The bios.bin file is something you all need to get yourself it's not needed I don't know why I mentioned this here but it's only for GBA compatibility for SOME games.
I tried so many different downloads now, but everytime i get it to run ut only puts me in a black menu. I can only see 3 icons, the SD, Gameboy Cartridge and a folder. None of them have names and i cant get access any of them. I dont even have the background like in the videos...
@@st8vie282 If this still matters to you, that AOMIE folder has a How To Install.txt file in there with the passcode for the program. As for the DS Menu file, I just copied the DS Menu from my old R4's SD card onto the new one and it worked. It seems the _rpg folder is all that's needed to apply the update (at least, I sure hope so). Also, I wish somebody told me this, but the FIRST thing you have to do after updating is to go to settings and change Save extension to .nds.save, otherwise your old save files won't work.
dude i dont understand how you dont have more subs and views. thank you so much, i wanted to put some more roms on my SD card and the card went flying out of the cartridge when i tried taking it out, i couldnt find the firmware ANYWHERE, not even reddit. thank you.
Ha I'm glad this helped, if you want more compatibility jump over to my R4 playlist and use TWilight Menu you can play a lot more games using it! However the main kernel serves its purpose for the most popular games! Thanks for becoming part of the DMG Clan if you Subscribed that is lol!
@@DNAMobileGaming where can I find the main kernel? The video was so helpful, but I want to know where is the OG kernel, because I see a lot of strange links on the Internet haha
Crazy helpful Video!! My friend bought a random off brand r4 card and we looked for ages for the right firmware. After we almost gave up i found your video and everything worked instantly!! Big thanks
Hi mate thank you so much you saved my life I bought for almost 40 euros my R4 with a Micro SD Card separately from the R4 and also an adaptater for my Mac, I've been trying for weeks to set up the R4 and I've watched a lot of videos and read a lot of forums, but you are the only one that could help me so far, and as a French man it was difficult to understand every single word, so I guess that if I finally could set up my R4 it's because you are so great at guiding and explaining it all, I mean I literally better understood you, in another language than my mine, than dozen of people talking French. Thank you a lot !
You show those steps in very detail it's easy for me to understand and you explain it well, unlike other youtube channels and videos that explain the same r4 as you but they explain it in a way that's hard to understand 👍 thank a lot ! 👍
This firmware just works. The old firmware didn't run all roms and LRABXY combo resetted the game (not going back to the menu). This firmware just works as i needed. Thank you
Same I’ve gotten into these cards this year, I literally hate mobile gaming. Most are micro transaction based or ads every 30 seconds. And if it isn’t any of that it’s a tiresome mainstream game that’s been around for years like COC or subway surfers. R4 cards make it possible to go back to the golden handheld gaming years. Psp needs their version of a r4 card!
THANK YOU!! I finally got my flashcart to work again after it decided to just...stop working. Didn't even get the 'can't read ds_menu.dat' error, so I have zero idea what the issue was. Thank you so much for this!
worked like magic. I spent an hour trying to figure out why it couldn’t read the 2 of the 3 SD cards i owned. First i thought the R4 was faulty but it it was 100 percent the sd cards, 1 of 3 of my SD cards worked all formatted the same way. I guess the R4 is just REALLY picky on SD’s lol
@Nakoruru87 your SD Cards could be corrupt as well, if you use sd Formatter or even Rufus it'll fix any errors on the card. I own a ton of fake knock of sd cards and brand name ones, they all work fine. The downside to the fake ones are read/write speeds being extremely slow. Glad you got it working though
Ive got a 520 in 1 cart from Amazon and it no longer loads on the 3ds xl. It loaded just fine last year but now the 3ds doesn’t even recognize it. I even bought a new one and that doesn’t load either? Should I try a new micro sd card or buy a new R4 cartridge?
Oh sweet! 😄 These are my favourite cards because of compatibility mostly. Thank you for supporting the channel by using the links, if you ever need help with getting Twilight Menu setup let me know otherwise the default menu should be loaded on the one you bought!
Do you have a video for R4 revolution cards for NDSI/NDSL/NDS with a black label? I saw your video with just NDSL/NDS but I got stuck on a loading screen.
Hi I just bought one of these for my dsi xl and the Labryinth menu shows up, but once i press it its stuck on a black screen that says "an error has occurred press and hold the power button to turn the system off, please refer to the nintendo dsi operations manual for details". any help?
Thank you! It worked perfectly and now games also being saved. I used an another kernel earlier and it was a lot of problems with saving and sound. This one is much smoothier and works fine. Update: Only GBA roms doesnt work and I have no idea why... It is only white screen with Pokemon Unbound.gba
It's not weird it's completely common you need TWilight Menu GBARunner isn't being updated for the R4 card currently so the compatible games will only work without TWilight Menu patches. Games like Pokemon Emerald also don't work unless you install TWilight Menu.
@@DNAMobileGaming I used TwilightMenu now and it still doesnt work with Pokemon Unbound and Rowe. Only Pokemon pinball seems to works with it. Thanks for help anyway!
Hi, I just completed the tutorial and everything seems to work great but I have a few questions. 1. Do the softwares I pasted onto the micro SD card remove the timebomb on the r4 chip? 2. you mentioned in the video that some gba games don’t work like pokemon emerald and such and recommended to download twilight. I saw the guide for downloading twilight should my microsd card only have files from twilight if i were to also install twilight menu along with what I have currently or will I need to replace everything with twilight menu?
1 There isn't a time bomb on this version 2 2024 R4 Card Playlist has what you need 3 GBA Emulation is hit and miss in the R4 but TWilight Menu helps with specific games not working on the original kernel.
