BaconNintendo i got my r4 card when i was at the flea market. My mom knew the lady and she was a nice person. I tested it to make sure and there was no timebomb. What a relief!
So THAT'S what it was. My r4i stopped working way back in 2014. One day when I went to use it, it just said an error about the date in red writing. I had to turn the date back on my ds so I could use it after that, it was super annoying bc it meant I couldn't progress on animal crossing and other time-based games. I thought I'd screwed my card up somehow haha
@@BrandonBoyPH It does for mine. You don't have to set the date that far back, though. Any date within the 'safe' period is valid (turned mine down to 2016 from 2019, and it started working again)
Left4Cake Dont buy shit from Chinese companies. If the kart is really cheap, it's a knockoff, and probably has a timebomb. But then again, most karts are made in China, so its a risk either way. lmao. I'm glad I never bought into the flashkarts, i just waited for a CFW that was well developed, and maintained.
Flash arts have so many possibilities with emulators and homebrew and such, honestly I think the risk is worth it. But if you buy a trusted flashcart and you take precautions to avoid getting banned from Nintendo’s network then you will be fine. I’ve had my flashcart for over a year now and I’m running the newest update and I even have custom firmware running with homebrew and my flashcart hasn’t been timebombed and my console hasn’t gotten banned.
Figuring out that I could simply download newer R4 firmware onto my MicroSD card to avoid the timebomb and having to go backwards in date was probably one of my best 14 year old moments.
Ultra Memebrian Animal Crossing is a game that depends heavily on the system time. Changing it to 7 years in the future makes the game think you've been gone for that long, which isn't all that great for the town.
time bombs are so annoying. its basically a money grab as it forces you to buy a new one. and no, changing the date on my 3ds did not work. my flashcard is stuck like that.
how far did you set it back? i had one on mine and i had to set the clock back a year on my ds to make it work again, and i can imagine that some cards have to put them back even further
mine is the 2017 model and 2017 didnt work. the message on it says "please upgrade hardware to support latest firmware". idk if that refers to the kernel or my 3ds firmware
memoca ! Might be your ds version.. alot of 3ds cards stopped working after a certain time not because of the timebombs but because nintendo updated the 3ds to not support it anymore.. that’s why i got the sky3ds wich as far as i know doesn’t have a timebomb as it would not make sense for a card that is nearly 100 euros to have such a thing
+Litch The Shinigami Do any official Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS video game karts and video game portable console systems have any sort of timebomb (or some other code that renders them useless there)???
+Steven Villman No, because nintendo would get thier asses handed to them in a class action lawsuit because the carts would be considered a lemon. The flash carts are in a legal grey area as they do nothing illegal until you play a rom that you don't have a real cart for. And suing a Chinese(origin of most of these carts) manufacturer as a westerner is both expensive and pointless as Chinese courts always side with the Chinese company.
The seller who sold one on eBay sold me this and wouldn't work straight out of the Box. I just changed the date back into 2019 and now works fine. It's very simple fix so I don't think is a huge problem. My R4 Gold had this Time Bomb 💣 but its working now.
Oh my God! I lost so many of my childhood games to a time-bomb and didn't know why. I ordered a new one recently too. When I get it I'll definitely check. Thank you so much!
I have this on one of my older r4 cards that time bomb issue. The simplest way to deal with it is to just find the most recent firmware update for the particular r4 card but I do like the idea of tackling it by changing the dates though
Thank you for this video, I had a lot of people asking me on my R4i Gold Pro tutorial asking me about a timebomb and I needed to do some research for it. After lots of testing I found out that the card I made a tutorial for has a timebomb but activates in 2019 and is triggered when the R4 card is launched. But after setting the date on my DSi to 1/01/2000 I was easily able to bypass it XD.
wilky67 if i could find the TTMENU without the fake killer and YSMENU, it would be great. But it seems like every site that hosted the Anti-Fake-Killer TTMENU is no longer online. And i heared there are some versions of TTMENU that don't have the fake-killer, but i don't wanna risk it.
When I was a child I had one card with a time bomb, but I was too young to know that it was the problem, and I tried to change the time date and it worked perfectly, because I thought it will put the Nintendo DS like the last year, with any change (like a time traveling xd). Thanks to this video I know what happened to my R4 xD
I expected a 3DS to explode into a million pieces, and have a house fire, and have the firefighters called to fix it. Simple way: I expected an Explosion..
Interesting. Before I saw this I thought it was an issue with my DS, so I used to simply put the date back a few years and kept it at that year permanently. It says R4i SDHC on it.
