purchased it with your Acekard 2i and the included USB MicroSD SDHC reader / writer.

First Step: Downloading the firmware

The instructions on the box will tell you to go to the official Acekard 2i website, do so. It’s the place that  you’ll always get the latest version of the firmware files. Now, when I say firmware, you may be thinking that you’re going to have to FLASH a chip, or run a command line script to update the card. That’s not the case at all.

You’ll download a compressed RAR file which you’ll have to uncompress into a folder on your desktop or elsewhere on your PC. Doesn’t matter where you save it – just make a note of where it is when you need it.
Once you have uncompressed the file, you’ll have two files in that folder.

* akmenu4.nds (file)
* __ak2 (folder)

Just copy the file and the whole folder right on to the root of your microSD card.

Step Two: Copying Your Content (video, mp3, ebook, etc…)

My recommendation from the start is always to create specific folders also on the root of your microSD Card. Make a folder called GAMES for your GAMES. A folder called MUSIC for your MUSIC and so on. This will help you to keep
things origanized and you’ll know where to go when you want to load something. The Acekard 2i has absolutely no
problem with using folders, so you can keep everything nice and organized.

Make sure you leave some room on the microSD card for your save games. As every game you load to play, will also
create a save game file (with a .sav extension) you’ll want at least 5-10 megs available to be sure that you can
save your games and don’t run out of space.

Step Three: Plug It In.
Take your microSD card and insert it into the microSD Card slot on your Acekard 2i. Then plug the Acekard 2i dsi
into the slot 1 card slot on your Nintendo DS or Nintendo DSi. If you own a DSi, you can also plug in the acekard
two even while the DSi is running because it is fully hotswap enabled.

Once you turn on your Nintendo DS or DSi, you’re going to see the Acekard 2i card on the menu. Just hit A or tap
the icon of the Acekard 2i with your stylus and your’ll see a loading screen for a second, and then you’ll be
greeted with the main Acekard 2i menu.

The Acekard 2i uses the same menu as the Acekard RPG and Acekard 2. For those of you that have not seen either of
the other card, here’s a quick run down. The top Screen displays the date, time and a mini calendar. The bottom
screen gives you two options. You’ll see a microSD card and GBA Slot option. While there is no GBA slot on the
Nintendo DSi, this remains on the menu for Nintendo DS / DS lite owners.

Tap the micro SD card option and you’ll be greeted with the contents of your card, all organized into neat little
folders (you did make the folders I suggested, right?) You can use the control pad or the stylus to select the
folder and tapping it or pressing the A button will take you into the folder. If you want to move back out of the
folder, simply press the B button.

By default, any NDS files, homebrew apps / games, etc… are listed by and .NDS extension and whatever file name it
has. It can get pretty confusing when most filenames are only 8-10 characters long. So you should rename these
files to file names that you can easily see and recognize. To load any file, just scroll to it using the control
pad and press the A button. In about 2 seconds the file will have loaded and will boot automatically.

That is all there is to it. You can be up and running (and playing) in just a few minutes from the time you unboxed
your Acekard 2i.

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Thanks mark for the tutorial.

1.    Check if your Acekard has the driver on. If you can see the following Acekard operating system interface on your DSi or DS Lite console, that means your Acekard DSi driver is on.

2.    Now, download the firmware from here .

3.    Unzip the firmware file downloaded, there are two firmware update files.(important!)
a)    For DSi        :ak2ifw_update_14_DSi.nds
b)    For DS Lite     :ak2ifw_update_14_DSL.nds
c)    If you have multiple Acekard 2i cards that you wish to update all in a row, run on the DS Lite console using ak2ifw_update_14_DSL.nds

4.    Now copy the appropriate firmware file to the root folder of the microSD memory card.

5.    Plug in the microSD to the Acekard 2i and insert the Acekard 2i to the DS console.

6.    Select the microSDCard icon on the main operating system.

7.    Select the firmware file AK2IFW_UPDATE_14_DSI.NDS by pressing A on the right hand side control pad.

8.    You will be prompted if you want to update the firmware as follows:

9.    Press Start on the DS to continue

10.    The following screen shows that the update has been started.

11.    The following screen shows that the update has been completed. Congratulation! Restart your DS now.

12.    The Acekard icon on the DSi main menu has been changed to that for DANNY PHANTOM URBAN JUNGLE THQ.

13.Enjoy your acekard 2i.

AK-AIO 1.5
+ Fixed issue with the hiddenFileNames globalsettings option not accepting non lowercase filenames.
+ Optimizations to the AK2 dldi should be a little quicker now.
+ Update Dutch translation (Thanks MarioWaza).
+ Update Spanish translation (Thanks Pendor).
+ AK2/AK2i clones are now officially unsupported.
+ Gba icon has been removed from main selection screen on DSi.
+ Removed outdated plugin system.
+ Per rom GBA frame support (256x192x15bpp)
- Place BMP with internal game id of gba rom in __aio/frames.
+ Added support for save sizes up to 256Mbit (32Megabyte).
+ .sav is now default save extension.
+ Reverse Alphabetical List sorting (set sortListAlpha=0 in globalsettings.ini).
+ Auto-Anti-Piracy Patcher updated.
+ ARGV support for homebrew.
+ New DSi detection (Shouldn't show slot2 icon after softreset on ak2i now).
+ Disable start menu by adding "LockStartMenu = 1" to your globalsettings.ini
+ Fixed Trainer Toolkit support.
Please refer to LoaderChangelog.txt for compatibility fixes.

You can download akaio 1.5 at the author’s site:AKAIO.1.5.rar

You can get more information about Acekard 2i flashcard at:Acekard 2i