Yet Another Revolution by R4

Thursday 02 April, 2009

In 2008, Nintendo figured they'd take the opportunity of the DSi's fresh hardware to kibosh homemade code via flash carts once and for all. As you can see here, that plan didn't last long.

Acekard, makers of many fine flashcarts for the original DS and DS Lite, have done in a month or so what many thought might take much longer, or even be impossible: load homebrew code on the DSi. Shortly after Acecard 2i, R4i and many other flash cards supporting DSi were released. The following are the features of the R4i:

• Same size as an original DSi game cartridge
• Built-in PassMe (NO need for any boot cart./passcard etc.)
• Uses microSD memory card (Trans Flash) as storage
• Boot clean dump images (downloadable from internet)
• Very simple to use: drag and drop files to the microSD card and play
• Standard FAT system support
• Supports different speeds of micro SD cards
• Supports HC memory cards
• Upgradable Firmware ( OS / Bios / Kernel )
• Touch screen control and robust skinning support
• No battery needed, back up the save file directly into the microSD card
• Homebrew support , IO lib available on launch
• Supports WiFi, DS rumble pack and DS browser