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The NDS-Gear R4i (Gold Version) Review / Guide

Official Website: http://www.r4ids.com

Much is written about these products on the official website and other sources - NDS-Gear are here to give a plain, short, simple review in layman's terms! Of course, the original feature list can still be found below our own review.

The R4i Gold is one of the latest DSi card from the R4 brand to hit the market. It was created for the Nintendo DSi but is also backwards compatible with the Nintendo DS and Nintendo DS Lite.

However, the R4i's compatibility is only up to version 1.3 of the Nintendo DSi firmware - if upgraded to 1.4, the R4i will not work. Do not buy if you bought a DSi after 30/Jul/09.

The R4i Gold can accept up to 32GB Micro-SDHC cards, and is, of course, compatible with the DSi as well as the DS and DS Lite!

Official R4i Gold Technical Features List

• Compatible with all DS editions of different kinds of language
• Supports Action Replay cheat
• DLDI auto-patching
• Support SDHC (Micro SD 4G,8G,16G,32G)
• 2nd generation storage device (no booting tool required)
• Flush fitting slot 1 card
• Uses MicroSD card, FAT16 or 32
• Supports any MicroSD card speed with no lag in game
• Supports Clean ROM, drag and drop. Works on any OS
• Built in NoPass
• Automatically detect save type
• Save directly to MicroSD card, not to onboard chip
• Supports Moonshell and other homebrew.
• User friendly skinnable interface. Touchscreen or button operation
• Supports rumble pak and memory pak
• Supports the WiFi game, DS Rumble Pak, DS Browser
• Supports changes of the background of Operation Interface
• Support Skin DIY by setting background and font colors on Main Menu and Game Menu manually and automatically
• Supports 4-scale-lightness adjustment ( DS Lite only )
• Supports the Soft Reset.
• moonshell 2.02 support Software Reset function( Press START key back to the R4 menu)