New users guide to setting up wood r4

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New users guide to setting up Wood R4

（Updated as of Wood R4 1.15）

（Before anyone asks, yes Wood R4 works with Pokemon Black/ White）

Wood R4 by the yellow.wood.goblin will give your R4 the look and feel
of an Acekard, but at less than half the cost. Game compatibility is
very good, over 99% games work clean without the need for patching.

Contents

1. Buying an R4
2. Extracting from Archives.
3. Setting up your MicroSD card.
4. Installing Wood R4
5. Introduction to the Wood R4 Graphical User Interface
6. Putting games onto your MicroSD card.
7. Favorites
8. Saves
9. Cheats.
10. Soft Reset.
11. Installing Skins.
12. Links

Step 1. Buying an R4

The R4 has been out of production for sometime due to Nintendo
filling a lawsuit against the original R4 Team. Because of this
almost every R4 you see for sale today is a clone. The problem is
that while many call themselve's R4's, many are infact clones of the
Acekard, EZVI or DSTT and not the original R4. Officially Wood R4
only works on the Original R4, or 1:1 clones of the original R4. The
1:1 clones are almost impossible to identify, they are to the same
specification and use exactly the same components as the original R4.
You can identify which clones are of the original R4 from the website
address on the R4 packaging:


The clones which work have http://www.r4ds.com, http://www.r4ds.me/
as their website and look like this:

The original R4 and it's clones are limited to using MicroSD cards
with a maximum capacity of 2GB, MicroSDHC cards are not supported. If
you want to use MicroSDHC cards, you should consider purchasing an
Acekard instead. dwtechz have the Acekard 2i for $15.50 with free
shipping, and Acekard 2.1. These R4's will also only work on the DS
Phat or DS Lite, they will not work on a DSi or DSi XL. There are
people such as Xenon++ who are working on getting R4-SDHC cards to
work with Wood R4, their thread is Here. The thread for WAIO is here
which is the Wood GUI adapted to work on other carts. I will not be
covering WAIO in this guide, it doesn't interest me.

Currently the best place to purchase an R4 from is dwtechz.com. They
guarentee the R4 they supply will be compatible with Wood R4. It also
comes with a MicroSD card reader, carry case and a strap. This can be
delivered to your door with free shipping, which is less than the
price of almost any DS game.


Step 2. Extracting from Archives.

Most DS games/ software along with Wood R4 are compressed into a
single file to reduce their size and to make it easier to transfer
over the internet. These files will normally have the .7z/ .rar/ .zip
file extensions. You will need to install an application to
uncompress these files, you can use 7zip or WinRar .

Once installed both should give you a new 'context' menu. Right
clicking on an archive (.7z/ .rar/ .zip) will give you to the
options, "Extract Here", "Extract files..." and "Extract to Directory
[archive name].

Select the archive you wish to extract, then right click, and select
Extract Files. Select the destination to extract to and click ok. You
can select multiple archives by holding down the Ctrl key on your
keyboard and left clicking on the archives.


• 'Directory': This is another term for Folder.
• 'Root directory': This is what you will see if you double click
on your MicroSD card in Windows Explorer. The root directory is
just a single and is the first directory on the card. For
example if your MicroSD card is 'F:' it's root directory is
'F:'

Step 3. Setting up your MicroSD card.

Most computer operating systems don't format MicroSD cards to the SD
Card Association's standards, this can cause problems later on. To
avoid this problem, use the official SD Association Formatter which
can be downloaded from Here. You won't be able to select the block
size or file system, as the SD formatter automatically selects those
based on your MicroSD card and the SD Card Association's standards.

• This was previously known as the Panasonic SD Formatter, but
has now been adopted by the SD Card Association as their own

When you want to remove your MicroSD card from your computer, it's
important you goto 'My Computer', right click on your MicroSD card
and select 'Eject'. This can prevent data corruption.


