FAQ about Nintendo DS R4 card

Here we list some commom problems when playing NDS games with the R4 card,hope it will be useful for you. Question1:How to change the Language setting of R4i? Solution: To change the language to what you prefer, press “X, B” to select the “language” setting button which locates at the top screen (third icon from the top). User also can configure the “language.ini” locate at the R4iMenu folder to configure the preferable language manually.

Question2: How to make game cheating work? Solution: First highlight the NDS ROM you want to apply the cheats to. Second press the B button to go into the cheats options menu and checkmark each cheat you want to enable. Third turn the cheats on for that ROM by clicking the cheat on/off button. Last you’ll notice the wrench icon will be yellow which indicates cheats are on. You have to press “x” or “B” to view the cheats and to turn it on don’t forget to press the save button when the cheat is on the grey key turns gold Gold= ON Gray= OFF Please update the “usrcheat.dat” from the ‐SDHC official web site to support cheat function of new games.

Question3: How to customize or change R4i skin?Solution:You Can download customize skin from the official web site. To create the own customize skins/themes; please refer to the document ” English kernel download instruction” which can be found at the official web site. For the R4i v1.08b onward the kernel will able to support multiple skins, user can install maximum up to 8 skins/themes to the kernel.

Question4: : R4i can’t save the game progress. When restart the DSi, the game starts at the beginning.Solution: The file system of the SD card might be the problem, First copy all the contain of the SD card to the computer for backup, Second reformat the SD card,and for SD card more than 1GB please format to FAT32. Last copy back the backup files to the SD card again

Question5: When start it up with a download game, the game cannot play. Solution: That is due to the anti‐flash card routine of the new games. Download the latest version of the R4i kernel which provides the solution for the game, in the meanwhile temporary can use the patch version of the ROM (if available in the web). Report the name of problem game to the R4i‐SDHC support team..

Question 6: If the games list is pretty large, every time I can only scroll through 4 games, and each has its own icon. It takes a long time to scroll through the list. Is there a way to just view text?Solution: There is a “zoom in/out” icon at the left bottom corner of the bottom/touch screen. Press it to switch to the text view mode. Also you can use the left/right button to scroll the list by page mode, each page contain 4 games.

Question7: Stuck at the “MENU” screen after loading DSi. Solution:This is mainly becasuse no firmware or wrong firmware was installed in the SD card