Zen Zero It’s a fake card, I had it but it would crash after a specific date at random times in game, so I set back the date. It worked, seriously it’s a shitty card, don’t ever re-buy
The r4’s time bomb depends on what software is installed if you installed the version for the company you will most likely have it, install a user made one and it might not have it
For anyone with a timebomb, you can try to disable it. For my card, (R4 SDHC Dual-Core 2015) I set my date to 2011, and the timebomb was disabled. Try different dates for yours, but it worked for me! :D Have fun.
People are still making and selling NES flash carts, I'm sure DS flash carts aren't going anywhere. One of the main purposes of these products is for preservation, so they will likely become more popular again as time goes on.
The R4 SDHC Gold Pro 3DS RTS 2017 HAS a Time Bomb (set to activate by september of 2019 I think). I worked around it by having YSMenu replace the firmware of the card.
blessed be this video, I bought an R4 card back in 2016 and it stopped working after a year, then my friend told me about the timebomb and I just gave up on it. recently I found that R4 card again and thought to buy a new one, but I googled how to make sure the R4 card doesnt have a timebomb, which led me to this video, and me turning back the clock on my 3ds and being able to use it again. Thank you so much!
can you back up that claim? I've never seen a flashcard with a date on it that didn't use a timebomb. All those cards listed on "3ds.hacks.guide" also have a timebomb
Can you back up your claim? Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. When you make a statement about "all" of something, you need to have some kind of empirical proof.
It's not empirical evidence but having the mentioned site state that "All R4iSDHC 20XX flashcarts are identical" it is safe to assume other 20XX cards have a timebomb as well. I didn't check other sources nor did i test the cards myself, i am trusting the info on the 3ds guide page and simply don't want to bother myself with those cards. It is way less work to just get a card that is confirmed to have no timebomb than to speculate or put more time into researching the matter, after I've solely been seeing those cards having timebombs in videos and forum posts.
Is the flashcart you ordered possible to use with NTRBoot? If so, you might want to try to use ntrboot with it to see if its fake. A NTRBoot compatibilty can be found here: i.imgur.com/rJUlqRX.png
I have an R4 Gold Pro 2018, with a timebomb. Thanks to Brought Luck, I deactivated the timebomb with YSmenu. In order for it to work, you need add the .nds file in the R4 and replace the R4's kernel with YSmenu's kernel.
This *_might_* seem like a stupid question to many of you here - but what exactly is a R4 card, and what does it do there on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 2DS families of portable (hand-held) video game console systems???
I once had a time bomb R4. I thought I had to update the thing, but I didn't know how. Thankfully I remembered a friend of mine used to rewind his phone's internal clock to use a feature in a game app that was unable to function do to some time expiration. So I thought to myself "maybe I should do what he did" and it worked.
Payday 2 stuffs what I already have cfw with this method and I have twloader its pretty cool. Plus I’m not saying that to you it’s to mosey animator jack and tech James. I also meant that People don’t need a $20 R4 when you can have seedminer method for $2
I am glad i see this video as i had the same message you show at beginning of video, I purchase R4 SDHC GOLD PRO from Ebay around 2 years ago and it worked fine until this month! I get this error message ! I have left system date to today's month and day but changed year to 2017 instead of 2019 and all works good again thank you x
That's what people said about 90's Honda's too.... And they are still all over the world running just fine. Just because something's outdated doesn't mean we just forget about it and let it fall apart to nothing!!
The timebomb idea is counter-intuitive anyways, if my card died I would try a different card all together regardless - in any case I own an AceKard 2i (bought it straight from their site) and had zero issues over 8 years - I wanted to see what the timebomb actually looked like - good thing it appears it only impacted a few types of R4 cards
They are illegal in a lot of countries. I personally only put games that I already own on my R4 card. And that's because you can run fun hacks on them or mods like "Newer Super Mario Bros. DS"
My r4 that ive had since like 2009 or 2010 has working software but i guess you can say the card itself literally falling apart can be considered a timebomb 😂
when i read the title my heart almost exploded im 14 i thought my new 3ds xl would explode since i added cfw and homebrew😰😂🤣😂🤣 you scared me half to death lol
Cocimarciano reverse engineering a r4 card and attempting to code out the time bomb, only way I can think of removing it and it is more effort than changing the date.
there is a file called R4.dat this contains the timebomb but it's very difficult to edit, because is encrypted, the solution is set back the date on the DS/3DS console or update the kernel
Yeah, I just ordered 2 R4 Gold Pro from Newegg, and buyers are confirming that it has the *Timebomb.* Fortunately, I will be using them on my DSi and DSLite, which do not require current date. Also, the R4s were $8 each. Besides, Newegg have a great return policies.
Yeah I remember a few years back my brother and I had one and it did have a time bomb but luckily my brother knew what to do so we just set it back a few years back and it worked again
I remember my cousin tried to run one on his 3DS. The R4, you might have guessed, got stuck in the Game Card slot. Luckily, we managed it to get it out.
