Defective R4?

[Azxster]

Symptom: Stuck at "Loading..." screen

I tried...
- wedge a business card between R4 and game cartridge slot
- wedge a business card between microSD and R4
- full format in FAT and FAT 32 and loaded 1.16
- San Disk and Kingston (512, 1gb)


What is a good replacement card? I will not go with R4 as I searched that a few are having the same symptoms. Will try to avoid TTDS since it has poor QA. So there is SuperCard, CycloDS (quite pricey), Edge, and DS Linker.

[mahdi]

What are the symptoms? Does the DS actually reconize the card?

[Siefer999]

that is similar to what i experienced with my r4. it works perfectly fine with my memory card but i cant use my friends memory card (exact same kingston jap 2gb) that works fine on his r4. it just stays stuck on loading. my mem card works on his though.

we both have r4's bought at the same time with the same memory card with the same firmware loaded in it but his memory card wont work on mine:confused: i tried it 5-6 times and i couldn't get it to work with mine. i plugged my mem card back in mine and it was fine. i have no other booting issues except for with his mem card

[WolffBite]

R4 isn't all its cracked up to be... its just super popular because it was the best at one point in time and everyone bought it. There are far better cards out there right now. I recommend the CycloDS (don't own it, but tried my friends for a few weeks and liked it) even though it is pricey. The card I own is the DSTT and I haven't had a problem with it. Its cheap and fully supports SDHC transflash cards... so I don't know why people sell it short. Cheap =/= bad, at least not for the DSTT.

[Jon Lai]

R4 isn't all its cracked up to be... its just super popular because it was the best at one point in time and everyone bought it. There are far better cards out there right now. I recommend the CycloDS (don't own it, but tried my friends for a few weeks and liked it) even though it is pricey. The card I own is the DSTT and I haven't had a problem with it. Its cheap and fully supports SDHC transflash cards... so I don't know why people sell it short. Cheap =/= bad, at least not for the DSTT.

I think it's because of failure rate. I remember it's something like 20-30% of all DSTTs are defective. This really pissed both suppliers and retailers off when customers came back to them for a refund/exchange.

[langong]

DealExtreme got N5 for $3~ right now - it's a copy of R4 but with it's own firmwares according to the site descriptions