That could be possible definitely. The card worked fine before the update. I also ordered it from one of the resellers listed on http://www.r4ids.cn/buy-r4i-e.htm so I would hope they sold me a legit one.
I actually tried that one first but neither of them worked for me :( , both report fail. I just tried again and received the exact same result. Do I have an old, unsupported revision of the card?
I did run the update on my old NDSL. That's what's weird, I was able to run the update @ftp://r4idsdown:[email protected]/R4iGold_NDSi145_Patch.rar but I still get the error message
I purchased about 4-5 months ago a r4ids for my 3ds xl. My wife updated my 3ds which broke the card, however, I was able to update the primary firmware on the card to ndsi 1.45&3DS4.5.0-10 and wood 1.57 with my NDSL. I was unable to get any other update to work other than the ndsi one from...