this is so funny they grabbed everything out there and just lets you drag and drop it on your sd card..
amazingly stupid if people would buy this.
amazingly stupid if people would buy this.
Hacking Discussion R4S Dongle revealed for Switch
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LOL...This is a joke, right? I mean..the only thing that is good about this would be the dongle. If they are selling it for the same price as TX, then they are screwed. Going to be a TON of disappointed customers. Someone will buy it and read the PDF afterwards, then stumble across this forum and start reading about using LayeredFS and DevMenu only to realize they didn't need to pay for it. Customers would then write to R4 and complain about wasting $xx.xx on something they could have done for free.
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the switch is a handheld console with a docking stationI guess you could say.. R4 Team have switched their business from handheld consoles to home consoles
missed oppurtiny to name change to R7 or even S7
you know, because 7 is better than 4, and the switch is a 7 inch tablet
(i believe its 7 inch?)
you know, because 7 is better than 4, and the switch is a 7 inch tablet
(i believe its 7 inch?)
You'd think that with R4, they'd make a Switch game cart that could load ROM's... Just like on the DS/3DS, but the technology for the Switch isn't there so they've decided to copy the SX PRO for the quick cash-in.
Where have you been the last decade? R4i, R4SDHC, R4i 3D, R4i Dual Core, R4 Gold...
As long as it loads the Sx payload, I don't care about nothing else. Looks better than most of the make your own dongles.
Precisely my point. AFAIK original R4 team didn't used timebombs on their devices (flashcarts), but when it went kaput many chinese groups created clones of those flashcarts with timebombs on them. This is a chinese product for sure so then?
And even if it's running hombrew, that's not an obstacle to add a timebomb into it.
So when I first saw the sx dongle i noticed the form factor. I figured the two barrel shapes on either side must be two electrolytic capacitors. In fact, that's what they were. Sometimes these are used to "clean" noise out of an electric pathway, but sometimes they are used as a sort of battery to give a component a boost at startup. take electric motors for instance. like a ceiling fan. It uses a large capacitor to get the motor up and spinning at startup. same thing for the sx dongle. it harvests a small amount of energy from the switch's USB port to get the components up and operational. So when I saw this dongle I noticed right away the it does not have the same shape, so therefore it must not have those caps. then I see your post about a battery and it all makes sense. it uses a battery instead of taking power from the switch. that small of a battery in no way can harm your USB port. In fact, it's a safer method for your switch. Although without having one of the dongles to reverse engineer it makes it impossible for me to say how safe it is overall. same goes for the sx. I repair electronics for a living and I can't tell you how often I see small companies like these that cut every corner that they can. not talking shit about either of them though. like i said, without having them in front of me I cannot tell how good or bad they are designed.
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