R4 3DS CARD SETUP

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 THE THINGS YOU NEED
• R4 3DS Card.

• Your Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS, 2DS

XL System.

• Micro SD Card USB Reader/Writer

(included with each R4 3DS Card)

• Micro SD memory Card. Anything from

4gb - 32gb will work just fine.

• A PC/Mac or Laptop with a USB port.

 DOWNLOAD YOUR FIRMWARE
Each R4 3DS card has its very own distinct firmware kernel. The firmware kernel is the
heart and guts of the R4i Gold 3DS. It is the menu, the loader and the way that you
interact with it. You can download the firmware for each specific card from the
official R4 3DS Firmware downloads page which is at:

https://www.r43ds.org/pages/R4-3DS-Firmware.html

There you will find the firmware for the R4i Gold Pro card shown earlier in the video.
There are firmware files for most R4 cards on the R4 3DS Firmware page.

This setup guide is only for that card specifically. While many of the steps are the same
for other cards as well, the firmware files and folders will be different, depending on
which card you have.
YOU’LL WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE FIRMWARE IN
YOUR PREFERRED LANGUAGE. SEE BELOW
The R4 3DS Card, sometimes called the R4i Gold Pro is one of the very first cards
that worked on the Nintendo 3DS.

Check the package you received and make sure to download the firmware for
your card. You can often take a look at the sticker on the card, and compare it to
the R4 3DS firmware files they have on their firmware page.

 
 Once you have the firmware file, you may need to
download the shareware version of WinRar or 7-zip.
 Both of which will uncompress the archive for you and
put it in a folder on your PC or Mac.

Either will work to decompress / uncompress the

firmware archive for you.
 HERE'S WHERE YOU HAVE TO REALLY BE CAREFUL. 

MOST OF THE TIME WHEN YOU UNCOMPRESS AND ARCHIVE, IT WILL

CREATE A FOLDER THAT HAS THE EXACT SAME NAME AS THE ARCHIVE
ITSELF.  FOR EXAMPLE, IF THE FILE WE HAVE IS CALLED
R4_3DS_FIRMWARE.RAR

BY DEFAULT, MOST OF THE PROGRAMS WILL CREATE A FOLDER CALLED R4 3DS FIRMWARE AND IN
THAT FOLDER WILL BE A DIFFERENT SET OF FILES AND FOLDERS.  

MOST PEOPLE COPY THE FOLDER OVER AS IT IS, AND KEEP ALL OF THE SEPARATE FILES AND
FOLDERS IN THERE AND THEN PUT THE MICRO SD IN TO THEIR R4 AND TRY TO RUN IT.  OFTEN THIS
WILL BRING UP THE LOADING SCREEN, OR THE ? MENU SCREEN - AND SIMPLY WON'T WORK.
 COPY OVER YOUR FIRMWARE FILES.
You need to take each of the files and folders
WITHIN that actual folder, and copy them
over to the root of your micro SD Card.  

By ROOT, we mean the main section of your

micro SD.  No other folder names or files
should be present.  You would just copy over
the firmware files and be up and running.  
The photo on the right shows the folder
structure of what your micro SD card should
look like when you have copied all of the files
and folders over to the micro SD.
These are the files that need to be
In the ROOT of the micro SD Card
This is the R4 3DS Menu as well
As well as the MoonShell media
Player as well.
 HERE IS THE STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO COPY
YOUR FIRMWARE FILES TO THE MICRO SD CARD.
1. Insert your memory card to the card reader that you can get from the Pack R4i 3DS.
 HERE IS THE STEP BY STEP ON HOW TO COPY
YOUR FIRMWARE FILES TO THE MICRO SD CARD.
2. Insert the micro SD Card reader in the USB port on your PC / MAC
 3. FORMAT THE CARD BY RIGHT-CLICKING ON IT AND SELECTING “FORMAT.”

Note: Click on “Start” that you can find at the left corner on the bottom of your screen,
click on “My Computer” and then right-click on the memory card icon.

Select “FAT 32” and get the check mark off the “Quick format” option then click “Start.”
4. Download only the latest version of R4i SDHC
3DS English or the your preferred language pack
firmware kernel that you would like to install.
 5. Unzip the downloaded archive
Do a right-click on it and select “Extract.”

Note: The extraction process needs 7zip, winrar or winzip. You can
download WinZip from www.winzip.com

Expect to find files called

moonmemo,
R4iMenu,
moonshl2,
R4-‘date’_
etc…
6. Select all these items and copy them.
You can select all the files
by clicking and dragging your mouse over the contents of the filder.

Note: do NOT copy the folder that has the same name as the
firmware you downloaded. You have to click into that folder in order
to be able to copy all of the files.
 7. Copy all the files to your memory card.

Note: Right-click on its icon and select “Paste.”

8. Eject the memory card and insert it into the R4 3DS.

Enjoy your new R4 3DS card :)
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