The icon kind of looks like the handle of a sword.

Maybe the Wii sends code to the DS which then activates that feature without you having to tap deep into the corner of the screen?

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I had to force an awkward recalibration of the touch screen to reach that 0,0 pixel and it worked instantly on my Phat. (Before doing that, I couldn't do it at all.)

Fun, fun.

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Apart from saved games what would the point be to synic the ds with the wii

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I believe this feature is actually for AOSS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOSS) which is something my Buffalo Tech. Router has. Basically it automatically configures the device to work with the router securely.

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Duh... the "sword" you guys are seeing is the semicircles selection cursor it puts around the button you've clicked. Except since it's a 1x1 button, they all pile on top of each other.

It's just another auto-sync feature used in certain routers/access points, just like AOSS. Search for らくらく無線スタート and you'll see.

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This does not work on my DS Lite with AC:WW...

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It Works On All DS Wi-Fi Games On A Regular DS And A DS Lite. You Just Gotta Tap The Right Spot, I Think It's Only In One Pixel Thats Why It's Hard.
Nintendo Never Thought Anyone Would Find It, But They Were Wrong.

And Just Follow The Steps I Did To Do This.

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I'm pretty sure it's this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbswTu7hiI

Appoligies if this is a double post. For some reason I'm having trouble getting through. =/

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I was a huge dorl and called Nintendo and asked them and the young lady on the phone assured me it was nothing of use and was left over from programing the DS. The only thing I wonder is why they didnt take it out of the DS Lite.

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Has anyone tried to intercept any wireless information the DS may send out while doing this process? It may provide some useful information.

I don't have a wireless card, just a really nice DGL-4300 router by D-Link. If I had the spare money I'd mod it with Linux and see what I could find. I'll leave it for someone else until some other time.

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To the guy who did the "artist's rendition": It's just what the curved corners that high-light the selection look like around a very small object.

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Wiiii!!!!

Seriously with a firmware update for the Wifi portion of the DS fireware (the wifi settings are stored on the console not the game) and that button can be resize from 1x1 to a size similar to all of the others. The fireware could even come from the Wii which would prove that you have ownership of the system and therfore have use for the feature. As for why it was included in the first place... It is far easier to put this feature in there in an unreachable spot as apposed to not include it at all and program two versions of the fireware (called being future proof), it also makes it idiot proof, by having only one version with the required coding floating around the office not dingbat Nintendo employee can accidentialy put the wrong version on.

Then again it could just be a failed idea and Nintendo was too lazy to remove it (just rezize it :P). But seriously I didnt think that Nintendo could plan ahead as far as this... well done Nintendo.

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*****READ**************
hey if it was a feature that nintendo wasnt gonna use

why are they still putting it on the newly released

Wi-fi games like metroid and star fox?

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Well, I submitted this story to Digg, and they eventually found the answer, what it seems like:

1. While the CONFIGURATION information is stored on the DS's firmware, the actual WiFi setup code is in the game, every game looks the same because it just uses the same code that Nintendo provides so some other game dosent screw up the configuration for every other game with bad code.

2. This is a feature avaliable only on a few Japanese-only routers that is actually very similar to AOSS, it baiscally works in the same way.

3. Likely either by removing it it resulted in a glitch that set its position or something like 0,0 (the upper-left most pixel) or they set it there themselves in order to "disable" it.

4. This feature is fully avaliable in any Japanese DS game that supports WiFi. You can even see the image that flashes for a second, apparnetly in the US version the image is displaying smaller and with the wrong colors than its supposed to as a result of being "removed".:

http://jeff.sandwich.net/images/rakuraku.jpg

5. Though, if this feature was removed from the US and UK versions of DS WiFi games (makes sense, since no router in the US or UK supports it), how come it was still fully translated into english?

6. Its irellevant that type or region DS you have, only the game's region matters if this option has been removed or not.

7. I think you were a little early to jump the gun stating "it dosent connect to anything, it will never connect to anything" and "we'll chalk this up as a feature that will fade, like the legendary city of Atlantis, into one of the unexplained mysteries of the past." in the video ;)

Theres also a forum thats discussing this:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118676

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I think that at that time the Wii could also connect to the internet for those who don't have wireless (via Wired LAN) and at that time the Wii could be used as an access point for the DS to go online.
But the corner pixel? When the feature was "removed," maybe a lazy worker (I doubt ninty has any of these though) couldn't be bothered to delete it, so just moved it to an inaccessible point.
Chris

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Before I go, another thought - a debug/test mode for Nintendo maybe? They don't have proper DSes for some types of testing normally - they use a special device - I forget the name now. It has all the general DS input, but it may not have had wireless or something

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I was going to make a video about the Japanese version but it looks like this guy beat me to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbswTu7hiI&watch_response
This video shows that the Japanese wi-fi options have "simple start" as a nice shiny button instead of as a bug found by prodding your screen with a toothpick.

Go back to MASTERLINKX's original video (the one in the original post) in YouTube to see his explanation of what these means. Apparently it's just an option to connect to a NEC router, which they don't sell in the US, and so was taken out of the US versions of games. Mystery solved!

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if it was made for a different version then why was it in a us made game like metroid, and why was it in english? odviously it was put there for people to use secretly. because if it was a lazy programmer they could just have easily not had a button, as put a 1*1 pixel. so if they truly didnt want to have people using it it they wouldnt have gone through the trouble of putting it in the corner, its easier to just wipe it out. im guessing it has something to do with a web browser.

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It's quite interesting...

But I'd like to know where he got those remixes...

~Supakitsune

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