The Nintendo DS is considered to be the best-selling game console of all time. When I say game consoles that includes portable and those that are not portable. It outsold such hot devices as the PSP, Xbox or the Gameboy, which is quite an achievement. Several years after its release the device is still going strong. When you use an r4 card on this console you can increase its capabilities and upgrade its capacity to make it even better. You can play even more games in it and use it as a media playing device. This means you can add a whole new dimension to it just by inserting a small card into the device and here is how to do that:

1. Your initial step should be to purchase a good r4 card. You can only do that over the Internet and there are websites that are offering this card for sale. You need to be careful in picking the site from where you will be buying because there are those that offer fake cards and you might just end up wasting your money if you go with them.

2. Chances are that that the card that you have bought might not have the latest firmware in it, so it is better if you download the latest firmware for the card on to your computer first. Do some research to make sure that you are able to get the latest release of the firmware.

3. Connect the card to your computer. What you have to do here is to transfer the firmware that you have downloaded to the card to make sure that it becomes updated. You have got to make sure that the transfer has been done.

4. You can then connect the card to your Nintendo DS. If you did everything correctly when you turn your console on you should get the message confirming if you would like the card to takeover, basically bypassing the regular menu of the DS just go ahead and confirm that and you should be good to go after that.

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