Nintendo Wi-Fi News

There is some assorted news concerning Nintendo's Wi-Fi connection and Mario Kart DS, I am including them all in the same post.

Nintendo has sucessfully launched their global Wi-Fi site, nintendowifi.com. It will be used as a resource for game information, Wi-Fi setup and recording high scores on the current Wi-Fi supported titles. Checking the Mario Kart section, it seems that some Nintendo officials and other staff have already received advance copys of Mario Kart DS, and already have their scores posted at the site.

A new commercial for the Wi-Fi connection has surfaced. Ninjas, anyone?
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Nintendo has revealed that they have an intention to retail the USB adaptor worldwide in the near future, along with the release of Metroid Prime Hunters for DS. But currently, the adaptor is only available from eBay or Nintendo's website.

The complete list of all unlockable Mario Kart DS characters has been revealed. Please note: spoilers below:

Daisy
Koopa Troopa
Toadette
Waluigi
Shy Guy
Dry Bones
Petey Piranha
R.O.B - NES

Interestingly, ROB is included as a playable character. For those who don't know, he started off as a pheripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System back in the 80s, as a robotic toy with NES connectivity. It is very surprising that Nintendo have decided to include him in a game, instead of other MK characters such as Mini Bowser, Wiggler, Baby Mario etc. Ah well, at least Toadette is in the game :P.

Toad + Toadette = Ultimate 1337ness in MKDD :D.