gateway fanboys damage controling this thread
As someone with more than 15 years of experience in the flash card/backup unit business: it's a clone, it's crap. Period. That's how it has been since the dawn of the copiers/flash cards, especially that early in the game. Later clones might surpass what's available now, but the Gateway team has a couple of months head start, as long as they are around (and they pay their programmer/hacker well) the others will very likely just copy what they push out.
I just love how the e-police are labelling people who are advising others against purchasing inferior cheap-knock offs as fanboys
I know its already been said but will say it anyone.. You know the gateway blue card is a clone of another right? Everyone is copying everyone. Even the exploit gateway uses is copied. The only thing gateway have really done themselves is make firmware (using others information) and make the red card.
Did you buy it? If not then I don't know how you can say that it's a cheap knock-off? What if I say you are stupid person without even knowing you? Does that make sense?
AFAIK, Gateway's implementation was the first released to the public. There was some fairly vague info about the exploit vector on 3dbrew, and maybe some chatter in #3dsdev, but few concrete details. They took that and re-created the exploit independently (since then the same has been done by a few others e.g. smealum). But I wouldn't say the exploit was "copied" from what I know.
r4 ftl
that r4 looks much better quality than the gateway. team gateway should just copy theirs and repackage. I mean, might as well right
r4 ftl
that r4 looks much better quality than the gateway. team gateway should just copy theirs and repackage. I mean, might as well right
look how clean and solid that PCB looks. Looks like diamond or laser cut PCB and everything is laid out niceley and the blue varnish looks good. Looks like the parts were placed well and doesn't have fingerprints all over the place (not speaking of Gateway but I have had DS carts that I opened that had big finger prints inside before, such as in M3i Zero for DS). R4i Gold sticker and case look a bit nicer than the gateway to me.
I'm out a gateway since I had to send it back. I'm seriously thinking about buying this but want to find the right price. In bulk of 10 pack they are $37.00 each and the lowest price I have found online for one is $56.90 (or maybe $59.95 I'm not sure what it was I settled on). Still 60 bucks isn't real bad but we can see where the price is trending to in the future.
R4 kit is cool because you know you get an R4 DS cart along with it so the whole package is R4 all the way through. Although I am assuming that this is not the original R4 team but at least someone took over the name and put out good quality clones.
I didn't said thatAll reviewers have said that the plastic quality is quite poor and may cause contact issues after some use.