R4 price raised

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vivienne said:
ojsinnerz said:
pokemongalaxy said:
Sephiroth said:
I bought my R4 about a year ago, I still love it.
Yah same here (actually mines m3simply ds=clone, m3 version of r4). Only thing I wanted was sdhc, no slow mo or real time save, those are just stupid. Thing is, an sdhc 4gb card is like $50 here, its more expensive than the card, so why buy one? But I wish I got a dstt instead because its only $20 on dx, I got m3simply ds for $35...so I sordof regret it. But hey, it's a good card!!

That's what I thought too, until I actually used them.

Those "stupid" things are what also helps the carts sell. It really depends on the user themselves, not just you.

Because one person doesn't need it, doesn't mean everyone else won't need it.

I used it quite a few times, and it's really helpful. I still try to use it as little as possible, but it's more useful than you think.

I still love R4 than any other ones.

And I recognised that the price was really raised a little, no mistake on the shipping cost. Because we also need yo pay for EMS for 5 R4s at that moment. And the shipping cost raised too!

Everything is so expensive now.

Have you ever seen the cart's GUIs, at all?

If you want something that looks like an R4, but better, why not just get the DSTT and put on the YSMenu on it?

It makes it look very similar to the R4, while still having the advantages of the DSTT.

And the DSTT is only 20 bucks off of DealExtreme, unlike the R4, which is double that price.
 

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I have a DSTT with ysmenu + 4GB SDHC. I only use my dstt for videos and GBA games (with GBA ExpLoader) I still like my R4 better though, a little better for homebrew, which I like a lot.
 

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Destructobot Knows... In my opion the R4 was The best Slot 1 cart around and everyone knows it...I still love the G6DS Real...Well anyway I didn't see you guys Posting in the forum when the R4 Craze was popular so don't try to down it now because More & More flashcarts are coming out....
 

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the only particularly useful function the R4 lacks is SDHC support. And then I probably wouldn't even use all that space.

Lol all R4 fanboys say they don't really care about the 2 gig limitation as they " probably wouldn't even use all that space " yeah right!!!

I sold my R4 about 2 months ago with a 2 gig sd for £40/$78 and bought me self a supercard v3 SCHC with 4 gig sd and had change.

R4 is old now and no one should really be buying one because:

A) price

B) non SCHC support

C) lack of features (no: RTS/Game guide/slow motion....)

D) slow down in firmware updates

As everyone has been saying the TTDS is like a £10/$20 and does everything the R4 does but has SCHC support and regular firmware updates, or for £17/$35 the supercard v3 which has as many features as the mighty ccyclods but cheaper and has a great support forum...

paul
 

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Smart talk paul3100.....The biggest problem with R4 now, is actually that there are no upgrades for loong time now..Besides everything else (SDHC, extra features, price...) some of the recent released games can't even be played, and that's the big issue..
 

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there is nothing "bad" about the R4.
What I know as the word "bad" is that there is a problem. but considering the functions of the R4, nothing is "bad", it's just that the R4 lacks many new features.
There is nothing wrong with the R4, and the R4 does not "suck".
It's just that there are many more choices you can choose from that has more functions when compared to the R4. All it is is that an R4 is now a little TOO outdated, but that doesn't make any of it's function bad. It has all of the functions for people to play their roms or watch vids and listen to music with moonshell. Simple and totally skinable, there is nothing wrong with it.

The price of the R4 itself didn't raise, it's just being sold more expensively. Where I bought my R4 - its even cheaper than when I bought it o.O
Now prices may depend on where you get it, and you should know that when a shop's quantity drops, the prices will raise. Compare the prices from a shop with millions of R4s to a shop with only 1 R4 left. You can just tell that the price of the R4 from the shop with 1 left will be a lot more expensive.
Prices may drop as it gets old, but don't expect the price of the R4 itself would increase.
 

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