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By johnnyc67 - 25/02/2010 15:51:57
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I have three brand new cards and I'm having trouble getting them to work on my childrens DS Lite consoles. I've downloaded the latest kernel from www.r41gold.cn (1.14b) but can't seem to get past the first white screen (star wars). Can anyone walk me through the process. Am I too transfer everything from the new kernel to the card?
Thank you in advance.
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By johnnyc67 - 03/03/2010 00:54:59
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The guide is great. Maybe I'm using the wrong kernel. I'm able to get it to work on a DSi but not on a DS Lite. Is there a certain kernel that you would recommend for the DS Lite?
Thanks in advance.
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By johnnyc67 - 04/03/2010 00:17:07
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Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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By - 25/04/2010 21:59:55
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can some one pls help i have an r4i gold super mario on the box tried that download and every other one i can find i only get 2 whire screens i have a dsi v1.4e
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By - 26/04/2010 19:12:43
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yes its www.r4igold.cn but i have tried that and every other download i can find and it still wont work
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By sniper33 - 17/05/2010 16:38:13
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(26/04/2010)
yes its www.r4igold.cn but i have tried that and every other download i can find and it still wont work
Sorry for hijacking the thread but since I'm having a similiar issue with the same card, maybe kill 2 birds with one stone, if that's okay with the mod. I purchased two of these cards and both don't work. I get an "Application halted !!Please refer [/moonshl2/logbuf.txt]" . I downloaded the latest firmware and place it at the root of the memory card. Created a "Games" folder and put a couple of roms in it, and also placed it at the root of the memory card. The DSi boots up fine but when my son selects the any of the games the error message pops up. I re-downloaded the firmware at least three times. Formatted the card each time. I have setup up R4s and ackcard 2i cards may times for family and friends before and never encountered any problems. I'm thinking maybe there's a problem with the new kernel which was just recently updated or these cards are pure crap. Any help would be appreciated it.
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By fongdingo - 27/05/2010 02:48:57
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ive got a ds lite and trying to run the r4i gold ive got v1.30 in the bottom left corner but the thing is that i can only get 2 roms at a time to work on it. any reason why. the ones that work have the pic beside the name but most of them say untitled. sticker on the card says www. r4ids.com
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By fongdingo - 28/05/2010 05:16:54
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not sure ware the info for the manufacture but i got the card from r4ds-r4i.com and its the gold ver
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By fongdingo - 28/05/2010 05:26:52
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oh i also fing that when i drag a bunch of files at one time they dont work and they dont want to come off the card
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By fongdingo - 29/05/2010 04:20:58
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i think that the micro sd caed is a kingston 16 gig
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By fongdingo - 30/05/2010 01:03:06
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so its got to be the kernel cause i can format load the os so to speak then create a rom folder the first now im up to 3 rom on to the card that will work ive tried different roms like mario kart and worms and tetris and they all work but when i try to load more it just makes them an untitled file with no icon beside the file name.
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By fongdingo - 31/05/2010 08:41:41
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now ive got 3 roms and this Bunjalloo browser to all work save and start with the r4i gold card with the ds lite. ive just kept plugging away at the roms but one at a time.
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By fongdingo - 02/06/2010 04:49:30
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its not that bad. i had real trubble with the old xbox hack. and i think that by doing thes great forum that it will help someone else when alot of us stop using them and move on to newer things. the numbers that i see on the bottom screen bottom left hand corner it says v1.30 is this the version of the kernal or a ver of the chip in the card. mine says v1.30 should i be running the new 1.32 if it is the software ver.
