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Even in this state (where R4 is diving in popularity in this forum) R4 is still a cart you know, there are many things provided to support this cart.

So, I'm trying to compile files that you might need for your R4 here, so you guys don't have to look or search for it again

Table of Contents....
1. <b>FIRMWARES</b>

--<u><b>A. Latest firmware</b></u>

v 1.18
changelog :
Solved 2203, 2219, 2240, 2250 problem

Download links (taken directly from R4DS official website)
<a href="http://www.r4ds.com/soft/english2/English-1.18.rar" target="_blank">v1.18 english</a>
<a href="http://download.r4ds.com/soft/english2/English-1.18.rar" target="_blank">v1.18 english </a>(mirror) (Thanks to Narin for the link)
credit goes to <b>R4DS team</b>

--<u><b>B. Recommended firmware</b></u>

v 1.18 bugfixed
kernel v1.18 bugfixed with YASU's r4bugfix2, absolutely better don't you think?

Provided by Rayder, bugfix by YASU

Download link :
<a href="http://users.ameritech.net/rayder/_DS_MENU.zip" target="_blank">v1.18 bugfixed</a> (taken directly from Rayder's signature)
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2384" target="_blank">v1.18 bugfixed</a> (mirror) (provided by Narin, hosted by GBAtemp)

credit goes to: <b>Rayder</b> and I'd say <b>YASU</b> for the bugfix

2. <b>CHEAT DATABASES</b>

--<u><b>A. Latest Cheat Database</b></u> (started by Rayder, now running under Narin maintenance)
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=84991&hl=R4DS++download" target="_blank">Narin's NEW cheat compilation thread</a>
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=77646" target="_blank">Rayder's cheat compilation thread</a>

Download link:
<a href="http://cheats.gbatemp.net/" target="_blank">Cheat database</a> (in ZIP) This link takes you to the download menu, choose whatever you like and download what is necessary. Narin updates it frequently, so tracking it down is pretty hard <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />

Note:
To R4 users and its clones, use either CHEAT.dat or USRCHEAT.dat and not both, using both will cause some codes and games not to show up.

credit goes to: <b>Narin</b> and <b>Rayder</b>

3. <b>ROM TRIMMERS</b>

--<b><u>A. Latest ROM Trimmer</u></b>

R4DS Official ROM trimmer v2.0
<a href="http://www.r4ds.com/soft/1-other-en.htm" target="_blank">official website</a> for guide purpose

However, R4DS ROMtrimmer seems to use a pretty dangerous trimming mode, people prefer use tokyotrim for this purpose, but officials should be mentioned, no?

Download link (taken directly from R4DS official website)
<a href="http://www.r4ds.com/soft/other/R4DS-ROM-Trimmer-2.0.rar" target="_blank">R4DS ROmtrimmer 2.0</a>

credit goes to: <b>R4DS team</b>

--<b><u>B. Recommended ROM trimmer</u></b>

tokyotrim

Many people praise tokyotrim due to its work, it does a great job in trimming and suffers less (or even no) complaint compared to R4DS ROMtrimmer

I can't find tokyotrim's official website, so I'll provide <a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=55162" target="_blank">this thread</a> instead, it hosts the download link and discusses it.

Download link: (taken directly from above thread)
<a href="http://techsuki.net/nintendo-ds-rom-trimmer/" target="_blank">tokyotrim</a>

credit goes to: uh, I don't know, so the credit goes to <b>the one who made tokyotrim</b> and <b>BrianTokyo</b> for the thread

"3rd gen" rom trimmer for Nintendo DS(NDS/GBA)

Features
- Batch processing
- Recursive folder scanning
- Auto detection for Wifi games
- Auto detection of already trimmed games
- Auto fix of incorrect trimming from other trimmers
- Extremely fast
- Trims NDS and GBA roms
- RAR/ZIP/7zip support
- It works for all the currently known cards for DS (R4, Acekard, M3, CycloDS, G6 etc..)

OS Compatibility
- 32bit windows from win95 to Vista; Linux under wine
- No 7zip for win9x and Linux
- Does not require .net sh**

What’s New:

v2.15
- SRAM Patching for GBA Routines (experimental)
v2.10
- Extremelly improved GBA trimming routines
v2.01
- fixed: dragged compressed roms didn’t enable the trim button
- added save log button to the expanded log window
v2.0
- Ability to disable the background or use custom ones from a random list (or fixed one)
- Added command line option to import 1 compressed or uncompressed rom (drag to the .exe or use open with..)
- Alpha blending slider (window transparency)
- Faster start-up
- Fixed savings counter which was limited to 2GB.
- Fixed compatibility with win9x and Linux (wine)

To-do list:
- finish arm7 fix
- thorough bricker check
- filename scene numbers removal

4. <b>OTHER USEFUL TOOLS</b>

--<b><u>A. R4Commander</u></b>
original thread <a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=52467&hl=R4DS++download" target="_blank">here</a>.

