Rough Draft

Mario Kart DS

Picked up Mario Kart DS today and played a few games online with Jeff (while connected to a video iChat for all the necessary taunting). I was getting my ass handed to me when I was Mario or Luigi, though I did muster a tie or two. Eventually I switched to Yoshi which is who Jeff was using and the matches were much closer and I even managed to win one. It's a really fun game and if you have a DS you definitely need to pick it up.

There are a couple annoyances when playing online. When you are trying to play a match against friends, there's no way to just start a match you have to wait about a minute while the DS waits to see if other friends are joining. Then it displays a message saying you might not be able to find four people, but it keeps searching a little longer. Then finally it starts game. But that's really just a minor annoyance, the big disappointment is that you can't play Battle mode over the internet seeing as Battle mode is the best part of any Mario Kart game.

Also it took a while to get started because my DS wouldn't cooperate with the WEP on my Airport Extreme. Eventually I resorted to just turning off WEP so we could play. I'll have to figure out what's going on with it. I swear wireless networking is the bane of my existence.

If you've got the game, let me know and we can play. My friend code is: 416 671 313 392

Update: Finally got connected to my network with WEP turned on. I made my password 13 characters (based on advice from this KB article) and then found an ASCII to HEX converter to get the HEX password to enter on the DS. This morning I saw Erik's post and he discovered if you click the password toolbar item in the Airport Admin Utility, it will give you the HEX version of your password.