@ ShatteredScreens- This is just for warranty/legal reason. There also trying to spread the word about the 1 year warranty.

 

I got an acekard 2.1 from dealextreme.com, black PCB, with the black glue circle. It is exactly as on the pictures except that the "SST" chip is "AMIC" instead. Did I just get the first fake acekard? Or did they just ran out of SST chips and used some other brand for this batch? What do you think?

I would have liked to put pictures, but I'm not able to take some good ones with my crappy camera, sorry.

 

i asked to have this thread stickied because of a recent influx of clone acekards. as you all know the r4i, r4 ultra, and a few others are acekard 2 hardware clones. what you might not know is that someone is putting legit acekard 2i stickers on these kits and reselling them. more than a few people have reported having these kits. right now a great way to tell if you have a clone is to run akaio 1.4.1 on your kit. the 1.4.1 firmware has an anti-clone routine which will block its execution on clones with an "unsupported device" error.

if you see this try the following:
run akaio 1.3
run the official firmware

if both work and akaio 1.4.1 does not, open your kit and take pictures after you verify that it is a clone.
take pictures of the "legit" ak2i sticker as well and any included boxes or packaging
submit those pictures (in an e-mail resolution/size) to acekard@gmail.com
include where you purchased the kit, who you bought it from, the web site, the e-mail address, etc.

let the team go after these cloners who are knocking off the ak2i.

-another world

 

More and more stores are selling fakes (stores who don't know they're selling fakes and those who KNOWS that they sell fakes) here in the Philippines (and some other asian countries for that matter).

ziv, who also bought a clone then replaced with a legit cart, got the idea of bringing your own micro sd preloaded with AKAIO (ver 1.4.1) with you if you are going to a store to buy a legit cart. Test the flash cart with your AKAIO loaded micro sd to see if it is a real one or a clone before leaving the store.

Thank goodness for AKAIO's anti-clone security to save you from further headaches on whether your cart is legit or not.

 

Well, the quality of the plastic is relatively low. If it's worked fine since then, chances are that it's not a fake.

 

Just try to launch the repack of akaio 1.4.1, if it says "unsupported device", then yes, you've got a clone.

 

i bought mine off bamboo gaming it was extremely cheap does tht mean it was fake??

 

I'm concerned that I have a fake acekard and was wondering how do you open it up to see the chip inside? I got it recently so there's no window but the acekard box was flattened out & "self assembly" similar to a bootleg gba game I got once. I also noticed that the micro SD card adapter that came with it, did not always work properly.