Hacking kid who keeps deleting games by pressing x....

[sicksam1984]

Hi. a friends kid got an R4 for christmas but he's only 4 and occasionally deletes games by pressing X in the R4 menu. is there anyway to prevent this?

 

[Sinkhead]

Maybe you could make the games read-only by right-clicking on them in Windows. You can't do this to the save files though, or the game won't be able to save. The R4 might ignore the read-only attribute. I don't know, try it.

 

[arctic_flame]

I don't think so.

 

[Joey Ravn]

Hi. a friends kid got an R4 for christmas but he's only 4 and occasionally deletes games by pressing X in the R4 menu. is there anyway to prevent this?

I don't think so, but I'm positively sure that a 4 year-old can learn to press A to boot games. Tell your friend to explain why he shouldn't press X instead of A and I'm sure the kid'll eventually get it right

 

[ZPE]

I always need to supervise them.

 

[jesterscourt]

Buy him a flashcart that doesn't do that.

 

[Agjsdfd]

Yeah, that happend to me quite a few times.. Oh well, you cant do anything about it with the R4. Only solution is to use different flashcart.
Or try to teach that kid to not press the X button in the R4 menu.(dont think it will work with a 4 years old kid).

 

[Glacius0]

Maybe get him to use the touchscreen? Else I'd buy an n-card. It's cheap, and all you can do with it is pick the game and play it.

 

[skarthebloodchild]

I had the same problem with my 5 year old nephew.
So i leanred him to press the a button.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Easy. Electrocute him, every time he presses X, with a tazer.

Like the magic fence for dogs.

 

[lenselijer]

use an older r4 kernel which does not have this feature yet

 

[Nero]

use an older r4 kernel which does not have this feature yet

Bad solution. The R4 will lose compatibility with games.

~Nero

 

[ZeWarrior]

I had the same problem with my 5 year old nephew.
So i leanred him to press the a button.

Great grammar right there lol..
And like somebody else suggested the previous firmware thing might be a good idea, as long as his games work it'll be fine until you teach him to press the A button instead of the X button.

 

[Brainy142]

lol taser him...

 

[laminaatplaat]

4 year old should not play with computers but with lego and stuff like that

 

[Agjsdfd]

4 year old should not play with computers but with lego and stuff like that

LOL,
why not? Well, not that he becomes a PC freak (like playing WoW all 24/7

). But playing DS should fine.

 

[Nero]

Oh sorry.. I forgot to recommend one other thing.

Tear out your X button and take out the little sensor thing under it.

~Nero

 

[Grimalkin]

Nah, I agree with the tasering. Taser's always work.

 

[Mars]

use an older r4 kernel which does not have this feature yet

Bad solution. The R4 will lose compatibility with games.

~Nero

I really don't think downgrading will have much of an impact. The R4 will still run nearly all games flawlessly with an older
firmware.

 

[TinyBilbo]

4 year old should not play with computers but with lego and stuff like that

Well my 2 yr old (3 in a month) can turn on my M3 Real and choose (out of 50 or so games), the crayola drawing/puzzle game, or the the interactive story games, and then navigate the ingame menus to the parts she likes! So I figure if she can and wants to do it, then shes old enough. Only problem that I see is that I'm gonna get my ass whupped on games when she reaches about 7 or 8 !