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 DS HOW TO GUIDES
 How to download DS demos
Download DS demos from the Net for free with your PC Wi-Fi card
Journalists are always bragging about the secret tech demos and videos they get to play at conferences, demos that are beamed around the show floors from Nintendo's servers for them to lap up with their limited edition consoles. Follow this guide to turn your home PC into one of those servers, enabling it to transmit games to your own DS for you to try out.

Before doing anything else, you need to check if your PC or laptop's wireless network card is compatible with the software. If it is, it'll be included in this list. If your card isn't included it won't work. You'll have to borrow or buy a compatible one.
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Make sure you have your original card drivers and instructions handy. This is vital for changing your network card back into one that you can use for accessing your home network and connecting to the internet. When you're absolutely sure you've done this, download the DS driver. Unzip it by right clicking the file, selecting Extract all... and clicking Next a couple of times, as prompted.
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Open Control Panel by clicking Start, then Settings, then Control Panel. Double click System and choose the Hardware tab. Click Device Manager. Click the plus icon next to network adapters then find your network card on the list. Right click it and select Update Driver... to start the Hardware Update Wizard.
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Choose 'No, not this time' if you're asked if you want to connect to Windows Update, then 'Install from a list or specific location' on the next screen. Tick 'Include this location in the search' then click Browse and choose the directory you extracted the DS driver to earlier and click 'winxp' then 'i386' then Ok. Click Next one more time, then Finish.
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Download the Wireless Multiboot Application and unzip it. Download the demo of your choice from this page, saving it as 'demo.nds' in the folder you just extracted the Wireless Multiboot Application to. Open that folder then click and hold the left mouse button on your newly downloaded 'demo.nds' and drag it into the 'data' folder. Right click wmb.exe and click Create Shortcut. Right click the shortcut you just made, select Properties and add ' -data demo.nds' to the end of the 'Target:' box, after the closing quotation marks. Click Ok and run the shortcut by double-clicking it.
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What a lot of work. Here's the fun bit: start your DS and select DS Download Play. If you've done everything right the name of your demo will appear. Click it to begin the transfer then start playing. Remember to reinstall your network card's original drivers when you've finished playing the demo so you can get back on the internet to visit Pocket Gamer.

Don't miss our other DS How Tos.
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Fortyseven | 19 August 2006
I had a Linksys WUSB54G v4 external USB wifi adapter laying around, and it was in that list, but unfortunately the driver doesn't seem to want to recognize it. Sigh.
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nate38 | 20 August 2006
Same here, I've got a WMP54G v4 in my computer now and it can't find the driver...I'd really like these demos, too.
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Jack_SkellingtonXX | 21 August 2006
Hey guys. This is really great. I am having some troubles, you see, i'm working on a Toshiba M300, and i'm not that laptop litarate. Could you guys please help me?
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trunkguy | 23 August 2006
Is there no way I can do this without changing my router/connection settings?
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rhowells | 15 October 2006
Fortyseven, nate: The architecture used in these cards changes all the time which seems to be what's happened to you. The list is more 'it definitely won't work if it's not here' than 'it definitely will work if it is', if you see what I mean. I used the EW-7108PCg.

Jack: I'm more than happy to help. Can you be more specific?

trunkguy: Unfortunately not Nintendo really don't want to make it easy for you to get hold of them.
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jaw4597 | 2 April 2007
i need help it kind of hard can u break it down
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Marcher11 | 7 August 2007
This is advice is great except for one problem, when i try to open the shortcut or even wmb it opens and closes quickly. What should i do?
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Marcher11 | 7 August 2007
Ok i figured out how to open it i watched a video on youtube, but the problem is i have a usb adapter so when you plug it in to ur computer it automatically is setup. It does go through a setup it just does it itself. What should i do?
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whc15 | 12 February 2008
Ok i didnt work at first but i opened it up in command prompt and did it though there but at the last step of uploading i got devicefing <> failed PLS NEED HELP HOW I GET IT TO WORK
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wossberg | 15 February 2008
I have the D-Link DWL-G510 rev C1 and running xp64.. when trying to update the driver it just says that i should make sure the driver is for xp64. prolly is that my card is on the list but as you said, not a garantue that it will work becuase of that.
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