[TUTORIAL] Guide to Enable WIFI Feature On DeSmuMe v.0.9.7

If you're talking about the cross overs(those lightscreen looking walls in the left and right sides of the extralink map) then I think you need a friend's code for that?
what do you call those? I forgot the term haha

 

Ah ok thanks a lot i thought it was random, so i guess i'll need to convince some of my friends to play just to check that out

 

So, are there any solutions or should I stop trying? I'm still trying to figure out why exactly isn't it working...

 

@Hanna Rye,

Download Desmume SVN 3947. In your wifi settings, you should put your Ethernet Network card, which in your case is the Nvidia nForce one. That piece of hardware is your connection bridge between your PC and your router.

If you're still encountering problems, more precisely you keep to get 52xxx errors, there's something wrong with the router: try to configure your home connection by connecting to the internet only with your router (thus removing your ADSL modem from your line).
Also, what kind of router do you have?

 

Yes! Guys, I finally got it working!
I read a lot in this and in other forums and I had a lot of issues that most people have too. It took me a whole day to bring it to work but now it is running and it works great!
I just registered here now to help the poor people after me who can't bring it to work too so they don't need to spend as many hours as I did ^^

First of all. I did not figure out what exactly made it working for me now. I'll just tell all the things I did that helped for me.

The Turorial is really good and people should follow it. But be careful with the files.
The only version that is really working is the r3947 with WinPcap 4.1.1.
Trust me, I tried ALL of them in any possible combinations and the result was always the same ^^ You get errors of all kind but you won't bring it to work.
BUT ... the version in the first post is a already used one with existing configuration files. I believe this is the first thing that causes trouble and I recommend to use a clean one and just put in the setting for yourself what you have to do anyway
I uploaded a new one without configurations and all files that you need. (Download)

Just follow the steps like in the turorial. Use the BIOS and firmware images in the Firmware folder. Tick the box "Boot from firmware (Like the NDS)"
Then do all the other settings, including step c (it is marked as optional but I believe it isn't!)
It is important to enter the same information in the firmware settings as you do later in the NDS. It doesn't really matter what it is because you don't see it in the games, it just has to match. You can leave "message" blank. Don't forget the WiFi settings. just select the correct network adapter and go on infrastructure mode.
That's basicly really all what you have to do in the emulator. The key is to use the right version and to create the configuration files by yourself.

If it refuses to connect now, there is something wrong in your OS.
ALL security software has to be disabled! Reboot the computer after you installed WinPcap.
Don't forget the Windows Firewall too. It "should" be enough to set rules in your firewalls, but you can still try that afterwards when you got it to work.
Try to clean up your network adapters. Uninstall all the VPN software like Hamachi, Tunngle, VirtualBox, etc. and reboot your computer.
You can also try to make your network adapter that is connected to the internet to the primary one. to do this, go to the list of your network adapters and press ALT then click "advanced" --> "advanced settings" highlight the adapter and put it to the top with the arrows. (names could be different, I don't use the english version of windows)
In the Network and Sharing Center your network adapter has to be on "Home network". Work or Public won't work.

Now try to connect again. If you check on your routers webinterface you should see a new computer with an own IP-adress. If you don't see it there, you will have to find the error in either your router settings or still in windows. Ofc you won't find anything if you got a cheap router that doesn't list any connected computers at all.

The connection test didn't fail? good but you should still be aware that this is a very experimental thing that doesn't work perfect.
While a connection is etablished, you will see the emulator showing error messages. It will work anyway but sometimes the connection breaks when there are too many errors.
I use my emulated DS only to play Pokemon Black Edition and everything works. but I advise to save the game (ingame saving) and restart the emulator every time you do any Wi-Fi actions like trading pokemon or having battles. If you played a long time and use emulator saves or even fast forward you will get a lot of errors on Wi-Fi things later and the connection will break.
So just save and restart the emulator
Btw... going to dreamworld takes like forever! Don't abort it, it can really take up to 10 minutes but it will work! this is the same on the original DS or 3DS.
I got mystery gifts over Wi-Fi, added a friend in the adress book, had long battles with him, traded a lot of pokemon, can go to dreamworld and use the GTS
What doesn't work? Well there seems to be some features that you can only use with close range wireless communication. I think this is similar to bluetooth and ofc you can't use it with this emulator. You find one example in the EntraLink. If you go on the bridges it will look for people forever and won't find anything.

Btw... and this might be interesting for the Wi-Fi users out there
It works for me on a wireless connection but before you go crazy... my network setup is a little bit different
I used 2 routers to create a wireless bridge from the ground floor (where the internet connection is obviously) to the first floor where 2 computers are.
I configured the first router to allow repeaters and took the second one to connect to it. so it is just a wireless repeater.. BUT. ofc this has LAN ports as well and it doesn't only repeat the wireless signal... it also repeats it to the LAN ports. So you can plug in your computers there
All computers and the main router won't notice that there is a wireless bridge. the computers still just have a normal wired connection with all it's benefits and even the main router shows them to be connected wired.

