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Thank you!!! It works again. All this time my problem was that I didn’t format the SD Card correctly. But thank you so much!

I have another question, do you might know, if R4i Gold Pro 2018 from R4isdhc.com compatible with the new firmware of 2DS XL? V11.14
 

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I have another question, do you might know, if R4i Gold Pro 2018 from R4isdhc.com compatible with the new firmware of 2DS XL? V11.14

Just hack the 2DS with Luma and install Twilight menu then any flashcard will be bootable.

There is honesty no reason to not hack it anymore, just keep it offline and you are golden.
 
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I got an R4 SDHC with 2021 in the corner on the label a few days ago which I believe to be a clone, as I've found hardly any info on it and has the defunct r4isdhc.hk link on the label.

The kernel itself seems to work fine on its own after having jumped through a few hoops (initially some icons would just appear with no text), though at this point I can't even remember what I did as I've already done more than enough fiddling with this thing, though I did run it through the panasonic formatter once.

However, I've had 0 luck with installing YSMenu which I'm quite determined on after learning of the big yike that is the timebomb, but none of the versions I've found of YSMenu seem to work well with the card I have. I'll attach pics here for some more context.
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*currently the contents of the micro sd that came with it, it also came with a bunch of folders holding roms, emulators and other misc stuff which i've since moved, but all the core stuff is on there as far as i can see. no idea what the rpg folder is for though.

sorry for waffling, but any help is appreciated. thank you

..had to edit that several times but there you have it lmao
 
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I got an R4 SDHC with 2021 in the corner on the label a few days ago which I believe to be a clone, as I've found hardly any info on it and has the defunct r4isdhc.hk link on the label.

The kernel itself seems to work fine on its own after having jumped through a few hoops (initially some icons would just appear with no text), though at this point I can't even remember what I did as I've already done more than enough fiddling with this thing, though I did run it through the panasonic formatter once.

However, I've had 0 luck with installing YSMenu which I'm quite determined on after learning of the big yike that is the timebomb, but none of the versions I've found of YSMenu seem to work well with the card I have. I'll attach pics here for some more context.
View attachment 251277 View attachment 251287
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*currently the contents of the micro sd that came with it, it also came with a bunch of folders holding roms, emulators and other misc stuff which i've since moved, but all the core stuff is on there as far as i can see. no idea what the rpg folder is for though.

sorry for waffling, but any help is appreciated. thank you

..had to edit that several times but there you have it lmao
I have the same card and have been doing some research today along with a lot of trial and error to investigate how to get it to boot directly to YSMenu. You can boot to YSMenu manually if you copy the .nds file over but the file that the flashcard boots at startup, _DSMENU.DAT is encrypted somehow, it is not the same encryption used on R4 flashcards that use the _DS_MENU.DAT file as I've tried those, if you compare _DSMENU.DAT and BOOT.DAT in a hex editor, they seem to share the same header at the top of the file. I'm not sure if that is the start of the data or if it's a specialised header so that the flashcart knows it's valid (if you try to replace _DSMENU.DAT with .nds files then you get an error about it being unable to load the file so there is some kind of verification going on).

I think really there's nothing that can be done with this card unless the encryption is cracked. I was thinking about opening it up and reading the flash/EEPROM chip which probably contains the cart's firmware but I decided against it, I don't really want to break the case open and not have it in one piece.

That cart does seem choosy with micro SD cards, it boots the normal r4 menu on two cards I have, but on one it will not boot YSMenu (loads forever) but on the other it does. The __rpg folder contains the icons and data for the r4 menu.
 

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That cart does seem choosy with micro SD cards, it boots the normal r4 menu on two cards I have, but on one it will not boot YSMenu (loads forever) but on the other it does. The __rpg folder contains the icons and data for the r4 menu.

You may need to backup and then format the card to fat32 with either the sd card formatter or the FAT32 formatter.
 

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You may need to backup and then format the card to fat32 with either the sd card formatter or the FAT32 formatter.
The card is fine, it works with YSMenu fine on another cart I have an R4 SDHC gold.

And today is a lucky day, I dropped the cart when removing it from my system earlier and the tabs popped open, seems that only the side with the micro-SD card slot has glue. I've read out the firmware and will upload it and pictures later (I had a quick glance and saw "FLASH GEN v4.0 BY KEN" in the output so that might help).
 

