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R4i Gold Plus Installation Guide

September 22nd, 2011 Pauline

 

 

Important:

Please note that not every R4i Gold Plus needs firmware fix!

Please follow the R4i Gold Plus Driver Setup Guide to setup the card first. 

If you get the error message like this :

An error has occured. Press and hold the POWER Button to turn the system off. Please refer to the Nintendo DSi Operations Manual for details.

Please check the firmware version of your DSi or 3DS according to these two steps:

  • Click SETTING (with the Tool Icon) on the main menu
  • Check the right hand corner of the top screen which says VER 1.x.x

Then choose the correspondent firmware fix guide below to upgrade your R4i Gold Plus to be compatible with your DS console. 

Content List:

  1. DS Compatibility
  2. Preparation
    • Hardware
    • Software
  3. Installation
    1. Format a microSD /SDHC Memory Card
    2. Firmware Fix
    3. R4i Gold Plus Driver Setup Guide

DS Compatibility

The following consoles are supported: DS, DS Lite, DSi & DSi XL.

For DSi & DSi XL, the supported firmware versions are: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2 & 1.4.3.

For 3DS, the supported firmware versions are:1.0.0,2.0.0,2.1.0-3, 2.1.0-4, 2.2.0-4, 3.0.0-5 & 3.0.0-6

Preparation (Checklist Before Installation)

Hardware

1 x DS Lite/DSi (XL)
1 x R4i Gold Plus Card (Slot-1)
1 x USB Reader
1 x Micro SD/SDHC Memory Card

Software (Please Click the Driver / Firmware Name for the Latest Download)

 

Firmware for Deluxe Edition v1.2 (Deluxe)
Firmware for Stardard Edition v1.2(Standard)
Driver / Kernel

v1.9(3DS 3.0.0-5)

v1.5
Official Website www.r4ids.com

 

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Installation

Format a Micro SD/SDHC Card

Using Windows XP/Vista/7 Format Tool

After inserting the microSD into the card reader, go to My Computer.
b)  Right click the driver representing the microSD memory card.
c)  Choose Format

 

d)  Click Start to format the memory card in FAT32

 

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Using Panasonic Memory Card Format Software

Note:
If your memory cards have capacity bigger than 32GB, please download the SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards Format Software.
If your memory cards have capacity equal or smaller than 32GB, please download the SD/SDHC Memory Cards Format Software.

Detailed guide is available from the SD Association here. [http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/]

  1. Insert SD/SDHC Memory Card into reader/writer.
  2. Click on [Start], point to [All Programs] -> [Panasonic] -> [SD Formatter VX.X], and click on [SD Formatter VX.X].
    “X.X” means the version number of SD Memory Card Formatting Software.
    If “User Account Control” window is displayed on the screen, please click on [Arrow].
  3. The main window is displayed on the screen.
  4. Select the target drive by drive list and check SD/SDHC Memory Card size.
  5. Click on [Format].
  6. After clicking on it, confirmation window is displayed on the screen. Here, if [OK] is clicked, this software executes the format operation. On the contrary, if [Cancel] is clicked, this software cancels the format operation and returns to the main window.
  7. The following status window is displayed on the screen during the format operation.
    Note: [Cancel] on this window is available only if either “FULL (Erase ON)” or “FULL (Erase OFF)” is selected as format type option. If “QUICK” is selected as format type option, this button is not available.
  8. After the format operation completion, click [OK] and remove the Memory Card from your PC.
  9. Reinsert the memory card to the PC to start using the memory card.

 

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Using Mac Memory Card Format Tool

  1. Plug your memory card reader into a USB port on your Mac. Insert the microSD / microSDHC card into the memory card reader's microSD / microSDHC slot, and the microSD / microSDHC card will mount on your Mac desktop.
  2. In an open Finder window, single-click "Applications" in the Side-Bar and scroll down to find the Utilities folder. Find Disk Utility in the Utilities folder and double-click the "Disk Utility" application to launch it.
  3. In the opened Disk Utility application, single-click to select the microSD / microSDHC card in the left-hand Drives column. Then, single-click to select the "Erase" button in the top row of radio buttons. Select the format MS-DOS (FAT) to format the microSD / microSDHC card on the "Volume Format" pop-up button.  When you have finished selecting the formatting options, click "Erase."
  4. A new dialogue box will pop up in "Disk Utility," asking if you are sure you wish to erase the microSD / microSDHC card. Caution: Erasing the microSD / microSDHC card will permanently erase any files. Make sure you have backed up any file you wish to keep. To continue with the formatting process, click "Erase."
  5. Once the microSD / microSDHC card has been erased, it will mount on your Mac desktop just as any other removable drive.

