Pictochat Information

Basic

To start Pictochat, you must first start your Nintendo Ds console and not start any game. There will be an icon which says Pictochat on. Click on it to start, and choose one of the four chat rooms which are:

• Chat Room A
• Chat Room B
• Chat Room C
• Chat Room D

Now, as long as they aren't all full from other people using Pictochat in the very local area, you can enter one and start writing (but with yourself, it's pointless).

Controls

Here is a guide to what each control does. First, the pen icon simply shows you are not using the eraser, and allows you to draw things on the main canvas to send to others. The rubber icon shows you are in eraser mode, where you can rub out the mistakes you made while using the pen. The two dots are used to switch between a normal size pen and a pencil which draws thinner lines for intricate detail.

The small icons at the very bottom of the left hand side are simply to switch between normal letters and numbers, special letters, japanese characters, one set of symbols and another set which is mainly emoticon symbols.

Normal set

Consists of letters up from A-Z, numbers from 1-9, 0, commas, full stops, brackets, /, and quotation marks.

Special Letters

All the special letters from languages like French and Italian.

Japanese characters

Many Japanese characters.

Symbols

The symbols here are: !, ?, &, ", ', ~, :, ;, @, ~, _, +, -, *, /, X, divide symbol, =, arrow right, arrow left, arrow up, arrow down, weird corner, lower corner, two sets of weird speech marks, (, ), <, >, {, }, dot, %, big star, odd symbol, #, music notes, plus and minus sign in one, $, cent symbol, £, \, ^, diamond |, /, \, odd symbol 2, three dots, ..., trademark sign, copyright sign, registered trademark sign.

Symbols 2

Here, the numbers plus these symbols were used: face emotion symbols for anger, happiness, sleepiness, calmness, sun symbol, cloud symbol, umbrella symbol, snowman icon, envelope icon, phone icon, clock icon, the Nintendo Ds buttons, the control pad, spades symbol, diamonds symbol, hearts symbol, clubs symbol, emphasized question mark, bold exclaimation mark, line, star, rounded rectangle, diamond, square, triangle, upside down triangle, odd O shape, arrows pointing up, down, left or right, black star, black shapes, X.

The send button posts your saying, button below copies the other person's, the one below that makes the canvas blank. You can also drag symbols around the page by moving the stylus.

Miscellaneous

This page simply says all the random rubbish I can't put anywhere else.

• Your post colour depends on the chat room, with yellow for entering and green for leaving a chat room.
• You can tap the screen or press A to enter a chat room.
• Up to 16 people may be in one chat room.
• Quitting will shut down the DS system.
• You can use A and the control pad to select and write stuff. And pressing B deletes your last letter, like a backspace button on a keyboard.
• Super Smash Bros Brawl has a stage based on the software.  It's fairly interesting too, and says [Character name] has entered the chat room or what not.
• It plays a different sound for a message sent by a DSi console.
• A rainbow coloured pen option can be used for the DSi, which also shows up on the versions used by the original DS and Lite for any messages sent.