EDIT: WTH do you mean no more firmware?! I just checked the site of the team behind R4 and behold; there is a v1.19 of the R4 firmware and if I have to believe the download page, it's even translated in English.
The real R4 site is
http://r4ds.cn/ which shows that their last update is the 1.18 firmware. The other sites are fake and contain "updates" which are potentionally dangerous to your R4 and Nintendo DS. I have hard many reports that the fake firmwares causing the R4 and even the Nintendo DS to stop working. So basically, use them at your own risk.
Kamika said:
Narin said:
QUOTE(da_head @ Feb 13 2009, 11:55 AM) you're not totally screwed. i have a r4 as well, and it still works fine for me
For now, but all present and future games now that includes Nintendo's new flashcart detection code will not work on the R4 no matter the patching or piracy fix cheats you use.
Hm, isn't that the hackers job to remove that kind of protection? But now that I think about it, if the latest games use that kind of protection, won't the DSi owners be screwed as well? The DSi has a SD card slot so won't those games mistake the actual game card for a fake one because there's an SD card slot?