Hacking R4 user survey

[thr33face]

1. Have it for 4 months, bought online.

2. Sandisk 2GB

3. I did not notice any problems.

4. I put everything in the root of the card.

5. I use it about equally for homebrew and games.

6. I have no accessories.

7. When i got me a DS Lite my sister told me about these flashcarts.

8. Game: Mario Kart. Playing that with 8 people in one room is great.
Homebrew: Colors! So simple and so powerful.

 

[masvill20]

1. Nearly a year now.
2. 1 GB Kingston Japan
3. It sometimes doesn't get read, but I just take it out and reinsert it again.
4. Games in one folder and homebrew in another.
5. Games
6. Screen protectors and a blackhorns crystal case.
7. Websites like this.
8. AWoR, Kirby Squeak Squad, Taiko no Tatsujin DS, Brain Challenge

 

[hova1]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
since october last year, one, i found a shop who sells it

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
SanDisk microSD 2GB

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
no... well yes but it was my fault, i fixed it anyway.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
roms go in the root. videos go in videos, homebrew goes in homebrew

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
mainly for games and homebrew. i dont watch that much videos or listen to music on my DS

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
no, nothin

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
i forgot. it was, i was looking for PSP homebrew scene, then i've stumbled into DS somehow and therefore into R4.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
Animal Crossing

 

[sn0wfish]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?

Since April 2007. Only had 1 and bought it in a shop in my country.

2. What kind of memory card do you use?

I have a Kingston Japan 1gb and a Kingston 2 GB
3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
Nope.
4. How do you have your folders organized?
Dont really arrange the games, but i just place the dpg and encoded comic in another folder
5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Games. And a little on comics.
6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
Nope..
7. How did you find out about flash carts?
GBATemp!
8. Favorite games of the moment?
Taiko no Tatsujin, Rune Factory 2

=D

 

[greyhound]

1. Just over 1 year. Bought it from gameyeeeah, but I wouldn't use them again (i ranted somewhere on the forum about this)

2. SanDisk 2gb UltraII

3. None whatsoever with cart or TF card

4. Games folder with separate folders beneath. Also applications, music and emulation folders

5. Games

6. No

7. GBAtemp back in June 2006, I then bought a SCLite

8. Advance Wars : DOC

 

[Ryoku]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
I've almost had mine a year now. It'll be a year next month. I bought it from Gameyeeeah when they had a US store.

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
I had a 1GB Kingston Taiwan in it for a long time and never had any problems, but now I have a Sandisk 2GB.

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
It's crashed a few times, but not recently. Maybe twice and that's probably from cheats.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
I have a folder names Games on it and that's where everything goes. If I put music on it (very rarely), I'll make a folder called Music, etc.

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Games.

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
I have a phat DS.

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
From a friend of mine.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, Jump! Ultimate Stars

 

[PizzaPasta]

1: I got my R4 from my girlfriend for christmas. She got it from Sky2k though.

2: I use a sandisk 1GB that I got from a camera shop down the street. I might get another but I don't really see any reason to.

3: It distracts me far too much.

4: I have my ROMs organized by system except for my MSX ROMs becuase PenkoDS wasn't havin' it.

5: I use my R4 for emulation mainly, I'll try out a homebrew if it looks interesting. I'm still waiting for Cave Story to be ported though.

6: I have a case that my girlfriend made for me.

7: I first heard of flashing back when the GBA was around. I wanted to try it out but it seemed expensive and the emulators weren't so great at the time. When the slot-1 options came out I was sold by how easy and cheap they were. The idea of playing Earthbound or Street Fighter II: Turbo anywhere I want also factored in.

8: Earthbound and Maniac Mansion are always my favorite games at the moment.

 

[blizzak]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
I've had it since it was relatively new, i bought it from Kickgaming. Just bought a EZ-flash from dealextreme (can't wait for some gba-ness)

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
PNY 1gb Japan. haven't had any problems with speed yet. Even with the faster games.

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
I got one of the older generations of the R4, the ones with the spring. After putting in the MicroSD once the spring broke. Nothing alittle bit of technical and mechanical know how won't fix.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
There's a separate folder for my NDS games, homebrew, manga/comicbooks, DPG, mp3s, books, and Snes.

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Both, lately I've been using it for ComicbookDS alot though.

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
Guard Mask, have a black one for my black ds. But now it's half pink (my girlfriend switched the top part of her pink one with me)
Retractable Stylus - keeps my hands from blocking the touch screen

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
I've known about them since the GBA-era. I owned a whole bunch of those 40 in 1 cartridges for the GBA that I got from relatives in Asia.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
Final Fantasy CC: Rings of Fate, Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Swords, Professor Layton's Weekly Puzzles

 

[pokemongalaxy]

Just curious to how people use their R4 as I am getting mine soon...

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?

2. What kind of memory card do you use?

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?

4. How do you have your folders organized?

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?

