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R4i+ 3DS/DS Gold & R4i 3DS RTS

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Info

This is an Acekard 2i based cart from the r4ids.cn team. It's one of the few carts with official WoodR4 support, alongside the Original R4. WoodR4 1.64 also has Real-Time-Save, which is a fairly rare feature.

Setup Guide:

  1. Format the SD card you are using by following the formatting tutorial.

  2. Download the R4iDS WoodR4 1.64 kernel.

  3. Open/extract the zip file, and copy the contents into the root of your SD card.

  4. If you'd like to be able to use cheats on your games, download a cheat database.

  5. You will need the usrcheat.dat file from the download link in the post. Copy this file to __rpg/cheats/ on your SD card. (Create the cheats folder if it doesn't exist)

  6. Create a Games folder in your SD card root, and place your .nds game ROMs inside. You can also create additional folders to help with organizing/categorizing your ROMs.

  7. The files on your SD card should now look like this:

    • R4iDS Wood

  8. Insert the SD card back into your cart, plug the cart into your DS, and see if it boots into the menu.

Tip

If you are unable to get any games to load in WoodR4, you may have one of the last-batch carts with faulty DS mode. If that's the case, you'll need to setup BL2CK instead.

Themes

Looking to change the default theme? Check out the themes repository at themes.flashcarts.net!

Kernel Info

Pico-Launcher is the game menu for the DS-Pico (an open source DS flashcart by the LNH team) and other supported carts. Combined with Pico-Loader, it can be used as a full kernel, and supports almost all retail DS games. It features a material-inspired user interface, and an extremely fast loader.

Soft-Reset & RTS Not Supported

Note that Pico-Launcher/Loader currently does not support soft-resetting to the game menu. If this is important to you, consider using WoodR4.

Real-Time-Save (save states), are only supported in WoodR4 1.64. Follow the WoodR4 guide if this is a feature you'd like to use.

  1. Format the SD card you are using by following the formatting tutorial.

  2. Download the latest Pico Package for AK2.

  3. Extract the pico_package_AK2.zip file with 7-Zip, or your native file manager app.

  4. From within the extracted files, copy the following files/folders to your SD card root:

    • _pico folder

    • _picoboot.nds

    • _ds_menu.dat

  5. If you'd like to be able to use cheats on your games, download a cheat database.

  6. You will need the usrcheat.dat file from the download link in the post. Copy this file into the _pico folder on your SD card.

  7. Create a Games folder in your SD card root, and place any .nds game ROMs you'd like to play inside.

  8. The files on your SD card should now look like this:

    • R4iDS Pico

  9. Insert the SD card back into your cart, plug the cart into your DS, and see if it boots into the menu.