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• Evaluation of Christmas Limited Edition R4iSDHC Flash Card

  New year is approaching, farewell to 2009. Merry Christmas first, do you have your Christmas present already?

  Red hot R4iSDHC flash card would like to act like a Santa Clause to celebrate. Newly packed R4iSDHC Christmas Limited Edition changed its former style, put on a magnificent Christmas clothes

  Four kinds of Christmas version released, they are NDS/NDSL gold, NDS gold, NDS/NDSL red and NDS red

  

  ▲Splendid wall made by R4 flash card packs

  

  It was said that only 20,000 Christmas version released, none will be left for you if you are late

  

   

  Will you consider it as a candy box if you are not told that it is a R4 packaging?

  

  Therefore, we have to be grateful to the great contribution of the manufacturer as they turned such special products to good presents

  

  

  ▲The design of the packaging is ingenious, put several sides together and you will see a classical image: Santa Clause is coming in his sleigh

  

  Unpack it and we can see the flash card:

  

  Ingenious design makes the flash card and Micro SD card reader well placed

  

  Flash card is fixed on the top of the box while card reader at the bottom

  

  The word Limited on the flash card is challenging our endurance

  

  All right, let us start the evaluation. Newly released NDSI LL was selected

  

  

  Main interface of R4iSDHC system is still a familiar style of R4, Game, Multi-Medias and Settings options are shown at the bottom screen. But this time we got the capacity and format of the Micro SD card on the right lower corner of the top screen

  

  ▲Christmas skin for R4 gold version

  

  ▲Christmas skin for R4 red version

  Kernel download and official information on official website：www.r4Isdhc.com

  Game functions

  Choose Game option. Half dynamic desktop was used here for R4iSDHC document list, so the icon of the game or document can be moved on screen. Special tips are on top screen, and pay attention that R button is the shortcut key to return to main menu

  

  Press B button (Page down) and X button (Page up) to switch the settings for current file.

  (1) Game file information: to show the name, manufacturer, upgrade date and code of the game on the top screen.

  (2)Game cheat setting: list the cheat code on the bottom screen, clear and easy to operate

  

  ▲Game files information (Left) and Cheat Setting (Right)

  (3) Muti-groups save copy function: 5 copy save slots available, showing save date for each file

  (4) Game running mode: cheat on and off, DMA mode (turn on the acceleration of the game , some games have to be turn off however) and soft run function.(Press L+R+A+B+X+Y to return to the flash card menu)

  

  ▲Multi-group save copy function (Left) and game running mode (Right)

  Flash card setting

  Choose the 3rd option of the main menu to change skin, language, sound effect, sleep time and power switch

  

  Skin change function is widely used, we recommend you to choose the random mode on the right corner, it’s luxurious to have such magnificent desktops

  

  

  ▲One of the skins: Mario theme

  Language change, choose corresponding option to switch

  

  Multimedia function

  MOON SHELL 2.0 version used here for TXT, pictures, music and movies

  

  Sleep mode will be on if no operation for a while. Screen protect mode is automatically choosen. It is a good idea to take it as a clock

  

  ▲Screen protect setting on bottom screen when entering this mode

  Image show function, preview the image on top screen while see part of it on bottom screen

  

  TXT reading function. WORD files can be opened, but error code showed。

  

  Music function, MP3,OGG and AAC music are available. You can read TXT while listening to music

  

  Vedio play function, only DPG is available

  

  Press START button to choose menu, you can return to the main interface by choosing corresponding options

  

  Summary

  As one of the most outstanding R4 flash card, R4iSDHC has good compatibility and cheat recognizing ability, available for new games (Some new games require decode patch of course). It also has a quite good compatibility for pretty old games and localized games. Games like Daigasso Band Brothers DX and Wario Ware: Made by Me which have strange saving type (Bigger than 8M) is also available. The game speed is satisfied, some speedy killer game such as Castlevania runs well. Scene animation plays smoothly

  Summary

  R4iSDHC light my eyes at first sight. Excellent pack design cast so-called Global Limited Edtion into the shade. As I know former limited products only limited the output to rise the added value, making the product worthy to collect. This R4 flash card we evaluated shows the manufacturer’s ingenious design simultaneously, so I call it veritable limited version. Although some high-end function such as real time saving is not available, but it’s well-known by its stability, cost-effective, good performance. Christmas is approaching, I believe those who want to purchase NDS or change their flash card have their own target. Just imagine: Santa Clause entering your house and put R4iSDHC into your socks

  More information about R4iSDHC please visit our official website：www.r4Isdhc.com