London High Court Makes The R4 R4i Card Illegal In The UK – 28.07.2010

Wednesday 28th July 2010, London High Court has imposed a permanent ban on the R4 and R4i cards that have plagued the gaming industry for years with the widespread abuse of pirated games for the nintendo DS, DSLite, DSi and DSi XL. This ban includes the import, distribution or resale of the R4 or R4i card.

Nintendo has been under huge pressure for many years now to make this cartridge illegal from the software industry who spend millions of dollars a year on production, research and distribution of games, only for them then to find their way on to gamers consoles via the net, and via the R4/R4i card. It has failed to get the ban that the industry has so longed for, but finally Nintendo have suceeded in getting the ban they have wanted for years. No doubt there will be some very pleased people at the head of Nintendo this evening. However there are still many countries that this product isnt yet illegal but we predict it wont be long until there is a worlwide ban on this product.

R4i Card For Nintendo DS, DSLite, DSi, DSi XL

After the sucessful arrival of the Nintendo DS & DSLite, Nintendo have followed suit with the Nintendo DSi and the R4 cards soon followed aptly named the R4i Card. The R4i card is backwards compatible with the DS, DSLite, DSi, and DSi XL.

Following exactly the same possibilities as the R4 cards, the R4i enables you to download photo’s, music, use homebrew applications and games and backup/transfer all your current collection of games onto the MicroSDHC memory card that slots into the R4i card, which is great if you are going away on holiday as it means you dont need to take all the seperate cartridges with you, you simply transfer them onto the MicroSDHC card via the R4i card. Its simple using the USB Card Reader/Writer supplied with the R4i card package.

Specification of the R4i card is as follows:

The NEW R4i card is the latest advance in flash cartridge technology for the Nintendo DSi.

The R4i Card enables your DSi to accept a micro SD memory card – which in turn means on your DS you can now watch movies, play music, browse pictures, download pictures from your hard drive, read e-books and so much more! It is the complete solution with no need to purchase any additional components or any messy software and truly the easiest media enhancer you could ever imagine owning for your DSi console.

Key Features:

- Drag and drop files to the micro SDHC card and play
- Supports HC (high capacity) memory cards up to 32GB
- Supports Wi-Fi, DS rumble pack and DS browser
- Same size as an original DS / DSi game cartridge
- Supports different speeds of micro SD cards
- Standard FAT system support
- Homebrew support , IO lib available on launch
- No battery needed, back up the save file(s) directly into the micro SDHC card directory
- Upgradable Firmware (OS / Bios / Kernel)
- Boot clean dump images (downloadable from internet)
- Built-in PassMe (NO need for any boot cartridge / passcard etc.)
- Uses micro SD/SDHC memory card (TransFlash) as storage
- Supports robust skinning
- Supports touch screen
- Lower power consumption
- Plugs and plays in SLOT-1 without any passcard and supports all version of DS/DSLite

Package Contents:

- 1x R4i Card
- 1x USB micro SDHC memory card reader/writer