Turn Nintendo DS into VOIP capable phone?

[Lord Valmont Illamato]

I've read and heard about this. Does anyone know anything about it. Using your nintendo DS as a VOIP phone??

[MattGSX]

Yes. First you need a homebrew-capable flash cart, writable medium for that cart, and the actual voip program.

My personal choice is to use a slot-2 (GBA) flash cart, such as the SupercardSD, M3 (slot 2.. not sure of the name), or CycloDS-SD. You could get a Slot-1, but since they don't include the RAM extension that SvSIP and many other fun programs recommend, it's not really worth it. My setup is a CycloDS-SD, running Supercard firmware v. 1.6, with flashed firmware on my DS itself.
For VOIP, my fav. program is SvSIP, which allows dialing out and receiving calls while the program is running. You do, however, need an account through a VOIP provider (the free acct for FreeCall will work just fine for this). Another possibility is VoiceChatClient, which is more like a DS-to-DS chat client, but it still functions.

[trevelyn]

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made that a long time ago, now i have the M3 Real and can't use SvSIP.  if you can stand the shitty Ferry Corsten Edun song until the end you will see the DS place calls.

[Lord Valmont Illamato]

thanx alot, guys I appreciate the insight!!

[Lord Valmont Illamato]

Yes. First you need a homebrew-capable flash cart, writable medium for that cart, and the actual voip program.

My personal choice is to use a slot-2 (GBA) flash cart, such as the SupercardSD, M3 (slot 2.. not sure of the name), or CycloDS-SD. You could get a Slot-1, but since they don't include the RAM extension that SvSIP and many other fun programs recommend, it's not really worth it. My setup is a CycloDS-SD, running Supercard firmware v. 1.6, with flashed firmware on my DS itself.
For VOIP, my fav. program is SvSIP, which allows dialing out and receiving calls while the program is running. You do, however, need an account through a VOIP provider (the free acct for FreeCall will work just fine for this). Another possibility is VoiceChatClient, which is more like a DS-to-DS chat client, but it still functions.

Would i be able to use Icall as the voip service??

[MattGSX]

I think. If Icall has a setup where you get a username and password and sign in, you should be fine. SvSIP will log into the service and then use that acct to place calls. Google SvSIP, because the creators have made a list of services they know to work.

[trevelyn]

yeah you just edit the configuration file that it comes with it has examples in the file that are commented out if i remember correctly just do some testing and see what you come up with.

[Lord Valmont Illamato]

Great I cant wait to try it out, once i get the R4 stuff i will let u fellas know how it goes

[z3wb]

I have SvSIP and I've been trying to find a VOIP service that works with SvSIP and let's you make toll free calls. So far the only one I have gotten to work is Voxalot, but the sound quality is shit. Some services act weird, for example, when I used IdeaSIP, GOOG411 could hear me perfectly, but I couldn't hear it.

[Lord Valmont Illamato]

I recently came across a sip phone from Icall with free VOIP calls to the US and Canada, you juss have to pay for International calls. i havent had a chance to try it out with SVSIP, due to the fact tht i havent gotten the R4 equiptment. U can try it and see if the service will be accepted.

[Rizz]

Wow. I have been thinking about modding my DS for a while now. This has definately inspired me to give it some more thought (not to mention the recent job change AKA more money) Maybe after I get the stuff I need I will call up the bridge and let you guys know how it works.

[Nod]

Don't bother calling the bridge. The only one ever on there is JD flooding it with sweep tones.

[trevelyn]

My Nintedo DS has been my best friend for ages now.