The R4DS

Since there are no posts in this section yet, I figured I might as well post about my R4.

DSLua is NOT playable on this slot 1 cart (yet... should be with 0.7 is finished) but it does have some advantages over others. It uses a micro SD flash card (purchased seperately of course) for storage of system files and homebrew or roms. I only bought a 512 mb card but they're available up to 4 gb and there are good deals out there on 1gb cards. My inexperience with other media may make this sound ignorant, but from what I gather it can be tricky to make some of the other cartridges work due to the need for flashme or passme firmware modifications.

It came with a reader for microSD cards, but mine broke after 2 days. I may have squeezed it a little too tight once, but I replaced it with a multi-card reader from Best Buy and it's all good now.

The other issue, and I've found a few others on maxconsole forums that had the same issue, was a problem getting the microSD card to stay in. It normally pushes in, clicks and stays, then you push again, it clicks and comes out. I'm not sure what happened, but for about 15 minutes one day the spring wouldn't click into place and I couldn't get the card to stay in, it just kept pushing the card back out. After fiddling around a bit it would eventually go in and out of the slot but without the normal spring/click action. A few minutes later I took the card out and put it back in to find it had returned to normal. Needless to say, I've been "dainty" with it ever since. Several users on the same forum (the majority, really) have said they've had no issues with theirs.

If you're interested in the M3 Simply, it's the exact same cart with a different sticker on it.

Hope everyone's found this informative.