The Gamer's Quarter

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

I'm trying to ease up on the A button, but it's really difficult to do so. Hooray for the inclusion of retro mode again, but I'm sad to see so many shortcuts gone.

Here's my friend code. Post away!
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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject:

Wait ... the MK for the DS is out??? When did this happen?!?!

SuperWes · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject:

Here's my friend code!

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Let's race!

-Wes
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GSL · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 5:11 pm Post subject:

Finally got that blasted USB adaptor to work properly!

My code is:
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

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I have almost all of the Grand Prix races finished and have a nice amount of time in online and multiplayer (1-cart). I am just now starting to find a comfortable position to play this game in. Before now I wanted to rip my thumbs off.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Every time I buy a Mario Kart, I beat the entire Circuit section in no more than two sittings. I like that it's short enough to do that, and also that it features enough replay value that I still love going back and playing the old SNES tracks.

I've never been able to find anyone from friend codes. It's kinda disappointing.

Oh, and top 5 things I'm hoping to be able to download to my Revolution:
1. Secret of Mana
2. Mario Kart 64 (Missed it entirely)
3. Earthbound (actually, my fantasy is that they release Mother 3 in the US, along with a GBA port of Earthbound and a translated Mother NES Classic cart. Haw.)
4. Super Metroid (It's just not the same emulated. It requires the lowering of defenses that come from being sunk into a couch.)
5. I'm not sure, really. Those are the only ones I really pine for.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

I am the proud owner of a new "hot rod red" DS.

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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

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Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

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Ryan - SuperWes' Bane · Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:42 am Post subject:

The Japanese commercial for this game is freaking HILARIOUS. Has 4 different Mario's all over the world . . . America, Italy, Japan, and one other place. Basically they were advocating the Wifi thing, but the characters that play Mario and Luigi here are great!

david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Tablesaw, when I input your friend code, my DS tells me it's not a valid code. Hrrrrrrmmmm?

My code is 416671-332656 (Doc Octorock)

I'm trying to race against friends, but no one is online...

By the way, that "snaking" thing – is that what it's called? It exists in F-Zero GX too, doesn't it? I was playing against "worldwide" opponents, and ran into a number of people zigzagging in a crazy and obnoxious way. Is this the maneuver? How do you do it? It's so annoying!
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purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

They're basically just powersliding down straight track.

I'm finally playing online now and I love it! Although most of my regional matchups seem to have been 12-year-old French girls who can't even use the drift. I've been letting people win the odd race here and there, or pulling up at the starting line and letting them catch up before the next lap. It's nice.

My friends code is: 047305 - 470087

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

After you have a few regional/worldwide wins and losses just stick with the rivals option. You will get much better races.

Ryan - SuperWes' Bane · Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject:

I have a silly question . . . how does the WiFi work? If you have a wireless network at your house, does it allow you to hook up to it with your DS and to play games like this?

RaBeeWilliams · Beatnik Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: Thibodaux

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Tablesaw · . Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 303 Location: LACAUSA

GSL · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:43 pm Post subject:

GSL · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject:

With about a half hour of tinkering which involves lowering the security setting of my firewall, reinstalling the WiFi USB drivers and registration tool (due to the nifty 'feature' that causes the WiFiReg.exe to hang each and every time I start it), disabling the vanilla Internet Connection Sharing set up by the installer, bridging my own connection, and double-checking the router settings... I can finally get the WiFi setup tool on Mario Kart or Animal Crossing to actually connect to WFC. I cannot, however, find a single opponent in Mario Kart (even when a friend is actively looking), and I cannot connect at all in-game in Animal Crossing. The problem, apparently, lies with my very common Linksys BEFSR41 router, and ZoneAlarm. Nintendo apparently didn't count on users of the USB adaptor to have computers secured from the internet: The installer basically slaps the drivers on your machine and creates a generic ICS connection to the USB adaptor, with absolutely no configuration tailored to your specific machine settings.

To be blunt, it's a shoddy product released with VERY little compatability testing and extremely buggy software.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

That is very messed up. See I am in a hotel, connected to their server which is firewalled, through my laptop while running my firewall program. The only thing is that I shut down my firewall while installing the program (because it said to) and then turned it back on when I was done. I have only had one problem with connecting to the WiFi adapter, but I restarted my DS and it worked fine.

It seems odd that you are having all these problems. Perhaps you should just buy a real firewall program and not depend on a free one? Also you are the only person who I know of to have problems with the WiFi adapter.

Sushi d · Moderator Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 239

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RaBeeWilliams · Beatnik Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: Thibodaux

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xvs07 · . Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 160

I finally played the damn thing at Target today just to see what all the fuss was about. Prior to those three laps at the figure eight, I'd figured I would just wait a few years until I could get a used DS dirt cheap, just like I do with almost every system seein' how I'm not exactly loaded for cash. My New Year's resolution is now to have a Revolution *and* DS before the end of the year. After all, this is basically a reincarnation of Kart 64 (which owned me for four years), and online play doesn't stay popular forever.

RaBeeWilliams · Beatnik Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 274 Location: Thibodaux

Quick question:

When adding someone's friend code, do you have to add in their current nickname as well?

Sushi d · Moderator Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 239

ApM · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 3:02 pm Post subject:

I don't really care for Mario Kart, but I wouldn't mind racing you guys at all, sometime.
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