R4 DS Cartridge for DS Lite ,€24 Delivered

MisterAnarchy

Great price on a R4 DS at DealExtreme.
Approx €24 for the R4 or €34 for the Cart ,1Gb combo.
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1202
Delivery is free and is sent by registered post from Hong Kong.
I received 2 earlier on this week and they are the real deal.

Enemy Of Fate

Does this give me everything I need to play DS roms on my Lite?Or do I have to buy something else as well?Thanks for the heads up anyways.

MisterAnarchy

Enemy Of Fate wrote:

Does this give me everything I need to play DS roms on my Lite?Or do I have to buy something else as well?Thanks for the heads up anyways.

All you need is the R4 and a micro sd card .

Enemy Of Fate

MisterAnarchy wrote:

All you need is the R4 and a micro sd card .

So if I got the 1Gb combo you mentioned (the €34 one) i'm all set?I just plug and play?If so thats fantastic!Thanks.

MisterAnarchy

Enemy Of Fate wrote:

So if I got the 1Gb combo you mentioned (the €34 one) i'm all set?I just plug and play?If so thats fantastic!Thanks.

Yes that is correct.:D
Review here
http://scorpei.com/R4DS.html
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=41279 - R4 DS review

savemejebus

cheers for the heads up on this, may be an interesting acquisition

Enemy Of Fate

Jesus this sounds kick ass.I'm definitely picking one up.....and I don't even have a DS yet (am planning on picking one up in America when i'm on holidays there in July).Thanks very much.

mcgovern

Thanks, just ordered one as well!

patch

Would this work on a mates old chunky DS?
Fantasic price on this, I spent at least 100 last year for a similar setup.

konline

Thanks MisterAnarchy, nice find.
Just ordered one. They have lot of other good deals as well.

Thanks again.

MisterAnarchy

patch wrote:

Would this work on a mates old chunky DS?
Fantasic price on this, I spent at least 100 last year for a similar setup.

I believe it supports all versions of DS.

Dermo

my friends and i just ordered 4 of these

nice fine

alastair_doom

edit: sorry, never mind

Qwertyboy

alastair_doom wrote:

Anyone got any experience with the company?

AFAIK ordering an R4DS is as safe off dealextreme as it could possibly be.
On the forums on the website though there were some complaints about MP3 players not being the same colour and actually trying to install a virus on a PC!

I order an R4 on Thurs so it should be here in 3-4 working days

o1s1n

Excellent find! Just ordered three.

Qwertyboy

o1s1n wrote:

Excellent find! Just ordered three.

Dont mean to be cheeky but why 3? To sell on?

alastair_doom

Qwertyboy wrote:

AFAIK ordering an R4DS is as safe off dealextreme as it could possibly be.
On the forums on the website though there were some complaints about MP3 players not being the same colour and actually trying to install a virus on a PC!

Yeah, i am actually encourage by all the negative feedback the leave on their site

I was looking at the mini helicopters they were selling before, and there were pages upon pages of people saying they didnt work, and a moderator for the site giving advice on things to try to fix the problems. In fairness tho, thats the product they're selling. With the m3's they have i'd expect no problems.

Have an M3 myself, and the build quality is excellent, and never had any trouble with it.

o1s1n

Qwertyboy wrote:

Dont mean to be cheeky but why 3? To sell on?

One for myself and one for each of my sisters. Would have bought a 4th for my girlfriend too but she hasn't got a ds yet.

And to think I was nearly going to buy a DS-X 16Gb for $130! :eek:

Kristok

Just ordered this hopefully site is ok nearly got one on ebay for 50 euro the other day happy i didnt now.

Placebo

how long is delivery?

Qwertyboy

Its usually 2 weeks ( free shipping) or you can upgrade to 5 days for about a tenner i think

MisterAnarchy

Qwertyboy wrote:

Its usually 2 weeks ( free shipping) or you can upgrade to 5 days for about a tenner i think

Yip thats about right.

