R4—most are clones of the DSTTi or Acekard 2i

As such, the information on these webpages is often horribly inaccurate; using the R4i-NDSiLL 3D as an example again, they claim, “With the latest Moonshell 2.0 built in the card, R4SDHC-R4INDSIXL3D delivers a better multimedia experience with higher decoding performance and better picture quality.”, http://www.gold-r4i.co.uk/dstt-dstti-card.html even though the card really uses Moonshell 1.71. Many of these clones use false advertising to try to convince people who are not aware that they aren’t all that they claim to be to buy them. These clones are often sold shortly then replaced with a new clone, so rarely have decent support.

This card is also a prime example of a card that uses a firmware that is really just a binary hack of many other firmwares; it uses a hacked YSmenu and hacked M3 Sakura. The R4 http://www.r4i-ds.de/r4i-gold-karte.html clone’s webpages are often just copies of another clone’s webpage with the name of the card replaced with the “new” clone’s name.

 The original R4 DS had an enormous success in 2007 and 2008; it was by far the most popular card at this time. In mid 2008, the original R4DS Team stopped production. However, many manufacturers are now using the name “R4″ to sell their product, even though very few R4 clones are actually clones of r4i sdhc 3ds http://www.r4i-ds.de/r4i-sdhc-karte.html the R4—most are clones of the DSTTi or Acekard 2i. The firmwares for most of these are usually modified versions of other firmwares from other cards. Firmwares are commonly binary hacks of Moonshell 2 nor YSmenu, and often use hacked AKAIO loaders.

These cards often have poor support, and claim features that in reality they do not have—the “R4i-NDSiLL 3D” is a prime example of this. It claims to have “DSi 1.45 compatibility” even though the most recent version of the DSi’s r4i gold sdhc  firmware is 1.4.1 in North America/Europe/Japan and 1.4.2 in China.Two different versions of R4 DSIt also claims “3DS compatibility” which is also unlikely: little is known of the 3DS and this card will most likely not be compatible with it.