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[edit] Sixteen People in Total

The page originally read "It can be used to communicate with up to sixteen other people", but this is simply not true. It implies that a total of seventeen people (16 and yourself) can communicate in a chat room at once. I've changed it to fifteen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.51.118.163 (talk) 02:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC) I changed it to be worded differently, so no incorrect implication are implied. GEM036 (talk) 21:59, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fun stuff

Why is the 'fun stuff' all the way in WikiBooks? --IRbaboon 14:29, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

  • It was copied there after being removed from here in this edit. The resultant wikibook makes no attempt at genuinely being either instructional or educational, and Wikibooks editors have rightly pointed out that most of it appears to have been made up firsthand. It is now listed for deletion. Uncle G 16:19, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm really surprised this entry doesn't mention the certain part of the male anatomy that most people end up drawing in their first PictoChat session.  :) --PatrickD 22:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

  • XD

Though it is true that about 80% of pictochatters draw... that part, It really doesn't fit in with the article. And yes, I realise that was a joke.--The last sheikah 11:40, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

"PictoChat can also be used to determine the version of firmware installed on a DS." Perhaps somebody should explain where to find this? I've never seen it. Scorchsaber 15:21, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Find info on the PictoChat firmware versioning here or here.

[edit] Pictoquest

I was wondering if Pictoquest is worth a small mention. For those that don't know, it is a joke RPG similar to Mornington Crescent (game) that has become well known on Gfaqs.--The last sheikah 08:43, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ad-hoc or internet

can pictochat only be used in ad-hoc connection mode? --Abdull 12:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy?

I know this is old news, but it is worth including the PictoChat controversy that said that Pedophiles could use the DS's pictochat feature to lure kids. We all know now that this is pure bulls*it. But i just though that this would be wiki material.

Masterhand10(Talk)(Contributions)

It wasn't controversy. It was a slow news day. Utils 21:28, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PictoChat at anime conventions and such.

I added that PictoChat is widely used at conventions. Then I realized this will probably be deletd as OR. Could I post a photo of a highly populated Pictochat to back my "claim?" I even shot a video of the phenomenon. This was from the past weekend's Otakon. Though I've seen it at EVERY convention I've attended since the DS debuted.

It's also popular at movies (before they start) and sports events. But I'm not sure how to prove that. Utils 21:27, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

You can't prove it. Where I live (a small town with a population of ~7,000), ever since buying my DS in 2004, I've never run across anyone in Pictochat. I supposed at a con, it would be more common, but even at theaters and my school, I've never encountered anyone in Pictochat. --Piroteknix (talk) 01:07, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Japanese (kana only)

The bit about Japanese input being kana-only should be expanded. Is there a reason why it's kana-only? Even if you set the language to Japanese, you can't type kanji. According to the Japanese article, they have kana-only input too. Being a Japanese company, one would think the Japanese language input would be more complete, you know? --Piroteknix (talk) 01:24, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

They probably didn't include Kanji because there are thousands and thousands of them. Could you imagine scrolling through that many pages just to find one Kanji? It's much easier to just have kana. 71.251.101.100 (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
It was due to a memory limitation in the DS firmware, I can't find a reference for that but I know this is the reason —Preceding unsigned comment added by UKWikiGuy (talk • contribs) 21:04, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
That can't be the only reason. PictoChat is supposed to be a simple communication tool accessible to all ages. Piro, you do know how kanji works, right? Plenty of kids over there can't read it, that's what furigana is there for. With both phonetic alphabets installed, the DS is capable of writing any word or phrase in Japanese readable by anyone who knows the language. Regardless, there's still no source. --Coreycubed (talk) 15:22, 3 March 2008 (UTC)