@@DNAMobileGaming Thank you so much for your answers. In your twilight menu set up video, you mention that once the r4 card is inserted, it should say bomberman, but my icon is still deep labyrinth. Is it still okay to install twilight menu on it?
Ok i got a question. I have an original ‘phat’ DS. Bought r4 sdhc 3ds dsi dual core smart update 2023. I followed your instructions exactly with good micro card 32gb. i get the labyrinth game on menu, then click on it i getva black screen and ‘loading…’?
Multiple reasons, A - Your cartridge slot of the DS could be dirty and it's not reading the pins on the R4 Card properly. B - Try setting the date to a more present year idk why but if the date on the DS even though it's not time bombed is set back sometimes the card bugs out probably the bios. C - The SD Card could be faulty I've had all 3 of these scenarios happen to me before and these methods all helped with fixing the infamous LOADING screen.
Thank yo so much for this tutorial, this helped me out so much. Just one little thing, the bios file wasn't in folder i downloaded from the discription
You need to get your own bios, that wasn't supposed to be part of anything mind you it doesn't help either. If you want more compatibility just install TWilight Menu
Reload your drivers, check your usb cord, never had this issue ever on both Windows 10/11 but have heard others having it randomly. Not sure why either.
@mdnghtfrygmer when you turn on your device does the game say Deep Labrynth as the game? If your DS console tried to auto boot turn this setting off so you can tell if you have the right card as the infamous loading is caused by a couple reasons.
@mdnghtfrygmer that is the reason why this doesn't work for you, you need the AceCard firmware most likely the 1.62 from this site ace3ds.com/ace-3ds-download.html
Great video. Is there any other way to tell if a card is a R4 card apart from the sticker on the front? I recently bought a DS game card, and it opened onto Deep Labyrinth, but where the R4 sticker would be the company's put another sticker there ("508 games in 1", etc.). The card appears the same otherwise, except the opening menu was different from the one in your video. Thanks.
Technically it's the same game then with a different theme those 508 games in 1 cards are a huge scam you can literally buy R4 cards loaded with games too and usually for half the price. Not sure how companies get away with it as according to the interwebs downloading games is illegal lol but these companies must've found a loophole. Anyways you already found out how to tell, figuring out what bios it loads is the main step and if it's the Deep Labrynth game then this kernel SHOULD work perfectly fine.
Hey! Sorry, I did not fully get the difference between the smart update and the RTS versions. Does the smart update do not have the save state function? Is there any other difference?
The Smart Update has an updated kernel that completely removes the time bomb feature that was in the Real Time Save cards. The Real Time Save cards have a Save State function but the original kernel had a time bomb which can be removed easily.
Do you know how to change an r4 card? A friend bought me a game (Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time) online for a game I lost years ago. I didn't realize it was a flash card until someone from Reddit told me a bit about it. Mine is more of a gray/black color with the game sticker for the game. I am considering adding a game to it, but I am an absolute noob for this... 😅
A you didn't pay attention to the beginning of the video if you're getting that error, B the video below will explain why. ua-cam.com/video/y6yw1CHjgTw/v-deo.html
when I put the card in my ds lite i see spongbob ..i click on it and it stuck on black screen says loading..... I try ur files not working ....the card is 2016 r4 smart update
I tried installing the firmware because I have a 2023 smart update R4 card and it said corrupted file after I installed… it no longer reads on my USB. I’m not sure why this would happen. I’m new to the whole R4 thing and I’m just trying to set up my DS lite with the card.
Hi, I have the R4 dual-core sdhc real time save 2024 and when its all done i put the r4 in my dsi xl, it detect a game named touch bomberman land and not deep labrynth. When i launch him, i have a white screen and "menu?" write in red on the top screen. what i do wrong ?
i tried this along with like 10 other different firmwares for my Dsi 2014 R4SDHC card (that ends with .hk) but none of them work, they all just stuck in the "LOADING..." when i launch it
I have a small question, the main reason I got this was to play 3ds games, would I need to make a seperate folder for 3ds games or can I just drop them in?
@@bleedorange1998 open the snemul.cfg file change the /SNES ROMS to /snes not sure why that file keeps converting back to /SNES ROMS I'll fix this later today.
I need really Help i have the R4 SDHC 3DS Dsi 2024 and i can't klick the Start menu Button. I changed my Wallpaper one time and now i can't get in the Start menu to change Languages ,Wallpapers. Is there a way to fix it??? please
@DNAMobileGaming should I format my SD and only have the Twilight menu on it? And does this work even though my card doesn't specifically says "Real Time Saver" like you said in your setup guide for twilight menu?
There's a guide for types of cards for TWilight Menu in the playlist. Back up your saves if you have any then format to fat32, copy all the files in the zip to the root of the SD card and follow the rest shown in the guide.
@@DNAMobileGaming followed all your steps yet I am stuck in white screen. :/ I watched the video "R4 Card with TWillight Menu Smart Update How To Guide 2024".
This isn't the guide for TWilight Menu though so not sure what you mean? The only time I've ever had a white screen is with rom hacks and incompatible games.
Strange thing on my side. The “original” firmware can’t boot any NDS file (stuck at “loading”) but TwlightMenu works just fine. Do you know what I may be doing wrong?
Hello, when I try to format partition on Aomei it gaves error: “We are sorry, the current program has occured unknown error!” Do you know what may cause this problem?
Just try a different adapter, I notice this sometimes too even with a good adapter usually it happens with fake SD cards more than real ones that aren't corrupt.
As far as I know I have the same card. I get the Deep Labyrinth when I put the r4 card in my 3ds, formatted using your steps with a 32gb card. When trying to boot it up I just get “Loading…” on a black screen infinitely. And idea how to fix this?
