Hacking R4 DS Review coming today !

[N3CR0P57]

Homebrew support is not their fault, they released the fatlibs on their website, it's just a matter of time untill it gets support from the devs(i hope).

As for the GUI; it's moonshell, it can be skinned! yes the default skin has some problems (mainly at the game selection screens, WHY AREN"T THEY INVERTED! it would have made way more sense to use the touchscreen to scroll through the list and launch games, instead of using it to display the game's name) but that doesn't mean that it cant be fixed. so it's just another hopefully non-permenant con.

as for download and play, i suppose this might be important to some people, but really... how hard is it to flash a ds, it's easy and it takes like 1 min. besides, some games work and others dont (as mentioned before), so it shouldn't be a big con.

can't wait for the review! GO GBATemp!

I'm sure I read in the global.ini in the hardcore 1.04 update, somewhere where you can specify which menu displays on which screen.

 

[jpxdude]

By evaluating user perception and experience on the device, if all goes well I predict an 8.5-9.0 score.

The R4DS is probably the next most complete and user friendly device next to the DS-X at a considerably more lower price bracket (even including the investment of a microSD!)

I'm looking forward to the review

 

[herge1]

it's tomorrow now (in France at least), lol

 

[digital_sin]

I'm sure I read in the global.ini in the hardcore 1.04 update, somewhere where you can specify which menu displays on which screen.

yeah, but does the touchscreen work? can you select files using the stylus?

 

[herge1]

9/10 !

 

[4saken]

its up now

 

[digital_sin]

Yep! the review was awesome, they nailed all of the pros and cons.

However, most of the cons dont matter that much to me... for example download and play because as of right now all of my friends have ordered a R4 too

and Homebrew support is already dodgy on all carts, homebrew isn't "perfectly" supported by any cart except for maybe the DS-X (124$ 512MB). as for the Chinease firmware updates comming out faster than the English ones, that's a valid point (so far) and I'm hoping that the R4 team will always keep release dates close and keep them comming to fix bugs and add features. finally, the GUI itself being outdated/not customizable, that's just temprorary untill they release 1.05 so we can make our own skins (already working on a few of my own

).

R4 FTW!

 

[ambitous21]

yeap, if their game menu GUI is like SCDS's
this will probably be the best cart out there.

i dont care about download play n homebrew

 

[shaunj66]

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