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Any help with downloading DS demo's please?

Shao

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I know the basics, I know I need a certain wifi card etc etc.

ButI also noticed you need a flash gba cart. WHY??? I don't have one :( Nor am I willing to buy one just for demos. Surely theres a way to download these demos without a gba cartridge?
 
Shao said:
I know the basics, I know I need a certain wifi card etc etc.

ButI also noticed you need a flash gba cart. WHY??? I don't have one :( Nor am I willing to buy one just for demos. Surely theres a way to download these demos without a gba cartridge?

You don't need a flash cart if you have the right wifi card. You would only need a flash cart if your NDS can boot DS demos via FlashMe, WiFiMe, or PassMe. Going the wifi card route will only allow you to play with signed demos though, so you can't boot any homebrew stuff..... unless you flash your NDS with FlashMe. The demos will have to be under 4 MB to fit in DS ram. Flashcart doesn't have that problem so homebrew like DSHeretic that requires 7-14 MB will work.
 
Wait, what? We can boot DS homebrew through a GBA flashcart? How? I thought booting up in GBA mode locked out the DS' higher features? Would any GBA flashcart work?
 
Mejilan said:
Wait, what? We can boot DS homebrew through a GBA flashcart? How? I thought booting up in GBA mode locked out the DS' higher features? Would any GBA flashcart work?

A device like Passme will forced the NDS to get data from the GBA slot instead of the DS slot. FlashMe is the firmware version of passme that doesn't require you to insert passme into the NDS slot. WiFiMe is the wirelss version of passme, you need to send WiFiMe to NDS through wireless card to run demos from flash cart.
 
That's the thing, I have a flashcart (EZ-Flash III 1GBit), but I don't think my wireless router (Linksys) is compatible.

Thanks for the link, however. I'm checking it out.
 
Too bad I can't find a way to have my card on my mac do the same thing to let me play DS demo's. :(
 
Mejilan said:
That's the thing, I have a flashcart (EZ-Flash III 1GBit), but I don't think my wireless router (Linksys) is compatible.
Yeah, I think you'll find you won't be able to do it with a router. I think there is a list of compatible cards at the site.

You're not missing out on much, the demos a very quick to get over :)
Although.. if a Nintendogs was released that might be a different story. :D
 
Why spend all that time and effort (money if you don't own flash/wifi card) to get a free demo? Its like buying a nickel for 10 cents.
 
I have a notebook with a broadcom 802.11g WLAN and Bluetooth built in.
Is there anything I can do to get the demos to work?
 
acidviper said:
Why spend all that time and effort (money if you don't own flash/wifi card) to get a free demo? Its like buying a nickel for 10 cents.
you mean like when the new $20's came out and people were buying them on ebay for $30-$50 :lol :lol :lol
 
Anybody know why the Jump Super Stars demo has been posted and not the Nintendogs one? News articles and Nintendo's web site suggest that both demos are available from the train station kiosks until 8/20. However, this site claims there is no Nintendogs demo. Did they just go to one of the store kiosks (JSS only) or do the train kiosks really not have Nintendogs?

olimario said:
I just want simple steps on how to load the available demos

1. Purchase a card from one of the first two columns in this table. Either PCI for a desktop or PCMCIA for a laptop.

2. Download the custom driver and have your computer use it with your new card. Details on how to do this are in the tutorial posted above.

3. Download the wireless multiboot application and some demos. Place the demos (.nds files) in the 'data' folder that should have been created when you unzipped the wireless multiboot app.

4. Run wmb.exe with the -data parameter and the filename(s) of the demo(s) you want to broadcast. Seperate multiple filenames with a semi-colon. For example: "wmb -data meteos_demo.nds;polarium_demo.nds".

5. Start up your DS and choose DS Download Play. Your DS should pick up the signal from your wireless card in a few seconds. Choose a demo from the menu to start.
 
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