So THAT explains it. I have a 2DS, but I don't wanna turn back the clock to see if it works because I have a lot of time-based games. Kinda wish I had kept my DSi just for that cart
My R4i 3DS RTS WiFi Card has a Time Bomb, but that doesnt really matter because there are still updates available for it on the r4 Website... :) Thanks for the Video!
I actually got an R4 clone in like 2016. It still works to this day with no time bomb. I set the clock to 2099 and it still worked. Good thing too, because I can't get YSMenu working.
Bit late to the discussion, but I have a 'R4 SDHC RTS Lite' in the 2018 version which I just got. I remmebered your video and went to check imediately and yes. That one does have a Timebomb on it.
I bought mine last year and was told it probably has one. Yep checked and I have til between the end of July and the end of Dec next year. It’s R4i RTS 3ds. I may invest in one known not to be bombed or the custom firmware. But since my 3ds has cfw and now runs DSiMenu it’s less of a worry. Any game the flash cart has my 3ds can play.
I have one, it's in a DS XL I just bought an hour ago off Facebook Marketplace, it's the R4 SDHC GOLD PRO 2017, it has a red band in the right corner with 2017 writen in it, which is my clue, taken the date back to 2017 and tried again & perfect, running all sorts of things on it now. Thanks Tech James
I recommend changing your date on the console a few years back and try again. If it doesn't work, repeat the 1st step a few times until it works. Mine had a similar situation that whenever I went in the games tab it would freeze. But it's a simple fix.
Jonah Raines I don’t really care anymore anyways, this was like 7 or so years ago. If I wanna play some ds games I don’t already own I’ve got a pc to emulate them on.
You should do a video on Homebrew vs. R4 cards talk about what Homebrew is and what exactly the R4 card is and compare the two and the differences there's not a whole lot of content on a versus video
I got one with a timebomb. From the date I received it in the mail, to the date that the time bomb is set to go off was 633 days. I imagine it's 2 years after the kernel with the timebombs installed or 2 years after its first put into a ds. Either way, I set my clock to 2005 so all the days match up with this year's, and I've got about 20 years till I gotta move it back
I thought this video was homebrew related because installing homebrew on the Wii requires the letterbomb exploit. Lol! I thought this would be similar to this.
Just curious how these multi game carts are being sold without the seller being charged with piracy, copyright infringement, and illegal distribution of unlicensed nintendo games!
I have a R4 Gold Pro 2014 and it has a timebomb. The first time I encountered it I was a little panicked and since I couldn’t understand English yet and it was red text I ran to my dad to see if he knew what was going on. He found the solution on internet and I just had to change the date. Now I just have to set the date to 2013, 10 years ago, and it works just fine. I was looking for videos on where to get more themes but I found this one hoping for a better solution but it seems that changing the date is the best option I have for now.
According to some information,only r4isdhc[dot]com Carts 2014 and higher have timebomb installed if you have R4 with r4isdhc [dot]com as the webiste in the PCB and the year is 2014 upwards,no need to test... Timebomb is installed there theres no way to get around the problem...other than using YSMenu as your R4 Kernel or setting your DS date to 2020
I have the R4 SDHC dual core 2015, unfortunately almost all the R4 cards have this timebomb(programmed obsolescence), the companies always want you to buy a new one and that's why they are very cheap, the timebomb you can find in the file R4.dat, I tried to delete this timebomb editing the file with the hex editor, but it's very difficult, the solution is set back the date on the DS console or update the kernel, Good video.
I got a 2023 SDHC card, set it ahead several decades, and the game still works, so either there's no time bomb on this one or the guys making these carts are good at hiding them. Good thing too, I can't get Ysmenu to work.
Thanks for the video. I got a R4 for like $8 and when I checked it, it had the "timebomb". Good to know all I need to do is change the time back or I would've panicked in year.
I have never owned any type of R4 card. About 10 or more years ago i first owned a G6 lite flash card for the DS lite. This required a pass through card in the DS cartridge slot to work. I then upgraded to an M3 Lite which was the first flash card i own that used micro SD cards. I then upgraded to an Edge Flash card. Once i got a DSi, i then bought an iEdge flash card and have used that till i bought one of 3 3DS that i own and now use a Gateway flash card with one of my 3DS units. I have the Homebrew launcher installed on one of the 3DS but mainly use the 3DS with the Gateway card.Oh i forgot that i also bough a TTDS Flashcard years ago to try out because i got it cheap, but compared to the Edge and iEdge, it is slow and horrible to use.
I still have my original R4 card, and I mean the OG R4, not one of the million clones, but I do have one 3ds clone, mainly to mess around with 3ds hacking
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Geez i thought my DSi will explode
BaconNintendo IT IS RUN!
