R4 Micro Chip

Anyway, my R4 Micro Chip is supposed to hold 2gb right? Well, when I put in my games at around 1.5gb, it says I put in about a 128mb game, it says,
_________________________
| Copy |X|
|----------------------------------------|
| The disc in the destination |
| drive is full. |
| Insert a new disc to continue. |
| ______ _______ |
| |Retry | | Cancel | |
| |______| |_______| |
|_________________________|Even when it's not even near 2gb. Help?

copy everything off the disk to your HD and reformat your card. then copy it all back, if that doesnt work then I dont know.

I tried that. But for the File System should I put FAT32 or FAT?

Im not sure it matters. Mines FAT

nope. I tried it. doesnt work. thx anyway

Hmmm well beyond me, but try trimming your roms to free up a little more room for now till someone can help ya

only fat32 supports more than 1 GB as far as i know...

Replying to #7

Actually Fat16 is good up to 2 gigs

oh? Ive got 1.87 gigs on mine and its only formatted to FAT?

mine only has FAT and FAT32 and both only give me about 1.5gb

What brand is your MicroSD?And when you format a card, it takes up some space. The fact that you have 1.5 gigs of stuff, and you are trying to put something that is 128mbs might be it. Have you tried putting, a say, 32mb rom on it? Try that if you haven't.

Well, now I checked some stuff. It says, I've used 1.86gb and now I can only hold up to 1.37gb. And the free space is now about 3mb..I just don't get what's wrong. All I did was just put in games and music, and made 2 skins. That all I ever put in it, but I can't seem to know why it only has 1.37gb..Is it just maybe the chip is broken? Because it doesn't look like it.. >:(

no it isn't broken, the filesystem has grown. If its a problem, back up the data on the card and reformat it. (you will then need to reinstall the firmware)

Make sure you don't confuse GB with Gb. Most often they put 2Gb(it) so it can really only have 2048/8 = 256MByte games.

Sweet Ascii!A 2 GB card doesnt hold 2 GB for 2 reasons:Decmal system, when we (advertisers for the card) say a card is 2 GB they assume that 1 GB is 1000 MB. When you measure the size of files it assumes 1 GB is 1024 MB. So a 2 GB card says is holds 2000 MB but when the OS looks it's like 1.9 or 1.8 or something.Second is that you can use all the space on the card as the file system needs some too.WHen you copy the last 128 MB file, does it say you have atleast 128 MB free?

What is the firmwire? And how do you reinstall it?

Replying to #16

For my supercard I download a bin file and then run it like a rom. Dunno about R4, you should check the R4 site for details.http://www.linfoxdomain.com/nintendo/ds/I found that link on the main page.

What is all that stuff?

Replying to #18

I think it's firmware updates.

You download the firmware and simply put it in the root of your MicroSD card, overwrite any files already there.