Zoombits have another fantastic offer on their R4i website, but for today only!

Save a whopping 45% on all M3 DS Real cards, M3i Zero cards, iEdge and ACEKARD2i cards! Simply enter promo code pro45m at the checkout!

But hurry, this fantastic offer is only available until midnight tonight (07/06/2010).

If that wasn’t enough R4i.co.uk are also offering 24% off everything else on the site with the code 24offm. This code is also only available until midnight tonight.

You may need to complete multiple orders as I am not clear that you can add more than one discount code per order, but that’s no great problem anyway as all prices include delivery anyway .. so make as many orders as you like as it will not cost you a penny more for postage (unless you want to take out expedited delivery).

There have been a couple of recent upgrades to the firmware for the R4i SDHC card, so if you are using that card, you may want to pop over to http://www.r4i-sdhc.com to download the latest version – now standing at v1.17b.

Wow!!

I missed this change with the latest December R4i DSi Adapter Firmware upgrades.

For R4i cards (v1.4) or for R4 cards manufactured since November, they now have the capability to search for and download games backups on the move via Wireless hotspots and have them playable on your DS.

There is a glitch at present that means that you need to do this via either an un-secured network (e.g. Wireless hotspot) or a network using WEP protection. Furthermore we also note that it will not connect to a Network using the N standard, however we expect all this to be fixed in a further firmware upgrade.

We have tried it out ourselves and it works beautifully.

A (free) license identifier on your DS and on Windows PC Downloadable software identifies your download queue and this means that the DS games can be downloaded to your DSI AND your PC.

So, in future if you forget to load your favourite game, then provided you have access to a hotspot you can download it directly to your DSi card wherever you are in the world.

Remember that this will only work with official R4i DSi Adapter cards. R4i.co.uk whom we exclusively recommend here have always supplied us with official cards when we have purchased them (and this is now uniquely verifiable through ‘truth inquiry’ labels that can be checked at http://www.r4i-sdhc.com)

Important: We must repeat that although games can be downloaded freely using the information available at http://www.r4i-sdhc.com and installing cards supplied via the preferred merchant listeds here, it is a violation of copyright to play a game which you have not purchased.

There still seems to be some uncertainty regarding the R4 series of cards. Therefore, we want to try and simplify it all for people and plan to show video and/or pictoria set up instructions to help you het the best from your DS or DSi.

Let’s just take an opportunity to make sure that people know the requirements for Nintendo DS and DSI and the correct R4 DS Adapter for their games console.

Let’s start with the

Nintendo DS/DS Lite – For these, it doesn’t matter which series of R4 card that you have. All current R4-SDHC or R4i-SDHC cards should work without a hitch. Recent issues with the DSi have come about because the DSi has upgradable firmware (via Internet) whereas the DS/DS Lite can only be upgraded at the factory. These upgrades have stopped cards working on a DSi, but Nintendo has no means to do this with other variants.

Nintendo DSi
Your choices depend upon whether you havd a Nintendo DSi upgraded to 1.4 Firmware or not – ignore the subsequent letter e.g. (U)SA, (E)urope , (J)apan

DSi at or below v1.3 Firmware – Any R4i-SDHC version will do an admirable job so long as you do not upgrade your DSi to Firmware1.4 or above. Currently firmware releases for this R4i adapter have stopped at v1.09b meaning that more recent games may not be fully supported – highly recommended that you purchase the current 1.4 flashed R4i Adapter card to have maximum compatability.

DSi at v1.4 Firmware – Your choice is currently limited to the R4i-SDHC pack starred as 1.4 compatible. None of the other R4 series of cards will work if you have upgraded or bought a new DSi with v1.4 Nintendo firmware.

Note: There is no guarantee that 1.4 starred R4i cards will work for a future Nintendo upgrade. You are advised to avoid upgrading your Nintendo DSi firmware without researching and accepting that the R4i functionality may change or even be broken completely.

Within the last few days, the R4i-SDHC team have released a new updated firmware for the latest v1.4 Firmware compatible R4i DSi adapter card.

Sadly, there is still no sign that the earlier cards are capable of upgrade and it appears increasingly likely that the only way to assure full support for the DSi homebrew will be by sticking to the latest generation of R4i adapter as sold by R4i.co.uk.