You can give your MicroSD card a custom Wood R4 icon when inserted
into a PC, this allows you to easily identify your R4's MicroSD card.
This is optional and isn't required to use your R4.

To download click on each image, and extract the downloaded archive
to the root directory on your MicroSD card.


You can change the MicroSD drive name by opening autorun.inf and
editing "Wood R4" on the second line.

Icons for other flashcarts can be found in This thread along with an
icon for the original r4 by Twiz.

Step 4. Installing Wood R4

You can setup Wood R4 to be your R4's main OSMenu, or if you already
have your R4 setup with the R4 official OSMenu/ YSMENU you can setup
Wood R4 as a secondary OSMenu.

• OSMenu: This is your R4's Operating system, and is stored on
the MicroSD card. Many people refer to this as firmware, which
it isn't.

To install Wood R4 as your main OSMenu (recommended):

Download the lastest version of Wood R4 from Here (which is currently
1.15). Extract this to a folder, once extracted double left-click on
this folder. You should now see a folder called "Wood R4 v1.15",
double left-click on "Wood R4 v1.15". You should now see a folder
named _rpg, a file called _DS_MENU.DAT and two text files:
changelog.txt and readme.for.r4.users.txt. The two text files contain
information revelant to this release, you should consider reading
them before installing although it isn't necessary. Select
_DS_MENU.DAT + __rpg and copy them to the root directory of your


MicroSD card.

Your MicroSD card should now look like:

The file _DS_MENU.DAT is Wood R4, and __RPG contains files used by
Wood R4, so don't delete them. The autorun.inf and icon file will be
only be present if you installed an icon as above.

If you have 'Auto Mode' enabled in your DS's system menu, your DS
will automatically load Wood R4 when powered on if the R4 is
inserted. You will however still get the Health and Safety screen on
power up, but you won't need to press (A) or tap the screen when it
appears.

You can hide the __rpg folder so it's won't appear in Wood. To do
this right click on __rpg, select properties, put a tick in the
hidden box and click ok.


If you later want to view the __rpg folder to add skins or cheats
databases, you can do this put adding __rpg to the Micro SD driver
letter address in Windows Explorer

Unless you want to install Wood R4 as a secondary OSMenu,
you should now go to Step 5.


To install Wood R4 as a secondary OSMenu:

If you already have your R4 setup with another Operating Software,
you can setup Wood R4 up as a secondary operating software. Wood R4
will peacefully coexist with both the Official R4 software and YSMenu
on the same MicroSD card, you can download the last version of the
official R4 software (v1.18) from Here. To set Wood R4 up as a
secondary operating software, create a directory called WoodR4 and
extract the downloaded Wood R4 archive to this directory. Download
and extract R4CRYPT to this same directory. Now Copy R4CRYPT.EXE into
the wood_r4_v1.XX directory. Hold down shift key and right click on
the wood_r4_v1.XX directory and select "Open command window here".

In the black box that pops up type "r4crypt.exe -d _DS_MENU.DAT
WOODR4.NDS" and press enter.


Enter the wood_r4_v1.XX directory, delete _DS_MENU.DAT and
r4crypt.exe, now copy the entire contents of the directory to your
MicroSD card.

Alternatively a premade Wood R4 v1.15 as secondary Operating Software
can be downloaded from Here or Here

