R4 SDHC For Nintendo DS, DS Lite

The R4 SDHC card was the first card ever to accept memory greater than 2GB. It could accept higher high capacity (HC) memory cards, hence the name R4 SDHC. It is now an established norm that cards accept high memory capacities, but the R4 SDHC was the card that started the trend. At the time, 8GB Micro-SDHC cards were just beginning to emerge on the market and the amount of users that flooded to the R4 SDHC to take advantage of this made it a real contender for the fastest selling DS card at the time, alongside the original R4 DS and the DSTT card. The only obvious downside to the R4 SDHC card was that because of the increased memory capacity, loading times on the card were approximately 6 to 8 seconds, much slower than the 2 to 3 seconds often seen on the R4 DS and the DSTT.

The newest R4 SDHC by www.r4i-sdhc.com is a very welcome one indeed. With so many newer Nintendo DSi and DSi XL compatible cards coming out, support for many of the older, regular DS cards has declined or even ceased to exist. For example, the EZFlash IV, R4 DS and the DSTT all no longer have software updates being released for them. With these reasons in mind, the new R4 SDHC card is a great reminder that the R4 SDHC team want to capitalise on this and secure the DS / DS Lite market amongst consumers who have yet to buy (or are not considering) the Nintendo DSi.