I purchased an R4i Gold Pro Card on 12/3/2014. After 3 weeks waiting, they finally arrived yesterday. Very excited. This morning I plugged the SD card included into my PC via the included thumb drive. It had all the files installed as recommended by the products website (r4isdhc.com). At this point I assumed that it must be all ready to go, so inserted the SD card into the game cartridge, and that into my 3DS XL. It showed up as a bomber man game, and I opened that. This was where it got weird.

I had an anime scene on the top screen, and the bottom screen prompted me to choose a weapon. Home button wouldn't work, so I selected the first weapon which I think was a sword. This took me to what looked like some kind of root directory which I couldn't exit. The screen went funny after that, like the image doubled on itself. I turned off my 3DS XL, thinking it was maybe a glitch. Now my device is broken.

-Turn on; blue light comes on. Screens do not light up and stay black
-Plug in to power; starts charging for a few minutes then orange light goes off (may be at 100%)
-To turn off you need to hold down the power button for 10 seconds

I have tried reseating the battery, and starting the 3DS with and without the SD card, the R4 cartridge and my Pokemon cartridge. All bare the same results. I am currently leaving it on to see if draining the battery and recharging works.

As you can imagine, I am very annoyed as it seems like it may be bricked. I did nothing illegal and was promised that it will not brick consoles.


Please inform if you have an ideas/fixes for this.

THANK YOU!

 

Thanks for that. I ended up opening the little guy up and found mass corrosion on the charge point and cartridge slot.

So now I have the Yoshi limited edition XL.