The Nintendo DS Web Browser

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Back in 2006, Nintendo released a browser for the DS. For around the price of a regular DS game, you could do all the web surfing you wanted. Except... not really. Because this browser was met with pretty negative reviews due to its limitations. So you know I had to buy a copy!
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@mahoubox Год назад

I would not have escaped my abusive childhood home without this web browser as it was the only contact I had with the outside world when my Mother cut off all contact I had with anybody I knew. It's just a tiny web browser, but I am forever grateful for it no matter how awfully it worked in hindsight because it technically saved my life. It's amazing how such weird pieces of technology can make such huge differences to people around the world.

@Varooooooom Год назад

That’s actually fucking incredible, and I’m glad the DS was able to make your life better in that respect. I also remember getting a surprising amount of connectivity with others when browsing the internet with it back then.

@herobrine1847 Год назад

@@Varooooooom sheet music man is here?!

@zaxmaxlax Год назад

I feel you. I didn't have an abusive childhood but I didn't have a computer or cell phone until my uncle gave me an used HP ipaq PDA back in 2006. I was amazed by the things I could do on it, I used as a MP3 player and web browser to read manga. I could even do some school work on the fly by modifing power point, word and excel documents since it was basically a windows machine. When the iphone and smartphones came out a few years later It blew my mind how people could praise an inferior product, iphone didnt have java suport for videos or even a file manager explorer LMAO

@sctv2127 Год назад

Were u gay or something? 😂

@luwado Год назад

geez, man. stay strong

@aliceseu Год назад

Doing all my banking on the DS browser like a true adult

@X150t Год назад

Lmao

@LikeItSaysInTheBook Год назад

Makes me happy it's not just me that does this.

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@seasonsarecool Год назад

@@e_s.0848why are you posting this under every single comment here?

@e_s.0848 Год назад

@@seasonsarecool Why not? It's a good message. Besides, it can help someone

@theguitargamer1 Год назад

It's pretty impressive considering the DS CPU clock and RAM size.

@wojtekpolska1013 Год назад

The small RAM size is precisely why the memory expansion pack was needed :p

@savagesarethebest7251 Год назад

Not impressive compared with older devices that could run Opera..

@weegeenumberone2 Год назад

@@savagesarethebest7251 It is, because it’s hilarious that a web browser could run on a handheld that had a terrible cpu and ram size.

@gamepunk7963 Год назад

@@weegeenumberone2 EXPANSION PACK! ITS NOT THE CONSOLE'S RAM!

@richieqs7789 Год назад

@@gamepunk7963 The latency for that kind of memory should have been terrible, that cartridge slot was meant for ROMs, with what I guess a very limited bandwidth

@vortexlisa Год назад

Back in 2007 this was a life saver for me... no computer no internet (there was an open neighbors wifi near by...) it was how I stayed in touch lol using the old mobile sites you used to get. Would chat on AIM and MSN for hours using my DS.

@koumer Год назад

god i wish that were me

@AlexandruLipan Год назад

In 2008 I moderated a forum for a whole month using a DS Lite borrowed by a friend, because at the time, my LG343 clamshell phone had no data, and my PSP was in repair. So I was in the rural areas of Romania, using the barely reachable WiFi of a local school, to tap furiously on the screen to parse dialogues of people and guard a community of ~50 people.

@taebeebee Год назад

omg sameeee and i used the wii as well. these two were my only form of internet acess

@vortexlisa Год назад

@@taebeebee oh yeah Wii was for the bigger pages. I can't remember if the wii browser could do youtube...

@wendysremix Год назад

@@vortexlisa Yes it could it even had it's own version for the wii called RU-vid XL Wii. I used it all the time. Even the desktop version of youtube worked perfectly.

@chemergency Год назад

The Wii and PS3's web browsers were surprisingly decent. They were at-least competent enough to play online video and basic flash games from the time.

@SuperTort0ise Год назад

psp too, you can play "videos" on it ;) i never did that, i just know ppl did.

@JoeyPerleoni Год назад

I remember playing Club Penguin on the Wii Browser! It would crash after going through a couple rooms though.

@MajinBoowomp Год назад

@@SuperTort0iseI remember never being able to get the PSP online, even back when it was still Sony’s main handheld.

@SuperTort0ise Год назад

@@MajinBoowomp really? you can still use it today, I think it's only WPA but it's not that hard to set up at least as far as I remember.

@chemergency Год назад

@@SuperTort0ise I was never able to get online video to play on PSP but I liked looking at pictures of uh... *things.*

@munchlax633 Год назад

I've used the Nintendo DS Browser to check my emails and Facebook when I had no smartphone for a month (for a defect that needed repair/change) in I believe 2016. Was still pretty usable.

