what is up guys welcome back to the channel today i'm going to be showing you guys how to
get nintendo wi-fi connection working on your nintendo ds ds lite dsi or 3ds so that you can
play old classic ds games online with people anytime in the setup uses no hacks whatsoever
it's very simple straightforward and i'm going to show you all the steps you need to get it
done but before i get started don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe to this
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that you don't want to miss so guys to get started go ahead and get out the ds that you're going to
use you can see here i have a dslight but i'm also going to show you how to do it on the dsi and 3ds
it's a very simple setup and it's very similar across devices with just a few things that are
different and i will show you each and every one but go ahead and get any online game that you're
going to use and put it into your ds so we got our game in now let's go to go into the device
go into your game so i am now into the game and you are going to see in whatever game
that you choose there is going to be a menu if it is an online game that says
nintendo wi-fi connection and we're going to go ahead and go to that and then you'll
see a menu like this and we're going to go to nintendo wi-fi connection settings right there
and it'll bring you into a setup menu like this we're going to go into nintendo wi-fi
connection settings so guys once you click onto that menu you'll see a screen that looks like this
although you may have connections in one two or three if all of them are filled up just
erase one of them or if you have none like me or just one that happens to be open just
go ahead and choose that one for me all of them are open so i'm going to choose connection one
go ahead and search for an access point and you'll see your wi-fi network show up here
now it is important to note that the original ds and dslight cannot use wpa networks they can only
use wi-fi networks that do not have a password or are secured with web security so if you are using
a nintendo ds or ds lite for this your network is going to have to be wep or unsecured and if you
don't have one of those you can set up a phone hotspot that doesn't have a password so you can
do this but if you are using a dsi or newer you can use any network whether it's on wpa or wpa2
or whatever network it is you can use it as long as the game is dsi enhanced and this will work
on literally any of the consoles that are newer than the dsi so any wi-fi will work with the dsi
and newer consoles such as the 3ds and 2ds if the game is not dsi enhanced you're going to need to
use unsecured or web wi-fi like the ds lite and original ds which thankfully isn't hard to set up
thanks to phone hotspots but once you've got your network go ahead and select it go ahead and put in
your password now if you don't have a password you obviously skip that step but let's go ahead
and go through and test the connection now go back into nintendo wi-fi connection settings and you'll
see you have your network set up here now we're actually going to go into the network because
we're going to change some stuff going to scroll down until you see auto obtain dns we're going to
click no and then we're going to tap edit on primary dns now go ahead and put this dns in
once you've got the dns in go ahead and click ok and then click ok again
now for secondary dns you don't need to put anything because it will just copy this one
over to this one so you don't need to put anything there now you can go ahead and test the connection
for me the connection succeeded if the connection does not succeed for you
make sure to check your dns and make sure you're close enough to your router with all that being
said let's go ahead and save the settings go ahead and go back go back again and you can
see we are now back in the options to go into the game out of friend code things like that
so now let's go ahead and test and see if it worked i'm gonna go ahead and connect to wfc
and you can see yes it did work we are in the options menu and i could go ahead and get into a
mario kart game here if i wanted to but now let me show you how to do this on the 3ds and dsi so guys
the dsi and 3ds have identical ways of doing this so i'm going to show you how to do it on the 3ds
and this will apply to the dsi as well so on both the dsi and 3ds we're going to go into
the settings go and open that in the settings now we're going to go to internet settings
and connection settings so guys you can see i already have two connections configured and i
have one open if you already have all of yours taken up just go ahead and erase one and create
a new connection let's search for an access point and you can see here our networks go ahead and
choose your network and like i said earlier the 3ds and dsi can use wpa networks in any
dsi enhanced game online so if you have modern wifi you can use that in any dsi enhanced game
and if you don't know if your game is dna and if you don't know if your game is dsi enhanced
just go to google real quick and search up if your game is or is not dsi enhanced if it is
dsi enhanced and you're using a dsi or 3ds or 2ds you can use any modern wifi with that game
online but if it is not you will need to use a web network or an unsecured network to do that
so go ahead and put your password in go ahead and click ok and then save your connection settings
and you can see it did work we can go ahead and click ok and let's go and go back into the
network we just set up go to change settings go over one and you're going to see dns here
we're going to go into that and you see here it says auto obtain dns we're going to say no
and click detailed setup so we're going to ignore the secondary dns we're just going to go into the
primary one delete all of this and we're just going to write this dns in once again go ahead
and click ok and okay again we're going to save and re-test the connection so we're going to go
back now back again and into the home screen now we're going to go into the game that we put in
to play online so go ahead and do that now i have gone ahead and gone into pokemon black 2
and this whole series pokemon white black white 2 and black 2 those are all dsi enhanced games
so they will work with any modern wifi on the dsi and 3ds but if you want to play
classic games on your dsi or 3ds you can still do that you just need to use web wi-fi and set
it up within the actual game itself in this menu just like you would on the original ds or dslight
so i didn't have a save file on pokemon black too so i went on pokemon white instead
same situation so to test our wi-fi connection i am in the pokemon center and i'm going to go to
the gts to see if our wi-fi setup works so let's go ahead and go to global trade and try it out
all right there we go if you get a message like this just go ahead and go over it and click yes
if you see this message just go ahead and ignore it keep going through it and you can see i have
successfully loaded into the gts and i'll go and search something up we'll go and search for oshawa
since it's a pretty widely wanted pokemon and you can see we got someone instantly we'll go ahead
and click select and you can see this person wants a sacrum not really sure if they're gonna get that
but still it is great to see this working in 2022 and that is exactly how you set it up
and guys that is how you can get nintendo wifi connection working back online with
relative ease and this will work for just about any game that ever supported online
services on the nintendo ds as long as you're using the correct kind of wi-fi
so guys if you have any questions or comments make sure to leave them below i will try to
respond to as many as i can but guys thank you so much for watching don't forget to
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