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R4iSDHC RTS Black

R4iSDHC RTS Black

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Cart Info

These carts are clones of the M3 DS Real cart. They advertised RTS support in their stock kernel, similar to the M3's RTS support in its Sakura kernel. As the cart is M3 hardware at the end of the day, it's compatible with M3 loaders such as M3DS YSMenu and M3DS Pico-Launcher. Thanks to LifeHackerHansol's work on M3DS flashcart-bootstrap, the R4 RTS Black cart now has a way to autoboot both of these kernels.

Warning

This page does not apply to the 2025 r4isdhc.com Black RTS cart! Those carts are regular DEMON-HW DSTTi clones, like the rest of the 2014+ r4isdhc.com carts. If you have this cart, please see this page for setup instead.

Setup Guide:

Kernel Info

Pico-Launcher is the game menu for the DSpico (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 YSMenu or the stock kernel.

RTS is only supported on the stock kernel, provided at the bottom of the page.

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

  2. Download the latest Pico Package for M3DS Real.

    • Currently updated to Pico-Launcher v1.3.0 and Pico-Loader v1.6.0

  3. Extract the pico_package_M3DS.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.sys

  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:

    • M3DS

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

Post-Setup Enhancements

Emulators

To emulate retro consoles like GBA, GB/C, NES, and others, you will need to add emulators and configure their file associations for Pico-Launcher to display retro ROMs in the menu.

Emulators Tutorial

Game Covers

Pico-Launcher supports showing game covers in cover flow layout mode, and on the top screen in icons mode. You will need to add cover images to your SD card to use this feature.

PicoCover

Themes

Looking to customize your DSpico interface? Check out the Pico themes repository:

Themes Repository

To create your own custom themes for Pico-Launcher, check out the themes creator:

Themes Creator

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

  2. Download the r4isdhc.com RTS Black YSMenu 7.06 package.

  3. Next, extract the contents of the downloaded kernel zip to your SD card.

  4. Place any .nds game ROMs you'd like to play into the Games folder.

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

    • RTS Black YS

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

Post-Setup Enhancements

Emulators

To emulate retro consoles on your DS like GBA, GB/C, NES, and others, you will need to download emulators.

Emulators Tutorial

Themes

Looking to customize your menu? Check out the YSMenu themes repository:

Themes Repository

Tip

If you'd like to use RTS (Real-Time-Save), you can also use the cart's stock kernel, provided below. Do keep in mind though that game compatibility won't be as good as YSMenu, and the RTS feature itself can be hit-or-miss.