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I got an R4 SDHC with 2021 in the corner on the label a few days ago which I believe to be a clone, as I've found hardly any info on it and has the defunct r4isdhc.hk link on the label.

The kernel itself seems to work fine on its own after having jumped through a few hoops (initially some icons would just appear with no text), though at this point I can't even remember what I did as I've already done more than enough fiddling with this thing, though I did run it through the panasonic formatter once.

However, I've had 0 luck with installing YSMenu which I'm quite determined on after learning of the big yike that is the timebomb, but none of the versions I've found of YSMenu seem to work well with the card I have. I'll attach pics here for some more context.
View attachment 251277 View attachment 251287
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*currently the contents of the micro sd that came with it, it also came with a bunch of folders holding roms, emulators and other misc stuff which i've since moved, but all the core stuff is on there as far as i can see. no idea what the rpg folder is for though.

sorry for waffling, but any help is appreciated. thank you

..had to edit that several times but there you have it lmao

I have the same card and have been doing some research today along with a lot of trial and error to investigate how to get it to boot directly to YSMenu. You can boot to YSMenu manually if you copy the .nds file over but the file that the flashcard boots at startup, _DSMENU.DAT is encrypted somehow, it is not the same encryption used on R4 flashcards that use the _DS_MENU.DAT file as I've tried those, if you compare _DSMENU.DAT and BOOT.DAT in a hex editor, they seem to share the same header at the top of the file. I'm not sure if that is the start of the data or if it's a specialised header so that the flashcart knows it's valid (if you try to replace _DSMENU.DAT with .nds files then you get an error about it being unable to load the file so there is some kind of verification going on).

I think really there's nothing that can be done with this card unless the encryption is cracked. I was thinking about opening it up and reading the flash/EEPROM chip which probably contains the cart's firmware but I decided against it, I don't really want to break the case open and not have it in one piece.

That cart does seem choosy with micro SD cards, it boots the normal r4 menu on two cards I have, but on one it will not boot YSMenu (loads forever) but on the other it does. The __rpg folder contains the icons and data for the r4 menu.

This cart runs Wood R4 1.62. There is absolutely no reason to run YSMenu on it.

YSMenu is for improving the compatibility of DSTT clones and fixing the timebomb. Wood R4 1.62 already has good compatibility and no timebomb.
 
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I like YSMenu's simplicity over r4 and having the choice is always better. Picture of card attached, this seems to be more information on the card if you search for "FLASH GEN V4.0" on your favourite search engine and check the github link (too low a level to post a link) including how the blowfish encryption data is stored in flash
 

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This cart runs Wood R4 1.62. There is absolutely no reason to run YSMenu on it.

YSMenu is for improving the compatibility of DSTT clones and fixing the timebomb. Wood R4 1.62 already has good compatibility and no timebomb.

oh thank god. as long as there's no timebomb, that's good enough for me. also, learning of its existence really does explain why the R4s i had years ago would eventually stop working.
 

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Hey guys I have that same cart but it didn't come with a kernel preinstalled. Could someone post a link of the kernel/root files for me? I can't seem to find them anywhere.
@azumarilllgb @friendlysheeper

search for this video on youtube, "
Come Risolvere l'Errore Can't open _dsmenu.dat su R4 Dual Core 2016 (3dDS DSi) su Ds Lite"

in the video by the channel called HowTo Hack, at the bottom of the description theres a link posted next to "wood used in the video" which leads to a mediafire link after a couple ads.

seeing as its a copy cart this is the the only working firmware i've found for the white 2021 HK card i bought last week, half a day and literally nothing on the internet but this link would work, someone who knows the wood version might be able to narrow it down and specify which it is, although i did try a bunch of wood kernels and they didnt work on this card so im not sure what kind of magic was done to this one. it was sent to me by a dude from reddit.

It works really well and if you have saves from other R4's that you'd like to load from roms in this firmware, you MUST change the file extension to "nds.sav" save files ending in only ".sav" will not load, i almost had a heart attack when my pokemon saves werent working but overall its been working great!
 
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at the bottom of the description theres a link posted next to "wood used in the video" which leads to a mediafire link after a couple ads.
I'll save everyone's time and post the file in question here :)
 

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Does anyone have the firmware for this card?? It´s in the photo from the first post but the download link doesn´t work
 

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