R4 DSi and DSi XL R4 Card Storage Devices For Nintendo Dsi XL Dsi Are Just Launched

Nintendo DSi / DSi XL R4 card storage devices are some of the devices used to store a licensed developer's work-in-progress images, homebrew video games, or downloaded commercial games.

Different brands of R4 DS Card differ in their support for homebrew, support for DS and Game Boy Advance ROMs, special features, such as playing media files, physical size and cost. Strictly speaking, a storage device is not necessary for DS with FlashMe installed because homebrew can be sent to the DSi using WMB. However, this is not a very portable method because the DSi needs to be within range of a suitable Wi-Fi card. https://fatinabdillah.blogspot.com/2019/01/r4-dsi-and-dsi-xl-r4-card-storage.html

Below is a list of Flash Cards that have been tested and known to work on the DSi and DSi  & DSTTi

DSTT is a very popular card compatible with SDHC cards.

The most common problem with a legit DSTT card is the infamous "Menu?" screen, much like the dreaded R4 "Loading" screen, which is usually a software issue and can be easily fixed by installing the software from the DSTT website onto your micro SD card. Although the OS (menu) files must be present in the root of the SD card, the software is intelligent in that the ROMs may be placed anywhere on the flash card will still be found. The DSTT also exists in a version compatible with the recently released Nintendo DSi which is called the DSTTi.

The DSTT and DSTTi are versatile beyond simply playing homebrew and ROM software though, one of the most useful features being that they incorporate cheat support in a variety of games.

The DSTTi has been tested and reported to work with the DSi XL console released in March 2010. R4i, R4i Gold Cards https://fatinabdillah.blogspot.com

R4DS (Revolution for DS), YushenDS Card (YDC) and M3DS Simply are essentially the same hardware product. The same method is used to distinguish between Chinese, English and Japanese (and German for the YDC) versions of the cards. The firmware for the various brand and language versions can be readily patched to work on other language or brand versions of the hardware.

The original R4 card was replaced in late 2007 by the "R4 version 2" or "R4v2". This new version removed the need for a spring mechanism to insert a Micro-SD card. Instead, it simply had a slot in the back where a user could manually slot a Micro-SD card in. This eliminated the problems of the original R4 Revolution DS Card where the spring mechanism reportedly malfunctioned after prolonged use.

Unlike newer cards, the R4 cannot read SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) cards due to hardware limitations, although certain clones add this functionality. https://thimpress.com/forums/users/pokerplay/

There exist several clones of the R4 card that are capable of using SDHC cards, but some studies have suggested that certain types of these cards have high failure rates. One clone, named the "R4 SDHC", is reported to be reliable. R4DS is now known to be outdated, as many other flashcarts are known to be better and cheaper (Acekard 2, M3 Real Supercard One, and Edge), and a genuine R4DS is hard to find.

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