Nintendo DS - R4/Edge Cards - Page 4

southwell · 09-02-2009, 09:38

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Think I am going to go for the Edge card as Aria do that as well, and from review is almost the same as the Cyclo DS but a lot cheaper.

Is it this that you bought? http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=31257

Which memory card did you use?

Thanks

09-02-2009, 10:19

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Not the same in the slightest. These carts are mainly used for home brew games and for turning the ds in to a multimedia device for music and video files.

then you wake up and eat your cornflakes

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Originally Posted by TaiLZ

Well isn't it the same principle as a dodgy cable box? You can use it legally, say freeview or 1-5, but you can also steal channels?

Don't see where the difference is between R4 cards and Chipped Cable Boxes.

you are loosely correct. There is a lot of threads on here that are close to the mark but because we do not talk openly or promote theft of service or copyright we are not in breach of the T&C of this site. Openly talking about stealing cable on a site that is close to VM is the difference.

Quite often someone will warn you about cable theft who is known to some to not be totally clean when it comes to other matters but you have to be careful and you wont break the rules of this forum

**Chris** · 09-02-2009, 10:48

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Originally Posted by TaiLZ

Well isn't it the same principle as a dodgy cable box? You can use it legally, say freeview or 1-5, but you can also steal channels?

Don't see where the difference is between R4 cards and Chipped Cable Boxes.

The difference is simple - an R4 card *might* cause its user to be liable to a claim for unlicenced use of the Nintendo DS hardware itself, or software running via the card, or it *might* cause the user to be liable to a claim of copyright infringement. Either of these are civil issues, not criminal ones.

On the other hand, obtaining cable TV service by deception, such as by using a chipped box, is a specific criminal offence under the Fraud Act 2006 that can result in a fine or in a jail term.

There may indeed be a grey area when it comes to deciding what we will and will not allow discussion of when civil matters such as copyright are at issue. In such cases the team will rule as fairly as we can. However we never tolerate discussion of how to carry out criminal acts.

**Stephen** · 09-02-2009, 11:24

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Originally Posted by southwell

Is it this that you bought? http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/...roductId=31257

Which memory card did you use?

Thanks

I bought this one

http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...d/Product.html

southwell · 09-02-2009, 11:30

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Originally Posted by Stephen

I bought this one

http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4...d/Product.html

Thats great, thanks. Did i link the Edge card you bought?

Thanks

**Stephen** · 09-02-2009, 12:16

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Originally Posted by southwell

Thats great, thanks. Did i link the Edge card you bought?

Thanks

Yep you did. I had it within 48hrs of ordering as well.

southwell · 09-02-2009, 12:28

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Yep you did. I had it within 48hrs of ordering as well.

Excellent, thanks for that.

JMcB · 09-02-2009, 13:41

My r4 cards are to keep kids happy in back of car with movie/music

And it works so well,

10-02-2009, 21:25

http://www.ndstt.com/product.html

southwell · 11-02-2009, 08:46

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Originally Posted by Stephen

Yep you did. I had it within 48hrs of ordering as well.

Well im happy, works perfectly and came within 24 hours.

Iam a bit miffed at their customer service as they got my address wrong and completely missed off the business it was going to, even though i rang them to say it looked wrong and was promised it would be recified, my only godsend was the postie obviously recognised my name so it came straight here.

alinjosh · 16-02-2009, 15:50

hi has anyone had any dealings with www.NintendoDSR4.co.uk or have a contact no,i ordered an r4 card with reader and sd micro card and 2 r4cards from thes company (david rea) i paid Â£43.95 inc Â£11.50 postage item arrived only to find the bag open (not even been sealed)with 2 r4 cards missing i emailed him straight away and told him and he was very concerned and asked for pics of bag which i sent but heard nothing else si i re emailed and he sent a reply saying he had sent 2 more cards out on 2nd feb and still not recieved have emailed him 3 times since and no reply so tried putting in a claim through paypal and they have said not covered and closed the case what do i do now i cant find no contact no for him on site

16-02-2009, 15:53

Oh dear looks like you have been skanked. You can get them cheaper than that at memorybits anyway

alinjosh · 16-02-2009, 16:01

the card with sd card and reader was Â£13.95 and the r4 cards were Â£8.95 each so thought that was cheap

**Stephen** · 16-02-2009, 16:23

Think you've been had mate!

Raistlin · 25-02-2009, 19:39

Word of warning.

I bought 2 of these, one for Mrs-M-to-Be and one for the Mother-in-Law.

Both have been fine, if a little flakey when you start playing with the underlying OS.

However.....

I bought another one recently from memorybits which turned up today. It's marked up 'R4 Upgrade Revolution'.

These now appear to be the only model that memorybits stock, and are being widely reported on the many community forums as being poor quality fakes. My experience suggests that this may well be the case.

Backed up ROMs that work on the other card won't work on this one, the interface is slow and takes ages to load/do anything, and when you choose a function from the menu (playing some media, or launching a game) it quite often just does whatever it wants.

I've ordered one of the Edge cards that Stephen went for earlier in the thread, I certainly won't be ordering R4 cards from memorybits again in a hurry.