Pokemon Diamond/Pearl

Welcome to GameWith.Us! This is the Nintendo DS Friend ID Exchange. The neat thing about the Friend ID exchange is that it makes it easy to tell who's added you to their Nintendo DS game so that you can add those people to your system so that you can hookup online to play.

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How the "On your friends list" & "On their friends list" columns work

The Nintendo DS online has a pretty funky feature: in order to play online with someone else, you both have to have each others' Friend ID stored on your game cartridge to connect to them via the Friends list. Just having their Friend ID doesn't work -- the other player has to have your ID as well.

Basically, if you see a Y in the second of those two columns, that means that they've stored your ID on their DS, and as soon as you've entered theirs, then you can join up and play over the internet.

Remember to check the box next to everyone you've added to your DS so that you show up in their Y column and remember to add you.