I Got My DSi Back

It’s currently 4am and I can’t sleep so lets write something quickly before I slumber back to bed.

So as it turns my DSi is like what, how many years old? Let me check

(One wikipedia check later…)

IT CAME OUT IN 2010?!?

Woah it’s almost 15 years old now! And it’s still running!

Mine has a red case celebrating Mario’s 25th anniversary, and it originally belonged to my sister before I eventually took over it. Mind you, we didn’t have many games, so the only things you can do in my DS are:

1. Take photos of a school trip in 6th grade. (True story)
2. Experiment with the audio channel
3. Play the Brain Age games pre-installed there
4. Play the DS Victorious shovelware using its chip It got lost. Maybe for the better.
5. Play Mario Kart DS!

I used to play so much MKDS in my youth and have used several nicknames throught my karting career, some of the highlights include: ¹

• :3😀
• /😀⏰Leo⏰😀\
• Bag pigies
• [Undeciphrable arrangement of characters]
• CPU0
• KFCMan (currently using this one, obvously)

And I’ve even managed to get the secret title screen:

And if you’re wondering, no, I haven’t 3-star’d all the missions. Yet...

There’s one thing missing tho

Online play.

Little couldn’t figure out how to connect to the internet, and the internet configurations were too confusing for me to figure out when I was little. I mean, you’re telling me that the internet browser configuration is different from the one MKDS uses, and it’s a different encryption system?!?!?

Then a few years ago I figured out how to search stuff on the internet, so after researching a bit I found that:

1. The Mario Kart servers were shutdown
2. Wimmfi exists
3. Current Wifi routers are not compatible with the encryption the MKDS uses
4. You can connect your DS to a mobile hotshop with no password to access the wimmfi servers (provided you insert a especific DNS)

Back then I couldn’t get it to run well, so I left it at that.

Until yesterday.

Yesterday a friend of mine showed on their whatsapp status that they were playing MKDS with a friend on their 3DS, and that inspired to try to hook the DS to the servers, so here’s what I did:

The setup

First I needed to find where I left my DS, since last time I had used it it shutdown out nowhere. Turns out it ran out of battery.

Second, I needed to check what stuff worked and what didn’t. Turns out only the clock and date were reset. Cool.

Third, I searched a tutorial on how to hook up to the servers since last time I did it my myself I couldn’t connect properly, so I used this tutorial in spanish:

And it ran smoothly! But the servers I connected to were empty anyway so I couldn’t play.

So if you play Mario Kart DS just contact me. We could play some matches some time.