DS in particular? I have DS and Portrait of Ruin for instance although haven't really tried that online player thingy for it.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

If you have a wireless router, it's just a simple matter of setting up the Wii to connect to the wireless network, as long as it's able to detect it. Same with the DS, though I couldn't find a way to change any settings on it until I tried messing with one of the online capable games (not just a wireless game that lets you connect to people nearby, but an actual connect-to-the-Internet game). Run the game and select one of the online settings, and it should prompt you to set up the network setting on the DS, which you should only have to do once for your particular network, as it keeps the settings for that and any game after that.

The process is the same for the Nintendo WiFi Connector, which is just a USB thingy that hooks into a computer with an Internet connection. At least it's the same for the Wii anyway, but I'd guess it's the same for the DS as well. The downside to it is A) it only works with the Wii and the DS and no other wireless devices, B) Nintendo has discontinued making it, C) the one I had died after only a few months, and D) the wireless router I got cost about the same as it anyway, so there's not much point in getting one of those and I wish I'd just gotten a router to begin with.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Drat, I was afraid of that. I turn my DS on and try to connect when I'm close to my router and it doesn't pick it up. I dunno if it's just the way the router is or if there's something I actually have to do to turn on the wireless portion of it. But it does have a nifty antenna.

Wish I picked up one of those nintendo connectors when I saw one months/years ago tho. Although odds are I couldn't afford it back then anyway. (As it's possible that yours was just defective or something!) Ah well, we'll see if I can find the time to get it working in the future.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'm guessing you were trying it with Portrait of Ruin? I don't know if the basic stuff like Pictochat or whatever are online capable (or if they are, I don't know how to get it to connect anyway).

By the way, did you get Portrait of Ruin new or used? DS games cartridges apparently synch themselves up with a specific DS for online stuff, so if you got it used it may already be synched up with another DS.

For Portrait of Ruin, from the main menu of the game, select Options, then the game file, and then this should bring up a set of 4 options, one of which is "Nintendo WFC Settings". (One of the other options here is to do Friend Code related stuff as well.) Selecting that goes to a non-game specific DS setup screen that has two big buttons. The big blue one on the left is "Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Settings" which lets you search for and test connections to wireless networks and give it whatever encryption keys that it needs to connect and such. However, if you pick the smaller orange "Options" selection, under this there is a selection to "Erase Nintendo WFC Configuration". You'll want to do this if you have a used cartridge that has likely already been synched with another DS. Hell, it wouldn't hurt to do that anyway, just to be on the safe side. I just did it myself with my Portrait of Ruin and all I had to do was let it re-find the network (under the "Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Settings" thing) and then give it my encryption key again.

Oh also forgot, speaking of encryption, the DS apparently doesn't support WPA/WPA2 encryption, so if you're using that it won't work. It does support WEP though. That's what I'm using. (The Wii does support WPA/WPA2, for what it's worth, but that doesn't help for getting a DS to work though).

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Got mine new, and it shows by graying out the clear nintendo wifi stuff button. Either way it's not working for me. I'll have to see about mucking around with it some more later.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Nintendo has a list of incompatible routers here (http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/wfc/en_na/ds/routerInfo.jsp), which are:

Actiontec GT704-WG
Belkin F5D7231-4 ver 1102
Belkin F5D6231-4 ver 1000
Belkin F5D7230-4 ver 4000
D-Link DI-514 ver B1
D-Link DSL-G604T
SMC SMC2804WBR-G product code: 751.7412

You don't have one of those by chance, do you?

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

not sure. The only thing I have to connect to the net is the modem I got from the isp, which is suppose to be a router as well, or something. At least as far as I gather that's what it's suppose to be. But I'll keep that list handy in case I have to actually go out and buy one for it. x_X