R4 message 'Not support adapter?' please help

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  1. kizzie

    kizzie Member

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    Hi,

    I am a newbie and I am not really sure what I should be doing to download games onto R4.

    I have download tew new version of software and have the 4 files on my card in the root and I have just added a file ending .NDS direct into the root but when I touch the Game icon on the screen I am then tken to a menu that says four files one is my nds game file one is Ds_menu.dat, one id ds_menu.sys and other is ds_mshl.nds. When I try to select the game (or any of the others) I get the message Not suport adapter?

    Can anybody help me?

    Thanks
    Very much
    Kerry
     
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    The R4 firmware contains 4 files: system_ (folder); moonshl (folder); _DS_MENU.DAT; and _DS_MSHL.NDS. Drag all these to the root directory of your micro-SD card, so altogether you should have 5 files including the game. For easy ROM management, create a new folder on your root directory and name it whatever you like. Drop the ROMs in this folder.
     
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  3. kizzie

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    Hi,

    I have just put the card into US@B and checked on the computer and I have those 4 you mentioned plus my game all in the root ot in other files. Two of thoses files are folders with other files in as that correct? But yes there are 5 files svae in the root of the disc.

    Any more advice would be really welcome...

    thanks



     
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    pryme_H Regular member

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    What brand of micro-SD card are you using? Also, R4 doesn't support SDHC, anything more than 2GB.
     
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    it is a 2gb scan disc that was purchased with the r4
     
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    pryme_H Regular member

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    Where did you download the firmware from? Is it v.1.14?
     
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    might help if I spelt it right - its a 2GB sandisk.
     
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    I downloaded it from www.r4ds.com and is version 1.15
     
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    Did you open the folder (English v1.15) of the R4 firmware? You need to open the folder, instead of just dragging the whole folder to the root directory.
     
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    yes I did open that folder and than drap the 4 folder/files from that onto the root - I dont get it I am sure I have done everything right - guess I should maybe try another downloaded nds file
     
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    ive replied to your private message , what you was doing is a very easy mistake , you was just pressing the wrong icon and starting moonshell media player ( only for music and video ) which dosent play games !

    on the r4ds menu you have 3 icons as follows -

    first icon is for playing nds games

    second icon is for monshell media player ( music and video )

    third icon is for booting to slot 2 for playing gba games ( gameboy advance )

    hope ive cleared that up for you , woof811.
     
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    You are doing everything correctly. See above message by Woof.
     
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    i suppose it can be an easy mistake for anyone new to the r4ds as when you boot up the r4ds it does say game under the middle icon and i can see how that would confuse newbies .

    woof811.
     
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  14. kizzie

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    Typical, I do the more complicated suff correct then choose the wrong icon, how blonde am I?

    Anyway thanks to all of you who replyed it was very much appreciated now I am well away.

    Kerry
     
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    no probs glad your sorted .
     
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