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Ok, so Nintendo might actually be going online finally. . .
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Scalemail Ted
Member
Memles said:
Yup. Thats also what the fellows over at xlink predict it to be as well.
http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/
OG_Original Gamer
Member
Firest0rm said:
DS will be online out of the box free of charge, thats what I'm getting this atleast.
The headset explains the VoIP I read about a few days ago. Warppipe software may be apart of the game allowing you to connect through your home wireless router and all have to do is just setup a hotspot with a password.
Jonnyboy117
Member
Okay, so it's going to be announced between Halloween and Thanksgiving. Let's shut up about it until then. This baiting is bad enough, but what makes it worse is that all these intelligent GAFers are falling for it. The announcement will happen at the appointed time whether you obsess about it or not, and the chances of you actually figuring out what it is before then are very small...remember, he doesn't want you to figure it out before then, and he's holding all the information.
Jonnyboy117 said:
Not necessarily. People are taking the "after you demask" to mean halloween, but it's already been stated that the story will break between mid-late october. I really don't see what we're falling for, since all of the clues pretty much sum up what this is going to be.
LinesInTheSand
Banned
He obviously means the America thanksgiving or he would have said in between thanksgiving and halloween and not the other way around. Duh.
Chittagong
Gold Member
All the most recent clues point towards standard, already known DS features. Wireless play for free against people you can see as they have to be close range.
The question is then what is Warp Pipe involvement in it - did they do the multiplayer middleware for developers, perhaps?
The question is then what is Warp Pipe involvement in it - did they do the multiplayer middleware for developers, perhaps?
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Deleted member 1235
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All this talk of humanity etc, seems to me to mean something about getting people to meet each other face to face.
This will work great.
For kiddie fiddlers.
This will work great.
For kiddie fiddlers.
Chittagong
Gold Member
catfish said:
yep, sounds a lot like the DS close range wireless play - it's within 10 m so you definately can see the opponent usually. Close range multiplayer is to Nintendo DS what four controller ports was for N64. Nintendo likes simple things like the four controller ports. Not complex things like access points and such.
*shrugs*
There's a little theory over at N-Sider forums that the ghost was wanting help in the first pic, then in the 2nd pic has seen someone, hence dropping his sign a little.. now with this he's found somewhere to stick his sign.. or something.
Chad still thinks that the ghost will move later tonight.
There's a little theory over at N-Sider forums that the ghost was wanting help in the first pic, then in the 2nd pic has seen someone, hence dropping his sign a little.. now with this he's found somewhere to stick his sign.. or something.
Chad still thinks that the ghost will move later tonight.
Scalemail Ted
Member
Chittagong said:
4 controller ports was brilliant!!!!!!
krypt0nian
Banned
Transmission 3:
".swonk ydoboN ?tahw tub ,gnihtemos tnaw htob yehT .desoppo yllacirtemaid ,sedis owT "
www.demasked.com/noissimsnart03.wmv
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I believe the music is from "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" by The Postal Service. (manipulated)
I had it playing an hour ago co-incidentally.
How about synchronicity....
".swonk ydoboN ?tahw tub ,gnihtemos tnaw htob yehT .desoppo yllacirtemaid ,sedis owT "
www.demasked.com/noissimsnart03.wmv
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I believe the music is from "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" by The Postal Service. (manipulated)
I had it playing an hour ago co-incidentally.
How about synchronicity....
Scalemail Ted
Member
Looks like chad's advertising campaign decided to run its first commercial. 
Chittagong
Gold Member
Huh? The fact that my expecatation is more down-to-earth than that of the average fanboy hardly counts as bashing. Being a middleware vendor for Nintendo's close range gameplay wouldn't be a bad merit for Warp Pipe, either.deadlifter said:
krypt0nian
Banned
So I had my field trip to the location the last HELP ME photo was taken...
No ,never got inside but I was there...no doubt.
Here's my pic of the view from down below where the pic was snapped:
And here's the two locations that I narrowed down as the locs the pic was snapped. As they are residential/commercial condos, I was thwarted my some silly receptionist that was channeling David Spade (And you aaaaare?) but then I got to talk to their Commmercial Leasing head and he was a bit more helpful, but still zero zip nada.