Is your 3DS hacked/modded? Check out the TWilight Menu setup guide in the 2024 R4 Playlist. You'll want TWilight Menu regardless. As long as you placed all the files in the correct located you'll get it setup in minutes.
@@DNAMobileGaming it’s not modded/hacked. Whether I have all the files on the sd card or nothing, I still get the “Loading…” screen. Your instructions seem pretty straightforward. Cant figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’ll try the Twilight setup. Could it possibly be an issue with the SD card?
Not really sure what you mean? You can only see 4 games? If that's the case did you follow the guide or just download the files? I've never had an issue with only being able to see only 4 games so you must've done something wrong.
Ive been having problems with just having a black screen. I have the 2024 R4 card that does show up as labyrinth but nothing. same thing happened with the twilight tutorial. is it an issue if the 3ds has already been hacked?
The R4 Card doesn't run 3DS games you're not the only one that has been misinformed about this and I'm not sure why anyone thinks it does as the card was designed for the DS originally. But now you have learned even more! In 20...24...
hi! the bios is not in the folder R4 Smart Update Original when I download the files. In fact, all is a bit different. are the files good or what am I missing?
There is no bios, you don't need a bios either, install TWilight Menu for better game compatibility hope that helps I have already stated why the files are different too in the description.
If you know how to use your Mac and extract zip files then just do that and copy everything. Also if you know how to show hidden files folders on the Mac then you'll see all the folders and files.
Idk if i did something wrong or if my unit is just different, but i got a screen that says "SD/TF card error," am i missing something? Great video may have just gotten lost or done something a little different
I'm going to try it with one that says r4 snoopy, maybe it starts with the maze, let's see what happens, if it doesn't work I'll return the previous one
First time I got this card working, but 1 downside, and Ive looked everywhere, savegames are not working, the .sav is created but never loaded with any game. Any advise? Got the 2023 dual core smart update card
The .sav is created once you load a game you need to get to a point in the game to save it example if you save in Pokemon Diamond manually and load the game again it will continue where you saved last. Or New Super Mario Bros if you make it to the castle it will also save there as well so the save will be set to the game name.sav. Make sure not to change the game name either so if the game is Pokemon.nds the save will me Pokemon.sav they need to match. I hope that helps.
I placed the nds file in nds folder. When I open up labyrinth it shows root sd folder slot 2 and favorites folders. Am I missing something? I am using a sandisk switch micro sd formatted in fat32 on my mac
Sweet video. You know this Nintendo yuzu thing has me worried but every time I turn on my Odin 2 pro that you gave me my worries subside this thing is just so smooth and perfectly made it's like butter 🧈 you da man 🫡
link 1 in the description downloads a folder called R4 Real Time Save r4isdhc... i'm not sure how to get the R4 Deep Labrynth Original folder you showed in the video.
I set mine up today but when I put in my sd card into the R4 my 3DS reads it as Touch! Bomberman Land, I press that and I just get a red box saying "menu?" I've formatted the card 3 times and reloaded the files you said but I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?
The _nds folder you're referring to is only for TWilight Menu, I removed it all the files you need for the Smart Update card to work by default are located in the zip shared.
Hi, I'm not good with these things but i recently bought a new 2023 R4, it might work? I also downloaded the folder in the link in the description but the bios file is missing, where can I find it? Sorry and greetings from Italy :)
Hey you need to confirm what card you have, put the SD card in the R4 then put it in your DS. If it loads Deep Labrynth then all you need to do is extract these files and put all the files and folders on the root of your SD card. After you confirm it loads, then put your games on it and play.
Heya! I have a question, my R4 loads into SpongeBob, what guide should I watch in that case? Or does this one work? Thanks in advance! Love the content, I'm glad someone is keeping DS emulation alive!
@@DNAMobileGaming Yeah, it's a 2017 Smart Update card for 2DS/3DS/DSi. I've tried everything but nothing quite seemed to work. Thanks again! I'll test with this and I'll let you know if it works!
Hola, acabo de comprar una smart update, quiero comprarme una SD, no domino tu idioma y ando un poco perdido, podrias ayudarme?? Que SD debería comprar? A1 v30? Cual es la más adecuada para esto? Y me recomiendas alguna marca en concreto??
@@DNAMobileGamingbruh, eso ya lo sabía, no me has resuelto nada xD vuelve a leer mis preguntas pls, ¿es importante eso de A1 v30/20? es que no entiendo. THANK YOU
Hello, i have done everything in this video and even copied everything to the root of my sd card but my ds lite still says that it cant open ds menu dat. Pls help!!!!!
@@DNAMobileGaming I just needed the proper kernal which i have thankfully found through reddit. Turns out the card i have is actually a bootleg but it loads as deep labrynth. I just dont knw how to load roms into it now
I’m struggling to find the right kernel for my R4 card also, mine loads deep labyrinth and says 2023 smart update R4 but the website listed on the card itself doesn’t have a kernel that works.
This is my dumb humor for no the R4 card never has been designed to play 3DS games if this was possible that would mean I could put my R4 card in my DS and play 3DS games. The card you might want to look for is the Stargate card on AliExpress. It can play most 3DS games without needing to hack your 3DS.
The bios.bin file is something you all need to get yourself it's not needed I don't know why I mentioned this here but it's only for GBA compatibility for SOME games.
I tried so many different downloads now, but everytime i get it to run ut only puts me in a black menu. I can only see 3 icons, the SD, Gameboy Cartridge and a folder. None of them have names and i cant get access any of them. I dont even have the background like in the videos...
