Nintendo have just announced a joint operation with Telstra which will provide Nintendo DS owners with free WiFi access at Telstra HotSpots:

Nintendo Australia, in conjunction with Telstra, is pleased to announce that Nintendo DS™ users can now enjoy Wi-Fi service to Nintendo DS at over 1,000 Telstra Wireless Hotspot® destinations across Australia. Destinations include McDonald’s Restaurants, Starbucks Cafés, airports, hotels and city hotzones throughout Melbourne and Sydney. Through the agreement with Telstra, Nintendo will offer complimentary access to Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, the wireless gaming service that millions of Nintendo fans around the globe have been connecting to and playing online.

More information will apparently be available soon at www.NintendoWiFi.com.au.

yay now i can play mario kart wifi at maccas.

anyone want to have a wifi go of mario kart tonight slap down your friend code. ITS ON.

ill go get mine...

This might be a total noob question, but can you browse the internets on a DS?

not yet, need to wait for DS browser to launch in AU

Gimme a HELL YES!

I knew us having a Telstra Hotspot at work was always going to mean more than just free net to play WoW when I work graveyards ;)

Can't wait to give it a run!

where do i find the telstra hotspots?

http://www.telstra.com.au/wirelesshotspots/docs/wireless_hotspots.xls

Nintendo will offer complimentary access to Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, the wireless gaming service that millions dozens of Nintendo fans around the globe have been connecting to and playing online.

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Seriously though, not enough people play Mario Kart online :(

You can browse webpages :p
Bah, online multiplayer on portable devices seems like a bit of a silly idea since most people play their DS while travelling, and there aren't any hotspots on buses or trains :/ It's another thing to play with a mate if you are both going somewhere, but you don't need online connectivity for that anyways.

Nintendo will offer complimentary access to Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection, the wireless gaming service that the millionth Nintendo fan around the globe has connected to and played online.

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I wonder if the wifi hotspots just treat it as a regular connection. Would be cool if someone found out how it connected and just hacked it to work on a normal laptop.

be interesting, considering on the website it says u just go near the hotspot there is no extra authenticating it apparently just works, so an interesting thought.
IIRC all telstra hot spots use Cisco AP's =], but im confounded as to why they havent boasted the new hotspots and upped the connections to 8mb's or 20mbs where available, since they are all(well 98%) 1500/256 adsl connections, sadness ;(

It works an absolute treat!

I just logged into our hotspot here with my DS & was able to find a mario kart game without any issues at all :)

I wonder if the wifi hotspots just treat it as a regular connection. Would be cool if someone found out how it connected and just hacked it to work on a normal laptop.

Yeh, this seems like it must be rife for exploitz. Someone take a packetsniffer and a DS to their local Maccas. You won't look weird or nerdy, promise.

edit: that is probably incitement to commit some sort of fraud under some lame law. For legal purposes, the above comment was a joke and should not be taken seriously. Do not access the internet on a shared wireless connection without the owners permission. Etc.

last edited by trog at 17:52:29 05/Apr/07

ds browser

groydis, you have to buy that or something?

you do. it comes with a ram pack for the gba slot, hence why it doesnt work on flash cards.

im thinking of getting one cause it would be so cool to have a portable web browser on me at all times around the house. just so i can whip it out and own my g/f at trivial s*** with wikipedia at all moments of the day.

You have to ...buy... a web browser? DOES NOT COMPUTE

It's somewhat dumb. Probably about the only really bad thing I could say about the DS really.

Other than the lack of C&C and Warcraft ports on it that is...

you don't have to buy it.

I really wouldn't even bother. Btw, the browser is made by Opera as they are partnered with Nintendo.

They also make the Wii browser (free until July, $5 download after that. The final version of the Wii browser is out sometime this month.

http://www.opera.com/products/devices/nintendo/

last edited by partyhat at 14:45:15 06/Apr/07

Are you going to sit in the car park and play diddy kong at 1 in the morning?
Don't revive old threads with stupid questions