BaconNintendo i got my r4 card when i was at the flea market. My mom knew the lady and she was a nice person. I tested it to make sure and there was no timebomb. What a relief!
Same
Me 2
Me too
So THAT'S what it was. My r4i stopped working way back in 2014. One day when I went to use it, it just said an error about the date in red writing. I had to turn the date back on my ds so I could use it after that, it was super annoying bc it meant I couldn't progress on animal crossing and other time-based games. I thought I'd screwed my card up somehow haha
Sophie Hanley well, good thing you know now, no?
Maybe change the date to 1980
@@Nitrodino7875 Will this work?
@@BrandonBoyPH It does for mine. You don't have to set the date that far back, though. Any date within the 'safe' period is valid (turned mine down to 2016 from 2019, and it started working again)
Sophie Hanley 0000FEFE is the error right?
So... not only do we have to worry about Nintendo Locking them out but we have to worry about the carts locking themselves out... fun.
Left4Cake Dont buy shit from Chinese companies. If the kart is really cheap, it's a knockoff, and probably has a timebomb. But then again, most karts are made in China, so its a risk either way. lmao. I'm glad I never bought into the flashkarts, i just waited for a CFW that was well developed, and maintained.
wait whats this about Nintendo locking out ???
colby wilksch the risk of Nintendo banning your system I would assume
Flash arts have so many possibilities with emulators and homebrew and such, honestly I think the risk is worth it. But if you buy a trusted flashcart and you take precautions to avoid getting banned from Nintendo’s network then you will be fine. I’ve had my flashcart for over a year now and I’m running the newest update and I even have custom firmware running with homebrew and my flashcart hasn’t been timebombed and my console hasn’t gotten banned.
Mr.DankBoi Chapfam which flash card do you use?
Figuring out that I could simply download newer R4 firmware onto my MicroSD card to avoid the timebomb and having to go backwards in date was probably one of my best 14 year old moments.
Wait how?
@@wahmaker2292 There's a lot of tutorials on UA-cam on how to update firmware and the website even says some information about it.
Im still doing this after years Lol
Yep did this 8 years ago and have never had to worry about it in all this time.
Imagine what his animal crossing will look like after he changed it 7 years in the future
lmao
EVRYONE'S GONE SAVAGE! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!?
What do you mean?
Ultra Memebrian Animal Crossing is a game that depends heavily on the system time. Changing it to 7 years in the future makes the game think you've been gone for that long, which isn't all that great for the town.
Weeds galore
time bombs are so annoying. its basically a money grab as it forces you to buy a new one. and no, changing the date on my 3ds did not work. my flashcard is stuck like that.
how far did you set it back? i had one on mine and i had to set the clock back a year on my ds to make it work again, and i can imagine that some cards have to put them back even further
mine is the 2017 model and 2017 didnt work. the message on it says "please upgrade hardware to support latest firmware". idk if that refers to the kernel or my 3ds firmware
memoca ! Might be your ds version.. alot of 3ds cards stopped working after a certain time not because of the timebombs but because nintendo updated the 3ds to not support it anymore.. that’s why i got the sky3ds wich as far as i know doesn’t have a timebomb as it would not make sense for a card that is nearly 100 euros to have such a thing
+Litch The Shinigami
Do any official Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS video game karts and video game portable console systems have any sort of timebomb (or some other code that renders them useless there)???
+Steven Villman No, because nintendo would get thier asses handed to them in a class action lawsuit because the carts would be considered a lemon. The flash carts are in a legal grey area as they do nothing illegal until you play a rom that you don't have a real cart for. And suing a Chinese(origin of most of these carts) manufacturer as a westerner is both expensive and pointless as Chinese courts always side with the Chinese company.
PRO TIP: If you want this timebomb to stop, just date it back a bunch of years and do that every few years or so
2011 always?
@@Jucelegario 2000 seems better
But games like animal crossing will not save then
@@dojacat3199 get ysmenu then
@@krakenanimates2981 yeah, it fixes the r4i
That sounded scary
Why?
Tech James a time bomb in a card? Sounded like it was a real timebomb.
I thought this would cause my 3ds to blow up in my face lol.
AlphaMax ikr
AlphaMax same tbh
The seller who sold one on eBay sold me this and wouldn't work straight out of the Box. I just changed the date back into 2019 and now works fine. It's very simple fix so I don't think is a huge problem. My R4 Gold had this Time Bomb 💣 but its working now.
Oh my God! I lost so many of my childhood games to a time-bomb and didn't know why. I ordered a new one recently too. When I get it I'll definitely check. Thank you so much!
Hey, how do u find out how much time u have?
@@jimin6813 idk. Just change the date until it happens I guess.
Set time back to to old time before 2004
@@videooldlady Got it working at some point. Funny though since I was born 2004.
