Nintendo DSi card

What is DSi Card

DSi card is a slot-1 flashcard for Nintendo DSi, DSiLL and DSiXL. It is a good engine for games and multi-medias. Different with DS card, DSi card offers very good compatibility. It supports a MicroSDHC card (up to 32GB) to play games, listen music, watch music, E-book and so on. Except the original DSi card from Nintendo, there are also many other R4 cards for DSi in the market. All these DSi cards are compatible with DSiLL, DSiXL, DSi, DS and DS lite console.

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DSi card overview

There are many DSi cards in the market currently. Such as Acekard 2i from acekard.cc, Supercard Dstwo from supercard.com, M3i zero from M3adapter.com, DSTTi from ndstt.com, R4i SDHC card from r4i-sdhc.com, R4i Gold from r4ids.cn, R4itt from r4itt.net, R4i Gold V2.0 from r4ids.com and so many other R4i series flashcards. All these flashcard are same size as original DSi card, and run well in Nintendo DSi console. Within them, Acekard 2i, R4i SDHC and R4i Gold card are most famous. However, Acekard is little more expensive, and it update software not very fast. If you want to buy a high quality DSi card with low price, and enjoy most of the new Nintendo games, you can choose the R4i sdhc or R4i Gold card.

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DSi card V1.4 version for Nintendo DSi V1.4 firmware

Nintendo updated DSi firmware to V1.4 version on 2008, which allows users to post photos on social networking websites. As a result of this firmware upgrade, a lot of DSi cards stopped working. Some of the excellent manufactured cards were able to be upgraded using a firmware upgrade of their own, but many other cards simply could not work on DSi consoles after the upgrade. The DSi cards which broke Ninendo DSi V1.4 firmware were called DSi V1.4 card.
DSi card V1.4.1 version for Nintendo DSi V1.4.1 firmware

Another update of DSi firmware is on Sep,2009. Nintendo upgraded firmware to DSi V1.4.1 version, and halt all DSi cards. How ever, within 1 week, r4i-sdhc.com released new r4i-sdhc V1.4.1 card, and it successfully run on DSi V1.4.1. Few days later, more and more DSi cards broke DSi V1.4.1 firmware. Some other flashcards, which can’t run on DSi V1.4.1 disappeared in the market. Now, almost all DSi cards you can see, is the DSi card V1.4.1 version.
DSi card V1.4.2 version for Nintendo DSi V1.4.2 firmware

The latest update for Nintendo DSi firmware is on May 7th, 2010. Nintendo released DSi V1.4.2, and halt most DSi Cards except Cyclo iEvo. But this limitation only last 4 days. R4idsn 3DS card from r4idsn.com successfully broke DSi V1.4.2 on May 11th. And few days later, many other DSi cards were upgraded to V1.4.2 version. Now, the DSi cards which support Nintendo DSi V1.4.2 firmware contain: R4idsn 3DS, R4i Gold V1.4.2, R4i Gold 3DS, R4i-SDHC V1.4.2, R4i-SDHC 3DS, R4iTT V1.4.2, R4iTT 3DS, R4i-Gold V1.4.2, R4i-Gold 3DS, Acekard 2i, Supercard DStwo, M3i Zero. We belive, more and more DSi card will support Nintendo DSi V1.4.2 later.

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