Just bought r4 card it is side loading one i have already is top loading and works fine but software on it does not work with side loading where do i find software please

I spent hours on this one and finally worked it out. I have four kids and the ordeal started when I ordered two R4 cards and they turned out to be different, so I found out lots.

Odds are, you have bought a clone R4 card, not the genuine thing. If it is genuine, you can download the latest software from www.r4ds.cn. If that doesn't work, you more than likely have a clone.

The genuine R4 card uses encrypted software, so you will never get it to work with the genunine download. Just a well all the clone manufacturers have clone sites with clone software, the trick is to know which one you have and what can work. Here is what I discovered.

Turn the R$ card over and look at green printed circuit board just above the electronic contacts. You may see some white printing.
One of my cards says "R4-SDHC". This means that the R4 card can take a high capacity SD card. There are any number of versions of the software available, try www.r4sdhc.com. At the time this was written, version 1.32 worked just fine for my card.

The other card says "ROHS CARD-7A". This is not a high capacity card and no software will work with an SD card with higher than 2GB memory. So if you are trying with a 4GB card, like I was, it won't work. For this one, I switched to a 2GB Micro SD card and downloaded "r4team v 1.19" from www.linfoxdomain.com and it worked fine.

If the above software downloads don't work, there are a stack available on www.linfoxdomain.com under the Nintendo DS tab, so go with trial and error, and you should eventually get there. Note that It took a few goes with the first card before I found v 1.32 and got there.

So good luck, I feel like I know so much more now.

hi, i had this prolem with r4 sdhc card red menu when i put on r4 card software on ds lite. solution put on r41 software works fine now , hope this helps

Hey there Colin,

The original R4 card only works with Micro-SD cards up to 2GB in size. To use Micro-SD cards up to 32GB, you need to buy the newer R4 SDHC card or a Nintendo DSi comaptible card. Check out R4 Cards / R4 DS Cards from DSCardWorld.com or NDS-Gear.com (NDS-Gear is probably better if you live in Europe or Canada as their shipping's slightly better internationally).

Good luck!

Try re-loading the frimware on the SD card or loading a newer version. I have found that some firmware does not work on some R4 cards. Has this R4 ever worked? Also inspect the R4 for damage, my nephews R4 wasn't working and the problem was a bite mark on the unit

Download the R4 software,
Format the sd card, (copy any games and save files to your computer as a backup)
Copy the R4 software onto the sd card ,

should work fine i did this 3 days ago

r4 dosent work for dsi

Did you purchase cards that already had software needed to make games work, if not you have to download it which is free. type into google the type of supercard you have and there should be a site for the card that you can download the files you need. Without files/software put onto your card, it won't work.

u have to download the kernel from the website your r4 has

thats weird...
try taking the r4 out and then back in.
if it doesnt work, try takingthe microsd card out and back in. do this a few times.

I don't have a solution but I have the exact same issue. On my co-workers DS my R4 works like a champ on my daughters R4 it gets stuck @ loading.