R4 DS Revolution for Nintendo DS and DS Lite

The R4 DS Cartridge is the current top-of-the-line in DS SLOT-1 flash cards. It is just an amazing little device like original DS card size, it is a complete solution with no need to purchase any additional components or deal with any messy software and truly the easiest media enhancer you have ever done; To simply put it, this is a must have peripheral for any regular DS/DS lite owner.

The R4 Revolution is simply a micro sd card that fits into a Nintendo DS system game cartridge. The micro sd card holds the DS games which can be downloaded from the Internet.

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Micro SD Card

This R4 Revolution micro SD card system allows you to simply drag and drop your DS games onto SD micro card using your computer just like a ordinary USB memory stick.

It's so easy to use anybody could do it. Micro SD cards are cheap enough these days and finding downloadable DS game web sites is easy too.

You can pick up a micro sd disk from 1Gb up to 4Gb like the one pictured here.

Alternative Micro SD Disk Adapter

You will some sort of Micro SD Disk adapter like this USB version to connect to your computer. The micro SD card slots in the end on the adapter easily. There are also other types of adapter mentioned in other pages of this website.

Download Nintendo DS ROM Games

To find download websites for your Nintendo DS simply use a keyword phrase like "download nintendo ds rom" Copy and paste them into your favourite search engine and away you go.

IMPORTANT NOTE - To download NDS ROMS from NDS ROM websites you need something like eMule (peer to peer (P2P) file sharing application), that works with the eDonkey network and has more features than the official eDonkey client. eMule is open source software released under the GNU General Public License. Runs on Microsoft Windows. For Linux client use xMule, and / or multiplatform client, aMule.

Here is one NDS ROM website to get you going: - Nintendo DS Roms.

The rest is up to you.

R4 DS File System

The file system setup on the micro SD card is very simple. You just need a couple of system operating files and rest are simply the games.

The file system consists of 2 main files:

• _DS_MENU.DAT
• _DS_MSHL.NDS

And thats it, the rest are the games with the file extension of .nds It's a simple as that. You can have a full file structure with directories but it will work with just these 2 files and the games. All files are included on the R4 mini CD.

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