Step 5. Introduction to the Wood R4 Graphical User
Interface

• The (Up) button will select the ROM or Folder above.
• The (Down) button will select the ROM or Folder below.
• The (Right) button will select the page of ROMs/ Folders to the
right.
• The (Left) button will select the page of ROMs/ Folders to the
left.
• The (Y) button will bring up the properties for the selected
file or Folder.
• The (A) button will load a game, open a folder, or confirm
within dialog boxes.
• The (X) button will go to the favorites folder.
• The (B) button will go up a directory, or Cancel within dialog
boxes.
• The (L. Trigger) functions as Shift button while in the file
browser or use to navigate through settings pages.
o Shift + (Select) Will display all files within the file
browser. Press again to go back to the previous setting.
o Shift + (Y) Will display Settings. This is the same as
selecting Settings from the Start Menu
o Shift + (X) Will display Cheats. This is the same as
selecting a ROM, Pressing (Y) and pressing (X). This will
only work if there are cheats for this game in the cheat
database you have installed.
• The (R. Trigger) button will change the backlight brightness,
or use to navigate through settings pages.
• The (Select) Button will change the file browser listing
layout. Modern: Filenames + Icons, 4 displayed per page >>
Internal: ROM name as taken from the ROM header + Icons, 4
displayed per page >> Old School: Filenames with no icons, 10
displayed per page
• The (Start) button will bring up the Wood R4 Start menu.


'ROM': Read Only Memory. This is the memory inside a retail
cartridge, People use ROM to refer to the image dumped from a
cartridge.

Start Menu

• Copy -> Will copy the highlighted file, you will have to
navigate to the destination directory, press start again and
then paste to complete the copy operation.
• Cut -> Will move a file, you will have to navigate to the
destination directory, press start again and then paste to
complete the move operation.
• Delete -> will delete the highlighted file.
• Paste -> Will copy the file previous selected by the copy/ cut
option to this folder.
• Settings -> Will show the System settings. The L and R buttons
will change which settings page is displayed.
• Help -> Quick button reference, along with the Wood R4 version
you are using.
• File Info -> Displays the properties for the hightlighted item.
It's the same as selecting a ROM/ folder and pressing (Y).
• Tools -> Allows you to change the 3in1 expansion settings (if
installed).

File Information


File Information -> Cheats

• A square outlined box indicates a tree list, pressing (A) on
the box will expand or collapse the branch.
• Pressing (A) will enable or disable the selected cheat. A small
filled square box indicates this cheat is enabled.
• More (Y) -> Display the key combination to activate highlighted
cheat.
• Generate (X) -> Create the CC file for the selected cheats.

Settings

Using the L and R trigger will change which settings page is
displayed. Compatibilty >> Features

File Information > Settings > Compatibilty


• Select a save type -> Different games use different size save
files. This will allow you to choose the save size for the
game, this should normally be set to auto unless you are having
issues with a particular games saving.
• Link with GBA -> Used with the 3in1 expansion pack.
• Rumble strength -> Used with the 3in1 expansion pack.

Pressing (Y) will allow you to copy your save to another file. The
source save will be whatever save slot is selected under Features.

File Information > Settings > Features

• Cheat in Game (AR) -> Enables or Disables cheats only on this
game. 'Global' means it will use the setting from the patches
menu. AR stands for action replay, which are the same cheat
codes R4 Wood uses.


• Reset in Game -> Enables or Disables Soft Reset only on this
game. 'Global' means it will use the setting from the patches
menu
• Choose Save Slot -> Wood R4 allows you to have upto 4 save
files for each game, this selects which one to use. The first
(default) will have the nds.sav file extension, the second will
have nds.1.sav , the third nds.2.sav and the 4th nds.3.sav
• Show icon -> Control how Wood R4 displays the game icon.

Settings

Using the L and R trigger will change which settings page is
displayed: System Settings >> Interface Settings >> File System
Settings >> Patches >> GBA settings

Start Menu > Settings > System Settings

• User Interface style -> This is your Skin selection.


• Language -> Interface language.
• Set file list type (NDS/NDS+SAV/ALL) -> Control which file
types are displayed in Wood R4's file browser.

You can hold down the (select) button and press the (L. Trigger) to
quicklly switch between displaying all files, and the setting in 'Set
file list type'. For this reason you should have 'Set file list type'
set to 'NDS' or 'NDS+SAV'.

