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We have some pretty urgent news for anyone who owns or is planning on purchasing an R4 Flashcart for your DS or DS Lite. What the R4 team is basically saying is that they do not want people to purchase fake R4 cards from other manufacturers.

In a move to fight other factories from replicating their flashcart without permission the R4 Team will release a new firmware to combat the situation. Cloning happens a lot in the scene as factories either steal the design or the unit is reproduced using cheap parts. Most cloning is done by a few companies including Divineo and in that companies instance the clones are promoted on sites Divineo owns such as Maxconsole.com.

The news you need to know:

1. After 15 September, Team R4 will do something for the fake card, original program(firmware) with Fake R4 may damage your DS machine (brick), original R4 will have no problem with this program.

2. Make sure you have buy a original R4 (see photo below), if you brick your DS with fake R4, please go ask the selling shop and Team R4 will not admitted this liability.

How do you know is you have a fake R4 Flashcart? Use the attached photo to verify if your card is real or fake. In the meantime, make sure if you purchase an R4 cart, it is real. The R4 team plans to assume to responsibility for any damage to your DS. Our advice: Be careful, and make sure your cart is real before upgrading to a newer firmware!

Thanks to Grav3Mind for the tip

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