@@nitetrix1595 I only said that because that's when ds came out what a coincidence
haha yes i have a timebomb, imma walk into class tomorrow and just yell: I HAVE A TIME BOMB and then show my 3ds
TheRectangularSpaceDivider27 do you really want to get expelled
TheRectangularSpaceDivider27 did you get expled?
TheRectangularSpaceDivider27 how was your expulsion?
if he actually did that hed probs be in police custody lol
My brother
I have an r4i V2 that has been used since 2009 and it still works
I have this on one of my older r4 cards that time bomb issue. The simplest way to deal with it is to just find the most recent firmware update for the particular r4 card but I do like the idea of tackling it by changing the dates though
Thank you for this video, I had a lot of people asking me on my R4i Gold Pro tutorial asking me about a timebomb and I needed to do some research for it. After lots of testing I found out that the card I made a tutorial for has a timebomb but activates in 2019 and is triggered when the R4 card is launched. But after setting the date on my DSi to 1/01/2000 I was easily able to bypass it XD.
I think there is also a custom kernel that can be applied to get rid of this
I believe thats what i did but obviously this is easier
is there any way to remove it?
I cant remember the page i looked on but i think its called YSMENU or something like that
Its a custom Kernel I believe
wilky67 if i could find the TTMENU without the fake killer and YSMENU, it would be great. But it seems like every site that hosted the Anti-Fake-Killer TTMENU is no longer online.
And i heared there are some versions of TTMENU that don't have the fake-killer, but i don't wanna risk it.
When I was a child I had one card with a time bomb, but I was too young to know that it was the problem, and I tried to change the time date and it worked perfectly, because I thought it will put the Nintendo DS like the last year, with any change (like a time traveling xd). Thanks to this video I know what happened to my R4 xD
I expected a 3DS to explode into a million pieces, and have a house fire, and have the firefighters called to fix it.
Simple way: I expected an Explosion..
the fact we're close to 2025 is crazy
my r4 since 2009 still works in 2019. No corruption, No timebomb, No data lost, Everything works.
You probably have the original, or one of the early, pre-timebomb clones.
I expected something like a Zip-bomb for the NDS/3DS. lol
Interesting. Before I saw this I thought it was an issue with my DS, so I used to simply put the date back a few years and kept it at that year permanently.
It says R4i SDHC on it.
Zen Zero It’s a fake card, I had it but it would crash after a specific date at random times in game, so I set back the date. It worked, seriously it’s a shitty card, don’t ever re-buy
Nitro-A yeah a lot of my games got crashing, but i think it is the usb processors. I used to drop my ds back then
Psy the Guy also u know how to fix blue lines on the top screen on my hacked DSI?
@@mooseyexists wdym fake?
@@memedew6677 there are no r4 cards with SDHC in the name.
The r4’s time bomb depends on what software is installed if you installed the version for the company you will most likely have it, install a user made one and it might not have it
For anyone with a timebomb, you can try to disable it. For my card, (R4 SDHC Dual-Core 2015) I set my date to 2011, and the timebomb was disabled. Try different dates for yours, but it worked for me! :D Have fun.
Yeah I don't think my R4i Gold card doesn't have it. Also I don't think we will even be using these anymore 10-20 years in the future lol.
I will try to hang onto my R4 card for as long as possible even when I reach my 40s or 50s lol which will most likely be by 2030 or 2050.
AlphaMax I bet they won't be making them anymore
well if they won't be making them anymore at all, they'll be really pricey and valuable
People are still making and selling NES flash carts, I'm sure DS flash carts aren't going anywhere. One of the main purposes of these products is for preservation, so they will likely become more popular again as time goes on.
Yeah there will be the new super 9ds classic edition
The R4 SDHC Gold Pro 3DS RTS 2017 HAS a Time Bomb (set to activate by september of 2019 I think).
I worked around it by having YSMenu replace the firmware of the card.
Yeah, works well with mine as well.
blessed be this video, I bought an R4 card back in 2016 and it stopped working after a year, then my friend told me about the timebomb and I just gave up on it. recently I found that R4 card again and thought to buy a new one, but I googled how to make sure the R4 card doesnt have a timebomb, which led me to this video, and me turning back the clock on my 3ds and being able to use it again. Thank you so much!
When will my 3ds explode?
In 2 hours
Tech James yay soon to be dead
Is it dead yet?
OP did not respond, we have our answer
Jay Leu ghost Jovani says lol 😅
Oh, I was f**king out, thinking my 3DS was gonna go boom!
3:21
my god, I just got a nostalgic trip right there.
You didn't even mention that all Flashcards with a date on them have a timebomb installed. Well now you know.
Because that's not true.
&I thanks for the truth
can you back up that claim?
