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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ROM Hack Platinum lag problem

Thread starter yugdshack
Start date Aug 23, 2013
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Replies 5

yugdshack

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Aug 23, 2013

When I battle in pokemon platinum (on my R4), it is really laggy. I had the same problem for heart gold/ soul silver, but they had an action replay code to speed up the battle process. Anyone have any codes for platinum >?

Black-Ice

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Aug 23, 2013

I'd suggest getting another flashcart or memory card

Isaac

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Aug 23, 2013

On the subject of you getting a new flashcart, what de model do you have? (lite,i,3d, etc)

Rydian

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Aug 23, 2013

Sounds like a bad quality (or terribly fragmented) MicroSD.

yugdshack

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Aug 25, 2013

Rydian said:
Sounds like a bad quality (or terribly fragmented) MicroSD.

Not sure, but BLACK AND BLACK 2 RUNS FINE

qweasd123

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Aug 26, 2013

Do a backup of everything and use this https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

And which exactly R4 do you have because there is many of them and maybe you got some shitty clone