R4 SDHC card - R4 Revolution

Nintendo DS has seen many SLOT-1 add-ons of which the R4 Revolution is probably the best-selling one. Like all other popular products in the market, the R4 cards have also been facing the problem of fake copies. The Chinese copies of the R4 cards are readily available over online shopping sites like eBay. The low-quality R4 cards are quite cheaper than the original ones. But, it is still not recommended to use them with your Nintendo DS. The cheap R4 cards are created by decoding the firmware of the original R4 Revolution.

The Chinese manufacturers have come up with the duplicate copies of the R4 cards. The top-selling of such duplicate cards include the R4 SDHC card. The R4 SDHC card was developed on the kernel base of the original R4 Revolution card. The card functions exactly similar to the original R4 ds card. The only difference is in the firmware support and updates. Now, to pretend originality of the R4 SDHC card, the low-quality manufacturers have come up with a site identical to the original one and featuring updates and kernels for download. The exactly same look and feature set of the website has helped the sale of the R4 SDHC card.

There are two widely known series of R4 SDHC cards available- the R4i SDHC version and the regular R4 SDHC version. The R4i version is a bit improved version of the 憃riginal?R4 SDHC card. The R4 SDHC card also supports ROM software, Goldfinger editor and similar softwares. The languages supported include English and Chinese. Though the R4 SDHC card is better than the original R4 revolution card, there are certain drawbacks involved. The R4 SDHC users may face more compatibility issues with games, softwares and emulators. Not all of them are guaranteed to work perfectly on the R4 SDHC platform.