@@DNAMobileGamingwhen I use the aomie application is says it requires a license code to use that I need to pay for
Also I can’t seem to find the ds menu for games on the download
@@st8vie282 If this still matters to you, that AOMIE folder has a How To Install.txt file in there with the passcode for the program. As for the DS Menu file, I just copied the DS Menu from my old R4's SD card onto the new one and it worked. It seems the _rpg folder is all that's needed to apply the update (at least, I sure hope so). Also, I wish somebody told me this, but the FIRST thing you have to do after updating is to go to settings and change Save extension to .nds.save, otherwise your old save files won't work.
dude i dont understand how you dont have more subs and views. thank you so much, i wanted to put some more roms on my SD card and the card went flying out of the cartridge when i tried taking it out, i couldnt find the firmware ANYWHERE, not even reddit. thank you.
Ha I'm glad this helped, if you want more compatibility jump over to my R4 playlist and use TWilight Menu you can play a lot more games using it! However the main kernel serves its purpose for the most popular games! Thanks for becoming part of the DMG Clan if you Subscribed that is lol!
@@DNAMobileGaming where can I find the main kernel? The video was so helpful, but I want to know where is the OG kernel, because I see a lot of strange links on the Internet haha
Crazy helpful Video!!
My friend bought a random off brand r4 card and we looked for ages for the right firmware. After we almost gave up i found your video and everything worked instantly!! Big thanks
Eh awesome, if you want an even better menu checkout the R4 playlist for TWilight Menu!
Hi mate thank you so much you saved my life I bought for almost 40 euros my R4 with a Micro SD Card separately from the R4 and also an adaptater for my Mac, I've been trying for weeks to set up the R4 and I've watched a lot of videos and read a lot of forums, but you are the only one that could help me so far, and as a French man it was difficult to understand every single word, so I guess that if I finally could set up my R4 it's because you are so great at guiding and explaining it all, I mean I literally better understood you, in another language than my mine, than dozen of people talking French. Thank you a lot !
THANK YOU SO MUCH, literally nothing else was working and this did it first try!
You show those steps in very detail it's easy for me to understand and you explain it well, unlike other youtube channels and videos that explain the same r4 as you but they explain it in a way that's hard to understand 👍 thank a lot ! 👍
Thanks, bro! I'm brazilian and we dont have so many tutorials like this em portuguese. u help me a lot. thanks, thanks and thanks!
This firmware just works. The old firmware didn't run all roms and LRABXY combo resetted the game (not going back to the menu). This firmware just works as i needed. Thank you
Thank you so much for posting! I 'broke' my R4 card but the files here got it back up and running!
I’m slowly, and slowly getting interested in r4 cards! 😂
Same lmao
Same I’ve gotten into these cards this year, I literally hate mobile gaming. Most are micro transaction based or ads every 30 seconds. And if it isn’t any of that it’s a tiresome mainstream game that’s been around for years like COC or subway surfers. R4 cards make it possible to go back to the golden handheld gaming years. Psp needs their version of a r4 card!
@@Hiro39367 there is an IOS emulator called Delta with no ads thats free but unfortunately it cant play 3DS games
@@Hiro39367 you can just mod the psp.
Life saver I tried adding games and messed it up and this video saved me 🎉
THANK YOU!! I finally got my flashcart to work again after it decided to just...stop working. Didn't even get the 'can't read ds_menu.dat' error, so I have zero idea what the issue was. Thank you so much for this!
Great video! Worked perfectly! I'm now gaming on my dsi thanks to you!!
Thank you for the guide and taking the time to explain all of that ! It is very helpful.
Worked perfect!! Takes longer to download the games than to finish the setup.
Thanks man. I have a flash card ive been trying to figure out which firmware i needed and this was it!
Eh awesome makr sure to check the TWilight Menu guide for more emulation
worked like magic. I spent an hour trying to figure out why it couldn’t read the 2 of the 3 SD cards i owned. First i thought the R4 was faulty but it it was 100 percent the sd cards, 1 of 3 of my SD cards worked all formatted the same way. I guess the R4 is just REALLY picky on SD’s lol
@Nakoruru87 your SD Cards could be corrupt as well, if you use sd Formatter or even Rufus it'll fix any errors on the card. I own a ton of fake knock of sd cards and brand name ones, they all work fine. The downside to the fake ones are read/write speeds being extremely slow. Glad you got it working though
@ yeah its funny the other 2 cards were corrupted and they were lexar but the Kingston brand one is the one that worked for some reason lol
Great channel, you deserve more subscribers and def. more likes! Very informative.
Literally just saved my Amazon Special (520 in 1) cart from being tossed. Thank you!
Ha awesome 😎
Ive got a 520 in 1 cart from Amazon and it no longer loads on the 3ds xl. It loaded just fine last year but now the 3ds doesn’t even recognize it. I even bought a new one and that doesn’t load either? Should I try a new micro sd card or buy a new R4 cartridge?
@@XTheColin85X
I'd personally try a new micro SD card. If that ends up not working, get a new R4.
just got one of the r4 cards with the affiliate link :D enjoy your videos! i am looking forward to making my first little custom ds cart!
Oh sweet! 😄 These are my favourite cards because of compatibility mostly. Thank you for supporting the channel by using the links, if you ever need help with getting Twilight Menu setup let me know otherwise the default menu should be loaded on the one you bought!
Impressive. I've been sleeping on ya. .but I'm here now. Twas thorough, and thanks
Thank you, worked like a charm
Thanks this video was very helpful hopefully it stays up for a long time
thanks so much no other ways worked
You're welcome I'm glad it worked out!
@@DNAMobileGaming I’m getting my gold 2023 R4 Card
You’re the best, thanks so much. Subscribed!!
