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Expanding DS Wi-Fi support #64

Open asiekierka opened 1 year ago

asiekierka commented 1 year ago

Supporting local multiplayer between consoles has been a long-requested feature. At the same time, new research has been done on how local communication and multiboot is expected to operate:

I'm not sure what direction to take this in, but I'm keeping this issue open as a reminder, as well as a collection of useful notes scattered across the Internet.

Prior art

Most of these don't use proper hardware-accelerated "Ni-Fi"/"multiplay"; rather, they use something more akin to sending raw Wi-Fi frames.

AntonioND commented 9 months ago

CTurt's dsgmDSWIFI "local multiplayer" patch

I've cleaned that patch from built artifacts and pushed it to a branch here: https://github.com/blocksds/dswifi/tree/nifi