R4 DS

The Christmas season is here, and the R4 DS is in high demand but low supply. It is expected to be sold out over much of the coming months. If you know someone with a Nintendo DS, give them one Christmas present they won't forget. You don't want to be regretting not starting your R4 DS Christmas shopping early enough. Order Now, seriously.

Why your DS Needs an R4 DS

For less than the cost of a single DS game, the R4 revolution allows your Nintendo DS to:

Play back-up ROMs of games (so you never need to carry or swap cartridges around)

Play free homebrew games

Be used as a PDA

mp3 Player

Video Player

Web Browser

Word Processor

And even a Mobile Phone!

Avoid fakes
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A lot of people are coming across fake clones of the R4 which are less reliable and may damage your Nintendo DS. One of these fakes includes the "R4 version 3". The link above points to the "R4 version 2" which has a lot of positive feedback.

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If you or your children have a habit of losing Nintendo DS games, (or in my case the dog has a habit of eating them), the R4 Revolution could save you a small fortune. Unfortunately my R4 DS came too late for our copy of Pokemon Diamond to be saved from the jaws of our puppy but now all our family’s games are back-up securely, and for less than the cost of a single game.

The R4 DS Revolution can be bought from many places on the Internet, but there are a lot of fakes floating about. Buying a fake won’t even save you much money, but it is less likely to work, and more likely to crash just because you defeat the final boss.

How to Know if an R4 DS is Genuine

The simplest way to tell is that the R4 DS does not support memory cards greater than 2GB, many fakes claim they do. Fake R4 DS boxes usually look very similar to the genuine box, but if you look closely, you may notice the box including one of the following giveaways (if your box has any of these, it is a fake and may damage your Nintendo DS):

Version 2 (there is a second version but it is only a small change which is not promoted on the box)
Version 3
V3
Advance
Upgrade
III
N5
R6
E7
SDHC support (usually appears in very small text)

R4 DS Fakes and Clones Warning

Many imitations have been made of the R4 DS. Some, such as the R5 have been reported to stop the DS from working permanently. There are also plenty of clones that appear to be the genuine R4. These often have lower build quality or make games run slower when using them.

Many sellers of these clones use images of the genuine product to promote what they are selling. You'll be hard pressed to find an independent source of reliable information (believe me, I've tried hard while researching for this website). The best collection of independent information is customer feedback on Amazon.

How to Avoid Fake R4 DS

The link below points to a product with the correct title and image for a genuine R4 DS. Once that has been clicked on, I recommend you click on the "used and new" link. Then click "See all 18 New Offers" (Note: it won't always be 18), then look for sellers with high positive feedback ratings. I would recommend only buying from sellers with over 96% positive feedback and with more than 20 lifetime ratings.

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R4 DS

Now with the R4 DS there’s no need to worry about cartridges getting stuck down the back of the sofa, stepped on, or falling under the fridge. When my daughter wants to play some of her old games, she doesn’t have to spend half an hour hunting through her messy room (half an hour which would be better spent actually tidying her room). Why? Because all her games are back-up onto an SD card and played via the R4 DS just as they could be on a Nintendo DSi.

R4DS

The R4DS is an all in one piece of hardware that allows you to play backups of games and add new applications such as photo viewers and video and mp3 players. Playing game through the R4DS means you don't need to worry about swaping game carts all the time. You simply pick which game you want to play from the menu.

R4

In fact for the first time, all our cartridges are in the draw we keep them in. That’s because now we have an R4, we don’t need to keep changing them when we want to play a new game. We just select the game we want from the on-screen menu. This saves so much time.

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R4 Revolution

That’s not to mention the applications which can be downloaded to play on the DS via the R4 Revolution. By downloading a couple of these, you can be listening to mp3s, watching videos and showing off your photo collection on your DS.

R4 Nintendo

The R4 DS is sometimes known as the R4 Nintendo. Just so you know if you come across the term R4 Nintendo, it means exactly the same as R4DS. Just make sure you are buying version 2, not version 3 as that is a fake. Also make sure you are buying from a reliable seller as detailed on the "fakes" page on this site.

Nintendo Black DSi

The black Nintendo DSi features similar capabilities to the R4 DS. A Nintendo black DSi can interface with an SD card just like the r4 allows the DS to. This could potential be the reason why Nintendo did not take on the R4 DS as much as had been expected as they were including it's capabilities in the black Nintendo DSi.

R4 NDS

The R4 NDS is on sale at Amazon now. From the feedback I've read on Amazon, it seems like their main seller is selling genuine R4s. Having back-ups played through the R4DS means that you don't have to swap game cartridges all the time and makes life much easier.

Avoid R4 Fakes

There are plenty of R4 clones on the market. For a quick guide of how to avoid fakes, check this R4 DS Revolution Fakes

Elmo Live

Elmo Live has nothing to do with the R4 DS but is a very interesting new toy if you have children or an interest in cools robots. Elmo Live is very life like and does lots of cool things. Especially cool is his life like movements and the amount of talking he does, not just a few short phrases, he just babbles on and on. Elmo Live also moves his mouth as if he's really talking, it's kind of strange to think the sound is actually coming out of a speaker. Have a Look at www.elmo-live-toy.co.uk if you haven't seen Elmo Live and check out the videos there.

Imagine Teacher DS

One game you may (especially if you have a pink Nintendo DS) want to play using an R4 DS is Imagine Teacher. This game puts you in the roll of a young teacher starting at unusual small town school. Your task as a teacher is to educate the pupils. The school in Imagine Teacher on Nintendo DS seems to have been built for just 4 pupils, but as you quickly become headteacher just minutes after arriving at the school, you develop the Imagine Teacher school into a thieving academic... place, containing up to 16 pupils! Imagine Teacher might not be the first game you back up onto your R4 DS but it if you have a young girl in the house, they might appreciate it.

Imagine My Secret World

If you own an R4 you can backup your copy of games you also have. If you have Imagine My Secret World, for example. you can back that up onto your R4 and then not need to worry about carrying extra game carts when you want to switch between playing Imagine Teacher and writing in your Imagine My Secret World diary.

R4 DS Revolution

One of the Best features of the R4 DS Revolution is that it allows your DS to run applications made by third parties. This is similar to the type of application you can find on smart phones. For example you could install a music player or a new web browser, all because of the R4 DS Revolution. You can see the R4 DS Revolution recommended downloads section for more examples of the types of applications available.