Interface Settings

• Scrolling Speed -> Changes the scrolling speed in Wood R4's
File browser.
• Filelist Style -> Will change the file browser listing layout.
Modern: Filenames + Icons, 4 displayed per page >> Internal:
ROM name as taken from the ROM header + Icons, 4 displayed per
page >> Old School: Filenames with no icons, 10 displayed per
page>> Filenames (10 per page). The is the same as pressing the
(select) button while in the file browser.
• Animation -> Changes wether or not the icon of the highlighted
file/ folder is animated in the file browser (The icon will
shrink/ expand)

Start Menu > Settings > File system settings


• Show hidden files -> Controls wether or not hidden files/
folders are displayed in the file browser. Files can be hidden
by inserting the MicroSD card into a PC. From Within windows
explorer right click on the file/ folder and select properties,
put a tick in the hidden box and select ok.
• Trim rom when copy -> Controls wether or not Wood R4 will trim
the padded space from a file when copying/ pasting. It's easier
to trim these using a an external application like
NDStokyotrim.

Start Menu > Settings > Patches

• Cheat in Game(AR) -> globally enables cheats, AR = Action
replay.
• Reset in Game -> globally enables Soft Reset, pressing the (A)
+ (B) + (L) + (R) + (Down) buttons within a game/ application
will take you back to the Wood R4 file browser.


Start Menu > Settings > GBA settings

• universal Sleep -> Requires a 3in1 expansion cart.
• Backup save at startup -> Requires a 3in1 expansion cart.
• Slot-2 mode -> Requires a 3in1 expansion cart.

Step 6. Putting games onto your MicroSD card.

Normally you should use clean ROMs, Wood will already include loaders
to circumvent any Anti Piracy methods present in all games present
before the release of the version you are using. If you use a patched
ROM, it will mean this will be applied twice, once by the patch and
once by Wood and so may cause problems.

You can copy your nds files to the root directory, or place them in
subdirectories. For example you could have a directory for each game
genre (Adventure, RPG, racing etc), by alphabetical (A-C,D-F,G-I etc)
or just put them all in a 'games' directory.

• You can use This batch file to quickly create alphabetical
directories inside a games directory. Download and extract to
the root directory of your MicroSD card, then double click on
makedir.


• You can use This batch file to quickly create genre directories
inside a games directory. Download and extract to the root
directory of your MicroSD card, then double click on makedir.

Do not ask for or post links to commercial ROMs on here,
you will be banned.


Wood R4 cannot load games from archives, you must place the nds files
themselves on the MicroSD card. ROMs can be reduced in size by using
trimmer such as NDSTokyoTrim, these remove the padded space from the
ROMs. If you trim a DSi enchanced game, you will end up with a bad
ROM so don't do it until the trimming tools have been updated.
NDSTokyoTrim will be updated shortly and will no longer suffer from
this issue. An alternative trimmer which is also very popular is
TinyTrimmer which you can download Here

You can use software such as RToolDS or Rominator to manage your ROMs
and copy them to your MicroSD card, you can also use software such as
NdsCRC or OfflineList to rename/ repackage your ROMs (into archives).

RtoolDS:

Homebrew should normally be placed in the root directory, as there
are one or two that expect that to be their location.

• Homebrew is software people have created at home using
flashcarts such as the Acekard and R4. It's normally free to
use.

Step 7. Favorites

Wood R4 has a favorites folder in it's root menu. You can place
shortcuts to your favorites games within here. You can quickly jump


to the favorites folder by pressing the (X) button. To add a game to
the favorites folder, highlight your game, press (start) and select
'Copy'. Now press the (X) button, press (Start) and select 'paste'.
You game should now appear in the favorites folder. It doesn't copy
the ROM, only a shortcut to the ROM.

Step 8. Saves

Wood R4 uses the *.nds.sav file extension for it's save files. The
save files need to be located in the same directory and have the same
filename as the game ROM they refer to.

