I remember pictochat getting banned on my school bus because we were saying bad stuff like “butt” and “ass” and probably drawing pictures of dicks. Ahhh what a time to be alive
14Amazing
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I have bad news
8This ad is freakishly '90s considering it's for a DS
7America Online Instant Messenger.
6Does anyone know how it worked? Did it use something like bluetooth? Iirc the ds kinda had wifi.
6Probably wifi. The DS had it but it didn't work with many routers because it used the old WEP encryption that stopped being supported.
15DS had full WiFi, just nothing to do with it unless a game needed it, but yeah pictochat did use that receiver. As far as I know it was a proprietary protocol so not actually WiFi, but same antenna and bandwidth and everything.
8It used wifi. Can't remember if it also had IR communication, like the GBC. It's been ages since I had a DS, but I'm pretty sure that there was another handheld other than the GameBoy Color that had the IR stuff. Nobody used it though, because it fuckin sucked.
4The DS did have an IR sensor but (I'm pretty sure, don't quote me too hard here) a majority of the local communication was using either wifi or a proprietary wireless connection using the wifi antenna/chip.
I specifically remember Pokemon Black/White having an IR quick-trade option where you had to put 2 DS's back-to-back and being really confused about it because it seemed useless since it took so long to actually work.
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Oh yeah let's all use a proprietary system designed by Nintendo. I can't see this ending badly...
5i don’t exactly know what your point is, but pictochat is entirely local and requires that everyone is close to each other.
15Lets not forget that it on a device that has been out of production for over a decade
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But what if the people in my area are not gay and pretty?
5Well, there is one person… 🖤❤️
4I wish...
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Does pictochat still work?
3Yes, it doesn't rely on online services afaik.
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Chris chan is that you???
3Make IRC great again
3Let's go back to "he's not home, call back later".
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