I hear and share your pain everyone, but I have finally cracked the secret code with troublesome R4s. I have the older one that takes the 1.18 kernel I downloaded. Firstly, I had a two dodgy 2GB - they were Toshibas. I now have Kingston's and no more probs. Secondly, I have put some card in behind the R4 as someone suggested here to assist the connection and has worked fine ever since. Thirdly, delete the "English" folder but keep the subdirectorys and copy it onto the card. Make a new folder in the root DIR, along with _system_ & moonshl folders called "game" and copy your games into it. Once your card is in the console, press the left hand icon. Use the cross to scroll down to "game". Press "A" button to select. Use the cross to scroll down to disired game. Press"A" to select. Tap "OK" to load SAV file and your reday to play. Hope this helps a lot of people, but if saves someone a whole precious day trying to figure it for themselves, then I feel better!