Havent seen much DS news on this site of recent, but thought this deserved some acknowledgement due to the actions the R4 team will be taking. In a surprising move the team behind the R4 Nintendo DS entertainment, development and backup unit are planning on bricking your Nintendo DS or Nintendo DS Lite - that is if you're using a cloned product. Knowingly or not the R4 Team plans on releasing a firmware that will wipe your Nintendo DS's on-board BIOS to smithereens.

In a move to fight other factories from replicating their flashcart without permission the R4 Team will release a new firmware to combat the situation. Cloning happens a lot in the scene as factories either steal the design or the unit is reproduced using cheap parts. Most cloning is done by a few companies including Divineo and in that companies instance the clones are promoted on sites Divineo owns


Important point:


1. After 15 September, Team R4 will do something for the fake card, original program(firmware) with Fake R4 may damage your DS machine (brick), original R4 will have no problem with this program.

2. Make sure you have bought an original R4 (see photo above), if you brick your DS with fake R4, please go ask the selling shop and Team R4 will not admitted this liability.
So now we have all been warned. Team R4 do not want any of us to purchase the fake version's from elsewhere.