@Solaceon Год назад

I'm amazed by how well Facebook worked (think it still does) on the DS series. I used the 3DS browser for Facebook until 2019 🤣 Back in the day, my Facebook device was the Xbox 360

@ScriptCatz Год назад

Lol I used my dsi to check Facebook in 2021 and it worked surprisingly well

@theo5675 Год назад

I used PSP web browser back in the day for MySpace lol

@MoonSarito Год назад

Facebook still works pretty fine on the 3DS

@AlexiaTheFX Год назад

I used to check my hotmail on my DSi, back in the day

@X150t Год назад

I remember really wanting this so bad as a kid. I had just gotten the Nintendo wifi kit and was so excited. I'm glad I never ended up getting it because it probably would've been used just a few times due to how limited it was

@EmmBee27 Год назад

I borrowed my brother's PSP and was blown away by the internet browser on it at the time. I saw the DS browser in stores and thought it'd be similar. Thank god my parents didn't listen to my begging lol

@Solaceon Год назад

Lol my parents didn't want me online in any capacity until I was 19 but I always found ways to work around it. in this case I traded my copy of Cooking Mama 2: Dinner With Friends for it when I was like 12 and when my parents finally noticed they were piiiissssed. 🤣 this thing sucked but it served me well until I got one of those Windows CE netbooks which was honestly leagues better. At least it had RU-vid.

@Ferrichrome Год назад

I got this as a kid. It fucking sucked, incredibly slow but it was fun to mess around with. I remember once the 3DS came out it was awesome, you could actually browse RU-vid on it but by that time I had a smartphone

@MoonSarito Год назад

Gosh, I remember how much I wanted this, I had my little DS Lite and used it for practically everything (I even remember that I used some homebrew to use MSN, Skype and Orkut (which was a very famous social network here in Brazil ) and I wanted more than anything to have a Browser in it but I couldn't find any homebrew for that at the time ) this certainly awakened several memories of mine. Years later I got a 3DS and even though Smartphones got a little more popular at the time I still spent hours and hours using the Browser on my Nintendo 3DS and even using Facebook on it, it was a fun time.

@Player-fg4ub Год назад

"to the two people that asked this question" you are the lucky one

@kirishima638 Год назад

It wasn’t that bad back in 2007. The web has become incredibly bloated since then, requiring high end systems to browse all but the most basic sites and verify certificates. Unprotected WiFi hotspots were also still relatively common then. I distinctly remember walking around London and finding no shortage of unprotected hotspots. And when they had passwords it was usually admin/admin.

@THE_flushingtoilet Год назад

Fun fact admin admin is also a default router password for certain wifi routers

@charm3979 Год назад

u can complain that the modern web is bloated but TLS1.1+ and other security cert are NOT one of them

@kirishima638 Год назад

@@charm3979 Every website you visit now uses cookies and makes you jump through hoops for them, to adhere to the GDPR in the worst possible way. Most websites tracks you or bug you to log in/create an account. Ads and popups are out of control. The problem isn't the technology, it's lazy developers using bloated frameworks and unnecessary animated bling.

@nixel1324 Год назад

@@kirishima638 I remember when you could press f12 on a webpage and actually make sense of how the HTML was put together. I remember learning about avoiding div soup back in college. Now youtube """needs""" more divs for a single comment than I used for entire multi-page websites.

@kirishima638 Год назад

@@nixel1324 exactly! It’s all auto generated bloat

@N0GIY Год назад

This was my first internet device... I used this to talk to my friends on AIM, created and used EMAIL, as well as read text! I used the crap out of this thing! Also, later on, if I got grounded from the Internet.... Parents NEVER remembered this thing! I also used it as a noise generator, there was a website that let it play white noise. Literally thousands of hours and it never gave up lol.

@seer6961 Год назад

DS was a good PDA.

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@rosshimes9908 Год назад

@@e_s.0848 I am James. Brother of the lord Jesus Christ

@silence___ 10 месяцев назад

@@e_s.0848no the FUCK he does not

@c_miraa Год назад

I had this as a teenager! I remember sitting on the cold stairs to the basement browsing the web - we did not have Wifi in the whole house yet. Sure, it was not great to use, but i still had a blast exploring websites with my DS! Good memories.

@s6edge7 Год назад

Can it run on a 333 G3 tho?

@s6edge7 Год назад

@novakd1530 instant regret asking what tgey watched as a teen.....

@henrikjohansson9826 Год назад

@Novak D 👀

@thetricksterpill Год назад

@Novak D 😳

@ps5hasnogames55 Год назад

i browsed e621 on my 3ds :3

@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli Год назад

It's kinda crazy just how competent the PSP was at web browsing. I remember navigating to PSPiso and downloading anime, CSOs, and roms all day long, reading Digg and ancient Reddit back in 2006-2008 in college. Homebrew scene had a RU-vid player as well. PSP was kind of insane considering the iPhone didn't even come out until 2007 (and it wasn't exactly that great until the 3GS). PSP introduced a basic browser with Wipeout Pure in 2005 and had an official browser soon after. Not even the Blackberry had remotely usable web until the Pearl in 2006.

@beardalaxy Год назад

the PSP in general was an absolute beast. i used that thing for web browsing, for watching movies, emulating NES and SNES games, and it was my de facto mp3 player as well.