You're the best, thank you so much! Now I can play all the games I want ^^
No problem to get the most out of your R4 throw on some TWilight Menu.
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO everything works!!!!
Do you have a video for R4 revolution cards for NDSI/NDSL/NDS with a black label? I saw your video with just NDSL/NDS but I got stuck on a loading screen.
I just updated my Discord with every R4 card for the Revolutions cards. I have all the original files in 4 languages for all 4 types of these cards.
Thank you so much. I´m your fan because I can play since now my ds.
Works perfect. Thank you
No problem glad it works!
Hi I just bought one of these for my dsi xl and the Labryinth menu shows up, but once i press it its stuck on a black screen that says "an error has occurred press and hold the power button to turn the system off, please refer to the nintendo dsi operations manual for details". any help?
Are you sure it's the same card because these both work in my DSi XL make sure of that as there are some cards that look like these but aren't these.
can someone solve my problem cause some games on my ds using r4 smart update touchscreen is unresponsible or not working like playing mario 64
Have you tested other games as I've never had any issues like this with the R4 card.
im also having the same problem with mario 64, the touch screen is totally unresponsive
Thank you! It worked perfectly and now games also being saved. I used an another kernel earlier and it was a lot of problems with saving and sound. This one is much smoothier and works fine. Update: Only GBA roms doesnt work and I have no idea why... It is only white screen with Pokemon Unbound.gba
Install TWilight Menu I have a guide for that too, glad you got the Base kernel working as that's why I shared this.
@@DNAMobileGaming It is weird that i have some other gba games there, and it seems only Pokemon Pinball rubby & sapphire works.
It's not weird it's completely common you need TWilight Menu GBARunner isn't being updated for the R4 card currently so the compatible games will only work without TWilight Menu patches. Games like Pokemon Emerald also don't work unless you install TWilight Menu.
@@DNAMobileGaming I used TwilightMenu now and it still doesnt work with Pokemon Unbound and Rowe. Only Pokemon pinball seems to works with it. Thanks for help anyway!
@nemesis9378 never heard of Unbound is that a ROM hack? If so then ROM hacks don't work either .
Im having an issue where none of my games are saving. Like I'll save my game and then come back and it didnt actually save.
What games? Not sure why this would happen but I've never had this issue with saves yet.
@@DNAMobileGaming in the settings of the r4 menu change the save file from .sav to .nds.sav it works for me
Little tip, if you are trying to format an sd card that is larger then 32GB then you will need to use a special tool like Rufus.
Yup Aomei Partition manager works great too I have a video about formatting your larger SD cards as well.
Hi, I just completed the tutorial and everything seems to work great but I have a few questions.
1. Do the softwares I pasted onto the micro SD card remove the timebomb on the r4 chip?
2. you mentioned in the video that some gba games don’t work like pokemon emerald and such and recommended to download twilight. I saw the guide for downloading twilight should my microsd card only have files from twilight if i were to also install twilight menu along with what I have currently or will I need to replace everything with twilight menu?
1 There isn't a time bomb on this version
2 2024 R4 Card Playlist has what you need
3 GBA Emulation is hit and miss in the R4 but TWilight Menu helps with specific games not working on the original kernel.
@@DNAMobileGaming
Thank you so much for your answers. In your twilight menu set up video, you mention that once the r4 card is inserted, it should say bomberman, but my icon is still deep labyrinth. Is it still okay to install twilight menu on it?
thanks bro, worked fine
Of course it does, now install TWilight Menu for better compatibility and UI.
Ok i got a question. I have an original ‘phat’ DS. Bought r4 sdhc 3ds dsi dual core smart update 2023. I followed your instructions exactly with good micro card 32gb.
i get the labyrinth game on menu, then click on it i getva black screen and ‘loading…’?
Multiple reasons, A - Your cartridge slot of the DS could be dirty and it's not reading the pins on the R4 Card properly. B - Try setting the date to a more present year idk why but if the date on the DS even though it's not time bombed is set back sometimes the card bugs out probably the bios. C - The SD Card could be faulty I've had all 3 of these scenarios happen to me before and these methods all helped with fixing the infamous LOADING screen.
Thank yo so much for this tutorial, this helped me out so much. Just one little thing, the bios file wasn't in folder i downloaded from the discription
You need to get your own bios, that wasn't supposed to be part of anything mind you it doesn't help either. If you want more compatibility just install TWilight Menu
Can someone pls help? When I try running aomei a windows pops up saying "load driver failed, please reinstall the program"
Reload your drivers, check your usb cord, never had this issue ever on both Windows 10/11 but have heard others having it randomly. Not sure why either.
Im having issues with mine ive tried a few firmwares and it keeps getting stuck on loading
What's stuck on loading? When you boot into the R4 or a game?
@@DNAMobileGaming when I boot the r4
@mdnghtfrygmer when you turn on your device does the game say Deep Labrynth as the game? If your DS console tried to auto boot turn this setting off so you can tell if you have the right card as the infamous loading is caused by a couple reasons.
@@DNAMobileGaming it comes up as the SpongeBob game and it's a homebrewed new 3ds xl
@mdnghtfrygmer that is the reason why this doesn't work for you, you need the AceCard firmware most likely the 1.62 from this site ace3ds.com/ace-3ds-download.html
Great video. Is there any other way to tell if a card is a R4 card apart from the sticker on the front? I recently bought a DS game card, and it opened onto Deep Labyrinth, but where the R4 sticker would be the company's put another sticker there ("508 games in 1", etc.). The card appears the same otherwise, except the opening menu was different from the one in your video. Thanks.