Other R4 OSMenu's may use the *.sav file extension instead, the same
applies to the OSMenu's of many other carts. If you have saves from
these and which to use them with Wood R4, you will have to rename
them. You can download a tool Here which will quickly do that for
you. To use download and extract to the root directory of your
MicroSD card, then double click on SaveManager and select option 5.
It will rename all the saves on the MicroSD card, including those in
subdirectories. If you want to rename them back again, you can do so
by selecting option 4.

Data on MicroSD cards can often become corrupted, which could cause
you to lose all your save files. For this reason it's a good idea to
regularly backup your save files. You can do this by using the same
tool and selecting option 1, it will copy all your save files to My
DocumentsDS-Saves[date][time] or option 2 will back them up to a
backup directory on your MicroSD card.


Step 9. Cheats.

Before using cheats you will have to install a cheat database,
GBAtemp provides an upto date cheat database for you to use. The NEW
massive CHEAT DataBase maintained by Narin , elixirdream and the
Cheat Code Crew. Currently it's normally updated 1-2 times per week,
so will normally contain the latest cheats, you can find out more by
visting the Cheats forum. To install, download This file and extract
to the __RPG/Cheats directory on your MicroSD card.

Cheats can be enabled globally for all games, or just for individual
games. To enable cheats globally, from within Wood R4 press (start),
select 'Settings', press the (R) button 3 times and next to 'Cheat In
Game (AR)' select 'on'. Now Press (A) to confirm.


To enable cheats for an individual game, highlight a game and press
(Y) to bring up the properties. Now press (Y) again, press the (R)
button, next to 'Cheat in Game (AR)' select 'On', press (A) to
confirm the changes. This will override the setting under the patches
menu, By default it will be 'Global' which means it will use what
ever setting is present in the 'Patches' menu. 'Off' will disable
cheats overriding the setting in the 'Patches' menu.

Now you have to select which cheats you want to enable for your game.
To do this this highlight your ROM, press the (Y) button to bring up
the properties, Now press the (X) button. Press (A) to select the


cheats to enable, and when you are done press (X) to confirm.

As of Wood 1.10, a shortcut has been added which allow you to quickly
view the cheats for a game. Simply highlight a ROM, hold down (L) and
press (Y).

Wood R4 will then save these cheats to a file which has the same
filename as the ROM, but with a .CC file extension. The .CC file will
be in the same location as the ROM. Most cheats will require a key
combination to be pressed for them to activated within the game. To
view the key combination select the cheat and press the (Y) button.

Step 10. Soft Reset.

Soft Reset allows you to use a key combination to go back to the Wood
R4 file browser from within a game. This saves you having to power
off/ on the DS. The Soft Reset button combination is: (L. Trigger)+
(R. Trigger) +(B)+(A)+(Down), these need to be pressed at the same
time.

This can either be enabled gloablly, or on a per game basis. To
enable Soft Reset globally, from within Wood R4 press (start), select
'Settings', press the (R) button 3 times and next to 'Reset in Game'
select 'on'. Now Press (A) to confirm.


To enable Soft Reset for an individual game, highlight a game and
press (Y) to bring up the properties. Now press (Y) again, press the
(R) button, next to 'Reset in Game' select 'On'. This will override
the setting under the patches menu, By default it will be 'Global'
which means it will use what ever setting is present in the patches
menu.'Off' will disable Soft Reset, overriding the setting in the
'patches' menu.

Step 11. Installing Skins.


Skins completely change how Wood R4 looks and feels. Because of it's
Acekard background, Wood R4 uses Acekard skins and not R4 skins. You
can download skins from places such as NDSthemes. To install,
download and extract the akin archive to the __RPG/UI folder on your
MicroSD card. Each skin needs to be in it's own folder. Wood will use
the folder name to identify the skin within the Wood interface.

If it's not already done so in your skins archive, The files:
clock_colon.bmp, clock_numbers.bmp, day_numbers.bmp, year_numbers.bmp
will need to be placed into a folder named "calendar" within the
skin's folder. Take notice of the spelling of "calendar", as it's
easily misspelt.


