The R4v2

Most DS and DSi card owners today have it good. Back in the good old days, operating a DS card (or shall i say a GBA card) was really troublesome and setting them up was an even bigger nightmare. The old style GBA card was really difficult to use. This all changed with the invention [...]

New R4 Firmware Breathes New Life into the R4DS

As we all know, the R4v2 card’s firmware has not been updated for since mid 2008. This has affected the game compatibility of R4 card, especially with a lot of newer games (the R4DS isn’t faulty – this is because newer games may use different methods for encoding software). Looks like one of the developers [...]

Which Cards?

Attribute R4v2 R4 SDHC DSTT EDGE EZFlash Vi Extra-Fast Loading Games-Specific Interface? Games / MP3 Interface? Accept SDHC (4GB+) Cards? DSi Compatible? We get e-mails often asking about what the differences between the cards are, as well as what people mean by “fake” cards and “bricking” DS consoles. This page is permanently on the NDS-Gear [...]

Action Replay for R4

Following on from our previous post about the Action Replay, we will now take a closer look at the Action Replay function for the R4. In order to use the Action Replay function on the R4, you will need to download the R4DS Cheat Code Editor. The R4DS Cheat Code Editor can be downloaded from [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]