in valencia, my housemate Ana saw my DS Lite I'd brought and lit up and told me she still had hers (that's DE ESE to you...), and that she in fact had a early R4 card too! I got --obsessed-- with it and loaded all kinds of shit onto it.

the firmware was old and I was scared to update it in fear of erasing her childhood memories. (this thing had those EU-only shin-chan games on it. this had BOOGIE for nintendo DS on it. you remember that movie? google it.)

what wound up happening is that I backed up all of these licensed games onto my laptop, deleted them off the card to make room for Dragon Quest V (which wouldn't even work due to anti piracy) and then saw I hadn't finished backing up the games before I took the card out. this is me coming clean, I'm sorry Ana you were so kind to me and really helped me create a home in such a foreign place. I did, however leave Rhythm Heaven (2008) on that R4 card, which may bring you as much joy as it brought me. each game (while some are better than others) is made with such pure LOVE for music. this is the best rhythm game ever made, and I should get around to playing that 3DS one I got...........