Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate it if anyone can help figure out this issue. I’ve been playing Pokémon HeartGold on my NDSL with an R4 Wood flashcard (the one shown in the picture). When I set up the Wi-Fi network on the game menu and press B to exit, the game should normally soft-reset and go back to the main menu. But instead, the screen stays white for 1–2 seconds, then turns completely black. The game background music keeps playing, but all buttons stop working — even the hard reset combo L+R+A+B+X+Y does nothing. The only fix is fully rebooting the console, then the game works fine again. If I go into Wi-Fi settings and exit again, the problem happens every single time. I also own a 3DS, so I did a cross test: I put the same R4 card into my 3DS and launched HeartGold. The exact same black-screen-with-sound crash happens after exiting Wi-Fi settings. This proves the problem is not with the console itself, but the flashcard/kernel. I also tested another 4th-gen Pokémon game, Pokémon Diamond. When entering and exiting Wi-Fi settings on Diamond, it soft-resets perfectly with no issues at all. I thought it might be a corrupted ROM, so I re-downloaded the clean original ROM and applied the latest official Chinese patch — the problem still exists. Then I installed the dual boot kernel setup from the NDS community: primary kernel is Wood R4, secondary is AKMenu-Next. • Booting HeartGold with the Wood R4 kernel: exiting Wi-Fi still causes black screen, music playing, no button response. • Booting with the AKMenu-Next kernel: exiting Wi-Fi works perfectly, normal soft reset, no crash at all. After all these comparison tests, it seems like the Wood kernel has compatibility issues with Pokémon HeartGold, or there might be some hidden setting I need to tweak. Could any experienced players please explain what’s causing this and how to fix it? Thanks a lot in advance! 🙏🙏

A-Pix DS 0.4 – Pixel art editor for Nintendo DS/DSi!

Alfombra · 2026-05-12T21:44:43+00:00

A-Pix DS is a pixel art editor for Nintendo DS/DSi inspired by YY-CHR, aiming to be as feature-complete as possible within the hardware's capabilities. Features: Multiple color depths and resolutions. Palette editor with index swapping, copy/paste for individual colors or whole sections. Experimental animation system; each frame stores its own palette, enabling palette animations. ROM explorer with vertical scrolling, just like YY-CHR. File explorer with image preview. Supports many retro console formats: NES, SNES 4BPP & 8BPP, GBA 4BPP, GBC 2BPP, plus YYCHR and native NDS/GBA ARGB1555 palettes. Modern format support: PNG, BMP, PCX. Tools: multiple brushes, clipboard, pixel shift with wrap, scale, 90° rotation. 16BPP mode supports semi-transparent brush and transparent background. Zoom and canvas scrolling for comfortable editing. Undo/redo Horizontal and vertical flip Adjustable grid size NES mode What's new in v0.4: Animation support (experimental) Palette editor improvements SNES 8BPP format File previews in explorer ~3x performance boost A few hidden easter eggs Where can I download this tool? https://github.com/Alfombracitario/Alfombra-s-Pixel-Art-Editor-DS I really appreciate feedback, I want to improve this tool as much as possible!

How to download your nds / gba homebrew files (or other files) with wget in dslinux.nds

keiichicom

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Feb 2, 2026

Hi,
I noticed alot of the older "game getter" type homebrews result in corrupt files after downloading. Here is how to download them via dslinux.nds (dldi version) instead, which always works.

You will need two network interfaces. One Ethernet or WiFi interface for your regular Internet and one WiFi interface for hostapd.

Host Side: A Linux PC.

Verify that your WiFi device supports AP mode. Setup hostapd, with open security and dnsmasq (google it), use a static ip for your wifi interface. Here i use 192.168.50.1 and dhcp later will give the ds or dslite wifi interface an ip of 192.168.50.10.
Run the python web server where you have your homebrew files.

Code:

joe@joe:~$ dir *.nds
bridge_main.nds  dslinux.nds      httpexec.nds     linux_loader.nds   test.nds
bunjalloo.nds     gamegetter.nds   httpget.nds     linux.nds
dsftp.nds     gm.nds          ld.nds     loader.nds
dslinuxm.nds     hello_world.nds  libfatdir.nds  nds-bootstrap.nds

joe@joe:~$ sudo python3 -m http.server 80
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 80 (http://0.0.0.0:80/) ...

DS / DS Lite side:

Start dslinux, follow the instructions to connect to your access point: dslinux instructions . It will auto-login to the shell. dldi1 will be your sdcard (assumes formatted with 1 partition). Here I use Ace3ds+ on an R4 flashcart.

Code:

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

 240     0    8388608 dldi
 240     1  124852224 dldi1
  31     0        472 mtdblock0
  31     1        256 mtdblock1
# df
Filesystem         1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/rom0                469       469         0 100% /
/dev/dldi1         124821632   9534624 115287008   8% /media
# wget http://192.168.50.1/bunjalloo.nds -O /media/games/nds/bunjalloo.nds
--00:00:31--  http://192.168.50.1/bunjalloo.nds
           => `/media/games/nds/bunjalloo.nds'
Connecting to 192.168.50.1:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,314,816 [application/vnd.nintendo.nitro.rom]

100%[====================================>] 1,314,816    101.09K/s    ETA 00:00

00:00:46 (95.68 KB/s) - `/media/games/nds/bunjalloo.nds' saved [1314816/1314816]

# poweroff

Turn your device back on, and play your homebrew.

-Kei

Last edited by keiichicom, Feb 2, 2026