So you decided to get Winning Eleven DS, more for its price rather than the fact that the game is in Japanese. Having experienced the single player game, you feel ready to head online and trash some real opposition but before you can do so, you hit a snag. How do you go online in the first place, given the screens are in Japanese?

Don’t fret, here’s a guide that will have you playing online in no time (maybe). For starters, it might be helpful to note that my descriptions precede the respective screenshots..so remember, description first then followed by the screenshot.

1. Go to the third option in the main menu of the game:

2. This will bring up the list of sub options, go for the 2nd one, labelled Wi-Fi:

3. This will bring up a new menu, with three options. The first option is to proceed with connecting to the WFC, the second one shows you your friend code and allows you to add friend codes to your game, and the last option allows you to setup the game’s wireless settings used to connect to the WFC.

4. The last 2 options are pretty straight forward, so lets proceed with the first option, connecting to the WFC! Selecting this will bring you to a confirmation screen, just hit the first option on that confirmation screen and the game will connect to the WFC

5. Once the game is connected to the WFC, you’ll see a new menu with 3 options. Option 1 being Friend Code play while the two other options are either Worldwide or Regional play (I’m not too sure). WFC play on Option 2 seems to feature more lag compared to that of Option 3 (or is it the other way around) but both are better alternatives if you do not have any friend codes added to the game:

For my original review of Winning Eleven DS, click here