@renakunisaki Год назад

Yeah, it was amazing for the time. There were also some homebrew apps that wrapped the browser in a nicer UI. Only problem I had was it choked on certain invalid certificates and wouldn't load the page. One of those was the login portal my school forced you to go through. They weren't willing to fix it or add an exception. I had to use a laptop to spoof its MAC address just to click that damn button.

@meisterwu8922 Год назад

First iPhone was weird. That damn thing couldn't even record videos. Only photos.

@fwestah Год назад

Omg, and then the long ipod nano which can only record videos, no pics. Horizontally for some reason. i still cherish that cobra starship purple one but it’s pitiful and doesnt have an off button

@HistoryandReviews Год назад

Okay no you did not download NOTHING with 2kbps download speeds

@PashPaw Год назад

There was a USB Internet adapter from Buffalo for the Nintendo systems that shared a connection from a Windows PC. My family got one because we weren't willing to change the encryption on the network from WPA to WEP for a game console. I didn't have the browser but remember trying to play Mario Kart DS with it. Good times.

@weberman173 Год назад

FUNFACT there was also an offical one(not usre if the buffalo one was the "officaly licensed one" or not) as well AND on the topic of that USB wifi adapater nintendo quite recently(like last year iirc) issued a warning that people should Stop using that damn thing because it has legit zero security nowadays given its ancient encryption protocol . Meaning SOMEONE had to have been using it, and ask nintendo about something related to it for anyone to realize "oh shit people are still using this thing"

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

We bought that. But then it didn’t work because our ISP was AOL, which didn’t share the connection from its client with Windows. (To prevent bypassing the net nanny.) Funnily enough my desire to play Mario Kart online got us to switch to BT internet lol. But then the adapter was useless, because the BT bundled router was still WEP-only. Then I sold the adapter on eBay to recoup a bit.

@King_Kong_Song Год назад

The adapter also suffered from security issues, defeating the purpose it was made for

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@juicybullfrog Год назад

I remember buying this thing at my local Walmart in 2007. That time, I didn't know how Wifi actually works. When I purchased this, I thought that was going to have internet on the go without connecting to Wifi. I was so frustrated that whenever I scan for Wifi, there's was no wifi in the area. Even in the mall. Wifi needs to be open or being WEP in order to see wifi list on DS. Never forget when I try connecting to Wifi for the first time in my life on mall food court. Still remember the sound when the DS connect to wifi successfully, the joy 🥹.

@umamifan Год назад

Wireless connections back then were a PITA if you weren’t running windows or Mac OS X

@rafaelluciano5596 Год назад

I used to use this daily back in the day. Once you know it's limits, it was pretty fantastic for text and image based experiences. I would use it for my nightly readings and forum posts.

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@catholiccontriversy Год назад

One thing the ds web browser was really handy for was checking sketchy sites. It was basically impossible to infect since there wasn't a hard drive to install malware on and all temp files were deleted on power off, and even if there was a way to infect it no one bothered to because the install base was so low (like the whole "mac's don't get viruses" thing was true for a while because no one had a mac and it wasn't worth making viruses for).

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@thehylian6984 Год назад

@@e_s.0848 swag

@Bendaak Год назад

This brought back some memories for sure! Back in Xmas 2006, I bought my ex girlfriend a DS Lite and she ended up getting this web-browser because we were young and didn’t have smartphones back then. I remember it being slow but not painfully slow. Standards were different back then because mobile devices with web-browsing ability were extremely rare so I guess it got a free pass. She did use it a fair amount whenever she did not have her laptop with her. It did go on most websites and ran fine when loading pictures too, they were just extremely low resolution. It was a great little add-on for the pre-smartphone era.

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@siljeff2708 Год назад

Because I just had to get the Manaphy in Pokemon Diamond back in the day, I remember buying a BearExtender USB dongle to create a WEP network inside of my parents WPA network to get that giveaway. I felt like an absolute IT Wizard when I got that to work!

@videotape2959 Год назад

I had to do something similar when I connected my Toshiba laptop to the internet. Mmmh, all those radio waves in the air frying your brain..

@X150t Год назад

This reminds me of the first time I opened a web page on one of my parents original Motorola Razr phone probably back in 2004/05. It was the first time I had ever seen Yahoo and Google mobile and I was blown away that loaded. Thinking back, I don't think they even had a data plan or anything at that point so they probably got charged a lot of money just opening one page 🤦

@Xenotypal Год назад

Similar experience for me, I loved my Razr, but mobile browsing was so primitive back then lol.

@belstar1128 Год назад

Any portable internet was mind-blowing back then .most people where stuck to their desktop at home .

@Xenotypal Год назад

@@belstar1128 yeah it really was. I remember browsing online with old PDA's and thinking it was amazing. Razr browsing was all but useless + expensive.

