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DS online- how about a firmware update?
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The DS can't access online play if you have WPA encryption enabled. This is disheartening, as WPA is now the standard level of wireless security. Nintendo promised a firmware update many months ago, and I've heard nothing about it since.
Does anyone have any news in regards to this?
Edit: Apparently, there are people working on WPA homebrew, but Nintendo hasn't said anything. The hardware can do it, but Nintendo has not made the decision to update yet.
Does anyone have any news in regards to this?
Edit: Apparently, there are people working on WPA homebrew, but Nintendo hasn't said anything. The hardware can do it, but Nintendo has not made the decision to update yet.
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But I thought it already supported WPA out of the box? Or am I mistaken?
An assumption on my part.
I've heard (on this board in fact) that this is a bad idea because it's ridiculously easy to spoof a MAC address.
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Yeah... but I really don't care if anyone gets on the network. I just use MAC filtering to help ease the fact that I don't put on WEP or WPA encryption.
I want to get the maximum amount of download speed.
Hmm, I think you're wrong. If we are thinking of the same thing, then that was proven to be fake.
If you poke around a little bit in the settings I'm sure it's there.
That's not a bad idea. I've had WPA enabled on our router in our apartment and I just don't feel like changing it just for the DS. Then i'll have to tell my roommates about the change.
Anyone have experience with the non-Nintendo WiFi dongles? I see them sold at Play Asia as well as Ebay for cheaper than the Nintendo ones.
The thing is mostly just that I don't want people connecting to my G access point with B devices because their laptop or whatever just grabbed the first network it found and oh look now my connection is working half as fast as it should gee thanks.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
Of course since the SoftAP uses ICS it creates it own network, anyone on that (wireless) network could only theoretically access the machine it's attacted to and not the root network. Then again, someone could get on the wireless network, comprimise the ICS host and jump to the other network.
My converted one is pretty unreliable, though, it seems to sporadically just die out where the light will stop blinking and the AP cannot be reached. The only way I know how to fix it is to replug it. Any ideas about that (or maybe a better SoftAP)?
This looks good, although I'm not sure I wanna pay before I've exhausted all options on my own adapter (to be utilized properly/repaired): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833320107
Or are we talking about a re-release? ^^;
I mean, what was all the Connect24 crap about anyway?
In theory, a Wii could act as a hotspot, but it would only be for certain games and you'd have to run the hotspot software on the Wii itself. But i'm pretty sure the Wii <-> DS protocol is slower than the WiFi side.
Ding ding ding.
The reason why the DS didn't turn into a PSP-like hell of homebrew-killing firmware updates is that you, Nintendo, or anyone else cannot overwrite the important bits of the firmware without opening up the system and bridging these two contacts that act as write-protection.
No firmware update for the DS will ever happen.
Plus, it's not like the WiFi code is all in the firmware anyway. Old games won't magically grow WPA into their statically linked Nintendo WiFi libraries just from a firmware update or new revision or what have you.
Sorry to pop everyone's bubble.
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No, they can't. The first block of the firmware is write-protected, the second block was deliberately left blank from the beginning to store Wi-Fi data. Mario Kart DS didn't reflash the firmware.
Look, the encryption used by DS cartridges has been thoroughly broken for some time now. If Nintendo can do something, so can the homebrew community.
But it's not like Nintendo is really known for adding new features to their firmwares. They prefer to have one and run with it until the next generation, only doing behind-the-scenes bugfixes and such.
re: that fake from earlier, for example, they'd just implement the game purchasing on the Wii side and let the Wii send the game to the DS wirelessly.
Yes! How the hell did you think a NoPass worked, anyway? Programs exist, right now, to take any unencrypted .nds and encrypt it, as some DS emulators demand this even for testing homebrew. I don't know if I'm allowed to post them, but they most certainly exist.
And look, you cannot overwrite the first 512 bytes of the firmware without shorting the SL1 contacts inside the DS. This is a physical limitation. You just can't do it.