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Forums - Nintendo - Thoughts of R4 for DS/3DS???

Conina on 17 May 2014
sc94597 said:
I like these carts for homebrew and backups (don't have to carry all of your cartridges and risk losing them.) Notice that the goal of these flash cart developers is to have an open-platform for homebrew apps, and piracy is usually the least important thing in their eyes, in fact many are against piracy. I think a 3DS that was opened up to homebrew would be a really cool device with a lot of potential and it would definitely make an already valuable piece of hardware even more valuable.

The goal of these flash cart developers is to make a profit by selling flash cards. And most of their customers buy these cards to play games for free.

Which DS-homebrew makes even sense on the 3DS?

  • Internet-browser? The 3DS has one out of the box.
  • Playing MP3s? The 3DS can play them out of the box.
  • Watching pictures and videos? The 3DS has a photo-app, which can also play correctly converted videos and use the native 3DS resolution.


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sc94597 on 17 May 2014
Conina said:
sc94597 said:
I like these carts for homebrew and backups (don't have to carry all of your cartridges and risk losing them.) Notice that the goal of these flash cart developers is to have an open-platform for homebrew apps, and piracy is usually the least important thing in their eyes, in fact many are against piracy. I think a 3DS that was opened up to homebrew would be a really cool device with a lot of potential and it would definitely make an already valuable piece of hardware even more valuable.

The goal of these flash cart developers is to make a profit by selling flash cards. And most of their customers buy these cards to play games for free.

Which DS-homebrew makes even sense on the 3DS?

  • Internet-browser? The 3DS has one out of the box.
  • Playing MP3s? The 3DS can play them out of the box.
  • Watching pictures and videos? The 3DS has a photo-app, which can also play correctly converted videos and use the native 3DS resolution.

I'm not talking about the companies that use the exploits for profits, but about the people who find the exploits in the first place. 

The 3DS internet browser, video player, etc leave a lot to be wanted. I'd love to watch 3D movies on my 3DS just like I can watch them on my old HTC EVO 3D phone. I personally would like to use the 3DS as an emulator for games that aren't available on the virtual console, particularly old DOS PC games (DS had this, but was too weak for many games -like Elder Scrolls:Daggerfall), Gameboy Advanced games, and possibly N64 games. I think a PDF reader would be quite nice. Region-free gameplay. Steaming from PC (already exists on DS.)  Using my 3DS as a writing pad for my PC or to take notes. So on and so on. There are many things that can be done that the DS wasn't able to do because of limited hardware. 



Scisca on 17 May 2014

Don't even come close to R4!! I'm not talking about the no-piracy stuff. They are just utter crap, all of them are cheap Chinese knock-offs that aren't supported well and break down very fast. These are no longer the R4s of old. And don't even come close to something like R4i - the original team has never even produced anything like this. I have always been using Acekard 2i and it works like a charm. Never had any problems. Just one note - like almost all such kards, it doesn't support GBA games. Other than that - it's just awesome, I've never had a problem with it or with software not working on it.



Wii U is a GCN 2 - I called it months before the release!

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My consoles: PS2 Slim, PS3 Slim 320 GB, PSV 32 GB, Wii, DSi.

Ganoncrotch on 17 May 2014
ps3-sales! said:
Sorry to bump this but I need the best available card to play 2d (DS GAMES) on my now 3DS console; since playing 3ds games with the r4 card is difficult.

Anybody know the best card to get? A link would be ORGASMIC if you provide.

To recap: I want to play DS games on a 3DS using R4 or other cards... LINK PLEASE :)


No one can link you to direct information about that on here, it's against the rules I'm pretty certain.

You want to check out a site called GBAtemp, they're pretty much the place to go to for flash card info about the DS/3DS, Also considering that the online services for a ton of the first party DS games like Tetris and mario Kart are being taken down in the next couple of months you'll want to pirate the hell out of all of those, I paid for my copies a few years ago, but I would never suggest someone buys games which are still retailing for 40+euros new which have had their online removed.



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Ganoncrotch on 17 May 2014
MohammadBadir said:
Supercard > R4 in every single possible way pretty much.

Supercard supports GBA games, R4 does not.
Supercards last a very long time, R4s break easily, even if you make one small mistake through an update.
Supercards have great support, with R4s you most likely can't get support because most of them are fakes.
Supercards rarely freeze, R4s start to do so a lot after a while.

and most importantly:

Supercards don't become useless after a new system/update releases, the Supercard team create updates so even your old Supercard works on your new 3DS XL, R4 doesn't even work on the DS, unless you have R4i, in which case it may not work too unless your OS version is compatible with it, and it won't work on the 3DS unless you buy an R4i Gold... etc.


@bold ... What?

This post kinda sounds like you are a salesperson of supercards.



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TheKoreanGuy on 17 May 2014

R4 is pretty useless for 3ds because it constantly needs to be updated with new firmware. There are better flashcarts for that but I won't say here.



fatslob-:O on 17 May 2014

If I were you in the past I would have never considered the vita in the first place ... 3DS was always the way to go.



sc94597 on 18 May 2014
TheKoreanGuy said:
R4 is pretty useless for 3ds because it constantly needs to be updated with new firmware. There are better flashcarts for that but I won't say here.

I'm confused. I have an R4i Revolution for my 3DS XL and have updated my 3DS to the latest firmware constantly since then. All of my DS backups work fine and I never updated since buying it last November.