[Rolken]

Lately news is spreading like wildfire across the forums of the interweb about this super-secret DS project being done by WarpPipe - the guys who made the broadband connectivity stuff for the GameCube. The developers are having great fun dropping hints, but aren't saying anything official until mid-October.

Clues include



The first has an animal crossing his path. Hmm. The second is a marionette - mario-net-te - and has a DS for eyeballs and some strange thing for a mouth. The third says "anti-isolation" backwards. Aside from that and some equally cryptic textual clues, guesses are across the board from super-globe-encompassing p2p networks to Nintendo launching satellites. And the developers have basically said this is too revolutionary of a concept to be simply a network. Then again, maybe it's being overhyped and IS just a network... but heck, a universal DS network in itself would pwn all. omgwtf!?

The original topics are on N-Sider and Warp Pipe, where they dropped some of the same clues and nobody even knew something was going on at the other until one guy happened to be on both forums. what r teh link!?

mid-october, we need joo ;_;

[General Throatstomper]

Reserved my DS today :P Apparently, PictoChat is built into every DS (thank god), and around here they're giving out free Metroid Prime Hunters demo disks. About the project, its quite obviously a Nintendo DS camera. Duh, The kids snapping a picture of a deer, and the game is snapping a shot of his eye. Plain and simple.

[Shadow Wedge]

What's with the hook? Could it be a Zelda cane staff?

[Rolken]

About the project, its quite obviously a Nintendo DS camera. Duh, The kids snapping a picture of a deer, and the game is snapping a shot of his eye. Plain and simple.

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That explains Mario-Net, "anti-isolation", and the strange mouth thing. Only not so much.

What's with the hook? Could it be a Zelda cane staff?

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who knows D:

[General Throatstomper]

Any news on this mysterious DS feature? I want closure :(

[Shadow Wedge]

It's been delayed until sometime in 2005...
http://ds.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=1255

[General Throatstomper]

Maybe its just my computers inability to process XML code, but when it said there was an XML error on a certain page from Unmasked (the project), I checked the source code. Here it is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rss version="2.0">
    <channel>
        <item>
            <title>Lonely</title>
       <description>Look around, what do I see?  Nothing and nobody but me.  Who am I?</description>
       <link>http://www.demasked.com</link>
   </item>
        <item>
            <title>Transmission #2</title>
       <description>yats ti ekam nac uoY .thgirlA .nus nellaf eht nI .snoisneherppa fo srorrim era sevlesmeht ohW .sworc fo hceeps eht dna syad gnirps gnol fO .yranoitcid a s'niarb ym esuaC .yrassecen s'noitavrats erehw ecnanetsus sdneL .ssenyadyreve ym ni seloh eht hguorhT .tsurt otni mrof nam eht gnirb nac uoY .nedrag deteiuq eht dnoyeb tuO .ot smrofnoc ydob ruoy sriahC nekorB</description>
       <link>http://www.demasked.com/transmission2.jpg</link>
   </item>
        <item>
            <title>Home of the Warp Pipe</title>
       <description>ogacihc emoh teews hO ecalp dlo emas taht ot kcaB og annaw uoy t’nod ybaB yehediH og annaw uoy t’nod ybaB no emoC ogacihc emoh teewS ecalp dlo emas taht ot kcaB og annaw uoy t’nod ybab hO no emoC og annaw uoy t’nod ybab hO no emoC</description>
       <link>http://www.demasked.com/stackten.jpg</link>
   </item>
        <item>
            <title>Transmission #3</title>
       <description>.swonk ydoboN ?tahw tub ,gnihtemos tnaw htob yehT .desoppo yllacirtemaid ,sedis owT</description>
       <link>http://www.demasked.com/noissimsnart03.wmv</link>
   </item>
        <item>
            <title>Transmission #4</title>
       <description>Have you ever wondered what lurks above the top floor?</description>
       <link>http://www.demasked.com/aloneatop.wmv</link>
   </item>
    </channel>
</rss>
Several random videos, much ambiguos images, security camera footage, several tall buildings, and what appears to be some sort of deserted house. And how this points to an online network of sorts, I cannot fathom.

[Rolken]

That XML is fine (it's an RSS news feed). Do you use IE?

It stinks that it's delayed, though in retrospect, it being a Nintendo project, it shoulda been obvious. XD

FYI, Chad said the videos are supposed to represent gaming before demasked.