The NDS-Gear Guide to Installing Software on Your DS Adapter

For personal use only. No part of this document may be reproduced without prior obtained written consent from NDS-Gear. For enquiries, please e-mail sales@nds-gear.com. This guide is also available as a PDF to put on your computer – see / download from this link. Your New DS Adapter What Can It Do / What Do [...]

What’s Action Replay All About? – A Brief History

What is Action Replay? Back in the days when Nintendo was just entering the electronic gaming business (before even Super Mario was born!), a tiny U.K. company called Datel invented a little device capable of changing the state and behaviour of video games. Users can not only use cheat codes, but they can write their [...]

Solving / Fixing the “There is No DS Card Inserted” Screen

Recently, we have received an e-mail from a person who has an R4 card but was unable to get it to work. However, instead of the more common screen freeze problem,  he had the more uncommon error message which appears on the normal DS load page that goes: “There is no DS card inserted” on [...]

Solving / Fixing The DSTT Card

The most common question we are asked about the DSTT adapter is the “Menu?” error. The majority of people assume that this is because their DSTT card is broken, but this is usually not the case. The most common problem is that the wrong software is installed on the DSTT adapter. Visit our Software Download [...]

The EDGE DS Card – The Champion of the DS

In NDS-Gear’s experience retailing cards, we have never seen a more rock-solid package than the EDGE DS. The EDGE DS is the same size as any regular Nintendo DS Cartridge. There is a slot in the back of the EDGE DS adapter that allows it to read Micro-SD or Micro-SDHC cards. It can take up [...]

Different / Clone / Fake Versions of the R4 Card

Different Versions Since the wildly successful original R4 DS Revolution Card came out, there has been one major revision to the card, as well as several copycat variations of the R4 card. All but one of these variations of the R4 card were not produced by the original Team R4 – however, some work better [...]

Solving / Fixing the Famous R4 / R4v2 / R4 SDHC “Loading” Problem

Probably the most common problem with the R4DS Card, regardless of whether you are using the R4v2 or R4 SDHC, is the “Loading…” error. The majority of people assume that this is because their adapter is broken, and immediately panic or send their card back. However, this is not normally the case if you’ve bought [...]

NDS-Gear’s Pick of Nintendo DS Games – Part 1

There are so many games out for the Nintendo DS and DSi these days that it’s perfectly reasonable nobody has any idea which are any good anymore. Welcome to Part 1 of our series giving you some of the best games you can have for your Nintendo DS / DSi, and some of the more [...]

Welcome to the NDS-Gear Blog!

Greetings, and welcome to the NDS-Gear blog! We’re hoping to do something a little different with this section of the website, because we play on our DS and DSi’s too (we’re not boring shopkeepers, honest!) – we’re not always sitting at e-mails and testing cards for errors. We’re hoping to help get the word out [...]