R4DS-A problems

RonTheDong

I have bought an R4 Advantage, and I'm having problems getting it to run correctly. I get it up and running, but after a few minutes it wipes out all files on the sd-card (4GB sdhc).

I have downloaded the files from the site on the box (www.r4ds-a.com), and it seems like they work, but...

Anyone who has a clue?

Ron

animaX

I'm pretty sure the R4 advantage is a fake (clone) R4. That's not to say that it won't work, just that its probably not up to the standard of a real R4. Are you sure it supports sdhc? That could be an issue. Also, what make the microSD card? Is it one that came with the cart? (they're usually poor quality). Might have to get yourself a better sdhc card

RonTheDong

I'm also pretty sure it's a fake/clone, but I got it to work for a little while...

The SD card is from Verbatim, and that should probably work. How ever, it might be the SDHC issue, just that I have seen that the never ones might work with this. I'll try to get me a sd card instead...

Thanks anyway!

animaX

Yeah, i think only certain carts support sdhc. Try regular microSD instead!

Hard Larry

animaX wrote: »

Yeah, i think only certain carts support sdhc. Try regular microSD instead!

Hi lads

I'm not an expert on this but my mate had a similar problem and he reckoned it was the size of the micro sd card, 4gb wouldn't work but a 2gb one did.

Hope this helps

IsThatSo?

That was an SD/SDHC issue then. The R4 microSD can only support max 2gb, the SDHC can go with the larger cards

RonTheDong

I'm going to try with another sd card in my R4 tomorrow, and then I will let you now...

unforgiven357

Can anyone tell me if a regular 64mb micro sd card will work with the r4 sdhc, or will i have to buy an sdhc crad? Whenever i try to start it up with the 64mb card, i just get the loading screen and nothing else comes up!

witnessmenow

64gb?

unforgiven357

nope, just a 64mb. its small i know, but its the only one i had lying around the house. ill buy i big SDHC if I need to but i just wanted to check if the smal one would work first. Any ideas?

IsThatSo?

you wouldn't fit a whole lot on a 64mb card so I would recommend getting a bigger one anyway, and it would need to be an SDHC to go with your cart.

RonTheDong

I've had some startup-problems on this theme, but I'm a noob and can take it.

My set-up; R4DS Advantage with 4GB SDHC card from Verbatim.

My problem; After a few minutes of playing/changing games, the SDHC card (from now on called the card) was deleted.

I got some files and a few gigs off games from a co-worker, which worked on one card he had bought ( not sure off type model) and tested. I just got the loading screen as so many before me. I found out that I needed some other files and soon found the correct ones, then I found out that I needed to format before I could get it to work and so on. The last thing I found out was that games with another alphabet (i.e. chinese) ****ed it all up for me. When I removed these from the games loaded over, it seemed stabile. My son went to sleep with a smile on his face today .

So the correct procedure for me was:

1 - Format the card
2 - load the correct(!) kernel files
3 - load the games
4 - have fun...

So unforgiven357, and others I found a few links to look for kernel files to the R4DS cards...

R4 SDHC:

http://www.ndslr4.com/
http://www.r4r4ds.com/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Revolu ... 937&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nintendo-Revolu ... d_sbs_ce_2
http://www.r4sdhc.com/ - Added 9/08/08 by F_t_R
http://www.r4ds-a.com/ - Added 17/08/08 by F_t_R
http://www.r4new.com/ - Added 29/09/08 by F_t_R

NPlayer:
http://www.ndsplayer.com/ - Added 30/09/08 by FtR

R4 "Deluxe":

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.15947
http://www.r4deluxe.com/

R4 "v3", "R4 - III":

http://www.r4dsl.net/

http://www.r4dsusa.com/R4DSIII-p7.html

http://www.RoyalDS.net/ (discussed here)

http://www.amazon.com/Media-Cheat-Enhan ... 22&sr=8-30

http://www.amazon.com/Media-Cheat-Enhan ... 345&sr=8-2

N5/R4DS "Revolution II":

http://www.dsn5.com/

http://www.priceground.com/111-17545.html (discussed here)

http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Ninten ... 345&sr=8-5

http://www.amazon.co.uk/N5-Nintendo-Lit ... B0016BMHJ4

http://itechextreme.com/
http://ezbuyxtreme.com/
(both sites are apparently run by the same company, and both market the "Revolution II" fake as an actual R4 cartridge, the N5 as being "the same as the R4", and have shipped relabeled clones as authentic R4 cartridges)
http://www.dsnd1.com/EN-ND1/index.htm - It's a clone of a clone N5! - Added by F_t_R 10/08/08

"R4-Plus"/"R4 Cheap English Version":

http://www.volumerate.com/details.vr/sku.60157

E7/E7DS:

http://dse7.net/

NDS MARS
http://www.ndsmars.com/ - Added 29/09/08 by FtR

R4 Pro
http://www.r4dspro.com/function_en.html

R4II
http://r4iids.com/indexe.asp


Hope this helps you out guys, have fun!

drr_phil

i got a few r4s for the kids and never got anything else only the cartridge and micro sd there were 35 games on each i cant seem to be able to put new games on them or do anything i have a standard sd adaptor and have downloaded the software do you need the specific adaptor or am i just not doin it right please help