The Nintendo DSi is a hand held video game console from the Nintendo Company
. This hand held game console is a great source of entertainment and competes with the Sony Playstation Portable. There are two screens in the console, as the name says and one of which is a touch sensitive screen. Many games are being released in the Nintendo DSi platform lately. And even though there has been wide variety of games released for this console, there has been growing craze for the new R4 cards that support the gaming in the Nintendo DSi in a more entertaining way.
Basically, the R4 is a card as in the shape of a game cartridge but with a slot for its memory source which is the microSD memory card. The microSD card may be of any High Capacity level. The R4 cards are completely compatible with those memory cards. The salient feature which makes these R4 card so special is that you need not but new game cartridges every time and remove and reinsert the desired game you want to play. Instead you can copy all the games you want to the microSD memory card and play those games using the R4 card inserted into the Slot 1 of the Nintendo DS.
The R4 cards need no boot up software and it needs no software for the functioning of it either. There is only a firmware which helps the R4 cards to work. The R4 executes any kind of microSD card so smoothly that the gaming is never interrupted by any kinds of lag or bugs.
The R4 also helps in accessing many applications for the Nintendo DSi. Since the Nintendo DSi has a camera in it, you can take pictures and share them online with your friends on online social networks such as Facebook and twitter.