R4i V1.12b kernel released 23 October 2009 (1.4 compatible card only) :
Release Notes

1. 100% supports all games
2. Address the following issue of the game
4139 – Monokane
4225 – Kingdom Hearts 358-2 Days (US)
4249 – Inazuma Eleven 2 Kyoui no Shinryakusha Fire (J)
4250 – Inazuma Eleven 2 Kyoui no Shinryakusha Blizzard (J)
4258 – Blue Dragon: Ikai No Kyojyuu
4262 – Kingdom Hearts 358-2 Days (E)
4263 – Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey (J)
4268 – Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story (E)
4269 – Iron Master (J)
4270 – Tago Akira no Atama no Taisou Dai 3 Shuu Fushigi no Kuni no Nazotoki Otogibanashi (J)
4271 – Tago Akira no Atama no Taisou Dai 4 Shuu Time Machine no Nazotoki Daibouken (J)
4273 – Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games (U)
4292 – Mario And Sonic At The Olympic Winter Games (E)
4301 – Kimi ni Todoke Sodateru Omoi (J)
4327 – Element Hunters (J)
3,To solve the game 2906,3828,4171,4142,4192,4207,3922,3929,3938, 3939,3949,3952,3970,3980,4040,4178 problem.

Now available from R4i.co.uk, the next generation of R4i cards is operable under v1.4 of the Nintendo DSi Firmware.

Quite why people upgraded their Nintendo DSi from an earlier firmware to v1.4 mystifies us here and it rendered earlier R4i Adapter Cards unusable in anything but a DSi up to v1.3.

We are still determining whether earlier cards can be brought to life on a v1.4, but we are doubtful given that the focus has been on developing a new card (with ‘v1.4′ Star emblazoned on the label to show v1.4 DSi compatibility).

At this time, we believe that the best (pragmatic?) solution will be to buy a new entry level R4i Adapter and re-use your micro-SD card … after all, it already contains your personal games, tools and multimedia.

The motto …. don’t upgrade your Nintendo DSi Firmware unless the updates are important enough for you to accept that you may break the functionality of your R4i card.

At a minimum. wait a week or two and research what effect a DSi Firmware upgrade has had for others before you commit.

Nintendo have now made an upgraded firmware available for the DSi … v1.4

One ‘feature’ of this upgrade is that it apparently disables all known game cartridges.

If you want to remain able to use the R4i adapter for the Nintendo DSi, then the answer is simple … do not upgrade the firmware on your DSi and keep it at v1.3 or below.

The R4i team have indicated that they are analysing the changes to effect their own solution, but take charge yourself … don’t upgrade your DSi firmware until new firmware is released for the R4i adapter.

In the past few days, the R4i SDHC team have released a further updated firmware (1.08b) for their popular R4i-SDHC adapter for the Nintendo DS and DSi.

The latest firmware reports the following changes :

1. Realtime skin/themes change function (support random skin/themes selection mode).(maximum support up to 8skins)
2.Integrated latest Moonshell 2.01+1 multilingual ｓtable version.
3.Work out the problem of “3690, 3517, 2230, 3369, 3791, 3782, 3790, 3819, 2949, 3055, 3551″ etc. games.
save file issue.
4. Able to indicate whether the any contains of the cheat folder has been selected or not at cheat menu.
5. Adding document search / selection mode to speed up the pace in selecting a document. Press the icon at right lower corner of the screen to switch between modes.
6. Identifying and displaying the type of SD, capacity and format.

The firmware can be downloaded from http://r4i-sdhc.com

In the past few days, the R4i team have released an updated firmware (1.071b) for their popular R4i-SDHC adapter.

The latest firmware adds support for some problematic ROMs as well as improvements in the firmware around microSD card navigation and identification.

The firmware can be downloaded from http://r4i-sdhc.com

If you bought the R4i Revolution Upgraded for your Nintendo DSi, then you may want to note that the R4i firmware has been upgraded in the last few days.

There is a new R4i kernel (v1.06b) available for pretty much all languages, downloadable from http://www.r4i-sdhc.com.

If you want to know why you should buy an R4i, have a read of the following pages : R4i Adapter Nintendo DS/DSi | updated R4 or our own page R4i Adapter for Nintendo DSi.

Other ‘equivalent’ cards are available, but we recommend the R4i card from our own personal flawless and easy experience.

If you don’t already have an R4i DSi adapter, then you can buy one from Memorybits or their dedicated R4i website at a 10% discount when you use our exclusive PR10 discount code. You may actually use this exclusive discount against ALL your purchases, not just against the R4i DSi Adapter.