Sunday, January 18, 2009

R4DS

An ongoing title I ran throughout youtube was, "Loading..problem."
Nothing hard to fix.
Of course I only have experienced the R4DS, or the R4-III Upgrade which is a copy of the R4DS, even though it's almost impossible to tell the difference.
Explanation, the microSD needs four files that you can download at the manufacturers website which makes the whole R4DS what it is.

First things first, figure out if your card is an "Original" R4DS card, or if it's a copy from the R4DS.

Original R4DS
If you are positive you own a legitimate R4DS, which only supports 2gb, then just go to their websites download page, or click here.

R4-III Upgrade
Now if you got the R4-III Upgrade that supports up to 32gb(untested), like I did, you probably figure out that their website that is even printed on the box itself is down every now and always. I did a little bit of research, and I do mean little, and found this other website that does the job. Here is the link.
Click here
Just download it in your language of course.

Instructions

You should unzip the folder and will have two folders, three files, and a word document. Create folder with whatever name you want for the NDS roms, and put them there. Simple. Same for music, make folder, drag-n-drop like it says in the box.
Videos I have no clue.

***Also a pointer, some .mp3 do not work, they make some high pitch sounds and the voice is lowered and slower as well, kind of hard to miss. Don't even try putting apple sound files for they will not work either.***

***Another thing, no, you cannot play gba roms with the R4DS, so don't ask. Maybe in the future who knows.***

Saturday, January 17, 2009

R4-III Upgrade Revolution Revision

You might know an R4DS Card is a DS cartridge that has a slot for a MicroSD card, where you can put music, videos, and (only) Nintendo DS roms into, and it's cheaper.
Well just 6 days ago, 9th of January on a Sunday I believe, I ordered my very own R4DS card from an untrust-worthy website called http://www.royalds.net, now, I ordered the titled card that is mentioned in this blog with a 4gb micro SD card, just to find out a few videos later in Youtube that the ORIGINAL and LEGITIMATE R4DS cards only support 2gb, and that the R4-III was indeed fake, or a remake as I would call it. I froze and then angered myself into worries, since I know nothing of how to return an item purchased from a second-hand company that makes little or no effort to even make their website look legitimate, and/or work since the files I needed to run the whole chebang were unavailable, I was angry with a reason. Compare yourself.

Original R4DS Website
http://www.r4ds.cn/

R4-III Update..blah website
http://r4dsl.net/

"Anti-fake"? Really? Well that is just sad I fell for it, HOWEVER, I got my R4DS in the mail today, they were right at the shipping that stated to be delivered between 5-8 business days. As with the original and the fake, you have to load four files that are the main overwrite to the whole DS scrips and stuff, the ones missing from the fake website as stated above. The thing is, those files from the ORIGINAL R4DS cannot be used on the fake R4-III, basically it won't load hell. I did a little bit of research and found a website where they have those files(named kernels or something), where you can download and put them in the MicroSD card, and it will work properly with the fake. Here is the link.

http://www.r4iii.com/download.html

Point is, I like it, it works perfectly fine, games run smoothly, and I have had no problems whatsoever. Another thing is the support for 4gb, yea right now I have probably 35 games, about 50-70 songs, and I still have like 1.5gb free, so I am happy. Was it worth it? yea. Will it have problems, well only time will tell, and I'll tell you, even if it's too late.
:P
Any questions or comments just ask. Aight.