To change your skin from within Wood R4 press (start), goto settings,
next to 'User Interface style' select your skin. Now press (A) to
confirm the changes.

Sometimes the skins you install may be corrupted or missing required
elements which can cause problems. When you select the skin, it may
prevent the GUI appearing which means you can't change the skin back.
Fortunately this is very easy to fix, to do this insert the MicroSD
card into your PC and open the globalsettings.ini file which is


located in the __rpg directory on your MicroSD card. Near the top of
the file you will find the line:

Which will change the skin back to the Zelda skin which is one of the
skins included in the Wood R4 installation archive.

Step 12. GBA.

Wood R4 natively supports the EZFlash 3-in-1 slot-2 expansion for GBA
compatibilty. No other slot-2 GBA devices are natively supported,
this includes 3in1+, ewin, Super Card Slot 2 and M3 Perfect. If you
have one of these and want support added to Wood R4, you will have to
mail the device to the yellow.wood.goblin.

If you have a 3in1+, there is a thread Here by qwertymodo which is
testing a patch which adds native support for the 3in1+ with the
intention of getting this added to the main Wood code if it proves to
be sucessful.

GBA frames should be supported, each skin will normally include a
gbaframe as gbaframe.bmp. If you have a skin which is missing one,
you can copy it from another skin. AKAIO also allows you to have a
skin for each game, this should also apply to Wood. Place the
gbaframe.bmp in the __rpg/frames directory and then rename
gbaframe.bmp to the GameID of the game. Next time you load that game,
Wood will use this frame overriding any frame present in the skin. To
find out the GameID you can use switch the file browser listing
layout to Internal.

12. Links.

DWT


R4DS

yellow.wood.goblin, Wood R4 Developer
Another World, Wood R4 Announcer

Wood 1.15 Download
Wood 1.14.2 Download
Wood 1.14 Download
Wood 1.13 Download
Wood 1.12 Download
Wood 1.11 Download
Wood 1.10 Download
Wood 1.09 Download
Wood 1.08 Download
Wood 1.07 Download
Wood 1.06 Download
Wood 1.05 Download
Wood 1.04 Download

Wood R4 Source
Wood R4 Sources Thread

Wood R4 1.15 thread
Wood R4 1.14.2 thread
Wood R4 1.14 thread
Wood R4 1.13 thread
Wood R4 1.12 thread
Wood R4 1.11 thread
Wood R4 1.10 thread
Wood R4 1.09 thread
Wood R4 1.08 thread
Wood R4 1.07 thread
Wood R4 1.06 thread
Wood R4 1.05 thread
Wood R4 1.04 thread

Wood R4 FAQ thread
Wood R4 for clones thread (for clones other than that of the
original)
Wood R4 bugs and compatibility thread
Wood R4 Language files thread
Wood R4 Suggestions thread request any additions or changes to Wood
R4 here.
Wood R4 3in1+ Patch thread


7zip
WinRar

SD Formatter
SD Formatter Manual

R4CRYPT
NDSTokyoTrim Thread
TinyTrimmer Thread
RToolDS
Rominator Thread Database update Thread
NdsCRC
OfflineList
HashTab

AK Edit 1.2.1 by Dan Taylor
Acekard Skins
NDSthemes

GBA Frame Template
Vague Rant's AKAIO GBA Frame Collection

The NEW massive CHEAT DataBase maintained by Narin
The Temporary NDS Cheat Database maintained by elixirdream
GBAtemp Cheats Forum
Elixirdream's R4CEE guide
Curly's R4CEE Guide
R4CCE (R4 Cheat Code Editor)
R4CCE (R4 Cheat Code Editor) Mirror

Alphabetical games directories batch file
Genre games directories batch file
Wood R4 Save Manager
Wood R4 Save Converter (Linux, Mac OS)

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