I've never seen a flashcard with a date on it that didn't use a timebomb.
All those cards listed on "3ds.hacks.guide" also have a timebomb
Can you back up your claim? Anecdotal evidence is not evidence. When you make a statement about "all" of something, you need to have some kind of empirical proof.
It's not empirical evidence but having the mentioned site state that "All R4iSDHC 20XX flashcarts are identical" it is safe to assume other 20XX cards have a timebomb as well. I didn't check other sources nor did i test the cards myself, i am trusting the info on the 3ds guide page and simply don't want to bother myself with those cards.
It is way less work to just get a card that is confirmed to have no timebomb than to speculate or put more time into researching the matter, after I've solely been seeing those cards having timebombs in videos and forum posts.
Me: Tests for time bomb
R4 card: I'm gonna BLOW!
Me: Great now I need to buy a new one
New R4 card: I'm gonna BLOW!
Me: Stop touching my fries
bomb *not* defused
Just at the right time, I just ordered a r4 from some guy on eBay
I got mine on ebay looks like its fake but works fine .
Is the flashcart you ordered possible to use with NTRBoot? If so, you might want to try to use ntrboot with it to see if its fake. A NTRBoot compatibilty can be found here: i.imgur.com/rJUlqRX.png
Red Hawk does it have a timebomb? Cause I ordered one too and now I'm scared.
End Game nah mines fine it works great
huhen thanks for posting this I appreciate it 👍
When I read the title without any context it scared the shit out of me
Why?
Tech James well for one I thought my DS was gonna explode in my face one day and idk man that's pretty scary
you really think there is dynamite Inside the flashcart ?
@@KevenLC I mean like it may overrun your DS and fry some circuits but eh
No bombs
I have an R4 Gold Pro 2018, with a timebomb. Thanks to Brought Luck, I deactivated the timebomb with YSmenu. In order for it to work, you need add the .nds file in the R4 and replace the R4's kernel with YSmenu's kernel.
This *_might_* seem like a stupid question to many of you here - but what exactly is a R4 card, and what does it do there on the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 2DS families of portable (hand-held) video game console systems???
Steven Villman An R4 card is the DS cartridge technical name
It's basically a card that you can put roms on, it's for pirating ds games
It's commonly used for pirating DS games, but it's also often used as a gateway to get CFW (custom firmware) onto the 3DS.
It’s not always pirating. Some just put roms of games they own. Easier than carrying so many DS games around.
I once had a time bomb R4. I thought I had to update the thing, but I didn't know how. Thankfully I remembered a friend of mine used to rewind his phone's internal clock to use a feature in a game app that was unable to function do to some time expiration. So I thought to myself "maybe I should do what he did" and it worked.
Nope I just install cfw with dsiware seed miner for $2 on 11.6 :D
How is that related to this video?
IKR this is r4’s we’re talking about not how to homebrew a 3ds
Because with cfw you can play ds games with twloader
SmashyPlays im tryin to help u out here lol
Payday 2 stuffs what I already have cfw with this method and I have twloader its pretty cool. Plus I’m not saying that to you it’s to mosey animator jack and tech James. I also meant that People don’t need a $20 R4 when you can have seedminer method for $2
I am glad i see this video as i had the same message you show at beginning of video, I purchase R4 SDHC GOLD PRO from Ebay around 2 years ago and it worked fine until this month! I get this error message ! I have left system date to today's month and day but changed year to 2017 instead of 2019 and all works good again thank you x
Tbh if its gonna blow up in a few years I wouldnt care cuz its several years later and most likely the 3ds will be out dated
That's what people said about 90's Honda's too.... And they are still all over the world running just fine. Just because something's outdated doesn't mean we just forget about it and let it fall apart to nothing!!
The timebomb idea is counter-intuitive anyways, if my card died I would try a different card all together regardless - in any case I own an AceKard 2i (bought it straight from their site) and had zero issues over 8 years - I wanted to see what the timebomb actually looked like - good thing it appears it only impacted a few types of R4 cards
I have time bomb R4 SDHC Gold Pro 2018
Ok thanks for letting me know, i ordered one off wish for $4.
Get Rekt by Me yes
Get Rekt by Me it means in a few years the r4 card while cease to work due to a software scam
Tech James same here...
Same :D mine is 2017 but does that have anything different? or is it another scam to buy newer card?
I thought the title meant that going through theories and looking through evidence to see if all R4 cards have timebombs, kind of like myth busters.
Guessing their not gonna be supported after 2020 ?
R4 cards should be illegal for opening the floodgates to pirate games
They are illegal in a lot of countries. I personally only put games that I already own on my R4 card. And that's because you can run fun hacks on them or mods like "Newer Super Mario Bros. DS"
I always hear awful instead of R4
Any Neptunia fans here thinking of the R4 robot enemies and the villain CFW Arfoire herself?
