The M3 DS Real is a good alternative the R4DS if you can’t find any in stock. With an M3 DS Real you can do all the same things you can do with the R4 and the price is around the same. There isn’t much to separate the two so you might want to go for either of them. You can hunt around for reviews but in my experience there is very little difference between the two products. It is even rumoured that the two are made by the same company and they just have difference labels and designs. They are usually found on sale at the same places as the R4DS, so you can use the R4DS seller comparison table to help you decide where you want to buy one.

An M3 Real lets you play homebrew games stored on your SD card. It means you can simply select what game you want to play from a list when you turn the consoles on. It is unlikely the M3 DS Real will work with Nintendo DSi consoles but will be fine on a DS Lite or original DS.

Homebrew games have been designed by individuals or small groups to be distributed freely on the Internet. Along with the games you can also install homebrew applications. These allow you to use your DS in many different ways that you never imagined before. For example you can use the Nintendo console as a mobile telephone by installing Skype on it and connecting to the Internet. This is just one of many ways the M3 DS Real can be used.

M3 DS Real in all its glory.