Hacking What card I have?

[DadForSon]

Hello everybody.
I'm newbie on R4 cards.
A friend of mine give us an used card for the Nintendo DS Lite of my son.
It seems don't work properly, because when I switch on the DS with the card in I obtain:
- R4 card without SD: black screen with perpetual "loading"
- R4 card with the SD card friend gives to me: normal DS menu screen with "no card in"
I attach images of the R4 card.
Poking inside the SD card I found
various files starting with _DS_MENU and some extensions, a file _DS_MSHL.NDS, a folder moonshl, a folder games, a folder _system_.
Can please someone tell me what original/copy of R4 I have, so I can point to the correct way to manage it, find the appropriate firmware and so on?
Thanks in advance.
Dad

 

[DeadSkullzJr]

Hello everybody.
I'm newbie on R4 cards.
A friend of mine give us an used card for the Nintendo DS Lite of my son.
It seems don't work properly, because when I switch on the DS with the card in I obtain:
- R4 card without SD: black screen with perpetual "loading"
- R4 card with the SD card friend gives to me: normal DS menu screen with "no card in"
I attach images of the R4 card.
Poking inside the SD card I found
various files starting with _DS_MENU and some extensions, a file _DS_MSHL.NDS, a folder moonshl, a folder games, a folder _system_.
Can please someone tell me what original/copy of R4 I have, so I can point to the correct way to manage it, find the appropriate firmware and so on?
Thanks in advance.
Dad

Looks like one of those 1:1 clones of the original R4 Revolution flashcarts, try one of these kernels:

R4 v1.18 English:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/48idebnuxhkeut9/R4 v1.18 English.7z?dl=0

Wood R4 v1.62: (Best and recommended kernel)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1f8j3bq1w7q5fr/Wood R4 v1.62.7z?dl=0

 

[DadForSon]

Looks like one of those 1:1 clones of the original R4 Revolution flashcarts, try one of these kernels:

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Hello.
First of all, thanks for your reply.
Second, excuse me for non reporting before.
Unfortunately both of the firmware you point won't work.

So I mix "techniques".
I had a backup of the previous content of the SD card.
I formatted the SD card with SDFormatter.
Then I copied back the backupped files except for the GAMES folder, added manually that folder and filled it with some .NDS.
Now the R4 works fine.

Just for information, at the loading it splash a menu screen with 3 icons and says
R4DS english version
R4 Revolution for DS
v1.214

Again, thanks for the help.
DadForSon

 

[Technicmaster0]

Looks like one of those 1:1 clones of the original R4 Revolution flashcarts, try one of these kernels:

R4 v1.18 English:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/48idebnuxhkeut9/R4 v1.18 English.7z?dl=0

Wood R4 v1.62: (Best and recommended kernel)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1f8j3bq1w7q5fr/Wood R4 v1.62.7z?dl=0

It doesn't look like that. It's a SDHC card, not a normal SD card.

 

[DeadSkullzJr]

It doesn't look like that. It's a SDHC card, not a normal SD card.

I just realized it said SDHC on the sticker, I based it off of the PCB because I have seen some clone cards have similar boards like that one.