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Update: Thanks to some people in different places who decided to hotlink to EVERY image in this article. No, I don’t mean the thumbnails. I mean the actual pics. I had to move the pics to another host as to not lose my photobucket hosting for the month. Again, thanks to all of you bandwidth thieves.

A friend of a friend has a copy of MKDS and me being an extremely curious party wanted details. He took some pics of some of the menu screens & such so I feel that I should share them with those of you who are following my Wi-Fi posts here. So let’s get down to business…

First, we have the main menu screen. Nothing really that special, people have seen this plenty of times. Time to move along.


Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo. People have seen this too. Nothing too special.

Ahh, now the fun begins. Here we have the Wi-Fi Connection menu. Start a match; maintain your friends list; config your wireless settings. Lots of fun to be had here. Let’s dig deeper.

The WFC options menu. Get your system information (Friend Code & MAC address); erase your Wi-Fi settings; transfer your Wi-Fi settings to another DS system. Let’s go into the system info.

Again, this option shows you your Wi-Fi Connection ID (read: not the Friend Code) as well as your DS MAC address. Now back out to the WFC menu.

Now here’s a nice little gem: the Friend Code entry screen. As you can see, the code is actually 12 digits (sorry to debunk the speculation that people had about it being the MAC). We still have no clue as to what the FC consists of so we’ll just have to wait & see. Back to the WFC menu again.

Time to setup the Wi-Fi connections. Some of these have already been seen by previous screenshots. Big blue button, very hard to miss.

Step 1 of the Wi-Fi setup. From the looks of it, you can either choose to manually config your wireless settings (up to 3 profiles) or connect to the USB dongle. At least Nintendo is doing this right and making it very easy for non-techies to setup as well as giving options to the people who know a little bit about their network. Speaking of options, lets move onto Step 2.

Another picture that’s been seen before. The manual connection settings. It’s nice to see that the DS at least has WEP support… it’s no WPA but it’s still protection.

Checking to see if the connection works.

Here we can choose how we want to search for an opponent to play in vs mode.

And now we’re connecting to WFC.

Now we’re looking for opponents. Nothing on this yet since there’s really nobody else outside of testers on it.

The different types of connections available for config. Search for an accessable AP; connect to an AP using AOSS (Buffalo Tech’s security technology, linked to in a previous Wi-Fi article); manual connection (screens a few images up).

Searching for available access points.

After the access points have been found, it shows them in a nice-looking (and dare I say it looks easy to use) list.

A closer look at the access point list.

Finally, comparing the Mario Kart DS card to a Super Mario 64 DS card.

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