Jokes on you, i can't even load my r4 anymore!
Don't worry. my r4 is from 2000's and it still work till this very day.
Do you have standard R4 DS? If so, I do too
Can't the time bomb be disabled permanently?
Just call the CTs
My r4 that ive had since like 2009 or 2010 has working software but i guess you can say the card itself literally falling apart can be considered a timebomb 😂
Fix it with super glue
Why do they scam ppl like this tho? I don't get it.
It's simple, for more money!
You really dont get it? Cant think of any reason? Jesus christ are you naive. For the love of god stay away from softmodding.
wall mob Who are you taking to?
Money
Because they Work for PlayStation!!!!
Wow, I’m glad people are still talking about R4 cards.
Which website would you recommend buying one from? I’m thinking about getting back in the game.
I found a r4i gold on eBay for $8 and removed the timebomb and stored heaps of new games
when i read the title my heart almost exploded im 14 i thought my new 3ds xl would explode since i added cfw and homebrew😰😂🤣😂🤣 you scared me half to death lol
just a heads-up. Software can't explode
@@asherael true
Are you saying i can set the year to the 90's and be safe? (until 20 years into the future, that is)
so sad but before i chek it , do you know how to remove it?
Cocimarciano reverse engineering a r4 card and attempting to code out the time bomb, only way I can think of removing it and it is more effort than changing the date.
there is a file called R4.dat this contains the timebomb but it's very difficult to edit, because is encrypted, the solution is set back the date on the DS/3DS console or update the kernel
Yes change the year from 2018 to 2015/14/13 etc.
Yeah, I just ordered 2 R4 Gold Pro from Newegg, and buyers are confirming that it has the *Timebomb.* Fortunately, I will be using them on my DSi and DSLite, which do not require current date. Also, the R4s were $8 each. Besides, Newegg have a great return policies.
If you have animal crossing you probably shouldn't
I had one of these as a kid and I do remember that it just stopped working one day. Never knew that this was the reason why
the R4 3ds 2019 DSHC has a time bomb :(
Daniel Maldonado R.I.P my 2014 r4 card work
Yeah I remember a few years back my brother and I had one and it did have a time bomb but luckily my brother knew what to do so we just set it back a few years back and it worked again
How i run R4 i 3ds on my 3ds?
bonnibahn99 only some r4 can run on 3ds. Yeah i dissapointed too
rendy irwansyah thanks
bonnibahn99 no problem
I remember my cousin tried to run one on his 3DS. The R4, you might have guessed, got stuck in the Game Card slot. Luckily, we managed it to get it out.
So THAT explains it. I have a 2DS, but I don't wanna turn back the clock to see if it works because I have a lot of time-based games. Kinda wish I had kept my DSi just for that cart
I.... smell.... click..... bait.....
Spintechfilms lmao how
Click bate? are you dumb lol.
Tech James well i dont know~ it got you to comment on my comment after all~
I reply to all comments XD
I smell ellipses
When I was little and I had a DS Lite I had an R4 card that suddenly stopped working, now I know it was a Timebomb!
My R4i 3DS RTS WiFi Card has a Time Bomb, but that doesnt really matter because there are still updates available for it on the r4 Website... :) Thanks for the Video!
My R4 has time bomb but dont worry just reset it back to like 2001 or so and nothing bad will happen
I actually got an R4 clone in like 2016. It still works to this day with no time bomb. I set the clock to 2099 and it still worked. Good thing too, because I can't get YSMenu working.
Bro you are the best I just unlocked my childhood
THANK YOU SO MUCH. Seriously I thought I would never be able to play games again. Also the calendar fix works the calendar on all ds versions
Bit late to the discussion, but I have a 'R4 SDHC RTS Lite' in the 2018 version which I just got. I remmebered your video and went to check imediately and yes. That one does have a Timebomb on it.
2:35 Call of Duty Black Ops for DS 😂 Best DS game
It's worth noting that some cards won't even boot if the time bome is active. The R4iSDHC for example.
I bought mine last year and was told it probably has one. Yep checked and I have til between the end of July and the end of Dec next year.
It’s R4i RTS 3ds.
I may invest in one known not to be bombed or the custom firmware. But since my 3ds has cfw and now runs DSiMenu it’s less of a worry. Any game the flash cart has my 3ds can play.
Now I wanna get an R4 with a time bomb.
LavaCanyon trust me you dont
I mean just for the novelty I suppose though it would technically still work.
I actually fell for the Time bomb thing and bought a new r4 card like 2 or 3 times
thanks for making this video , now I know😁
It didn't work when I changed the time in the future but it worked in the past🤔
Pretty simple and smart scam. Good on you man for letting people know.
