Nintendo has recently launched a service for you to try out demo's for your Nintendo DS. You basically take your Nintendo DS to the closest location that is listed on their website (usually to the nearest EB store), and you can using the built in wifi you will see a list of available game demos to download. And once you have downloaded the game demo, you can play it as much as you want, but as soon as you power off your NDS the game is wiped off ur system.
I had several questions regarding this:
1. From the available specs of the NDS, it says that it has 8KB memory cache, and i doubt that the NDS has an internal storage. The NDS game cartridges can hold a maximum of around 1GB, so that would mean the games use quite a bit of space. So where exactly are the games downloaded? And why do they get wiped out once you switch it off?
2. If we can download the games from specified wifi hotspots, technically speaking, that means we can download the games through any wifi. Meaning that if Nintendo wanted they could release a the demo's that has an embedded program that would send the game via your home wireless connection. Now Nintendo doesnt want to do that but why cant we?
3. Why is Pict-o-chat only restricted to the area around you? Why doesnt Nintendo update it so that you can have access to online chats, with a parental control scheme.
I had several questions regarding this:
1. From the available specs of the NDS, it says that it has 8KB memory cache, and i doubt that the NDS has an internal storage. The NDS game cartridges can hold a maximum of around 1GB, so that would mean the games use quite a bit of space. So where exactly are the games downloaded? And why do they get wiped out once you switch it off?
2. If we can download the games from specified wifi hotspots, technically speaking, that means we can download the games through any wifi. Meaning that if Nintendo wanted they could release a the demo's that has an embedded program that would send the game via your home wireless connection. Now Nintendo doesnt want to do that but why cant we?
3. Why is Pict-o-chat only restricted to the area around you? Why doesnt Nintendo update it so that you can have access to online chats, with a parental control scheme.