How to Set Up R4i Gold Wood Firmware
The Wood R4 Firmware released by yellow Woods Goblin, Since Forest R4 v1.17, in that location is a Wood R4i Gold firmware released past the (http://www.r4ids.cn)R4iDSN team. This firmware is produced in close cooperation betwixt me and the R4iDSN team, information technology gets the same back up from me as do my other firmwares. Caution: The Forest R4i Gold firmware is simply for the R4i Gold fabricated by (http://www.r4ids.cn) R4iDS, Other R4i Aureate cards, due to dissimilar hardware, can non utilise the Wood R4i Gold firmware (including the R4i Gilt v2 by
www.r4ids.com,r4i-gold by world wide web.r4i-gold.eu, etc) ,the Wood R4 Kernel can back up R4 DS (Version 2) Carte.
You can install Forest R4 to be your R4’south chief
OSMenu, or if you already accept your R4 setup with the R4 official OSMenu/ YSMENU you tin setup Woods R4 as a secondary OSMenu.
- OSMenu: This is your R4’southward Operating system, and is stored on the MicroSD card. Many people refer to this as firmware, which information technology isn’t.
To install Wood R4 as your main OSMenu (recommended):
Download the lastest version of Wood R4 from
Wood R4 Firmware Download
(which is currently i.12). Extract this to a binder, once extracted double left-click on this folder. You should now encounter a binder called wood_r4_1.12, double left-click on wood_r4_1.12. You lot should now see a folder named root_r4 along with two text files: changelog.txt and readme.for.r4.users.txt. The two text files contain information revelant to this release, y’all should consider reading them before installing although it isn’t necessary. Double left-click on root_r4, yous will now see 2 files: _DS_MENU.DAT and __rpg. Select both these these files and copy them to the root directory of your MicroSD card.
Your MicroSD card should now await similar:
The file _DS_MENU.DAT is Wood R4, and __RPG contains files used past Woods R4, so don’t delete them. The autorun.inf and icon file volition be merely exist nowadays if y’all installed an icon as above.
If you lot have ‘Automobile Style’ enabled in your DS’s system carte, your DS volition automatically load Wood R4 when powered on if the R4 is inserted. Yous will however still become the Wellness and Safety screen on ability upwards, merely yous won’t demand to press (A) or tap the screen when information technology appears.
You tin can hide the __rpg binder so it’southward won’t announced in Wood. To practise this right click on __rpg, select
properties, put a tick in the
subconscious
box and click ok.
If you lot later want to view the __rpg folder to add skins or cheats databases, you lot can do this put adding __rpg to the Micro SD driver letter address in Windows Explorer
Unless you want to install Wood R4 as a secondary OSMenu, you should now go to Step 5.
To install Wood R4 every bit a secondary OSMenu:
If you already accept your R4 setup with some other Operating Software, you can setup Forest R4 up as a secondary operating software. Wood R4 will peacefully coexist with both the Official R4 software and YSMenu on the same MicroSD card, y’all tin download the last version of the official R4 software (v1.18) from
R4 DS Kernel Download
. To set Wood R4 up as a secondary operating software, create a directory chosen WoodR4 and excerpt the downloaded Wood R4 annal to this directory. Download and extract
R4CRYPT
to this same directory. At present Re-create R4CRYPT.EXE into the wood_r4_v1.XX directory. Hold downwardly shift key and right click on the wood_r4_v1.Twenty directory and select “Open command window here”.
In the black box that pops up type “r4crypt.exe -d _DS_MENU.DAT WOODR4.NDS” and press enter.
Enter the wood_r4_v1.XX directory, delete _DS_MENU.DAT and r4crypt.exe, now re-create the entire contents of the directory to your MicroSD card.
Alternatively a premade Wood R4 v1.56 as secondary Operating Software can be downloaded from
here
