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DS development > Is WPA on DS possible?

#168063 - Echo49 - Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:03 pm

I was reading around about WPA and I found that

  • WPA should be able to run on WEP hardware with very little modification
  • WPA can be done entirely through software

Now, I know next to nothing about Wi-Fi and encryption. Is there some technical limitation as to not having WPA for the DS? (not WPA2)

#168115 - Quirky - Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:15 pm

The hardware used in the DS doesn't support WPA. It may require little modification, but on a fixed hardware platform any modification at all is too much.

The DSi *does* have WPA, but is not backwards compatible with DS games. I imagine that this is the minor hardware modification + software support that you have read about in action.