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

Yeah I did the same, on a PAYG sim. Had £10 credit before, loaded Google, had £2 credit. Never again lmao

@YS420X Год назад

I used to pay $99 a month as a teen for mobile web on my phones of that Era. It was limited to I think 50mb but I was the ONLY person I know who could access the internet from my phone. It was a cool time

@tOSdude Год назад

Looks like DSiPaint still exists, one of the few pages made specifically for this browser (well, the DSi browser, but close enough). Might be nice to get a few people in the chatrooms after 5-10 years

@dirtydirtsgt4751 Год назад

What are the other pages?

@tOSdude Год назад

@@dirtydirtsgt4751 Honestly, I don't know. I just assumed there were others.

@iamzsdawgy Год назад

DSiCade and DSiBook were two others that i distinctly remember, but I think DSiPaint was the most fleshed out of any others

@jimmyscringlo Год назад

@@tOSdude There was a whole subculture centered around minimalist websites for the DS browser. DSiDie, DSiBook, DSiCade, DSiMap, DSiHub, etc. They were generally just chatrooms with a couple basic minigames thrown in for variety, and most of them died after 2011. DSiPaint was by far the best and it's nice to know it's still up, all these years later.

@CP0 Год назад

@@iamzsdawgy dsi pad too i can’t remember what was on that site though.

@borrellipatrick Год назад

At the time, "mobile" versions of websites were more common and the ds and later dsi web browsers were just fine visiting mobile websites. I used it alot for Facebook and just checking my emails

@pootan517 Год назад

I remember they made a couple of websites specifically designed for the ds browser. It had tons of viewable gifs and other things like super downscaled manga/comic pages lol.

@tomrow32 Год назад

You might want to try this out with the WebOne proxy server running on a PC on the same network. It uses the PC's HTTPS system and passes page contents through to the DS withoit encryption.

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@FilFee Год назад

Fun fact: Facebook still has the DS version of their website up! Just add a "d." as a sub-domain. :)

@Ozzianman Год назад

You were not bullshitting. Kinda cool it is still up.

@PathfinderfromSplatoon Год назад

Link?

@thawkade Год назад

Oh wow, what the hell lmao

@brandonupchurch7628 Год назад

I swear just about every Crimson/Black DS Lite ever has a broken hinge, I don't know what it is about that color specifically that seems to be more prone to breaking.

@Doegiz Год назад

Running an internet browser on ur consoles or ur mobile systems like a PSP was always a really neat feature to have for all of us kids who grew up with that one and only family computer. Especially when the whole idea of Wifi was brand new to me in 2006, the fact that this even worked on the DS and the PSP had my mind absolutely blown by this functionality at a time when people loved buying linksys routers to go with their 1 mb internet speed haha

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@AaronMT Год назад

Just as painful as trying to browse the web on some of the early Android devices too. Remember the Motorola Droid and using the pre-Chrome built-in Android WebView browser?

@nicks4802 Год назад

I had an LG bliss. It was both slow, AND expensive to bring up facebook. Never used it again after getting in shit for that.

@PongWithBreakout Год назад

It was also when it wasn't common to have mobile version of website, so all you got is a small page on top of using like 3.5" display.

@TripleJumpYTP Год назад

Wow, using the GBA slot is actually a really clever way to add more memory to the DS, it makes sense given that it is it's own storage receptacle thingy and if the GBA slot is not in use they can create a use for it

@mjdxp5688 Год назад

I've been looking for some good footage of this browser for a while, but this is my first time getting a good look at it. I remember I used to spend hours browsing the Web on my Wii U and my New 3DS when I was younger, because I didn't have a good laptop. The Wii U browser actually worked pretty well, I think it even had support for RU-vid video playback. Unfortunately it doesn't really work today.

@laggianput Год назад

Wii u and (new) 3ds browsers, while far from great, can work today. As recently as a few months ago, u've watched yt videos and read fanfiction on the (new) 3ds browser, and well into the release of breath of the wild, i would use the wii u browser for shrine guides and stuff, or in later years, the terraria wiki

@mjdxp5688 Год назад

@@laggianput I remember trying to do a few things in the Wii U browser a couple months ago and having some trouble.

@laggianput Год назад

@@mjdxp5688 yeah, its been getting worse as security tickets and different webcode variants fuck stuff up on older browser.

@supersmashmaster43 Год назад

I remember when the Wii U was new a lot of people were praising the web browser on it. Sucks to hear it’s not that great anymore but it also makes sense.

@CCClarinet12 Год назад

3DS supports RU-vid also but the 3DS browser is so annoying

@terje2005 Год назад

I remember using Opera Mini on an old Nokia phone. Somewhat aceptable solution as it would let me browse normal websites, the built in browser would only let me acess wap sites which were kinda forgotten about by then. "A beta version was made available in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland on 20 October 2005.[20] After the final version was launched in Germany on 10 November 2005,[21] and quietly released to all countries through the Opera Mini website in December, the browser was officially launched worldwide on 24 January 2006".

@mrrice117 Год назад

Same here, it was acceptable enough

@therealdatenshi Год назад

This is so nostalgic for me lmao. Once, my parents took away my phone and computers etc so I had to use my Wii U to watch RU-vid and whatnot. Had this as well - don’t really remember using it though cos I had a DSi though lmao.

