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R4i SDHC Renovation V2.10T & V2.20T

R4i SDHC Renovation V2.10T & V2.20T

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Cart Info

These carts are very old demon-hardware DSTTi clones, and have a special quirk - they load part of the cart's firmware from a file on the SD card - _DS_MENU.DAT. When the _DS_MENU.DAT file is present on the SD, it will behave like a normal demon DSTT clone - checks for an R4.dat to load, and shows MENU? if the file isn't found. If the SD card is empty however, the cart will load to a white screen.

Setup Guide:

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

  2. Download the V2.10T/V2.20T 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:

    • R4 V2.10T

  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

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 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.

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

  2. Download the latest Pico Package for DSTT.

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

  3. Extract the pico_package_DSTT.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

    • r4.dat

  5. Download the _DS_MENU.DAT file for V2.10T/V2.20T carts and place it on your SD card root.

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

  7. 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.

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

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

    • R4i-SDHC

  10. 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 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