I have one, it's in a DS XL I just bought an hour ago off Facebook Marketplace, it's the R4 SDHC GOLD PRO 2017, it has a red band in the right corner with 2017 writen in it, which is my clue, taken the date back to 2017 and tried again & perfect, running all sorts of things on it now. Thanks Tech James
The dude who sold them where I live put these in. Except it was less obvious, there was no message or anything, the thing just stopped working.
I recommend changing your date on the console a few years back and try again. If it doesn't work, repeat the 1st step a few times until it works. Mine had a similar situation that whenever I went in the games tab it would freeze. But it's a simple fix.
Jonah Raines I don’t really care anymore anyways, this was like 7 or so years ago. If I wanna play some ds games I don’t already own I’ve got a pc to emulate them on.
@@noidTV yeah, makes sense.
i set my ds date to 2099 to check and the R4 thought the date was 1954 lol.
that intro is still dope as hell
Apparently mine has a Time Bomb because I got the Red Date message. Turned back the clock.
You should do a video on Homebrew vs. R4 cards talk about what Homebrew is and what exactly the R4 card is and compare the two and the differences there's not a whole lot of content on a versus video
if it did have a timebomb and it broke how would you fix? would you just set date back or what?
Good news is that you can counter this with custom menus.
Me: does what the video says
Tehc
Thanks for the video, I always wondered why that yellow one for the DSI randomly stopped working. I guess turning back the year does fix the problem.
I got one with a timebomb. From the date I received it in the mail, to the date that the time bomb is set to go off was 633 days. I imagine it's 2 years after the kernel with the timebombs installed or 2 years after its first put into a ds. Either way, I set my clock to 2005 so all the days match up with this year's, and I've got about 20 years till I gotta move it back
I thought this video was homebrew related because installing homebrew on the Wii requires the letterbomb exploit. Lol! I thought this would be similar to this.
Just curious how these multi game carts are being sold without the seller being charged with piracy, copyright infringement, and illegal distribution of unlicensed nintendo games!
I figured you were gonna say that a Timebomb was a virus to ruin the data on the 3DS or something.
0:50 I instantly knew to change the system time... and I was 12 when it happened
I have a R4 Gold Pro 2014 and it has a timebomb. The first time I encountered it I was a little panicked and since I couldn’t understand English yet and it was red text I ran to my dad to see if he knew what was going on. He found the solution on internet and I just had to change the date. Now I just have to set the date to 2013, 10 years ago, and it works just fine.
I was looking for videos on where to get more themes but I found this one hoping for a better solution but it seems that changing the date is the best option I have for now.
what the fuck.
I actually believed my 3ds would explode..fr D:
nice video.
According to some information,only r4isdhc[dot]com Carts 2014 and higher have timebomb installed
if you have R4 with r4isdhc [dot]com as the webiste in the PCB and the year is 2014 upwards,no need to test... Timebomb is installed there
theres no way to get around the problem...other than using YSMenu as your R4 Kernel or setting your DS date to 2020
I have the R4 SDHC dual core 2015, unfortunately almost all the R4 cards have this timebomb(programmed obsolescence), the companies always want you to buy a new one and that's why they are very cheap, the timebomb you can find in the file R4.dat, I tried to delete this timebomb editing the file with the hex editor, but it's very difficult, the solution is set back the date on the DS console or update the kernel, Good video.
I got a 2023 SDHC card, set it ahead several decades, and the game still works, so either there's no time bomb on this one or the guys making these carts are good at hiding them. Good thing too, I can't get Ysmenu to work.
Mine had one. It was a fake R4 Revolution for Ndsl/Nds.
Thanks for the video. I got a R4 for like $8 and when I checked it, it had the "timebomb". Good to know all I need to do is change the time back or I would've panicked in year.
I have never owned any type of R4 card. About 10 or more years ago i first owned a G6 lite flash card for the DS lite. This required a pass through card in the DS cartridge slot to work. I then upgraded to an M3 Lite which was the first flash card i own that used micro SD cards. I then upgraded to an Edge Flash card. Once i got a DSi, i then bought an iEdge flash card and have used that till i bought one of 3 3DS that i own and now use a Gateway flash card with one of my 3DS units. I have the Homebrew launcher installed on one of the 3DS but mainly use the 3DS with the Gateway card.Oh i forgot that i also bough a TTDS Flashcard years ago to try out because i got it cheap, but compared to the Edge and iEdge, it is slow and horrible to use.
I figured when I was a kid, literally just set the date a few years back and it worked again
I still have my original R4 card, and I mean the OG R4, not one of the million clones, but I do have one 3ds clone, mainly to mess around with 3ds hacking
What happens if you activate a time bomb while testing to see if you have one?