Nintendo DS Online on April 11??

Well, Jadrule.tk is promising to release software for Winduhs machines that will fake your DS into thinking your wifi router is actually other NDS users in the room with you. At least, that's what the site claims. Essentially, the software will allow you to get your Nintendo DS online with any game that allows for multiple players.

Here's a direct quote:

DSlinkup will most likely be beta-released on April 11, 2005 and feature revolutionary software that only Jadrule could finally complete. It allows each DS user to create their on LinkTag and connect to other DS users around the globe using the DS wireless multiplayer feature. Each user will need to be in a wifi hotspot or own a 802.11b router or faster. See you on April 11!

Sounds like a good enough deal, but they're keeping the project closed source, so no one can be 100% sure they're not just dicking us around. We also can't be sure it'll work even if they aren't dicking us around. The good news is the software that will be available will be free, but apparently, it won't be free for long. We'll see, though.

Anyway, just letting anyone who loves the DS as much as I do know that this is going to happen in a week's time. I'll be downloading the software to my old-as-dirt Winduhs 98 PC to give this thing a whirl. Anybody out there want to join me for a game of Super Mario DS? Post a comment below and I'll set up a time, assuming the software works, of course.

Here's the link to JadRule.tk again.

Of course, I'm still wondering why the hell no one has a browser for the DS...

UPDATE: This was a tres lame April Fools joke. Soooo many dickweeds in the world...