Hey there,
I'm new to the forum, but it has helped me greatly while helping me buy an R4 for my sisters Xmas pressie. Absolutely invaluable resource!
I managed to find mine on amazon and a 2 gb card... was quite expensive but couldn't be bothered with the hassle of ordering it from the far...
although i ended up accidentally changing my nand with no way of going back bc i didn't know you needed a gamecube controller to restore it (i have a wii minus/1.1, which doesn't have gamecube controller support)
and if i find the sd card i have my NAND backed up on, i can not only restore the NAND if i solder the right part in, but i can also put my NAND on dolphin, then i can play dolphin online, like PMEX Remix or MKWii Riibalanced