The first thing you need to understand is that .rar files are not multimedia files, so you usually can’t play them right away. A RAR file is an archive, just like .zip or .tar, that can contain one or more compressed files. You can “extract” those files from the .rar archive and play them in your favorite music/video player.

Extracting And Playing RAR Files

The most popular software for extracting RAR files is WinRAR, a shareware application (see the bottom of this article for free alternatives). If you have WinRar installed, you can play .rar files by performing these steps :

1. Right-click the file in question.

2. Choose “Extract Here”. This will put all the contents of the archive file in the same folder as the .rar file.

3. Locate the multimedia files created (.avi, .mpg, .mp3 or similar) and double-click to play.

Special Case : Partial Downloads

Sometimes a video file is split among many smaller RAR files. If you have all the parts you can play it as described above, but what if some files are missing or “broken”? You can still play at least part of the video. To preview the video, follow these steps :

1. Locate the first of the .rar files. Depending on the version of WinRAR used to create them, the first file will either have “part1″ in it’s name, or it will be the only file with the “.rar” extension (other files will have extensions like “.r01″, “.r02″ and so on).

2. Right-click the file and choose “Extract Files…”. A dialog box will appear.

3. Tick the checkbox that says “Keep broken files” (it’s in the lower left corner).

4. Click OK and wait while the files are decompressed. Eventually an error message will come up, click Cancel.

5. Now you have a video file that you can play in any video player that can handle broken files. Windows Media Player isn’t always able to do this – I personally recommend the free VLC media player for this task.

Here’s an extra tip – sometimes the VLC player can play RAR files right away, without extracting them first. This depends on the video codec and the compression algorithm used, so it may not work in certain cases.

Download VLC Player to compare and see all its features and the media playable.

Buy an R4 Card Cartridge off Amazon,eBay or wherever you want. They can cost around ï¿¡25- ï¿¡40. Make sure you get one that comes with a memory card and CD.

Once you have got it insert the CD into the computer and follow the instructions. If by any means you don’t have the CD don’t worry it is easy to setup. Once you have loaded the CD and followed the on screen instructions you are ready to go.

Insert your small memory card into the USB, their should be a slot at the top. The memory card should be like a small Sandisk or Kingston. The higher the gig the more games,movies or music you can put on. Insert the Usb into your computer.

Open the folder, should be removable disk. If you have installed the CD then their should be 2 files called ‘Moonshell’ and ‘System’. If you have not got these then go onto google and search for them. I am not sure what the website is called but it is quite easy to find. Once found download the files and only put the system and moon shell file on your USB. The system file is definitely required.

In the system folder on your USB create a folder and name it ‘games’, this is where you will save your games.

Now you are ready to download games but first you need to download ‘WINRAR’. This is needed to extract your games so that they will work on your DS. Its a brilliant application. To get this search Google for it and just find the link then download.

This is a great website and easy to use. On the website go to download roms or search and find the one you want, once found you will have to enter a codeto download the game,don’t worry it is nothing serious. Now it should come up with where you want to save it. Save it in an appropriate place. The game should now be downloading.

Now the game is downloaded find the file and right click it, if Winrar is installed you should see the option to extract. Click on that and choose the location you want to play it. In this case it will be on your USB, save it to their in your games section. It will now say extracting. Once that is done remove your USB and stick the small memory stick into your R4 at the top. insert into your ds and you are ready to go.

Find the games file by clicking on the smiley face and then going into the games file and choose the game you want to play. HAPPY GAMING.

Before even putting the game in, download WinRar. After downloading, download the game you want for your R4. Save it on your destop because it is easy to spot unless you have a messy destop. Make a new folder and name it after the game. Open up the folder so long with the game’s Winrar. A pop up should appear after opening the WinRar but just click close. You should be able to see books stacked on top of each other. They should have the same names but different numbers. If you see it, your on the right track still. If not, I’ll explain later. Anyway, click your mouse from the top (not the folder inside the WinRar but the 1st Winrar, you know what I mean?), drag it down to the last WinRar and the LAST. Drag all the Winrar into the new folder your created named after your game. Select all of the WinRar that means all of the WinRar are in blue (click mouse in the new folder and drag until all WinRar is selected). Right click and that should give you different options. Click “Extract Here”. Let it finish loading. To let you know, some games will have an error while extracting but don’t get pissed off if it doesn’t work. I’m sure there is an another one that will work from a different website. Anyway, after extracting, click your mouse on the “Start” (bottom left corner of screen) and you should see “My computer”. Click it and you should get a “My Computer File” You should see a name called “Removable Disk”, just one unless you have other usb on.

It didn’t have enough space to put it all together so I had to do it seperate.(Part 2 of “Before even puttin in”) Make a file called “Games” in your removable disk, this would allow you to go in the folder from your ds. After double clicking on “Games”, on the destop, drag your folder inside and let it transfer. After complete, go in the folder and delete the WinRar because it is a waste of room. The folder should only have the game file.
Safely eject the usb out and put the microchip inside the R4, put on the ds and turn on. On the ds, press A on the fist square on the left, you should see the “Games” folder. Press A, you should see the new game file you put in, press A on it. Press A on the new game and it should have a pop up saying something like “This game file does not have a save file, do you want to make one”in different languages. Press A which automatically makes one. And start playing!