Hacking Wood R4 and THE MENU

[rarestg]

Hey Guys,
I have an N5, and the Wood Firmware for clones is working great. But I want to spice things up a little bit - instead of booting it from wood.nds.
I was just wondering how to get the wood firmware (wood.nds) to boot from the "Game" button on the N5 Menu.

^^From There^^

I know I've seen some tutorial for how to do this for YSmenu, but I can't find it anymore. ;(
I think it has something to do with _DS_MENU.DAT or something.
So, please reply if you have an answer -- I'm really hoping to get this to work.

Cheers.

 

[Halo-101]

Hey i dont have a clone but to my understanding u need to rename to _DS_MNSHL.NDS Or something like that and then launch it from the middle button which i think is media then wood r4 should automatically boot up. from the middle button not from the game button

 

[neonix]

You won't be able to get it to boot from the left icon, however, you can get it to boot from the middle icon by naming it "_DS_MSHL.NDS" and putting it in the ROOT (top, no folders) of your microSD. You should already have a file with that name actually, by default moonshell (hence the MSHL in the filename). It's fine to overwrite, but I would suggest renaming the original first (maybe just moonshell.nds so you can still boot it from the card).

The "_DS_MENU.DAT" file is the actual firmware. There is an encrypter/decrypter app I've used in the past to convert any .NDS rom into a bootable .DAT binary for the R4 and vice-versa. However, the Wood firmware for R4 already comes encrypted as _DS_MENU.DAT so that it boots directly when you start up the DS, and I don't think this is the effect you want anyway.

So _DS_MSHL.NDS is your best option. If you don't use moonshell, then you're good to go!