@arthurfelipemuckenheim851 Год назад

So your parents took away your phone and computer but not your videogame console. That looks like a tablet. Parents logic in a nutshell right here.

@therealdatenshi Год назад

@@arthurfelipemuckenheim851 lmao yeah it was kinda stupid so i took advantage of it

@Solaceon Год назад

@Arthur Felipe Mückenheim my parents tried putting a pin on the 3DS and Wii, but little do they know that a certain someone could call Nintendo for a master key

@arthurfelipemuckenheim851 Год назад

@@Solaceon how old were you?

@someoneelse4811 Год назад

@@arthurfelipemuckenheim851 24.

@MoonSarito Год назад

@NFJaed Год назад

DS Organize had a built in web browser that was better than this and required no memory expansion. DSO and Beup Live made staying in touch with friends possible when going on holidays

@EmmBee27 Год назад

6:00 I can remember Mario Kart DS being my first online game experience. Had to ask my brother to figure out all the internet shit for me because I was clueless. Then at some point I guess we updated our internet because I couldn't get online anymore. Always bugged me as a kid that my DS worked fine online for years and then just stopped seemingly out of nowhere.

@sanekibeko Год назад

Same here. By the time my house got a new router it defaulted to WPA2 by default which I had no idea what any of that was.

@catholiccontriversy Год назад

I used this all the time as a teen. It was pretty great for reading forums and wikipedia, and if you were patient enough great for image websites. It even worked with hotmail html and I remember writing blogs while on vacations and sending them to myself to post when I got home.

@im_amil Год назад

I’m glad someone actually got use out of it. I grew up with both the ds lite and 3ds and i vividly remember using the 3DS browser to look up wikis on my favorite games

@e_s.0848 Год назад

Jesus Loves you

@JarHead3894 Год назад

This makes WebTV look almost competent, which is quite funny since the oldest boxes have less than half the RAM of the DS + Expansion Pak

@belstar1128 Год назад

But when the web tv was new the internet was a lot more optimised. this would be like if there was a game boy colour browser. even wifi did not exist yet or was just invented.

@JarHead3894 Год назад

@@belstar1128 Even nowadays, WebTV runs smoother on the same sites shown in this video. To be fair, the DS does have half the clock speed of the WebTV box, but images causing that much of a hit to performance is still pretty funny

@calebbenedict5587 Год назад

When I was 8 this was literally the EXACT thing I wanted to have! I always dreamed of having a browser on my DS or GameBoy. I had no idea this ever existed. 8 year old me would have been blown away by this.

@joojoojeejee6058 Год назад

Opera Mini browser in Nokia Symbian devices was actually pretty usable. Even RU-vid worked on my low-end Symbian device. RU-vid supported an appropriate protocol back in the day.

@Pasi123 Год назад

I used Opera Mini a lot on my Symbian devices in 2010-2012. Because of how Opera Mini works on the server side it's still able to open many modern web sites. I did also have a Nokia N810 Internet Tablet which had Linux based Maemo OS and full Mozilla based web browser MicroB. It was even able to run the full RU-vid desktop site and play flash videos. Sadly it can't open modern web sites anymore.

@toxicfem69 Год назад

i feel like the browser was more of a miracle that actually worked well for certain use cases with some pretty creative UI to make it work on the tiny ds screen. it could load up gameFAQs just fine! i was a bit older and had my own portable web devices that worked better when this came out, but i would have loved this as a kid to not have to get computer time to look up how to beat a game or whatever. it definitely had some more specific and niche uses and there were definitely more capable portable devices, but they were also a lot more expensive also there were ways to get these things online without making your whole network insecure. double NAT was generally fine and there were a few times i hooked up an old wifi router i had just when i was using the DS. you can also configure it to only allow the DS' MAC address to connect and not broadcast the SSID to have some reasonable obscurity for playing DS games but keeping other people from getting on your network.

@nak_vgm Год назад

I’d love to see a video exploring some of the Homebrew that takes advantage of that increased memory.

@lunabolt Год назад

I do remember finally being able to connect my DS Lite (Silver guitar hero edition) to the internet... I ended up getting a bonus mission for pokemon ranger shadows of almia. I can't remember if it let you capture Palkia or Dialga but, I remember being in a desert. This was awesome!

@COFFEEWSUGA Год назад

Listening to you talk about the internet frustrations reminded me of the D/P/P HG/SS B/W Event spoofing for Pokemon. Because I didn't have access to the 3DS software PKSM (which has a way easier way to acquire those event pokemon), I had to use the custom server host. I ended up running my phone's wifi hotspot (only allowing one connection) and using that to get the event Pokemon.

@Elmantukas Год назад

Glad to see that me going with a psp back in the day instead of a ds was a great idea. Well, it absolutely was a brilliant piece of kit, powerful browser, great games and lots of homebrew options. Over 15 years on i still have a go on it from time to time, obviously its extremely obsolete these days, but still quite good.