This is just to give you an idea what you can do if you are on a wireless connection. so if you have another router in your house that you don't use, you should try this out ofc your routers will have to support this mode.

Okay this is it. Good luck on bringing it to work guys! Don't give up if it doesn't work on the first start it's worth it
Hope this will help anyone.

my system:
Windows 7 x64 SP1
CPU: Sandy Bridge (4x 4,4GHz)
RAM: 16GB DDR3-1333

ps: if a game runs slow for you (even if you only have a few slowdowns) forget about Wi-Fi! a fast computer is essential to use the network feature.

 

very useful tutorial

might do this to transfer my emulator pkmn from soul silver / diamond to my legit white game

as for crossing the entralink bridge to another player's game world i think there needs to be other people playing pokemon white/black near you (i mean literally with a ds and all).

sucks that they didn't make this entralink feature wi-fi capable too and decided it to be local wireless only (minus the catching-dream-world-pokemon part). maybe nintendo wanted to retain the 'play together physically' (if that makes any sense) aspect of player interaction and not go fully online.

(and I wanted to populate my white forest and make my entree bigger :| )

 

oh yeah, I did that, I uninstalled that hamachi thing. I first found out about it when I was checking ram usage in my task manager and decided to uninstall it.
didn't knew it could affect the connection haha

now that I think about it, I can not remember well if I uninstalled it or just disabled it. cause like I said, when I was checking ram usages, I always trace the source folder of the program before disabling/uninstalling it. cause you know, some things are on the system 32 folder so I try to be careful haha

 

Once again, thanks for this useful guide prectorian! ^_^

 

I am back with all my powers and gigantic size! -Osiris
And I am back with my LAN cable and working Desmume.Glad to be back, prectorian and what all pokemon have I missed?

EDIT:
"Connection Successful" in WFC settings and "Error 20100" in-game Game sync of pokemon white, what's the problem?
I get a "crap we're gonna nuke a packet at 2/69" everytime when I try to connect in-game.


Then, it disconnects again.

 

Hmm, thanks for all the solutions.I've tried them, but still doesn't work.Well, looks like a conflict is going on as my new connection is named "Network 2" and old connection was named "Network 1".
I wish the network looses the conflict xD

 

I have THAT version of DeSmuME now.
As for the router, it's a DIR-100 model router made by D-Link. Do I have to forward any port?
(I can't connect to the Internet through the sole router, it does not serve the same purpose as the ADSL modem does)

EDIT: during the installation of WinPCap 4.1.1 I get a window with these lines:

Operating system detected on registry: Windows 7 - AMD64
True operating system (kernel.dll): Windows 7 - AMD64
npptools.dll present on the system: false
netnm.inf present on the system: false
nmnt.sys present on the system: false

What does that mean?

 

yo guys!
can the relocator option in pokemon black/white be used?

'cause I'm already setting plans for my gen V wi-fi team and I just found out that game freak, for some reason I cannot fathom, removed the ROOST TM and I'm trying to get my future togekiss to learn it so I thought of transfering the move/transfering my togekiss from previous gen. to pokemon white.

I know there are other legit options of getting the TM (like trading) but meh, I'm also interested in the relocator capabilities of desmume.

 

Ignore that lines of Winpcap, it's normal, I think.

You don't need to forward any port to make the connection test work, even if I recommend using UPnP when playing; have you tried to manually add Winpcap to Windows' firewall exceptions? You can do that by clicking on your Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> "Allow a program or feature through Windows Firewall" -> and then manually adding the Winpcap driver, usually located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\WinPcap\rpcapd.exe.

 

To begin with, I would like to applaud you for keeping this thread up with support for all this time.

I have been reading through forums for hours now, and I haven't found anyone with the problem I have been dealing with. I have followed the instructions for the wifi access (to the best of my knowledge), and I can actually make a connection and even go into the WIFI specific areas of pokemon SS and can interact with my buddy who is also running desmume svn3947 with pokemon HG. Everything is going smooth until we try to connect for anything (battle, trade, etc.), where it says that "Friend has joined you," "Friend has contacted you" and then eventually "Friend has failed to communicate" after about 30-60 secs of waiting.

The only problems that either of us can see in the output is a message like this:

"crap we're gonna nuke a packet at 2/69 (0080) (1a36)"

Like I said, we are both running svn3947 with HG/SS roms and we are able to make a connection without any errors, but we are not able to do any trades or battling. We are very frustrated at this point and would greatly appreciate any help or advice that anyone could provide.

Thanks in advance.

 

yeah the hidden menu one
oh so it is not usable
what I'm trying to do basically is to teach togekiss the move roost, dunno if the birthday present togekiss has it
oh well, just gonna go up and transfer my gen 4 togekiss manually.
thanks for the info