Technically it's the same game then with a different theme those 508 games in 1 cards are a huge scam you can literally buy R4 cards loaded with games too and usually for half the price. Not sure how companies get away with it as according to the interwebs downloading games is illegal lol but these companies must've found a loophole. Anyways you already found out how to tell, figuring out what bios it loads is the main step and if it's the Deep Labrynth game then this kernel SHOULD work perfectly fine.
@@DNAMobileGaming Cool, Thanks for the quick reply. Subscribed!
It's great, I tried it and it works for me except Pokemon Black 2, but the thing is, could a GBA game be added? with this card
@@pachex2165 load TWILIGHT Menu I have a guide for that too
Hey! Sorry, I did not fully get the difference between the smart update and the RTS versions. Does the smart update do not have the save state function? Is there any other difference?
The Smart Update has an updated kernel that completely removes the time bomb feature that was in the Real Time Save cards. The Real Time Save cards have a Save State function but the original kernel had a time bomb which can be removed easily.
Which folder do you put the 3DS ROMS in? And can you use both .CIA and .3DS extension roms?
All of them
Do you know how to change an r4 card? A friend bought me a game (Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time) online for a game I lost years ago. I didn't realize it was a flash card until someone from Reddit told me a bit about it. Mine is more of a gray/black color with the game sticker for the game. I am considering adding a game to it, but I am an absolute noob for this... 😅
I'm still having trouble... it shows a white screen with a red icon that says "MENU?"
Is there any way of fixing this?
A you didn't pay attention to the beginning of the video if you're getting that error, B the video below will explain why. ua-cam.com/video/y6yw1CHjgTw/v-deo.html
when I put the card in my ds lite i see spongbob ..i click on it and it stuck on black screen says loading..... I try ur files not working ....the card is 2016 r4 smart update
Then these files don't work for your card you need other files for that card specifically as it's an older Smart Update card.
@@DNAMobileGaming i try all the files available online but no luck lol
I downloaded it and it says r4 smart update original
I tried installing the firmware because I have a 2023 smart update R4 card and it said corrupted file after I installed… it no longer reads on my USB. I’m not sure why this would happen. I’m new to the whole R4 thing and I’m just trying to set up my DS lite with the card.
Honestly jump over to this guide you will want TWilight Menu anyways. ua-cam.com/video/oGvdl8sGxoE/v-deo.html
Hi thanks for the video! What is the difference between this and the Twilight menu update? Should we prefer one over another? Thanks!
This is the original kernel TWilight Menu has a better UI and more compatibility.
@@DNAMobileGaming Thanks for the fast reply. I will go with the Twilight then I think. Keep up the good work.
Hi, I have the R4 dual-core sdhc real time save 2024 and when its all done i put the r4 in my dsi xl, it detect a game named touch bomberman land and not deep labrynth. When i launch him, i have a white screen and "menu?" write in red on the top screen. what i do wrong ?
Well you came to the wrong video that's what check the R4 Playlist I have a guide for your card there too.
@@DNAMobileGaming tysm !!
Does anyone know if the Ali-Express edition of this card comes with a timebomb?
There isn't an AliExpress version of the card what do you mean?
How do you add games to favourite folder on this card?
I use TWilight Menu I don't use the default kernel.
i tried this along with like 10 other different firmwares for my Dsi 2014 R4SDHC card (that ends with .hk) but none of them work, they all just stuck in the "LOADING..." when i launch it
Probably stuck on loading for multiple reasons.
The video in the description for twilight menu isn't available anymore
It's in the playlist, thanks for reminding me to remove the link though as I uploaded a newer updated guide a few weeks ago
Hiii ..i have R4 Card 2016 Smart Update and it never work... It say loading
Does the card load Deep Labrynth or SpongeBob?
@@DNAMobileGaming when I put the card in my ds lite i see spongbob ..i click on it and I stuck on black screan says loading
I have a small question, the main reason I got this was to play 3ds games, would I need to make a seperate folder for 3ds games or can I just drop them in?
No this card doesn't allow 3ds games
@@DNAMobileGaming ah dang that really sucks :( Thats the whole reason i bought the darn thing
THANKS DUDE! i thought my r4 was non usable, but then i saw your vid! i gave a sub for the help
Is it possible if the R4 card came with the Deep Labrynth installed to swap over to the TWilight menu instead? Is it recommended to swap to Twiilght?
I have a guide for TWilight Menu on this card check out the playlist for the R4 Card in the description.
The SNES emulator cannot find the ROMs I put in the SNES file. What did I do wrong?
@@bleedorange1998 open the snemul.cfg file change the /SNES ROMS to /snes not sure why that file keeps converting back to /SNES ROMS I'll fix this later today.
I need really Help i have the R4 SDHC 3DS Dsi 2024 and i can't klick the Start menu Button. I changed my Wallpaper one time and now i can't get in the Start menu to change Languages ,Wallpapers. Is there a way to fix it??? please
Setup your R4 Card again you must've messed up the config.
My card is just stuck in white screen. Got an R4 wood with the dot cn (Dual Core-Smart update)
Sounds about right, put TWilight Menu on it.
@DNAMobileGaming should I format my SD and only have the Twilight menu on it? And does this work even though my card doesn't specifically says "Real Time Saver" like you said in your setup guide for twilight menu?
There's a guide for types of cards for TWilight Menu in the playlist. Back up your saves if you have any then format to fat32, copy all the files in the zip to the root of the SD card and follow the rest shown in the guide.
@@DNAMobileGaming followed all your steps yet I am stuck in white screen. :/
I watched the video "R4 Card with TWillight Menu Smart Update How To Guide 2024".
This isn't the guide for TWilight Menu though so not sure what you mean? The only time I've ever had a white screen is with rom hacks and incompatible games.
