Hacking What can you do with an R4 card?

[wh1te_d1ce]

The title says it all. What can you do with one, if you have a DSi? (v1.4.5)

 

[Technicmaster0]

Depends on the R4. The best would be if you would send a picture of the sticker; or at least a link to the manufacturer

 

[Alexander1970]

I think this one....

https://gbatemp.net/threads/will-this-r4-card-work-on-a-dsi.532058/

 

[wh1te_d1ce]

Take a hammer and smash it to bits

I will consider that.

Depends on the R4. The best would be if you would send a picture of the sticker; or at least a link to the manufacturer

I already bought it, so here's the picture I got from ebay. EDIT: This is the title of the item: "R4 Gold Silver Black Pro SDHC for DS/3DS/DSI Revolution Cartridge w/ USB Adapter"

 

[Technicmaster0]

Well then you can use DS ROMs and homebrew.

 

[wh1te_d1ce]

Can you give me a link to a guide to installing homebrew? And:

1. What can you do with homebrew on the DS?
2. How do I install ROMs?

Sorry for the questions, I come from the 3DS homebrew community.

 

[Shadow#1]

Can you give me a link to a guide to installing homebrew? And:

1. What can you do with homebrew on the DS?
2. How do I install ROMs?

Sorry for the questions, I come from the 3DS homebrew community.

1 all kinds of things like emulators

2 just place .nds files on SD card

Have fun with that shitty Chinese clone with bad Rom compatability

 

[wh1te_d1ce]

1 all kinds of things like emulators

2 just place .nds files on SD card

Have fun with that shitty Chinese clone with bad Rom compatability

Thanks. Makes me feel great about myself.

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1 all kinds of things like emulators

2 just place .nds files on SD card

Have fun with that shitty Chinese clone with bad Rom compatability

Thanks. Makes me feel great about myself.

WAIT WAIT the order got canceled! haha suck on that

 

[Gaidai]

You can run DS roms, DS homebrew, and emulators for systems the DS can handle running. GB will work fine. NES works but I don't prefer to emulate it on a DS because the screen has to be crunched down to fit, and I don't like how it looks personally. SNES...can work, it's a bit finicky. Atari sort of works but I never really found a good reliable emulator for it. GBA will not work unless you have one of the more expensive carts that has its own onboard processor/ram (which will suck up your battery life faster), or you have access to the M3DS GBA expansion back and the right software (gbaxploader) to use it.

I've personally found it best to just stick to DS roms/homebrew. Stuff that was intended for the system, that you can run natively without an emulator and load up with a mere drag-and-drop.

(I realize you said your order was cancelled, but I figured this reply might be helpful for somebody at least, or even you if you decided to try again.)

 

[the_randomizer]

You can run DS roms, DS homebrew, and emulators for systems the DS can handle running. GB will work fine. NES works but I don't prefer to emulate it on a DS because the screen has to be crunched down to fit, and I don't like how it looks personally. SNES...can work, it's a bit finicky. Atari sort of works but I never really found a good reliable emulator for it. GBA will not work unless you have one of the more expensive carts that has its own onboard processor/ram (which will suck up your battery life faster), or you have access to the M3DS GBA expansion back and the right software (gbaxploader) to use it.

I've personally found it best to just stick to DS roms/homebrew. Stuff that was intended for the system, that you can run natively without an emulator and load up with a mere drag-and-drop.

(I realize you said your order was cancelled, but I figured this reply might be helpful for somebody at least, or even you if you decided to try again.)

DS is far too underpowered to run SNES well, I'd avoid it.

 

[Gaidai]

DS is far too underpowered to run SNES well, I'd avoid it.

Yeah, agreed. It can...sooooorrrrt of do SNES. You're better off with a "new" 3DS for that kind of functionality though. Or just, you know, a PSP. Or even an Xperia Play, if you can find one!

 

[the_randomizer]

Yeah, agreed. It can...sooooorrrrt of do SNES. You're better off with a "new" 3DS for that kind of functionality though. Or just, you know, a PSP. Or even an Xperia Play, if you can find one!

Most PSPs can't even run the good version of Snes9x, it's often the horribly outdated 1.43, which sounds like ear rape. N3DS can run Snes9x much better and with better audio I believe, the 800 MHz core helps with that.

