RE: Fake R4

Following from cjdogger post about fake R4's, does anyone have any other pictures for examples of fakes,


I dont know if mine is fake or not, it is a NDSL R4 it says "new edition" in the top right.

it apparently also supports 4gb sdhc cards.


Is this a fake? and will it harm my ds, because I've had it for a month now and every game has worked, no trouble.

Thanks and leave your thoughts.


Ps And it was bought of Amazon.co.uk

 

Yeah it's fake. I have one exactly like it. Fortunately, it's worked fine for me for a few months too, and it hasn't done damage to my DS, so you should be fine.

 

Yeah, I edited my post. But, to be honest, I think the whole "fake R4 will brick your DS" is nothing more than scaremongering.

Feel free to prove me wrong. ;D

 

I'm talking about the R4 SDHC, which as far as i know, hasn't bricked any.

 

By bricking, i assume it means to destroy your Ds software, making it useless and a brick?

 

Bricking could also mean screwing up the firmware of the DS, making it unable to turn on. Or perhaps it could turn on but not do anything.

 

One sure fire sign it's a fake is that it supports SDHC, any legitimate revision of the R4 won't, and considering they don't seem to be doing anything these days the R4 team probably won't ever end up making a version of the R4 that does support it.

Not totally true, the early DSes could be firmware bricked.

 

Thanks for all your posts and information, i am ordering a new R4 for my girlfriends brother so i willl avoid this one.

 

Bricking can mean that the actual firmware of the DS is f'ed up and can't work, making it useless. Returning it to Nintendo with no real reason is pretty suspicious.