Strange thing on my side. The “original” firmware can’t boot any NDS file (stuck at “loading”) but TwlightMenu works just fine. Do you know what I may be doing wrong?
Oh man that sucks
@@DNAMobileGaming Just to clarify, nds-bootstrap boots games just fine but Wood kernel doesn't.
Do you need this for twilight menu or is this instead of twilight menu?
This is the default kernel for these cards.
Hello, when I try to format partition on Aomei it gaves error: “We are sorry, the current program has occured unknown error!” Do you know what may cause this problem?
Just try a different adapter, I notice this sometimes too even with a good adapter usually it happens with fake SD cards more than real ones that aren't corrupt.
As far as I know I have the same card. I get the Deep Labyrinth when I put the r4 card in my 3ds, formatted using your steps with a 32gb card. When trying to boot it up I just get “Loading…” on a black screen infinitely. And idea how to fix this?
Is your 3DS hacked/modded? Check out the TWilight Menu setup guide in the 2024 R4 Playlist. You'll want TWilight Menu regardless. As long as you placed all the files in the correct located you'll get it setup in minutes.
@@DNAMobileGaming it’s not modded/hacked. Whether I have all the files on the sd card or nothing, I still get the “Loading…” screen. Your instructions seem pretty straightforward. Cant figure out what I’m doing wrong. I’ll try the Twilight setup. Could it possibly be an issue with the SD card?
So these types of R4 Smart Update cards booting into Deep Labyrinth can't use YSMenu then?
Correct not sure why you'd want YSMENU anyways as TWilight Menu is the best menu in my opinion and works great
can you tell me why it seems i am only able to down load only 4 games onto my r4 card the older ones i was able to get loads of games onto them
Not really sure what you mean? You can only see 4 games? If that's the case did you follow the guide or just download the files? I've never had an issue with only being able to see only 4 games so you must've done something wrong.
Ive been having problems with just having a black screen. I have the 2024 R4 card that does show up as labyrinth but nothing. same thing happened with the twilight tutorial. is it an issue if the 3ds has already been hacked?
Black screen is caused by missing a step in the guide you need to make sure to follow the guide thoroughly.
Can I somehow get a 3DS Emulator in there? I'm searching for hours to set up 3DS games on the R4 card.
The R4 Card doesn't run 3DS games you're not the only one that has been misinformed about this and I'm not sure why anyone thinks it does as the card was designed for the DS originally. But now you have learned even more! In 20...24...
hi! the bios is not in the folder R4 Smart Update Original when I download the files. In fact, all is a bit different. are the files good or what am I missing?
There is no bios, you don't need a bios either, install TWilight Menu for better game compatibility hope that helps I have already stated why the files are different too in the description.
@@DNAMobileGaming thank you very much
Can you add Nintendo 3DS games? Since you tried to enter them in the folder but the games do not appear.
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I own a Mac..and somehow not all folders appear when downloading. Can anyone recommend any other firmware? I have no clue about this stuff
If you know how to use your Mac and extract zip files then just do that and copy everything. Also if you know how to show hidden files folders on the Mac then you'll see all the folders and files.
Idk if i did something wrong or if my unit is just different, but i got a screen that says "SD/TF card error," am i missing something? Great video may have just gotten lost or done something a little different
I have a guide for that too it also has a time stamp 😁 ua-cam.com/video/Psa4mND157s/v-deo.html
@DNAMobileGaming awesome thank you so much man! Ill try it out and see what happens
No problem basically sounds like the card wasn't formatted to fat32 😜
@DNAMobileGaming gotcha, ill see what i can do about it, seems like i probably did miss a step or something from this video
I'm going to try it with one that says r4 snoopy, maybe it starts with the maze, let's see what happens, if it doesn't work I'll return the previous one
If it loads Deep Labrynth and says Smart Update you'll be fine. The Snoopy doesn't matter.
Thanks, I already did it, it worked very well @@DNAMobileGaming
First time I got this card working, but 1 downside, and Ive looked everywhere, savegames are not working, the .sav is created but never loaded with any game. Any advise? Got the 2023 dual core smart update card
The .sav is created once you load a game you need to get to a point in the game to save it example if you save in Pokemon Diamond manually and load the game again it will continue where you saved last. Or New Super Mario Bros if you make it to the castle it will also save there as well so the save will be set to the game name.sav. Make sure not to change the game name either so if the game is Pokemon.nds the save will me Pokemon.sav they need to match. I hope that helps.
in the settings of the R4 menu chage the save file, from .sav to .nds.sav it work for me
I placed the nds file in nds folder. When I open up labyrinth it shows root sd folder slot 2 and favorites folders. Am I missing something? I am using a sandisk switch micro sd formatted in fat32 on my mac
Sorry I'm not really sure what you're asking me?
@@DNAMobileGaming no worries roms are not loading
@jjgems6732 so your .nds games aren't showing up even when you place them at the root of your SD card?
@@DNAMobileGaming ahhh no I shoved them in the NDS folder 😅
Sweet video. You know this Nintendo yuzu thing has me worried but every time I turn on my Odin 2 pro that you gave me my worries subside this thing is just so smooth and perfectly made it's like butter 🧈 you da man 🫡
link 1 in the description downloads a folder called R4 Real Time Save r4isdhc... i'm not sure how to get the R4 Deep Labrynth Original folder you showed in the video.
You could of used the second link but I just updated link 1 thank you for pointing this out, I did a huge link fix recently because of Discord.
@@DNAMobileGaming awesome cheers
I set mine up today but when I put in my sd card into the R4 my 3DS reads it as Touch! Bomberman Land, I press that and I just get a red box saying "menu?" I've formatted the card 3 times and reloaded the files you said but I get nothing. What am I doing wrong?