 

[Gaidai]

Most PSPs can't even run the good version of Snes9x, it's often the horribly outdated 1.43, which sounds like ear rape. N3DS can run Snes9x much better and with better audio I believe, the 800 MHz core helps with that.

Point again.

Personally I'd just stick to emulating handheld stuff on handheld consoles, and the same for systems that were not meant to be portable. But that's personal preference. I find Wii and NES Classic to suit me much better for emulating stuff like SNES, and I get the experience of playing it on my TV where I feel it ought to be.

 

[the_randomizer]

Point again.

Personally I'd just stick to emulating handheld stuff on handheld consoles, and the same for systems that were not meant to be portable. But that's personal preference. I find Wii and NES Classic to suit me much better for emulating stuff like SNES, and I get the experience of playing it on my TV where I feel it ought to be.

IDK I'm just biased I guess.

 

[Alexander1970]

Yeah, agreed. It can...sooooorrrrt of do SNES. You're better off with a "new" 3DS for that kind of functionality though. Or just, you know, a PSP. Or even an Xperia Play, if you can find one!

Hello.

Or you can get an SupercardDSTWO.

http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/dstwo/plugin/snes.htm

Also known for better GBA performance:

http://www.gbadsi.com/

 

[Gaidai]

Hello.

Or you can get an SupercardDSTWO.

http://eng.supercard.sc/manual/dstwo/plugin/snes.htm

Also known for better GBA performance:

http://www.gbadsi.com/

Right, that's one of the cards with onboard RAM that can handle GBA emulation, among others. If you're okay with the additional battery drain it's a good enough solution.

IDK I'm just biased I guess.

I hear ya

 

[yukivulpes]

From what I remember, the claims made about GBx emulation being quite good is true. ^^

 

[lolypopmaster11]

Can you give me a link to a guide to installing homebrew? And:

1. What can you do with homebrew on the DS?
2. How do I install ROMs?

Sorry for the questions, I come from the 3DS homebrew community.

1. With homebrew you can play 3ds games and other stuff you can play doom on it there is other way to homebrew a 3ds but id say r4 is the simplest one seriously if you have update 11.9 id say abandon all tries at homebrew without r4

2.how to get roms easy you can get rom by typing on google ((game) rom) while this is probably unsecure this is the way i go normaly

And like other people said with and r4 you can emulate other console

 

[MattTheDemonCat]

Hey guys, I was wandering if the R4 card I got is good. I have a DS phat, and I bought an original, probably second edition, I am pretty sure people don’t really use the spring loaded micro SD original version, R4 DS. It is an original on ebay, it comes with a 2gb micro SD. I know it can only support up to 4gb non-hc/non-hx. It is shipping from the United States, so my question is, is it good? Should I be worried about a time bomb? I am sort of savy, I even set up something’s I want to add, I am making sure it is under 2gb. NitroHax being the key reason, but I also converted videos to .dpg to play on Moonshell. Other than if this cart is good in general, my main question is, what is the best version of Moonshell for original R4 and DS Phat? I currently put 1.7 in the folder for the cart. But I need second opinions, I am getting tired of waiting for it to arrive, and rather having to test everything not knowing what will happen, I want everything to be perfectly set up. Also, I got dscraft added to the folder.

 

[Shadow#1]

Hey guys, I was wandering if the R4 card I got is good. I have a DS phat, and I bought an original, probably second edition, I am pretty sure people don’t really use the spring loaded micro SD original version, R4 DS. It is an original on ebay, it comes with a 2gb micro SD. I know it can only support up to 4gb non-hc/non-hx. It is shipping from the United States, so my question is, is it good? Should I be worried about a time bomb? I am sort of savy, I even set up something’s I want to add, I am making sure it is under 2gb. NitroHax being the key reason, but I also converted videos to .dpg to play on Moonshell. Other than if this cart is good in general, my main question is, what is the best version of Moonshell for original R4 and DS Phat? I currently put 1.7 in the folder for the cart. But I need second opinions, I am getting tired of waiting for it to arrive, and rather having to test everything not knowing what will happen, I want everything to be perfectly set up. Also, I got dscraft added to the folder.

4GB is SDHC