I don't know why I am rising to this, but I feel obligued to say again!. They CAN work it out. The WILL work it out... I was trying to make life easy for them!
But incidently.. What if we were taking about your grandparents? Does that make them slow, but because they won't understand the R4? The reason I ask this is that my girlfriend would like to buy a DS for her Parents (Who are grandparents age).. They wouldn't have a clue, but I would like them too have a DS as I think there are few games that 'old timers' might apprecaite. Since they are pensioners, I would like to set them up with a bunch of titles on an R4 and leave it to them to enjoy themselves.. They would never have to worry about adding more ROMs, or worry about saves.. They could just use it and enjoy it... With the R4 in its current form, I am not ashamed to admit that they will not understand it.. Well they will initally, until they press the wrong button and the entire list disspears, or they manage to delete some valuable system files.. Oh yes.. I forgot to say, they live 500 miles away, so I stand NO chance of fixing it for them!
Are you calling them slow?? If so, you really have offended me!
There ARE people out there, who are probably a lot older and perhaps even more intelegant that you, then MAY find the GUI or the whole R4 concept confusing.. But does that make them slow?? I don't think so!
What do you want, a pat on the back because you understand technology.. If so.. Consider this a pat on the back.. Well done!
In all my years on forums, i have never encountered such a group of patronising people!
Jon
I'm sorry that there were so many unhelpful members. But you have to remember that one temper's actions do not necessarily represent the entire if GBAtemp.
As for your problem - there isn't a way to hide all of the files from view on the DS, they are still visible. Does locking the file and setting it as read-only work? Or does it still allow the R4 to delete the vital system files?
If only the R4 team would open source their firmware, we wouldn't have these problems.
As for the problems with directories and such - I'd just suggest keeping all the games in the root, that way when you click the Games button in the menu all the games will just be there, instead of making them dig through the directories.
-I would like to know how to do that too.. (Anyone want to call me stupid?)
QUOTE(iritegood @ Nov 21 2007, 05:11 PM)The 'computer illiterate friend' of yours that you 'reccomended' the R4 too probably isn't too computer illiterate. I'll use the bittorrent protocol once again as my example: can you explain to me everything that has to deal with the protocol?
I can't call someone slow because they can't understand how bittorrent works, even though I find it very simple. You kids need to grow up and talk to some one that isn't loser.
Once again jweaver - I'm sorry if this is what you think everyone on GBAtemp is like. I promise you that not everyone are like these select few.