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By fongdingo - 05/07/2010 09:03:40
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whats that url on the card say. what kind of sd card are you using what size is it
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By fongdingo - 07/07/2010 17:20:53
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okay the firmware from www.r4ids.com will work only for the cards that have that printed on them. i use the r4i gold card from that site on a ds lite. the r4i gold card with the url r4igold.cn will only work with the firmware from that web site try downloading ver 1.16b from the r4igold.cn site
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By fongdingo - 09/07/2010 08:29:58
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the best of luck to you. it sounds like your taking the way i did, download everything and trial and error. keep trying that web sit though, i have found that they are real shaky most of the time its broken links or links that look dead and have white on white txt. i think to tell what ver you have is to look at the bottom screen bottom left corner
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By mansellred5 - 05/07/2010 08:24:42
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hi all im new to this forum ,ive purchased 4 r4i gold cards(2 black with gold stripes and 2 actual gold coloured cards that came n mario boxes,im having trouble finding 1,4 software that works the first 2 cards i thought may be faulty so i purchased the mario gold cards all i get is sta wars rebel alliance on the orginal ds screen and once i press this i get a white screen,any help would be greatly appericiated,once i download the software and extract with winrar i dont seem to to get any system software but i get homebroow and other stuff(list can be spplyed if needed) cheers darren
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By mansellred5 - 07/07/2010 08:17:27
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hi he url says www.r4ids.com on the first 2 i bought and the mario boxed ones saywww.r4igold.cn
i have tryed many sd cards 2 gb sandisk 8 gb kingsonton 32 gb micro sd
all cards have been formated near enough everytime time to pull my hair out lol it looks like im not the only one
cheers in advance
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By mansellred5 - 07/07/2010 08:29:14
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just seen this on a website ill post a link on the bottom of the page
Stopped Selling From:September 2009Points of Note- Intended to be an "upgradable" version of the R4i-SDHC (red version)
- Stopped working with Nintendo DSi Firmware 1.4
- New firmware introduced technologies that the R4i Gold was not ready for, and so it was unupdatable in the end
Main Advantages- Very reliable and a good upgrade from the R4i-SDHC
- Simple interface emulating the original R4 card
Main Disadvantages- Non-DSi compatible after new firmware http://www.nds-gear.co.uk/dsi-cards/retired/r4i-gold
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By mansellred5 - 09/07/2010 07:59:47
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hi thanks for your reply,
have tryed to go on the r4igold.cn website and cant get on there,not sure if its been shut down or just heavy traffic,anyway ive been downloading any r4 software and trying at random just as something to do and have got some ware although not properly.Ive managed to get the gold coloured r4i card working and can play games but have no home screen as such i can do a screen shot if needed.i power the ds lite up and get normal first screen then get the star wars rebel alliance screen,it then loads but i dont get the choices of games /media/music (or whatever you get) what happens is that it just lists all the software like it would with the games,im just checking what version software it was and will post back on here cheers darren
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By singlewm35 - 04/09/2010 04:53:52
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I have R4igold.cn card. Have been using it for some time. Freezes some times though. Thought it due to speed of sd card. It will not run a card less than 4gb as it states on the box. That may be some folks problem. I too, believe the site is blocked or down as it is unaccessible.
I'm fairly new to ds and cards, as I am a few years older than most of you playing with these things. I just bought an 8gb sd from walmart. thought it might stop my freezing problems.
I intend to find out after I hang up this thread, as have d/l'ed roms to card, now just need to get kernel off of 4gb card. I'm slow so may not get done tonight, lol.
Anyways, if someone wants the kernel I have just shoot me a reply. Not sure what ver. it is at the moment, but it does work for this card.
There are sites, or at least used to be that listed every kernel that was out there. I ran across them when I was d/l' roms.
With so much info out there, it is hard to know what is new, good, trash, etc. That's how I ended up with 5 of these cards, lol.
I only have a ds lite, so what works for me might not 4 u.
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By steal - 07/09/2010 08:47:51
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I have the "R4i Gold upgrade" card from www.r4igold.cn with mario on the box like many posting in this thread, and I too have encountered (and overcome) a good many issues with this card. Despite troubles getting this card to work right, it actually runs most all games I've tried perfectly, and is incredibly functional.
The first time I encountered the white screen with this card, it was because I had tried to reformat and update the firmware on my card on my Mac. Turns out, you can't reformat to FAT 32 on Mac OSX, and I've also read that sometimes files for the firmware can get corrupted on mac, although I can't verify the later statement. In fact, after I tried formatting my micro SD on my mac, I tried the same card on the PC, and even after I reformatted the card again properly on a PC, it remains trashed... so never format your micro SD on a mac. I've broken 2 micro SDs and lost good money this way. To be safe, stick to working with your micro SD on a PC. You can load and unload ROMS onto the card from a Mac with no problems, but when it comes to formatting the card and changing firmwares, always work on a PC with Windows.