@avws536 Год назад

It's always a good day whenever Michael uploads.

@RossComputerGuy Год назад

True and I'm going to Japan today, just 1 hour and 8 minutes

@Inserteggpunshere Год назад

Nope

@Inserteggpunshere Год назад

@@tacodark He's going to Japan today

@kriswhite9324 Год назад

@@RossComputerGuy Have a great time in japan!

@Gerotzried Год назад

Did Michael Jackson have a DS?

@brett9000 Год назад

I originally bought this when it came out just for the expansion pack as I had a M3 Simply card and used it for homebrew stuff but eventually I got as M3 real Card with the rumble/expansion pack card which expanded the memory further than the browser expansion card did. I still have the card in my DS Lite.

@SiegmundFretzgau Год назад

I remember having to disable the encryption on the router to get the DS online. The Picross game had downloadable levels (some made by the developers, some player submitted contest winners) with regular updates for years.

@ring_row Год назад

a channel who talks about weird old tech stuff?! subscribed.

@Creeper_ofDoom Год назад

8 Megabytes a ram for a Web Browser. yeah that rarely would work i bet

@belstar1128 Год назад

Plenty in 1995 but not enough in 2006.

@seantheguy1391 4 месяца назад

What I discovered as a kid was that the dust cover has a blank circuit board in it. It just has the gold pins and ends a few millimeters after that in the back of the cartridge. It just seems silly to waste the resources on putting a circuit board in a dust cover.

@JosephOrnelas-gd9rn 7 месяцев назад

I love the DSi’s web browser. I like how private it is. No accounts to log into, no parental controls. It’s fun when I have a whole web browser all to myself with people just thinking I’m playing a game.

@ericcrafton8417 Год назад

Ahh this was a trip down memory lane. I got this web browser for my DS Lite on Easter inside my Easter basket. I do strongly remembering it being slow and not having flash player capability so I couldn’t watch RU-vid. But as a kid I thought it was cool at the time.

@myrougeyoshi Год назад

i actually never used this. i had a dsi which came with its own browser

@TVClipsDeutschland Год назад

I remember when i used the DS Browser sometime in the late 2000s. At home we didn't have internet so i used the unprotected Wifi from my neighbor to browse in the internet using my DS Lite and the DS Browser. Sometimes i stood outside in the garden right infront the neighbor's fence with my DS. Crazy times. 2 oder 3 years later the neighbor unfortunally protected his Wifi and since then i never used the DS Browser again... Thanks for the video and bringing back the memory! Little extra info: In the late 2000s the DS Browser cost arround 10€ here in Germany....

@HHog Год назад

I had the Nintendo-brand Wi-Fi dongle, but I could never get my DS to properly connect with it. I also remember back in the day, Nintendo advertised that every McDonald's restaurant would have a DS-compatible Wi-Fi network available. Long story short - my family's sporadic McDonald's visits were some of the only times I was able to properly play a game of Mario Kart DS online, and use the web browser. I loved my DS, but man, that internet functionality. The world wasn't ready yet.

@LaskyLabs Год назад

I've been using the DSi browser a lot lately to see how well it works. It can load the old net and that's about it. It struggles with almost anything you throw at it, and the 3DS browser is only marginally better... At least the DSi can connect to secure networks. The original DS can't even do that!

@justin6581 Год назад

Even back in 2004, WEP was deemed insecure, so I wonder why it can’t do WPA at least.

@LaskyLabs Год назад

@@justin6581 the DS was being worked on through 2002-2003. That's probably why. Also, cheap piece of hardware. I just wish that the secure networks you could use on the DSi worked on DS games, but no, DSiware only...

@justin6581 Год назад

@@LaskyLabs Even back in 2003, WEP was considered insecure

@alejandravega4060 7 месяцев назад

Back in like 2011 i was able to use twitter on my dsi which was cool

@Cyx12 Год назад

What would happen if you put it in a 3ds or 2ds

@masterbawler Год назад

I assume it won't work because you can't plug in the gba expansion

@PathfinderfromSplatoon Год назад

I want to know that too

@DominicMGeehan Год назад

Found this at FYE for $10 for the DS Lite and it was my first foray into the internet.

@NatsumenoKage Год назад

I had one of these. I got it for when I was traveling and I did watch RU-vid on it there was a workaround to get sound to play. I used it a lot for aim, remnants of the web rings.

@Sakurina Год назад

To be fair, this was a great thing to have at the time, because websites made for the pre-iPhone mobile Web worked great on it. Was a fantastic way to stay connected while on school trips and such before smartphones were commonplace.

@belstar1128 Год назад

They didn't work great most sites where made for a desktop pc with at last 800x600 resolution and it didn't support flash or and sound or java and you needed that stuff in 2006. but it was still great because it was one of the few ways to get portable internet.

