Ok, seeing as how the R4 looks pretty dead, there will prolly be a lot more people buying "fake", "clone", or whatever R4 cards.
Your BEST bet is to buy another card as support for these cards may or may not exist. Internally most are quite different to the original R4, but appear to use hacked/edited original R4 loaders. These "new" R4s are definately not clones, rip offs of the original yes. Most of the rumors about them bricking your DS are either about the 9/15 R4 firmware(vaporware) threat, or most likely the N5 and it's faulty SD reader shorting and blowing a fuse.
This is probably not the best choice in the world, but for those that dont see other cards as being the best bet, this thread might be of use. Don't expect them to play the newest games, work with over 4GB cards (rumors of some not even doing that). And only buy one if this is a hobby to you, and you know what you are buying.
If you own an N5 already, follow THIS LINK and fix it before putting the MicroSD into the cart too many times. (DO NOT buy this card if you dont wanna fix it 1st)
I purchased an R4-III from r4dusa.com
It was payed for with paypal and shipped fast. They are based in southern California and the support is good (I had also bought a "Fat Error" Acekard2 from them and dealing with "Anthony Peccon" has been ok so far)
I've had the R4-III for quite some time now, it's hardware is definately an "upgrade", it does support 4GB SDHC.
UPDATE: Just got an 8GB card in, filled it to 4GB, then copied some music then games to it, in moonshell the music i copied under the 4GB mark played... the few over the mark crashed moonshell. The Games3 folder(above 4GB mark) was unreadable. So while fully working with the 4GB MicroSDHC this card (III) DOES NOT SUPPORT OVER 4GB.
It appears to be updated often at http://www.r4dsl.net/index-en.asp with the last update being to v3.03 on 9/11/2008. It does everthing listed and has given my 3 year old no issues to date. I have had it in all 4 of our DSs at one time or another and none have came away bricked (used it to put FlashMe on all we own)
Anyone else have /this/ card and have anything to say good or bad about it?
Also, how about commenting on your R4 clone in this thread? (please no hearsay or rumors unless you claim it as such)
UPC Database entries:
R4
Your BEST bet is to buy another card as support for these cards may or may not exist. Internally most are quite different to the original R4, but appear to use hacked/edited original R4 loaders. These "new" R4s are definately not clones, rip offs of the original yes. Most of the rumors about them bricking your DS are either about the 9/15 R4 firmware(vaporware) threat, or most likely the N5 and it's faulty SD reader shorting and blowing a fuse.
This is probably not the best choice in the world, but for those that dont see other cards as being the best bet, this thread might be of use. Don't expect them to play the newest games, work with over 4GB cards (rumors of some not even doing that). And only buy one if this is a hobby to you, and you know what you are buying.
If you own an N5 already, follow THIS LINK and fix it before putting the MicroSD into the cart too many times. (DO NOT buy this card if you dont wanna fix it 1st)
I purchased an R4-III from r4dusa.com
It was payed for with paypal and shipped fast. They are based in southern California and the support is good (I had also bought a "Fat Error" Acekard2 from them and dealing with "Anthony Peccon" has been ok so far)
I've had the R4-III for quite some time now, it's hardware is definately an "upgrade", it does support 4GB SDHC.
UPDATE: Just got an 8GB card in, filled it to 4GB, then copied some music then games to it, in moonshell the music i copied under the 4GB mark played... the few over the mark crashed moonshell. The Games3 folder(above 4GB mark) was unreadable. So while fully working with the 4GB MicroSDHC this card (III) DOES NOT SUPPORT OVER 4GB.
It appears to be updated often at http://www.r4dsl.net/index-en.asp with the last update being to v3.03 on 9/11/2008. It does everthing listed and has given my 3 year old no issues to date. I have had it in all 4 of our DSs at one time or another and none have came away bricked (used it to put FlashMe on all we own)
Anyone else have /this/ card and have anything to say good or bad about it?
Also, how about commenting on your R4 clone in this thread? (please no hearsay or rumors unless you claim it as such)
UPC Database entries:
R4