Now, as for the actual firmwares, the r4igold.cn website always has them, and even updates it fairly regularly - the most recent update came last week. However, this site has been known to go down somewhat regularly and disappear for days or weeks at a time, so if anyone needs a particular firmware for their card, feel free to email me, because I have rars of all of them. Also, one thing I've noticed with the newer releases of this card's firmware is that for some strange reason, they come with incorrectly named files. On all the updates newer than 1.14, you have to take the file "iLL.iL" in the root directory and copy it. Then, you have to rename one of them "TTMENU.DAT" and the other "R4i.dat". I don't know why it's like that, but it's worked for me. If you've done all this, the white screen problem should be solved - it's worked for me. The only thing that doesn't seem to work well for me, and that I haven't found a proper fix for is the soft reset.
Another problem I've had with this card are the "disk errcode: -83" (or 81) when you try to load a rom you just put on the card. The only thing that I've found fixes these is to format the card and put everything on it again. I don't know why, but it usually makes the games work. Also, when using a 4GB SD card with this R4iGold, it takes much longer to load the menus, and I've noticed significantly slower load times on most all games and some even become near unplayable like this (Sonic Classics collection in particular). I'm not sure if this is an issue with the SD card I got (it's a sandisk so I'm assuming not) or the r4i card, but I stick to a 2 GB card and that's what works best for me, despite the lack of storage.
I know that was probably more info than anyone wanted to read, but I thought I'd do all I can to try and save people from the hours of painstaking googling and reformatting and cursing that I've gone through using this card. I hope I've helped! 
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By steal - 11/09/2010 00:24:10
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Here is the latest version of the firmware for this card, for anyone else who needs it. The ILL files have already been renamed as they should so this should work just fine.
http://www.mediafire.com/?0ubfytl99t53298
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By barnsleypaul - 08/09/2010 18:22:54
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hi all,
i have 2 r4i gold ver 1.5 from www.r4igold.cn and no software at all as the site is always down...so can you email what you have..cheers
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By fatface - 07/09/2010 15:56:01
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steal (07/09/2010)
I have the "R4i Gold upgrade" card from www.r4igold.cn with mario on the box like many posting in this thread, and I too have encountered (and overcome) a good many issues with this card. Despite troubles getting this card to work right, it actually runs most all games I've tried perfectly, and is incredibly functional. The first time I encountered the white screen with this card, it was because I had tried to reformat and update the firmware on my card on my Mac. Turns out, you can't reformat to FAT 32 on Mac OSX, and I've also read that sometimes files for the firmware can get corrupted on mac, although I can't verify the later statement. In fact, after I tried formatting my micro SD on my mac, I tried the same card on the PC, and even after I reformatted the card again properly on a PC, it remains trashed... so never format your micro SD on a mac. I've broken 2 micro SDs and lost good money this way. To be safe, stick to working with your micro SD on a PC. You can load and unload ROMS onto the card from a Mac with no problems, but when it comes to formatting the card and changing firmwares, always work on a PC with Windows.Now, as for the actual firmwares, the r4igold.cn website always has them, and even updates it fairly regularly - the most recent update came last week. However, this site has been known to go down somewhat regularly and disappear for days or weeks at a time, so if anyone needs a particular firmware for their card, feel free to email me, because I have rars of all of them. Also, one thing I've noticed with the newer releases of this card's firmware is that for some strange reason, they come with incorrectly named files. On all the updates newer than 1.14, you have to take the file "iLL.iL" in the root directory and copy it. Then, you have to rename one of them "TTMENU.DAT" and the other "R4i.dat". I don't know why it's like that, but it's worked for me. If you've done all this, the white screen problem should be solved - it's worked for me. The only thing that doesn't seem to work well for me, and that I haven't found a proper fix for is the soft reset. Another problem I've had with this card are the "disk errcode: -83" (or 81) when you try to load a rom you just put on the card. The only thing that I've found fixes these is to format the card and put everything on it again. I don't know why, but it usually makes the games work. Also, when using a 4GB SD card with this R4iGold, it takes much longer to load the menus, and I've noticed significantly slower load times on most all games and some even become near unplayable like this (Sonic Classics collection in particular). I'm not sure if this is an issue with the SD card I got (it's a sandisk so I'm assuming not) or the r4i card, but I stick to a 2 GB card and that's what works best for me, despite the lack of storage. I know that was probably more info than anyone wanted to read, but I thought I'd do all I can to try and save people from the hours of painstaking googling and reformatting and cursing that I've gone through using this card. I hope I've helped!
