r4 card not working??

[premier35]

Hi, I'm new to this so sorry if I sound dumb! My sons micro sd card got broken in half so I ordered a new 4gb one. It came today, I've download the firmware kernal and tried to put a game on it and the ds is just freezing saying 'loading'. Any ideas what is wrong? Is it the ds itself or the card, or something I haven't done right?

[dragonwales]

Neither you just have not downloaded the correct firmware. I had the same problem but managed to resolve it.

You need to establish which R4 card have you got. I thought I had the real R4 card but mine said "R4 Upgrade Revolution etc" This is in fact a clone and a copy !! So need a slightly differently firmware. Once I established that mine R4 clone worked fine on the DS.

[huayun]

the clone and copy r4 cards are not very good, but some of them can use very well and it's cheap.
i am going to buy a clone one, somebody told me that clone is ok.
but i don't know why your r4 card could not be used. maybe you have downloaded a wrong firmware kernal.