Some R4 cards seem to have an issue where, after the first boot, you’ll get the error “the hardware is not compatible”. This seems to be caused by the writing of the system file and some sort of incompatibility with your particular R4. People have had success with using firmwares with different languages however it seems to me that the version is at least as important as the language. 1.13 seems to be the most stable from my testing though this might be specific to my R4.
If you are having issues I recommend trying different firmwares from the current release backwards until you hit a stable release for your R4. If you’re still having trouble try different languages. If you’re still having trouble try formatting as FAT32 or reformatting as FAT16.
Hope this helps, comments are disabled on this post as I don’t want randoms from the internets filling my site with “PLZ Halp it brokes”.
R4 firmwares: http://www.r4ds.com/download-en.htm
Thanks to C-hor and Gabilo-boss for the hookup.
