AboutOctane Expertise I can Answer Video Game Compatability Problems (PAL, NTSC, JAP) for Atari 2600, 5200, NES, Super Nintendo/SFC, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy, GBA, DS, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genisis, Game Gear, Mega CD, Nomad, Saturn, Dreamcast, Lynx, Jagura, Philips CDI, 3DO, Playstation, PS2, PSP and Xbox. Plus Ways around them to play wrong regions games on most consoles.
I also have an extensive knowledge of service and repair with most home consoles as well as arcade/pinball machines.
I have a reasonable general knowledge of most new to older games (I personally own about 1000 games and almost every console known to man.)
Experience Playstation, SNES, SATURN, Genisis/MD, NES, MS conversions. Controler conversions SNES to NES. Game conversion. Multi Carts. Remix and re-wire. PSP repair. Arcade building and customising. Video Game repair
Before I begin can I just say I was born an idiot and ever since have sensed my intelligence diminishing from those first few years of comparative intellectual supremacy so I'd be grateful if you could aim your answer likewise.
I recently bought a R4i adapter so I could copy all the games I have onto the small micro sd card thus preventing the loss, damage or general inconvenience of carrying all the games around with me yet still allowing me the choice my expenditure has allowed me.
The problem is I wish I hadn't.
Up till now I've had no problems using the games yet suddenly I'm made aware that something on the DSi has to be updated and not only that but it must be done wirelessly. Not having a wireless connection to the net I was advised (and here I'm paraphrasing) to take it shopping and have a cup of coffee - somewhere.
But by far the greater source of frustration is the updating of this R4i adapter.
I've just bought the thing so why it should need updating beats me, but I was ready for the challenge - however I must admit defeat.
I've done as much homework on it as I can, each website offering similar advice, with their instructions being identical, word for word. I've downloaded 'necessary' files keeping them together in seperate folders relative to their source and now have so many folders dotted around the computer I'm running out of names to call them.
Can you either explain in words of one syllable or direct me to a site where I can follow the instructions confident the result will have the desired effect.
Yours,
Dave Crew
ANSWER: Gday Dave,
I believe this site below will answer your question. Unfortunately it looks like you need to find someone that has not updated there DSi to 1.4 software or perhaps someone with an old DSL (does not update Firmware). You need a virgin (non-updated) DSi to upgrade the software on the R4i card once that is done it will work on your updated DSi. Trying to update it on you updated DSi will not work. (I'm sure all the other instructions you have are correct) Again a Regular DS Lite probably will also do. (Well at least until Nintendo release another patch and blocks the R4i Cards)
QUESTION: In response to your comment re: already having answered my question, my original question wasn't addressed to you. Following their inability to answer it it was put in some kind of 'pool' where so-called experts could pick it up and answer. So if you chose it twice, who's fault is that?
Besides, even if I had made the decision as you used two different names how is anyone to know they were both you?
Shame I didn't read that answer first otherwise I wouldn't have been so generous with my awards.
Answer Actually Dave neither of your question was address to me directly they where both in the pool. Usually they end up in the pool because the expert sent it there or they been MIA for a while and they Automatically go there when unanswered. I believe it should have sent you a message in your email to not expect an answer once it ends up in the pool.
Unfortunately none of the other experts in the category ever check the pool. Sometimes I wish they would. (There use to be one other Expert on here that use to but unfortunately she went MIA early this year. Which was a pity as I could always count on the game related ones to be answered by her while I would do all the hardware ones.) So the questions just sit there unanswered. Usually I check the pool whenever I get a question and time permitting will answer them. I tend to clean them out because I like working on a fresh list and I know no-one else is going to answer them. I sometimes let them sit for a while but after about a month clean them out. Answering questions from the pool also gives you no credit towards your overall expert rating either so regardless on how the asker rates the expert it really does not count.
The worst I'd see was 8 duplicate questions meaning that 8 other so called experts did not want to answer it or could not be bothered to log in the system, and all experts sends you reminders if you have not answered you question after 3 days. (Bugs the crap out of me if I am away for a couple of days)
The system is alittle at fault as the only way you know there are questions there is if you physically check the Pool queue. I'd be on this system since 2002 and up till last year never bothered looking at the pool either.
