Have you been finding yourself attempting to catch ‘em all these last couple of days? Yeah, me too. I can’t stop in fact. As far as I am concerned, the only problem I have with the game so far is that I have yet to make any trades or partake a single Pokémon battles! This is where you come in, dear readers.

In the comments jot down your digits for Pokémon Black/White so we can all Wi-Fi battle like good little trainers. I’ll start, get your pal pad’s ready!

Now go, Infendo faithful, and let each and every pokédex become full!

According to Craig Harris of IGN on a recent Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, Nintendo may be getting rid of having friend codes for each individual game on your system.

“I’ve heard rumors that friend codes are going away. It’s going to be a universal system code but its still going to be a code…There’s no online account, it’s just your system has the number.”

While its not the integration with Club Nintendo that we would like to see, its at least a step in the right direction.

In a recent Interview with Wired, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime admitted there are no current plans to make classic Gameboy, GB Color, or GBA games available through the DSiWare download service:

…we don’t want to see is a game that is available on a number of other platforms, either mobile or home, nor do we want to see games that don’t take advantage of the unique capabilities of the DS.

Wired.com: So bringing back classic Game Boy games, for example, would not be something you’d want to see.

Fils-Aime: The concept of Virtual Console on DSi is not something that we’ve talked about, nothing that we’ve commented on. I know it’s something many of your readers would like to see, but it’s not something that we’ve talked about.

Interviews with Reggie always leave me unsure.  He uses back-to-back phrases that cause one to down their meanings – does “not something we’ve talked about” mean internally, or like the followup “nothing we’ve commented on” phrase reclassify it as something they may have considered, but simply haven’t announced yet?

Fils-Aime also commented on Friend Codes, and why Nintendo wants to keep them around…

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