PSP And Nintendo DS Gaming Together

Most gamers agree: fanboyism can be very annoying. The PSP has its graphical power, the DS has its touch-screen controls. But both handheld can work together though.

Cross-platform multiplay is a term rarely seen in games. While many different devices make use of the very same technologies, applications on device X are most often not able to communicate with those running on device Y. The same with the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS.

As both handhelds are capable of communicating over Wi-Fi, why haven't we seen any games yet that can be played on both the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP against each other? While the most obvious reason may be the difference between the two handhelds in terms of computing power and control schemes, it is possible to create similar games that exchange information.

In the past, Tony M Morelli developed a small TicTacToe homebrew application for the Nintendo DS. Nothing wrong with that. Now Tony had set his eye on his Sony PSP and decided to port the application to the handheld by Sony. The result: TicTacToe running on two seperate devices in their own way. Controls and graphical visualization may differ between the two version, but the essence of the game itself remained intact. Tony decided to add Wi-Fi functionality to the two applications and managed to get the two devices to communicate with each other. The result? The very first cross-platform application running on the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP.

A few photographs of Tony Morelli's application running on the two handhelds can be found here.

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  Whoa, that's awesome.

  onthealmond, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Interesting. If meetro is still planning that Instant messenger program they said it would be cross-platform via WIFI.

  NPC, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  It's been done, the process is called something like platform independent application. The idea is to allow handheld console to be able to play against a home console or other mobile device. Such as Pocket PC user can play against PSP; Revolution player can play against NDS. All are done by wi-fi. Little note on the side, it was Sony that declared war with Nintendo in the first place.

  LeSomeGuy, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  LeSomeGuy, are you purposely starting these flamings? Careful.

  skarma, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  this is a great idea

  ctkxtreme, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  At first I thought it stupid, but this isn't so bad after all. I'd say count me in!

  yakutatazu, 30-11--0001 at 00:00