Donza

This sounds awesome device for this price. Just ordered one for my DS with bundled 1GB memory.

mcgovern

Anybody get their's yet or hear anything? I haven't even gotten a confirmation mail and re-sending my password doesn't send me a mail....

[Edit]I gave them the wrong e-mail address. It only left Hong Kong on Wednesday, very slow to send it.... and you can't track it further than that.[/Edit]

Tusky

How do you put the roms on the sd card ?

mad m

Tusky wrote:

How do you put the roms on the sd card ?

Drag and drop afaik...

Ronan|Raven

Put them on the root directory of your card. Mine arrived yesterday, paid the extra 10 dollah for EMS postage. Only took 5 days for the shipping.

Tusky

mad m wrote:

Drag and drop afaik...

How does the sd card connect to the pc though ?

Enemy Of Fate

Damn.Mine still hasn't arrived.I know I went for the chip shipping, but still.

Vokes

Tusky wrote:

How does the sd card connect to the pc though ?

I'm thinking theres some sort of SD adaptor involved? Can any one else elaborate on this - this looks like a great deal



EDIT: Okay, i checked out the usage instructions further down. There appears to be an adaptor + card reader. I guess these are used for grabbing the files ?

Mr E

You get a tiny USB SD Card reader with it (like a little USB memory stick with a slot at the end for the microSD).

Check out the package screenshots in the link at the top of this thread.

Vokes

Nice one.

Hows the DS for playing videos and such? Do they tobe encoded a certain way?

ezdmanx

Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered one.

alastair_doom

SofaKing wrote:

Nice one.

Hows the DS for playing videos and such? Do they tobe encoded a certain way?

this is the homebrew app used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshell

DPG files only supported for video, and the converter supplied is pretty terrible. Tried it once (unsucessfully) and never went back. Havent heard good things about quality either.

Beecher

Just got mine, works very very very well

Ronan|Raven

Mine just broke ;( Where you insert the sd card, the eject mechanism has become borked. No doubht have to post it back for replacement. May just order another one.

o1s1n

alastair_doom wrote:

this is the homebrew app used:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonshell

DPG files only supported for video, and the converter supplied is pretty terrible. Tried it once (unsucessfully) and never went back. Havent heard good things about quality either.

Just got my four cards today. All work perfectly. Extremely easy to use. The DPG file converter works fine too. So far I've converted three videos and they've all played. The compression is quite good. Managed to get a 700mb film down to 350mb.

o1s1n

Ronan|Raven wrote:

Mine just broke ;( Where you insert the sd card, the eject mechanism has become borked. No doubht have to post it back for replacement. May just order another one.

The spring could have come away. Probably just has to be reseated. Unscrew the back and take a look.

abelard

To those who got theirs today; when did they ship? Just trying to get an idea of when mine will arrive.

Vokes

Thanks for the feedback alastair_doom and o1s1n.

abelard wrote:

To those who got theirs today; when did they ship? Just trying to get an idea of when mine will arrive.

Haven't got mine yet but I ordered it 2 nights ago and its since gone through Awaiting Supplier and Packing stages and is now Shipped. Hoping to have it mid-next week with EMS shipping.

mcgovern

Got mine yesterday, ordered on the 5th, left HK on the 18th.

abelard

mcgovern wrote:

Got mine yesterday, ordered on the 5th, left HK on the 18th.

Thanks for that, should hopefully get mine Friday/Monday so.

Matches

Ordered mine this morning, anyone recommend a good site for the roms?

Mr E

Oooh, bad question.... you won't get an answer here, Matches! (Not allowed)

Enemy Of Fate

Hurrah!Mine arrived today.Now to get and get a DS Lite and see if it actually works!

Helix

mine arrived today, lookin forward to goin home to rainbow islands it up

Helix

Matches wrote:

Ordered mine this morning, anyone recommend a good site for the roms?

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Ruu_Old

Very smart, so smart that you'll get banned for trying anything like that again, Helix.

Helix

lol fair enough

Enemy Of Fate

Hurray!Mine finally arrived and it works great, now all I need is my own DS!!

mad m

Got mine today,perfect!