R4 SDHC Card Guidelines

For people with little or no technical knowledge then setting up your R4 SDHC DS Card can be a little tricky and sometimes daunting. Fear not though we have all the information you need to set your DS adapter up. Just follow these easy to use step-by-step instructions and you will have it working in no time.

• STEP 1 - Buy your R4i Card & Memory. If you have not done so already you are going to need to buy your device before you can do anything at all. Obvious I know but if it is the case that you still don't actually have an R4i as yet then we can recommend that you buy one online. You can buy them elsewhere but we have heard good reports about this vendor and their cards all seem to be genuine. If you don't already have a micro sd card hanging around then make sure you buy one of their bundle deals that includes the card as part of the package. If you are unsure what size memory card to get then opt for the 4GB Micro SD bundle as that will leave you plenty of space without being overkill.



• STEP 2 - Check you have everything you need. Its now time to double check that you have everything you need to continue. The checklist is as follows:
  
  
  
  
  
  • R4 SDHC Adapter
  
  
  
  • USB Micro SD Card Reader (If your memory card is greater than 2GB then the reader needs to be SDHC compatible)
  
  
  
  • A Micro SD Memory Card
  
  
  
  • A PC running windows XP or Vista (With the latest updates installed)
  
  
  
  • An active Internet connection
  
  
  
  
  
  



• STEP 3 - Download the R4 SDHC Software. Before you can use your R4 SDHC you first need to download the latest R4 SDHC software. The software is constantly being updated and is therefore not supplied on the R4 SDHC adapter itself. There may also be some sort of legal reason why the adapters are not supplied with the software out of the box. To save you some time we have the latest version of the R4 SDHC software for you to downloadR4 SDHC Operating software (Kernel) (ZIP File)Click the link and choose a location on your PC to save the file to. Remember where you decided to save the file. When the download is finished, find the file on your PC and then right click the file and choose "extract all...". Follow the prompts and choose the default options. When you are finished you should have a folder called R4SDHC and inside that folder you will find the files that you will need in the next step.



• STEP 4 - Setting up your Micro SD Memory Card
  
  
  
  
  
  • Find the Micro SD memory card and remove from its packaging if necessary
  
  
  
  • Insert the Micro SD card into the USB Micro SD Card Reader
  
  
  
  • Insert the Card Reader into a free USB port of your PC/MAC
  
  
  
  • On a PC you should be prompted when you insert the card reader. Choose to open to view files/folders
  
  
  
  • You should now have an empty file window (Unless you have already transferred some files to your micro SD card.)
  
  
  
  • Now go back to your other window where you extracted the downloaded files to. Selected all the files and then press the right mouse button and choose COPY.
  
  
  
  • Go back to the empty folder for your memory card and right click and choose PASTE
  
  
  
  • When done your memory card should look like this:
  
  
  
  • Thats it for now - you can add your files you want to use with the R4i card later on. Click onto your C: on the right panel and then right click on the memory card drive and choose to safely remove the device (If you just unplug the USB reader without doing this you can damage your memory card and lose your files!)
  
  
  
  • Now remove the USB reader from your PC and remove the memory card from the reader. Try not to touch the metal connections.
  
  
  
  
  
  



• STEP 5 - Using your R4 SDHC for the first time. Now we can test out your R4 SDHC card using the memory card that we setup in step 4 above. If you followed exactly what I outlined in step 4 then you will not have any music, video or other files on the card as yet. That's fine because we only need to test that the card works and the menu appears on your Nintendo DS when used. Follow these steps to test out your R4 SDHC Adapter:
  
  
  
  
  
  • Insert the Micro SD memory card into your R4 SDHC adapter
  
  
  
  • Insert the adapter into your Nintendo DS game port (Slot 1)
  
  
  
  • Turn on your Nintendo DS
  
  
  
  • The R4 SDHC software should load automatically and you should be presented with the R4 SDHC screens on your DS
  
  
  
  • The R4 SDHC software should load and it should look something like this:
  
  
  
  
  
  

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