cheap and reliable place for r4 ds card

JamesN

Looked around on forums and couldnt find any recent posts regarding this.

Anyone know where the cheapest place is to buy one of these cards? Also needs to be reliable!

amandada

I've found http://www.gizmo24.com to be reliable

underlay_guru

Just remember that using these devices to play downloaded game files is illegal! ....so no links to download sites etc etc

JamesN

yes no illegal download sites please. Cheapest so far is £21.74 incl. Delivery.

lesw

https://www.model-gadget.com have it for £12.95 plus delivery. Have used them a few times now, very reliable.

JamesN

lesw wrote: »

www.model-gadget.com have it for £12.95 plus delivery. Have used them a few times now, very reliable.

looked at some reviews and apparently the service is awful

spakkker

I just used google and got my first one for £12.99 a couple of months ago,delivered.
There are lots of places cheaper than £21.74 -but you don't say if that came with a microSD card or not?
Last ones I bought were £56 for ten, delivered.

JamesN

spakkker wrote: »

I just used google and got my first one for £12.99 a couple of months ago,delivered.
There are lots of places cheaper than £21.74 -but you don't say if that came with a microSD card or not?
Last ones I bought were £56 for ten, delivered.

what site did you get them from?

dont need an SD card, already have one. Used to have ttds but they are poorly made

chuKKy

JamesN wrote: »

Looked around on forums and couldnt find any recent posts regarding this.

Anyone know where the cheapest place is to buy one of these cards? Also needs to be reliable!

Done a bit of reading about these recently across a few forums, here's what I have discovered (can't vouch that this info is 100% accurate):-

R4DS was the original cart in the marketplace and was very highly regarded, however the company that made the R4DS cards were closed down. Other companies sprang into production of clone/fake R4DS cards which you see being sold by lots of online companies today (packaging and product looks identical to the original but lots of reports that they don't work very well!). There will be no software updates for these R4DS cards, in short, you are better buying a similar card by another manufacturer, choose one that provides regular online software updates. CycloDS and AceKard seem to consistantly get very good user reviews. If you are planning on upgrading your Nintendo DS to the DSi in the future, the AceKard DSi card apparently already works in the new machine allowing you to play DS games and homebrew software. Also, go for a cart that supports SDHC Memory cards as the standard SD cards only go up to 2mb in size, whereas the SDHC currently go as high as 16gb which means you could fit much more software on one card.

Hope this helps.

Bettingmad

if you don't mind waiting a couple of weeks try DealExtreme, I have used this site and know of many other people who have also used them. Their prices are also the best I have seen and are in US dollars and are shipped free. http://www.dealextreme.com/products.dx/category.604

leew914

I have bought a number of these recently from Memorybits. Currently at 17.95 + 99p delivery. That is including a 2gb memory card. http://www.memorybits.co.uk/shop/sd-gaming/r4-nintendo-dslite-adapter-plus-2gb-micro-sd-memory-/5941

Lee