Hacking A DS Lite...

[kaffeine]

I don't have a DS, but I helped a friend of mine with one. At the time, the R4 was a pretty good solution. He's never complained about it.

[nemrac]

I don't have a DS, but I helped a friend of mine with one. At the time, the R4 was a pretty good solution. He's never complained about it.

The R4 use to be great, but they do not provide firmware updates anymore so some of the newer games do not work.

The DSTT is quite good too. Firmware is updated all the time.

Nemrac

[Busyman]

I've read a few articles and understand the process (nice and simple). However, I am looking for any advice or tips from someone who has experience with the process.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Peace, brotherdoobie

I bought a R4 Revolution for my daughter and it works flawlessly.

Caveats:

There are no more firmware updates for the R4.
R4s do not with SD cards over 2GB or SDHC.
R4s that say R4 III or just about anything else are fake (but I heard still work, just not from the original manufacturers)

I just bought 2 TT DSs (Top Toy) and they should arrive next week.
It works with SDHC cards (up to 32GB I think).
I got them from DealExtreme for less than $7 a piece with free shipping.

The new AceKard Si is THE ONLY confirmed card to work with the DSi.
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Anyway, with the R4 (bought from Dangbox, came with 1GB card) the firmware was already loaded onto the card. Otherwise, you simply load it on there yourself via the makers website. The R4 came with a USB key with micro SD slot.

I made a Games folder.

Downloaded a 1.15GB torrent of 50 most popular DS games. Took about 20 minutes.

Grabbed about 15 of the games and moved them into the Games folder on the SD card.

Popped the SD card in the slot on the R4, plugged the R4 into the DS and a menu pops up for Games (and other things).

My daughter chooses the game she wants to play and BAM, she's off and running.
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I just bought 2 4GB sd cards from Amazon for $16 total.

They had 8GB available for $17 each but they wouldn't ship for a month (weird).

The thing you want to do is basically load up all boatload o games onto the R4 (or whatever) so you are not constantly pulling the sd card out.

gbatemps.com has reviews on just about every "legit" card made.

I told my best friend about this and he immediately bought R4s for his family.

Almost all cards support wi-fi so on those long trips, folks can play each other.

[PlayeR]

lots of people have already given useful info..

you might want to check this out. it focuses more on psp but they have section for DS too.. you can download games from there too

[kaffeine]

I'm having dinner with my wife's family tonight. Her sister is doing the cooking. Her sister should never set foot in a kitchen - ever.

Fact.



-bd

How was it?

How sick is her dog now?

[brotherdoobie]

Thanks for the help, all. Busy, do you play the DS? I bought one for my son and had to
get myself one. I'm addicted, ffs.


-bd

[brotherdoobie]

I'm having dinner with my wife's family tonight. Her sister is doing the cooking. Her sister should never set foot in a kitchen - ever.

Fact.



-bd

How was it?

How sick is her dog now?

Her dog is fine. I'm not doing so good myself, however. I should of slipped it
to the dog. I hate that fucking dog. She's spoiled to the max.


-bd

[kaffeine]

You missed a win-win situation. Not to worry though, I'm sure the opportunity will come again...

many times.

[brotherdoobie]

You're harsh prick, Kaffeine.


-bd

[kaffeine]

Alternatively, you can tell her you rather eat nuclear waste than her food (I don't know how that's going to work with the wife though).