The R4DS is a new technology for the Nintendo DS gaming machine. By far, the Nintendo DS was a gaming console. You could play games only in the Nintendo DS. Due to the development of the R4DS technology, the Nintendo DS has become a portable media center. The invention of the R4DS is really a revolution for the Nintendo DS. You can play games in the Nintendo DS using wi-fi technology, as well as you can watch movies on it, play the music of your choice, and see the photos. All the things can be done in a single device and is cheaper than other options such as Digital camera, PDA, Mobile Phone, etc. This is probably reason for the increasing popularity of the R4DS system.

If you are new to the Nintendo DS gaming console technology and want to know more about it, you can find a lot of information about it here in this article. You will learn from this article how the R4DS card can be setup and run on the Nintendo DS console. It is a just five step process to make your R4DS system running on the Nintendo DS console.

Step1: Downloading the software:

You can download the latest version of the firmware for the R4DS from the R4DS.cn website. Save the software in your computer somewhere.

Now it is the time to format the SD card that comes with the R4DS kit. The SD card is a storage device which you can use to store the games of your choice and movies, videos and photos. You need to insert the SD card in the card reader than simply format it using the FAT32 file system.

Step2: Transferring the Data

The next step is to store the files that came from the download of the firmware software. You need to just drag and drop the files from your computer folder to the SD card folder. This will copy all the necessary files to your card and then make your card available to run on the Nintendo DS game console.

Stpe3: Running the card on the Nintendo DS

After the second step, your card is ready to run on the Nintendo DS. To insert the card into the Nintendo DS, you need to first insert the card in the R4DS cartridge and insert the cartridge to the slot 1 of the Nintendo DS game console.

Step 4: Play on the Nintendo DS

After inserting the R4DS cartridge in the slot1, turn the Nintendo DS on, for the first time, it will show a ?loading? message on the screen. After that, you can play the game of your choice in the Nintendo DS.

Step5: Check for the proper installation

If there is not a ?loading? message on the screen, or the ?loading? message takes a long time to be disappeared, the situation is not good. You need to check the card for the proper file transfer in the step2. If all the files are there and still there is no operation in the Nintendo DS, you must seek a help from some one who have experience in gaming with Nintendo using the R4DS technology.