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

I like how you were as charitable as you could be to this thing, comparing against phone browsing with WEP. It’s a shame they never configured the DSi DS mode to always think it had an expansion pack inserted. But I guess since the DSi had its own browser (IIRC), they thought it’d be redundant. I really wanted this before I had my own (bottom price) laptop. Until I read the reviews.

@shadesoftime Год назад

The memory expansion pack works different to just more ram that the DSi has, the software would have to be rewritten to use the DSi mode and judging by how much of a flop it was, they just didn't want to put in the effort

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

@@shadesoftime you misunderstand me. I’m not talking about a rewrite to take advantage of DSi mode, I’m talking about Nintendo taking the time to build in Memory Pak emulation into their DS mode!

@shadesoftime Год назад

@@kaitlyn__L the memory pak is only used by the browser so that's pointless

@kaitlyn__L Год назад

@@shadesoftime you may notice I said that in my original post :P there was no reason for Nintendo to spend that time. Nevertheless, given the homebrew which uses it requires a real DS(lite), I retrospectively feel it’s a missed opportunity.

@bellowick Год назад

Hearing your frustration about trying to play MKDS online bought back vivid memories of the exact same issue 12/13 year old me had. The only time i could play the game online was in the middle of the night, I used to sneak downstairs, load up the family pc and turn off wifi security just to play the game online.

@shadowcore94 Год назад

There was a PC accessoire, that created a DS compatible network. It was even nintendo branded.

@HouseOfFunQM Год назад

The answer is yes - even in 2006 it was dog shit! It was a cool toy though - but I think a lot of parents(?) maybe assumed they could buy it and play the Cartoon Network Flash games, and shit like that, which obviously it would get nowhere near.

@NinjaPastry Год назад

Ah, watching adult content on my dsi and it being my first time watching adult content.

@Techno-Universal Год назад

The DSI also came with the DS browser built into the operating system from the factory by what I remember! :)

@Miss-Foe Год назад

This thing saved my ass back then. I only had a flip phone , some consoles, and a gaming desktop, but I was living in a very rural place where only satellite was available. Satellite was slow as hell and capped at 100MB per day so it was basically unusable sharing it with the 40 or so people who i shared that cap with. However, i could take my DS with me down to McDonald's 40 minutes away and browse the internet on my DS and it wasn't the best experience in the world but it was more than good enough to post to 4chan and that was 90% of what i wanted to do on the internet back then anyway.

@ExperiencersInternational Год назад

To be honest, I wonder whether there's an exploit with this awful web browser, like the Wii Us.

@fenrir5741 3 месяца назад

The ds has only 256 kilobytes of memory and just enough room for the bios and pictochat you can flash the bios but that only changes the region of the ds if you really wanted to play the Chinese ique ds firmware I guess

@dittm3r Год назад

$30 for a web browser.

@sanekibeko Год назад

I wish I had this as a kid. Sure now Flash support would have sucked but browsing the web was still fascinating to me. However my house hold didn't even get Wifi until 2009 and my first portable browser wasn't until a year later with the DSi XL. I ended up finding a used copy around 2017 for around 5 bucks.

@steelsofliquid Год назад

8:14 - I've seen older versions of Opera (like Opera 12.02) present you with a lot of certificate errors. It's rather normal if you use the browser, but, I don't use modern Opera nor Opera GX to browse the Internet, and I only use Opera 12.02 to browse the Internet on Windows 2000.

@oqocraft2661 Год назад

better than edge

@anshulsinghai Год назад

For real

@back-titration-fan6436 Год назад

For real

@blackghostcat 11 месяцев назад

I watched so much porn on the ds back in the day

@Doggy_Mation 11 месяцев назад

What the fuck!

@Archived_Rem 4 месяца назад

😂 bro I swear, I was reading through the comment just EXPECTING to read this

@blackghostcat 4 месяца назад

@@Archived_Rem lmaooooo

@Mike--Oxmall Год назад

This always bothered me, the original DS was capable of playing back videos hardware wise but they just didnt invest it in the browser. I used to download movies, convert them into the correct format, put it on my M3/R4 and watch them at night in my bed. I think there must have been a homebrew app around that allowed RU-vid to work. I remember the PSP was the same way, you had to mod it and download homebrew apps.

@Ametisti Год назад

I remember the issue of the DS's WAP only thing, and even moreso, Nintendo's backwards issue with even having that limitation on newer systems running original DS games. I had a good few games that wanted internet for thing, and the only option I had was to go to the library cuz they had open wifi

@robiocraft2383 Год назад

It’s a comparable performance to the DSi internet browser. I remember the New 3DS browser being fairly quick, it even supported video playback, due to this reason I used it now and again when needed to look something up.

@thecastiel69 Год назад

Does this work on 3ds?

@videotape2959 Год назад

The 3DS does not have a GBA cartridge connector.

@soulogy Год назад

I remember that I pre-ordered this at my local gamestop when I was like 16

@OfficialDiRT Год назад

3:32 The DSi came with a browser already installed.

@ectobeing Год назад

I didn't have this specific browser, but I remember using the DSi browser as a kid before I was allowed a smartphone. It worked perfectly well for reading forums, and even reading webcomics, which were my main uses for it.

