The Nintendo DS gaming console is very popular gaming device all over the world. The new technology in the DS is known as the R4DS means revolution for DS. The DS gaming terminal has a long history. There are two types of devices that can be attached to the DS known as the slot1 devices and slot2 devices. You could only play games with DS until the latest technology has come into existence. The R4DS is the latest technology available in the market and has got very much popularity.

The R4DS technology enables you to connect the SD card in the Nintendo DS system. You can store your games into the SD card. The SD cards come in variety of memory capacity and prices. It provides you the flash memory that you can use as storage of the games of your choice. The problem of change of the cartridge is now solved with the development of the R4DS system. Once you have setup the R4DS with your Nintendo gaming console, you will never again need to change the cartridge. Using the SD card to store the games is the main reason to this. You probably keep the R4DS all times in the Nintendo system and just move the SD card to transfer the files from your computer to the Gaming console.

Using R4DS technology, you can store the games of your choice in a SD card as well as the mp3 files, music, videos, photos, and homebrew games. Because of the R4DS technology, the Nintendo gaming console has become a portable media center providing you entertainment in the form of videos, music and photos. The other popular home brew games are now talk of the town. The homebrew games are similar to flash games and can be easily available for free in the internet.

The piracy in the usage of the Nintendo gaming console is increased due to easy use of the R4DS and easy availability of the games to be downloaded in the SD card. The persons who does the piracy, once gets the files of the illegal game in the computer than they transfer them in the Nintendo console. The Nintendo company was about to stop the selling of the R4DS due to the increase in the piracy of games. They had made the device for the legal use and the piracy makes the device available for the pirated and games.

Another point to consider is the piracy of the R4DS cartridge itself. The R4DS cards are available in pirated version by many illegal distributors. There are many people who loose their computer in a short circuit. It is necessary for you to overlook some trusted web sites if you are about to buy the R4DS for the fist time or after an accident with the old pirated one. There are a lot of web sites offering the R4DS sales. You must look for the website which has a store near to you and offering legal sales of the R4DS system.