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In small, the R4 DS card will let you watch Movies on your NDS, listen to Mp3 music on your NDS as well as play homebrew roms and applications on your NDS console… on your Nintendo DS console. It essentially flips your NDS or DSi from decently a game system to a whole Entertainment unit in your hands, all for less than .00 dollars.00
There are some instant and simple tips to follow. While some of these tips may seem obvious, it even took me about a week and a half of using the R4 DS before I came up with some ways to make my life (and game playing) a small bit simpler.
1. Copy your games and game files to a specific directory on the micro SD card. To help you organize your files, I recommend putting all of your files into directories that you set up for these specific files. GAMES should be store in your GAMES folder. It makes browsing to them in the menu much simpler, and all your game save files will also be organized.
2. Try to orignize your MP3 files as well as Video files by making a seperate directory for each one of them on the microSD memory card. This is a MUST for anyone that has lots of music, with all of the track names marked TRACK 1.MP3 Music, Track 2.MP3, and others, etc….. You’ll avoid conficts with file names by putting them all in on directory, and because you can name your sub-directory the name of the CD your ripped, you’ll at least know that TRACK-1.mp3 in the ABBA directory is from the ABBA greatest hits album.
3. Save a copy of your game save files on your hard guide once per week or more. Not because they could get corrupted on the microSD card in the R4 DS, but because you may want to go back to an earlier save point later in the game. Moving files on and off the microSD Card is simple. Making sure you keep a backup of your game saves is not. For this reason, I always recommend that you keep a backup of your microSD card files on you desktop in a folder. or a folder somewhere else on you PC. While this one really seems like an obvious hint, you would be surprised to know that most of our technical support emails for the R4 DS deal with how to get back erased or deleted game saves that were not backed up. I suggest you do this at least one or two times at most and even more often if you play your games more.
4. Try not to take out the R4 DS from the NDS each time you want to add files to the microSD Card. The spring in the R4 DS microSD card slot, you can just push and have the card spring out or pop out. You can then quickly place it into the included microSD Card reader / writer in order to change games and files or add music or video.
5. This is my final (and reasonably possibly the most obvious) tip. And it works with the microSD card in your R4 DS Card. When you place the NDS, Nintendo DS lite or Nintendo DSi in your pocket or pick it up. Check to make sure that the microSD card is in the R4 DS card. Make sure that the microSD card is in the card slot of the R4DS and it’s not loose or ready to pop out. It’s very rare for the microSD card to pop outon its own… but that does not mean you should not be careful because it can happen. There would be nothing worse than losing your microSD card somewhere, because it popped out and fell on the impose a curfew. MicroSD Cards are small and tiny, and once lost, you would have a hard time finding it somewhere else apart from at a store, where you’d be buying a new one. If your NDS is in a case you can care for yourself from losing your R4 DS Card. You should make sure to that this is something you do before you even turn it on.
The r4 DS allows you to power up your NDS by allowing you to run homebrew game and applications as well as watch movies, read ebooks, and more. It also allows you to play MP3 music as well as watch movies on your Nintendo DS. In essence, it turns your Nintendo DS into a full fledge hand held multi media console, allowing you to play games, listen to music, watch movies, read e-books and much more. For more information on the R4 DS cards and homebrew games in general, please visit http://www.ps2cover.com/nintendo-ds.shtml