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!

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Hardware Nintendo DSi Stage2 bootloader font

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Start date May 19, 2026
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Error-1-2435-8325

I am Error.

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For some reason, I've been having a weird fascination with the Stage2 bootloader font from the Nintendo DSi (the 8x8 bitmap font you see here). Is there any way I can extract it or at least see the entire font, if possible?

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k66

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You can find them in TwlIPL.
For example:\build\nandfirm\sdmc-launcher\ARM9\font.c, it is some 8x8 dot-matrix data.

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Error-1-2435-8325

I am Error.

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Ah, thanks. Any way to view them as actual graphical data?

k66

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Error-1-2435-8325 said:
Ah, thanks. Any way to view them as actual graphical data?View attachment 573774

These are the graphical data. You can draw an 8x8 grid and then fill them in.
For example, 'A' is '41h'
00000000
00001000
00010100
00010100
00100010
00111110
01000001
01000001

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