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R4i Gold Plus card supports the latest firmware 3DS 3.0.0-5 directly

Great news! R4i Gold Plus card supports the latest firmware 3DS 3.0.0-5 and 3DS 3.0.0-6 directly without doing any upgrade. Once the R4i Gold Plus is installed with the latest kernel v1.9, the card will work well on 3DS 3.0.0-5 and 3.0.0-6. Just follow the setup guide  here for the card. 

Firmware Fix for 3DS v2.1.0 & DSi v1.4.3R4i Gold Plus EconomicalEdition

As for R4i Gold Plus Deluxe Edition, you will have three things in total:

  • 1 x R4i GOLD PLUS card
  • 1 x R4i GOLD Firmware Writer
  • 1 x Console Compact Stand

http://www.r4town.com/product_images/uploaded_images/r4i-gold-plus-card.jpg

 

1.       Unzip the files downloaded (using Winrar) on your PC

a.       Winrar can be downloaded from www.download.com by searching for Winrar at the Search.

b.       Unzip the files mentioned under the Software Preparation above, you will get:

v1.2 (Deluxe)

v1.5

UPDATE.bin

 

moonshl2

SYSTEM

r4.DAT

readme.txt

更新说明.txt

2.       Pleasecopy the all the above Sixfiles to the Micro SD /SDHC memory cardroot directory.

3.       Plug in the Micro SD/SDHCmemory cardto the R4i Gold Plus.
 

4.       Insertthe R4i Gold Plusinto the Firmware Writer. 
 

5.       Plug in the Firmware Writer into the USB port of your PC. 
 
 

6.       The LED light on the Firmware Writer will start flashing, meaning that the update is in process. 
 Note: Do not unplug the firmware writer until the LED light stops flashing.Otherwise you will end up with a bricked card.

7.       Please wait for about 30 seconds, when the indicator light keeps lighting on instead of flashing, it means that upgrade is finished.

8.           After the R4i Gold Plushas been successfully flashed, insert itinto the slot 1 of the DSLite/ DSi.You will have the icon like this. Congratulation! Please copy your own data to the memory card and enjoy the ultimate fun brought by R4i Gold Plus.

  

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Firmware Fix for 3DS v2.1.0 & DSi v1.4.3R4i Gold Plus StandardEdition

As for R4i Gold Plus Standard Edition, you will have three things in total:

     1 x R4i GOLD PLUS card

     1 x Console Compact Stand

Important: please make sure that your DSi is fully charged or powered to the wall to ensure the update to go through without interruption. 

 

1.      Unzip the firmware (plus_firmware_softupdate_v1_2 ) and driver (r4i_gold_plus_v1_5) downloaded (using Winrar) on your PC

a.      Winrar can be downloaded from www.download.com by searching for Winrar at the Search.

b.      Unzip the files mentioned under the Software Preparation above, you will have one folder and one file as follows.

v1.5

v1.2(Standard)

moonshl2

SYSTEM

r4.DAT

readme.txt

更新说明.txt

R4iDS_Updater.nds

 

2.      Please Copy these Six unzipped files to the micro SD/SDHC memory card root directory.

3.      Insert the Micro SD/SDHC into the R4i Gold Plus.

4.      Plug the R4i Gold Plus into the slot 1 of the DS Lite / DSi.

5.      Turn on the DS Lite / DSi.

6.      You will see an icon.

  •     If you received the followingicon, congratulations!YourR4i Gold Plushas been flashed to 1.4.3. Please just copy your own data to the memory card and enjoy the ultimate fun brought by R4i Gold Plus.

  •     If it’s another icon, please touch the touch screen or press button A to continue and follow Step 7 to go on the upgrade.

7.      Wait for theR4i Gold Plusto load.

8.      Please choose the Game icon in the following menu.

9.      Click the file “R4Ids_Update.nds”

10.      Please press the button A to start update program.

 

11.      Please leave the DS Lite / DSi alone on a flat areatowait for the progress bar to complete.

12.      When it prompts "Update Successful! “, it means the upgrade is finished. Please restart the DS Lite / DSi.

13.      Please copy your own data to the micro sd memory card and enjoy yourself.

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Setup Guide for R4i Gold Plus

1.       Unzip the files downloaded (using Winrar) on your PC

a.       Winrar can be downloaded from www.download.com by searching for Winrar at the Search.

b.       Unzip the files mentioned under the Software Preparation above, you will get:

 

v1.9

moonshl2

SYSTEM

r4.DAT

readme.txt

更新说明.txt

 

2.       Pleasecopy the all the above fivefiles and your own data to the Micro SD /SDHC memory cardroot directory.

3.       Insert the Micro SD/SDHC into the R4i Gold Plus.

4.       Plug the R4i Gold Plus into the slot 1 of the DS Lite / DSi.

5.       Turn on the DS Lite / DSi.

6.       When you see the icon, please press the button A to continue.

7.       Wait for the R4i Gold Plus to load.

8.       Please choose one of the topics in the following menuto continue.  

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