Where did you confirmed it? How are you contacting the R4 Team? What's their contact info? I would like to confirm this myself.
I don't want to post it because then everyone on this board WILL constantly harass them. Find out yourself. It's not that difficult to find.
I confirmed it over the phone. If you say you know so much about real and fake R4 then you should be able to easily find out their phone number too.
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You still are not explaining how there are still real R4's being sold. It's been months and there are still stock of real R4's. Do you really believe companies stocked them by the 1000's just in case the factory goes down?
UNLESS you're saying EVERYONE who is selling R4's now are selling fakes?
Actually yes, That is exactly what happened. When word came out that the R4 factory was shutting down, wholesalers started buying them in the 1000's.
But There is definitely a lot of fakes out now. I'm glad you told me about the "real" fakes having a production number of 0815# because the I had a seller try to tell me they were real, when they weren't. I wouldn't have been as suspicious if you didn't tell me.
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I agree with the firmware update bricking the DS is ridiculous, and they never meant to say that. They meant to say it will brick the fake R4s.
Same difference. The fault lies on the sellers, not the consumer. There is no advantage whatsoever in doing this for the R4 Team as a whole. New people looking to buy will simply look for other brands while old users will just not update until there's a hacked one.
Oh and just to set the record, if you knew how to read Chinese, they clearly said "it might brick the DS system." Then go on to say "to prevent the main [DS] system from being damaged." What they "meant" to say was clearly speculations of people in this thread but I know the Chinese 100% said bricking DS, not the R4.