Confused by how abounding R4 Cards there are?

Confused by how abounding R4 Cards there are? Worried about fakes and clones? Read on to accept what's out there and why there are so abounding cards to explore.
It shouldn't be breaking account that there are endless of beam cards on the bazaar of capricious degrees of affection and “originality”, some with actual circuitous relationships. There are clones of clones of copies, and befitting clue of their history is important to some. For account the capital affair is a accurate history of developer reliability. For example, the accepted R4i SDHC is a carbon of the DSTT but has a able-bodied affection set and dependable updates.
Please agenda that while some of the cards we backpack at our boutique are accepted clones, they are able-bodied accurate by able teams of developers that are committed to afterlight their cards. A carbon doesn’t necessarily beggarly a bad and capricious card, but there are abounding advisedly ambagious labels. Still, packaging is about acclimated to analyze amid cards from altered manufacturers. The R4 SDHC (beige box) comes from the accomplish of the R4i SDHC (red box), and they alter from the aggregation that makes the aboriginal R4 SDHC (black box). A bad affected can beggarly alternation or exceptional updates, but to date there has alone been one agenda that’s been accepted to account abuse to your DS console. The N5 agenda had a blemish in the architecture that acquired a abbreviate and a absolute agglutinate afterwards so abounding insertions of the Micro SD card.
Initial developers got started as aboriginal as the Gameboy Avant-garde and kept it up with awkward aperture 2 (bottom GBA aperture on the DS and DS Lite) beam cards for the aboriginal DS console. Acknowledgement should be accustomed to those teams and discontinued aperture 2 cards for laying the groundwork. Some of them are still at assignment today, including the Supercard team. Since again there accept been a lot of clearing of developers abacus to the abashing of who was authoritative which card.
More avant-garde slot-1 cards came into development as Slot-2 cards fell out of disfavor, and the R4 Revolution agenda bound rose to the top in popularity. The R4 v2 is an advancement mainly in the abatement of the spring-clip SDHC slot. The R4 aggregation and the M3 aggregation are carefully related, if not the aforementioned team, and the M3DS Simply was a rebranded R4v2 with fresh firmware, as against to an actionable carbon card. The M3DS Real is a accepted advancement and not a carbon of the M3DS Simply. The iTouch alternation comes from the M3 Team, advised as an access akin to their ancestors of cards. The M3i SDHC and the M3i Advancement are fakes that are NOT from the M3 Aggregation and should not be relied upon.
There accept been added clones and rebranding of the R4 DS band than any added card. While address the aforementioned name as r4ds, assorted manufacturers accept no amalgamation to the aboriginal R4 aggregation and advance their own agenda families and software. There are four capital audible manufacturers who aftermath an “R4” card. The aboriginal R4 aggregation is defunct, again there are the makers of the aboriginal R4 SDHC, the bodies who accomplish the SDHC R4i (red box) started with a carbon of the Dstt and they additionally accomplish the R4i Gold, the R4 Ultra aggregation is beneath accepted but still prevalent, and to add to the confusion, the M3 aggregation developed their own R4i RTS (white box).
Cards from added teams were in development at the time or anon afterwards the R4DS. They are aboriginal technologies in their own appropriate and not clones of added cards; the DSTT, the EZFlash V, the Acekard, the Supercard DSONE, and the CycloDS Evolution. The Supercard aggregation claims that the CycloDS agenda is a carbon of endemic but this affirmation has not been substantiated. It is about advised that the CycloDS is above to the Supercard DSONE, and accepted so admired (if expensive) that it spawned the badly accepted Edge agenda as a clone.
As anytime we endeavor to advice our barter accomplish abreast decisions and accept area their cards are advancing from. We backpack R4 SDHC, DSTT, R4i SDHC, Acekard 2i, EZFlash Vi, M3i Zero, and now the iEdge!