Friend Code: Difference between revisions

A '''Friend Code''' (Japanese: '''ともだちコード''' ''Friend Code'') is a unique twelve-digit code generated once the player has logged onto the [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] on their [[Wii]] or [[Nintendo DS|DS]] for the first time. It is used to identify friends for online play.

Each Friend Code differs between games, to make each game have a separate 'identity'. To prevent identity theft, Friend Codes, along with the Wi-Fi ID on a DS, are reset when Wi-Fi Connection is used on another DS. Wi-Fi information can be transferred in the case of replacing an old DS. After registering each others friend codes, the two people can communicate with each other from any location in the world that has internet. Players with Friend Codes usually have more liberties than players without Friend Codes, some Friend Code exclusive rights being voice chat and co-op play.

To register another player's Friend Code, both recipient and transmitter must manually type the other's code in their [[Pal Pad]]. This process was created in order to preserve each player's identity and privacy from a person who has the code of the other, but not vice-versa.

 

Prior to the April 2011 update, {{game|Black and White|s}} players who have added each other and have met each other online as well on the same game will automatically become neighbors in the [[Pokémon Dream World]].