So I'm out the morning, and parking but it was worth it as I got the local clerk at one of the many bookstores VERY into it.....in fact after I asked about stackten in relation to Printer's Row, etc she came out onto the street later on and suggested that I go to the Sears Tower observatory and look back this way. =)
Nice but i didn't take her up on it.
I did scan all the windows for any signs of the HELP ME sign but no luck. Not sure what I could've done if I would have seen it. LOL
So that's my big contribution to this. I'm going to take a break and see how things pan out I think. All signs were leading to Help being needed at WPT offices, and I even asked for confirmation before the trek but hit a wall. =(
Good luck all!
No ,never got inside but I was there...no doubt.
Here's my pic of the view from down below where the pic was snapped:
And here's the two locations that I narrowed down as the locs the pic was snapped. As they are residential/commercial condos, I was thwarted my some silly receptionist that was channeling David Spade (And you aaaaare?) but then I got to talk to their Commmercial Leasing head and he was a bit more helpful, but still zero zip nada.
So I'm out the morning, and parking but it was worth it as I got the local clerk at one of the many bookstores VERY into it.....in fact after I asked about stackten in relation to Printer's Row, etc she came out onto the street later on and suggested that I go to the Sears Tower observatory and look back this way. =)
Nice but i didn't take her up on it.
I did scan all the windows for any signs of the HELP ME sign but no luck. Not sure what I could've done if I would have seen it. LOL
So that's my big contribution to this. I'm going to take a break and see how things pan out I think. All signs were leading to Help being needed at WPT offices, and I even asked for confirmation before the trek but hit a wall. =(
Good luck all!
Smiles and Cries
Member
good work Krypt
Chittagong
Gold Member
Okay, here is my official prediction of October 4th:
Many clues seem to point towards the ability of DS to be in sleep mode and then wake up when another DS is in the proximity. This has been discussed by Nintendo before, as far as I know. How does it fit some of the clues?
No Eyes - you don't need to see the opponent, your DS beeps for you
Eye on the DS - it keeps on "watching" for you
Find(s)Me - the other DS finds your device
Help Me - helps you by letting your presence be known by the other DSs near by
Isolation - the opposite of being together with other people, close by
Demasked - you can't hide behind a virtual identity since you are in close proximity
Obviously you can twist the clues to fit multiple thories. But if my theory turns out to be the thing they are hyping, I demand to know the name of the viral marketing agency behind this. This is actually brilliant.
Like I said in my earlier post, simplicity is everything for Nintendo. Easy, intuitive, user friendly.
Many clues seem to point towards the ability of DS to be in sleep mode and then wake up when another DS is in the proximity. This has been discussed by Nintendo before, as far as I know. How does it fit some of the clues?
No Eyes - you don't need to see the opponent, your DS beeps for you
Eye on the DS - it keeps on "watching" for you
Find(s)Me - the other DS finds your device
Help Me - helps you by letting your presence be known by the other DSs near by
Isolation - the opposite of being together with other people, close by
Demasked - you can't hide behind a virtual identity since you are in close proximity
Obviously you can twist the clues to fit multiple thories. But if my theory turns out to be the thing they are hyping, I demand to know the name of the viral marketing agency behind this. This is actually brilliant.
Like I said in my earlier post, simplicity is everything for Nintendo. Easy, intuitive, user friendly.
Justin Bailey
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Well that feature is already built into the DS, so a seperate product is not needed (which is what this is all about).Chittagong said:
Chittagong
Gold Member
Justin Bailey said:
Well, somebody still has to do the firmware and middleware for it. I tried to track down the comments of a specific product, but the ones I managed to find could be understood so that DS is the product you need to buy and that will launch.
I realize that many people would be disappointed after the wild speculation, but that's always the case in such. "No news can compete with imagination", like IGN tried to save their ass in the Psychonauts case.
Still, even if not awfully practical in real world, it does not reduce the fact that it changes the dynamic of multiplayer gaming, especially as it's included in every device.
Justin Bailey
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Well it would seem strange for Nintendo to subcontract that one feature of the DS out to a small company in the US. I'm sure Nintendo's own internal hardware team is capable of writing that software themselves, making it cheaper for them to do it that way.Chittagong said:
Justin Bailey
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New product doesn't mean hardware neccesarily.