Hey so this isn't the tutorial for you that is linked in the description however 😁
@@DNAMobileGaming cool I’ll check it out. Thanks for the vid
i tried using download Link 1 & 2, and both times i didn't get a NDS file in the folder
The _nds folder you're referring to is only for TWilight Menu, I removed it all the files you need for the Smart Update card to work by default are located in the zip shared.
Hi, I'm not good with these things but i recently bought a new 2023 R4, it might work? I also downloaded the folder in the link in the description but the bios file is missing, where can I find it? Sorry and greetings from Italy :)
Hey you need to confirm what card you have, put the SD card in the R4 then put it in your DS. If it loads Deep Labrynth then all you need to do is extract these files and put all the files and folders on the root of your SD card. After you confirm it loads, then put your games on it and play.
Do I need a new MicroSD if mine says corrupt from downloading this firmware
Try formatting it with SD Formatter you must've done something wrong.
No way!!!! You saved me 30$ . You're great
Perfect 👌
Hey please dgn help i can't find the software to download for my 2022 dual core r4 card
Does your card say Smart Update and load Deep Labrynth?
YOU ARE AMAZING BRO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
hey i have a problem with it in the folder there is no bios.bin file can you help me or anny other person
You don't need it
Heya! I have a question, my R4 loads into SpongeBob, what guide should I watch in that case? Or does this one work? Thanks in advance! Love the content, I'm glad someone is keeping DS emulation alive!
If it's the Smart Update the Ace3ds firmware below will work.
flashcard-archive.ds-homebrew.com/Ace3DS+_R4iLS/
@@DNAMobileGaming Yeah, it's a 2017 Smart Update card for 2DS/3DS/DSi. I've tried everything but nothing quite seemed to work. Thanks again! I'll test with this and I'll let you know if it works!
@@DNAMobileGaming Sorry to bother you again, but once I get the files in the SD, where should I put the games? Do I make a folder myself for that?
@danielpinto804 just extract the files then place them in the root of the card. To get your most out of the card throw on twilight menu.
@@DNAMobileGaming Alright. Thank you so much for the help!
When can we turn the wifi on again? And should we deinstall it afterwards?
@@enmamu1430 what are you talking about?
@DNAMobileGaming when installing the programm to format the micro sd card. You mentioned that we should turn off the wifi to install it
@@DNAMobileGaming Partition Manager
@enmamu1430 oh that is only for the format tool aomei partition manager sorry lol.
I can't get gba games to work. Help me please
Check the description please as you'll need to install TWilight Menu.
@@DNAMobileGaming does it work on new 2ds xl
@@DNAMobileGaming does it work on new 2ds xl
Yes it does but if you have a New 2DS XL just hack it and use the R4 card for NDS games only.
Do i have to worry about time bombs with a card that says smart update?
No not at all, mind you the RTS cards don't even have this anymore with custom original kernels.
Hola, acabo de comprar una smart update, quiero comprarme una SD, no domino tu idioma y ando un poco perdido, podrias ayudarme?? Que SD debería comprar? A1 v30? Cual es la más adecuada para esto? Y me recomiendas alguna marca en concreto??
Buy 32GB SD Card, navigate to my TWilight Menu Guide. Extract files from folder, copy to SD Card. Copy games to folders, then game away.
@@DNAMobileGamingbruh, eso ya lo sabía, no me has resuelto nada xD vuelve a leer mis preguntas pls, ¿es importante eso de A1 v30/20? es que no entiendo. THANK YOU
@@DNAMobileGaming 👍🏻
@@DNAMobileGaming 👍🏻
is there a way to get real time saves on this r4 card?
No this cards doesn't have this function.
I noticed the audio on the GBA roms sound weird, am i doing something wrong?
Not every game on GBA will play well, check the compatibility list for GBA to confirm.
@ the compatibility said it was fine, but after some more research it just seems like the gba emulator i have is one of the lower quality ones 🥲
@kylematos5415 well gbarunner isn't amazing regardless. It really sucks that development for the R4 card hasn't progressed more.
trying to run pokemon emerald but the emulators that came with the download link just boot the game up to a flickering white screen.
If course it does you need to install TWilight Menu to get a lot of games to work 😁
@@DNAMobileGaming I got it to work thank you for the support!
Hello, i have done everything in this video and even copied everything to the root of my sd card but my ds lite still says that it cant open ds menu dat. Pls help!!!!!
Then you must have a different card does your card load Deep Labrynth?
@@DNAMobileGaming I just needed the proper kernal which i have thankfully found through reddit. Turns out the card i have is actually a bootleg but it loads as deep labrynth. I just dont knw how to load roms into it now
I’m struggling to find the right kernel for my R4 card also, mine loads deep labyrinth and says 2023 smart update R4 but the website listed on the card itself doesn’t have a kernel that works.
@DNAmobileGaming ^
Thanks man! GBA roms keep freezing, how can I fix this? Many thanks :)
Install TWilight Menu I have a guide for that too!
Hello,
Is it possible with this cartridge to play 3DS games?
Thank you-
Oh for sure 🤣
@@DNAMobileGaming It only shows up the .nds files not the .3ds or .cia files, do you have any suggestion on how to fix?
@MrLemoznade oh yes for sure, you have to jump through many hoops to do this. Can you please do that first and maybe watch the video?
This is my dumb humor for no the R4 card never has been designed to play 3DS games if this was possible that would mean I could put my R4 card in my DS and play 3DS games. The card you might want to look for is the Stargate card on AliExpress. It can play most 3DS games without needing to hack your 3DS.
@@DNAMobileGaming I understand, that makes sense! thanks for the complete answer and for the video.
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