All about Nintendo DS Card,PS3 and Xbox

Numerous manufacturers have created different versions of R4 cards, called r4i gold clones. Apart from these, few companies come with totally different SLOT-1 flash storage devices for Nintendo gaming consoles. Let us move ahead to compare an R4 card's clone and a new creation.

r4i gold

Firstly, we are talking about the r4i gold card. It is especially designed with a customized firmware, which loads over top of the Nintendo DS and allow the users running unsigned and custom software. The Gold card is said to be a clone of original r4 sdhc card. It supports micros-SD card up to 32GB. Its packaging box has smaller size than that of Supercard DSTWO and acekard 2i. The cart of Gold card has better build quality than that of Ackeard 2i, but worse than Supercard DSTWO.

The Wood firmware has better user interface than official version. In addition to r4i gold card, it helped SCDSS1, M3 and others to be popular across Nintendo users. Wood is quickly responsive like AKAIO. You can get numerous skins for this Wood firmware.

The r4i gold cards are supposed to flash the firmware but it is not updated to be compatible with DSi 1.4. Gold cards often load slowly despite of being a successor to r4 sdhc cards. However, it allows user maintaining games' library only on one cartridge. The inbuilt Moonshell, homebrew media player, plays back video and music files. The R4IDS launched latest v1.3 updates for both first edition and V2 Gold cards.

Like r4i gold, the CycloDS Evolution uses micro-SD cards for storage. The Evolution cards come with micro-SD USB Reader to transfer games, files, and homebrew software. Its user interface is exclusively designed to be user friendly and works quite well with the stylus. What's more? The user interface is multi-lingual and supports Portuguese, Latin American Spanish, Spanish, Korean, Italian, German, French, and English.