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Dragon Quest IX will feature an action-oriented battle system and cooperative multiplayer for up to four players via Wi-Fi, as opposed to the traditional turn-based design of earlier Dragon Quest games.

Well i really wanted to see that you can co-op like me and Sakura can go around together beating monster and share the stuff they drop and you can also trade with each other! that would be fine with me!

I'd just like to see some fun co-op gameplay for WiFi tbh. I should really get WiFi set up for my DS soon. =L

The Wi-Fi here should prove to be a big asset. They'll definitely keep the co-op seperate from the single player right? Do you think both modes will consist of different stories?

I'm expecting the Wi-Fi mode to be exactly with that of FFCC: Ring of Fates and its brother on GameCube. We should start making teams .

Has it been said what kind of WiFi it will be? Hopefully it'll be across the WFC and not local.

I think in one of the news posted it says that there will be a co-op mode on Wi-Fi.

No, I mean there's two different types of WiFi: local connections only and then there's the connection through the WFC - the Nintendo WiFi Connection. I'm wondering if the co-op can be done online with not-local people.

I know for certain theres a worldwide online-wifi multiplayer, in fact i havent even read anything about local ds to ds play. from wot ive heard so far sounds pretty cool, its co-op but your not limited to staying on the same screen/same place if you get what i mean, so you can wander off to the towns while yer buddys kill all the monsters if thats your thing.

I'm not sure if there's even going to be Wi-Fi now. They've reverted back to the old-school RPG style instead of action RPG style.

i heard there is online co-op, but its not the focus of the game; theres still a full single-player story mode. so dunno. could change, its still all in development innit?

Wow online co-op? That sounds awesome!! I mean really awesome! this game will no doubt be great! i can't wait til it comes out!!!!

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Development seems to be quite far along. The online arms of magazines Famitsu and Gemaga, report that a demo was held at the press conference, with Horii and other guests playing the game live. Dragon Quest 9 features an action-oriented battle system playable cooperatively by up to four players via Wi-Fi. This is the first network-based Dragon Quest, Horii noted. The DS's dual screen setup is also put to use, with the top screen showing a map and the bottom screen housing all the action.

If this game's co-op was like this IMO it would be GOTY for the DS...

-Friend codes and worldwide co-op

-Seperate lvls for co-op that are long and hard

-4 way voice chat

-No limited abilities or items or anything

i think its just free roam not levels. hope so anyway. you might not even need friend codes neither, maybe voice chat is enabled with friend codes but you dont NEED them to play online. would be cool.