What's the latest version of the firmware do you have to this card. I have v1.90 but it still doesn't run some of the latest game e.g Lego Harry Potter, www.r4igold.cn is currently down. Thanks
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By georgekeane - 06/12/2010 17:40:09
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Hi
I have just got the R4i gold upgrade card v1.41 with mario on the box. It has the website R4iSSDHC.COM on the box. I have lloked everywhere for the software to go on it. Has anyone got one of these cards and if so can you tel me where to get the software from
Thanks
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By werty - 29/05/2010 22:00:30
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Hi all,
I have recently purchased an r4i gold upgrade revolution card for use on a nintendo ds xl and when i down load the lates software(version 1.45) from the site www.r4ill-net.com to my r4 card along with a game, once inserted into the ds xl, after clicking on the star wars game, the screen stays white?
can you guys help at all?
thanks
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By michelleashley23 - 04/12/2010 16:33:36
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hi im having the same problem as you i got it from price angels too. so if u get it to work could u please let me no i will do the same...
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By poppetet - 18/12/2010 23:05:19
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hi there
was wondering if anyone can help me plz
my niece bought the r4 (ndsl/nds) card and used the version 1.18 software
it works in the ordinary nds lite but it does not work in the nds i
do you have to buy a different card for the lite or do you have to use a different software
any help would be greatly appreciated as it is a present for her daughter
many thanks
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By R4DSCards Tech - 01/03/2010 09:28:34
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Hi there,
Have you seen this guide we made to aid the process of setting up your R4 card?
Installing the kernel to your micro sd card
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By R4DSCards Tech - 03/03/2010 13:32:29
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I'm not too sure really - the Kernels should be backwards compatible with your DS but we have had issues with R4i cards working on DS Lites. Although recently these issues have been ironed out with most R4i cards. Although we have never tried a card from www.r4igold.cn.
We have tested some R4i cards to work on both DS and DSi so if you want a recommendation please let me know..
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By R4DSCards Tech - 04/03/2010 11:38:46
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No worries - we would recommend this R4i card from memory card zoo - we have tested this R4i to work on the DSi and DS Lite.
R4i for DS Lite and DSi
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By R4DSCards Tech - 26/04/2010 09:56:15
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Hi,
Does your box have a URL on it? We really need to find out what website your R4 card is manufactured by. There are many manufacturers out there and it is imperative you use the right R4 software!
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By R4DSCards Tech - 27/04/2010 16:45:51
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So are you using 1.8b and have you extracted the files correctly to your card?
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By R4DSCards Tech - 27/05/2010 08:33:36
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H,
We are getting a few people with the same issue. Its a very odd one that only 2 roms work at a time. I can only imagine it is something wrong with the kernel. Caqn you try to email the manufacturers? We have done this before and we have received quick responses back from them. If you do find anything out please post it on here...
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By R4DSCards Tech - 28/05/2010 09:17:53
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Hmmm thats odd about the dragging - what brand of Micro SD card are you using in your R4i?
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By R4DSCards Tech - 01/06/2010 17:12:23
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Its all very odd - I guess it must be the kernel - I agree. Very painful to have to go to these lengths though eh?
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By R4DSCards Tech - 06/09/2010 15:59:33
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since the recent change in legislation some of these sites may have gone down. The first place to check for the latest software kernel would always be the URL written on the card or the box. There are so many manufacturers of these cards and they do not work with each others kernels. if you are experiencing freezing then important to ensure you have free space on your micro SD for your save files. Another good thing to do is format the micro sd using the sd formatter from the sd formatting association, ensure the size allocation is set to "on". At times a micro sd card can be simply incompatible too ( like a bug) so it is worth trying an alternative if you have the means to do this
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By R4DSCards Tech - 21/12/2010 09:05:17
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hi there the R4 only works in the DS lite and the DS. You need to buy a R4i to work in the DSi and DSi XL.
See the link below for advice -
http://www.r4dscards.com/Where-to-buy-Genuine-DS-Cards/
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