@yjk_ch Год назад

I remember using Wi-Fi with Animal Crossing(or 'Animal Forest' in South Korea) back in the day, which is a sign that my house Wi-Fi was in WEP mode back then. I always thought DS had trouble with modern WPA/WPA2 networks because it does not support 'newer' encryption methods, but I didn't know that WPA wasn't really new at that time.

@KittenoftheBroccoli Год назад

5:48 I have a vivid memory of my stepdad trying to help me get my DS connected to the internet (for Mario Kart DS of course) and him telling my mom that he'd have to "take down the firewall" to be able to do it.

@hermitgreenn Год назад

Man, at that time Opera Mini seemed like wizardry. On cellphones of the time, you basically had the entire then-internet at your fingertips. That's because Opera's servers were converting webpages to be digestible by the J2ME based web browser and it worked like a charm for the most part!

@ComedicRick Год назад

Loved this thing as a kid, super limited and yet it entertained me for ages

@Cyntaria 2 месяца назад

I remember the DSi browser was super limited and extremely slow as well as also not having flash so the limitations of this doesn't surprise me at all and I'm pretty impressed. On the topic of limitations, IIRC, the DS wifi connection menu has a hidden WPS button which you can only access by offsetting the calibration so you can tap the corner of the screen and registers beyond the screen. I don't remember if it was a hidden WPS button or something else, but there was a hidden button. Edit: it's a useless menu that does nothing that's a leftover from connecting to Japanese routers or something. I remember there being rumours back in the day that it's a secret WPS button

@isellstolenchainsaws Год назад

Funny thing the PCB in the OG Web Browser kit fits inside the dummy dust cart that comes with the DS Lite with a little modification. My OG DS broke and kid me got a fresh Lite to replace it but got annoyed with the expansion cart sticking out, kid me was pretty excited to figure that out and not spend extra $ for something small.

@Cade_The_Squirrel Год назад

I actually had this back in the day, but it was used and didn't come with the expansion pak which I didn't realize I needed and I couldn't find one

@TheRileyg98 Год назад

I remember working out a way to force the DSi version to load an entire webpage. I think you had to go to the start page, it seemed to wipe the cache and allow it to load pictures and the like

@trisiegt Год назад

The DSi also had a built-in browser. I'm using it right now!

@EthanShort Год назад

i had this when i was a kid and as my only mobile device it was quite good to have for the time for looking at things on the internet, wikipedia and whatnot. it wasnt amazing but i enjoyed it

@Laz3rCat95 10 месяцев назад

I never used that, however I did sometimes use the internet browsing app on my 3DS to go on Facebook when I was in high school. Before my parents finally bought me my first smartphone my senior year.

@Goldie267 Год назад

I still remember the time when we upgraded our router and it was wpa/wpa2 and I was so sad because I could no longer play LoZ Phantom Hourglass multiplayer or use the GTS on Pokemon, and being young at the time, I didn't know you could change the security back to wep, not that I'd be allowed to do that anyway. It was a dark few years

@choroccruonetv 7 месяцев назад

3:29 It's pretty wierd. It might not work with the cartridge, but it worked on my Hacked DSi XL.

@thearkedcrown Год назад

Michael I'm trying to find a specific old game from around 1994. It came on a distinctive red disc with little text on the disc and featured a matching game of sorts with a background of an island and a skull rock cave. It might have been a CD sampler and I played it on an old Acer computer around 1995. Any ideas? I played this around the same time as the Windows Entertainment Packs.

@j.w.techchannel Год назад

Very interesting video 👍 I had no idea this existed for the DS.

@sundhaug92 Год назад

Lack of DSi-support wasn't really an issue, as the DSi already had a browser via the store

@hectoralejandrotorrespopoc9232 Год назад

Not only the DS needs a WEP or unsecure wifi network it must be also a 802.11b network to work with the nintendo DS, any newer type of network wont work (sometimes type g works, but in my experience is very unstable)

@hectoralejandrotorrespopoc9232 Год назад

You can connect to wimmfi through kaeru WFC, and play online with the nintendo ds. It is recommended to use a router that you can turn off after playing, as it will be more secure and easy to use regularly, i play mario kart ds once in while like that.

@Ayelmar Год назад

I had one of these! And yes, it sucked....that WEP only connectivity made it kind of useless in most cases -- but it was still better than the text-only "browser" on my Nokia phone.

@technodojo438 Год назад

I have a few fond memories of playing some ds browser games, I think that website is still active too.

@pablosskates7067 Год назад

I really wanted this at the time. Remember this was pre-iPhone and entry mid range l laptops were still about $1500. Portable web browsing options were very limited.

@dan5827 Год назад

i used this as a kid! i remember you would have to clear your history and any data constantly as it would run out of whatever memory it had

@wizzgamer Год назад

I used this as my main portable web browser for 2-3 years was very handy if very slow. The DSi had the same browser but slightly faster for free on the DSi store.