R4 Cartridge for DS/DS Lite

[Saga]

For those of you that have done it, how hard was it to flash the DS Lite? I tried getting into this with my original DS but something got screwed up somewhere and my SD card didn't fit into the GBA adapter, or something. Killed morale and I didn't have money to order anything else. lol

Still kind of interested, just want to get an idea for the new system.

Still waiting on my R4 to arrive airmail, but I saw it in action on a friend's DS. There's no flashing involved, as others have said - the R4 is basically just a blank DS cartridge. Same size, fits exactly in the DS, just like a regular DS game but no data on it. There's a little slot in the cartridge itself where you slide in the micro SD card with all the data on it. Then you boot up the DS, there's a main menu pretty much and you play all your games from there.

[Shuemue]

r4ds is <333 and pretty much idiot-proof

[miokomioko]

I have been enjoying mine pretty thoroughly for the last few months except for recently I've had a few disasters with corrupt save game data. First time it happened to me halfway through Final Fantasy IV, which pissed me off but I chalked it up to being a fluke, and from now on I save my game in all 3 slots. A week later, I'm playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and the same fucking thing happens at about 90% through the game. So, I warn you... and would take a few precautions with saving your games. With Castlevania, it's a pain to go to the menu and copy the save data to each slot, considering the difficulty of the game and the frequency in which you save.

Oh yeah, both games' save corrupts happened on a automatic soft reset after having a 'game over' and kicking me back to the title.

Sigh, thus my only complaint, other than the mechanism that locks the micro SD card in place seems to not be functioning as well as it originally did.

[Lebzile]

I have been enjoying mine pretty thoroughly for the last few months except for recently I've had a few disasters with corrupt save game data. First time it happened to me halfway through Final Fantasy IV, which pissed me off but I chalked it up to being a fluke, and from now on I save my game in all 3 slots. A week later, I'm playing Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and the same fucking thing happens at about 90% through the game. So, I warn you... and would take a few precautions with saving your games. With Castlevania, it's a pain to go to the menu and copy the save data to each slot, considering the difficulty of the game and the frequency in which you save.

Oh yeah, both games' save corrupts happened on a automatic soft reset after having a 'game over' and kicking me back to the title.

Sigh, thus my only complaint, other than the mechanism that locks the micro SD card in place seems to not be functioning as well as it originally did.

^this

Although I use an M3 Simply, which never gets updated anymore.... What I did was copy&paste the save files into another folder. I've had an error where I had to completely wipe my memory chip in order to put games on it, made no sense. But, hell free games for life with soem minor errors is np.

[Hitoshura]

nDASH - NDS & GBA ROMs

^Best site for DS and GBA roms IMO.

[Kiarax]

Used to be maybe. It's been on and off for months now and their latest rom is still Harvest Moon, there's been over 300 scene releases since then, they're pretty much dead.

[Hitoshura]

Oh really? lol ironically I sold my R4 to a friend a few months back, I hadn't actually noticed until you pointed it out.

I'd still say it's pretty useful if you don't want to deal with registration, remembering accounts and passwords because I know I get tired of that shit.