7. How did you find out about flash carts?

8. Favorite games of the moment?

Thanks

1. Since January, Got it from www.gameyeeeah.com
2.Kingston and Dane-elec(kindstons best but daneelec 1gb USA I bought for only 15bucks, kingston 1gb Japan was like 20bucks)
3Yes my units games sometimes freeze. But I found out why. I had to just reformat my microsd and not use the rom trimmer(just dont trim the games, if you dont know what I mean...search r4ds rom trimmer). Then the problem was fixed

4.Seperate folder for homebrew,snes emulator, games, movies, and music
5.Games more than homebrew/other media, but still use both.
6. Zelda stylus(from nintendo...got it for free for registering my zelda phantom hourglass and doing a survey

), car charger(dont really use), game case, and other wierd stuff I got from the datel 10 in 1 package
7. internet. I got those 120in 1 games from asia for gba and wondered how they did it without nintendo.
8. DS:Ninja Gaiden, mario partyds , mario and sonic og,yoshis island, pokemon diamond, new super mario bros, Dragon quest joker
WII: ssbb,wii sports, and super mario galaxy(even though I don't own smg, lol...just like it)

 

[Deleted User]

Well, I've traded my R4 now but...

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?

I had it for about 5 months, only one

Bought it off Amazon

2. What kind of memory card do you use?

Used a 1gb SanDisk MicroSD.

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?

Nope

4. How do you have your folders organized?

A folder "Games", a folder "Media" and... that's it, really


5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?

Mainly for games

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?

None!

7. How did you find out about flash carts?

Friend told me about it

8. Favorite games of the moment?

Ace Attorney series

 

[SavageWaffle]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
4 Months? 1, Gameyeeah
2. What kind of memory card do you use?
2 GB Sandisk
3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
No
4. How do you have your folders organized?
Really Organized
5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Games+Homebrew. DS's Built-In Steros suck
6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
No
7. How did you find out about flash carts?
Friend
8. Favorite games of the moment?
None.

 

[thieves like us]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
for a least a year now. I have 3. the first ones were from dealextreme.com and later purchases were from winsunx.com

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
originally, I was using sandisk 2GB micro's, but have since switched to kingston (japan) 2GB's

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
none whatsoever with any of them.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
pretty basic. all of the images in the root directory path

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
a little of both

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
anything and everything that's been officially released.

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
been in the 'biz for about 20years now.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
just finished professor layton and the mysterious village. and still metroid prime pinball at least once a week [it still rocks after all this time!]

 

[Puxel]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
I've had my R4 since this christmas. My dad bought it for me, as well as my wiikey (mostly so he wouldn't have to buy all the games I asked for).

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
I've got a Sandisk 1gb. I like the size, but I wouldn't mind a bigger one. It holds about 10 games at a time

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
Not an issue yet. Easy to set up, and easier to use. Drag and Drop FTW.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
I have a folder for Roms specifially, not like I need it. That's all I use it for. i could just drop them on the root, but what ever.

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Games. I tried a few homebrew applications, but I've got a PSP/3.90m33+1.5 w/4gb memstick which can handle homebrew much better.

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
Not one. Screen protectors are weird.

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
My friends Devin and Ray got them before I did. At the time, I didn't care much for the NDS, and I still don't that much, but it's handy for long trips, and Mario Kart is love.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
Mario Kart is love, but I own that game. Currently on my R4, Nanostray 2, Advancewars Dark Conflict, Electroplankton, Apollo Justice, and Tales of Innocence. I could add more, but I've got an assload of Wii games to catch up on.

 

[Raestloz]

1. Not even a year ago, I've got only 1 R4DS, and I'm in Indonesia, so I won't bother answering

2. SanDisk 1GB sadly, since it's pretty slow and I can't afford to buy another one.

3. Nope, well yes, but it's my fault, and don't know how to fix it (tell you what, it's because I collided my R4 with the desk edge)

4. I didn't, I just put the games there, just that, what else?

5. Games, NDS was made for gaming purpose, and so is R4DS

6. Sadly, only the strap R4DS gave me, and NDSLite case coming with the package

7. I didn't even know until I asked why my cousin has so many games in his DS,a dn he told me there's something called "Supercard"

8. Too many to be typed

 

[ThomasWii]

1. 4 Months

2. Kingston 2GB Micro SD Card

3. Yes, had to put all the system file's in caps

4. A Folder for Game's, A Folder for Homebrew, A Folder for Media (eg, Music, Videos, Pic's)

5. Both

6. No

7. Wikipedia

8. All Game's

 

[scrawl]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own?
12 months, 2 R4's (first and second revisions). Started with EZ-Flash IV's, moved to EZ-Flash V's, ended with R4. Currently trialling an AceKard 2.

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
Kingston 1GB "SD-C01G Japan".

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
Not yet.

4. How do you have your folders organized?
System and homebrew data folders hidden. Backups in the root directory, homebrew in a Homebrew directory.

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
Homebrew these days.

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
Screen protectors and case.

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
Friends who owned GBAs.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
Pocket physics

 

[BiscuitCookie]

1. How long have you had your R4 and how many do you own? Where did you buy it off of?
- 6 months and my only one. www.sidder.nl

2. What kind of memory card do you use?
- The one I got with the delivery (the 2 gig)

3. Have there been any problems with your unit?
- None

4. How do you have your folders organized?
- Games, Multimedia, Text

5. Do you use your R4 mainly for games or Media/Homebrew?
- Games

6. Do you have any accessories for your DSL?
- No, I own a normal ds, lower- and upper-screen protector

7. How did you find out about flash carts?
- Friend of mine bought one and I liked it.

8. Favorite games of the moment?
- Not really any at the moment, waiting for the good games to come out again.