Download links (taken directly from original post)
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/28fbj4" target="_blank">v2.16beta2 installer program (in RAR)</a>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ywel6h" target="_blank">v2.16beta2 binary (in RAR)</a>

credit to <b>TrolleyDave</b>
<img src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc152/TrolleyGuy/AddingToBuild.png" border="0" class="linked-image" />
R4 Commander V2.03
--------------------------
Main Features
- Drag and drop
- Automatically organize your games in the folder of your choice.
- Use the Classic R4 Commander file browser or the new library features.
- Optional renaming of your files automatically
- Trim your backups as they're copied to your card (Safe-trim method always used)
- Create build lists to copy games, movies, music, emulators, firmwares and more to your card easily.
- Automatic save retrieval or drop them in the window to have them automatically copied to the library.
- Automatic save archiving/backup and restore
- .ZIP, .RAR and .7z support.
- Use different modes to just copy stuff direct to your card or rename your files.
- Settings for DS-X and SCDS1 as well.
- Easily save and load your favourite builds.
- SkinR4 utility built-in!
- Automatic downloading of the latest release database
- View news downloaded direct from the internet.
- See screenshots for each game in the release list.

Libraries
- Game library using a release database.
- Sort your games by game name, archive name or .NDS name.
- Show only games from various regions.
- Show only games of certain languages.
- Show only games of a certain size when browsing the game library.
- Automatically rename the files in your library.
- Mark games as favourites and filter the others out.
- Show only WiFi games when browsing the game library.
- Store friend code for WiFi games.
- See screenshots for games in your library.
- Give games in your collection a rating from Bleh! to ***** or set your own.

- Homebrew library using .EZC packs.
- Organize homebrew software easily.

- Save library for easy browsing of saves.
- Archive your saves by the current date with the click of a button.

- R4DS Skin browser.
- Easily preview your skin archives.
- Easily preview the skins already on your MicroSD card.
- Easily apply your chosen skin to your card.

- Release List for easy browsing of all releases
- Show only missing games
- Show only missing games from various regions.
- See boxart screenshots for each game in the release list.

--<b><u>B. DLDI Patcher</u></b> (Thanks to Another World for the suggestion)
While R4DS has auto-DLDI-patch feature built-in, sometimes manual pacthing would be the best, thus this section, <b>DLDI Patcher</b>

check out this <a href="http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=DLDI_Right_Click#v0.9)" target="_blank">page</a> for more info

Download link: (taken directly from DLDIwiki)
<a href="http://psychowood.altervista.org/getDLDIrc.html" target="_blank">DLDI Right Click v0.93</a>

--<b><u>C. Moonshell</u></b> (Thanks to Another World for the suggestion)

Everybody knows Moonshell, everybody loves Moonshell, yep. Moonshell is a famous Media Player exclusive for NDS . R4DS features Moonshell v1.71(the latest) by default. Still, not everybody knows how to use Moonshell e.g.: What video format can Moonshell play? How do I convert to that format?

I found a useful guide about Moonshell <a href="http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=18663" target="_blank">here</a>, but it uses Supercard SD and Flashme v5 for the guide, so maybe it won't help alot, but at least you know the basics

Moonshell can play video, but limited only to .dpg format, none other would work, so <a href="http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=gotodownload&downloadid=1518" target="_blank">here</a> is Moonshell DPGTool, a handy tool to convert your video to .dpg format. File size is 5.1 MB and is in .7ZIP format. Works only with 3 video format, I remember .wmv, .avi and 1 other format.

If you <b>need</b> something more powerful, check this software out.
SUPER Converter, which claims it can convert almost ANY format and convert it straight to .dpg, and other formats too.

check <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUPER_(software)" target="_blank">this</a> page for info
or
check the <a href="http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html" target="_blank">official website</a>

if you want a straight download with no hassles (trust me, the official website has LOTS of hassles) click <a href="http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html" target="_blank">this</a> link. The download link is at the botom of the page, I tried to direct link it, but the link broke. File size is 25.6MB in .exe

credit goes to: <b>Moonlight</b> (the creator of Moonshell), <b>author of DPGTool</b>, <b>Zeus</b> and <b>DeVS</b>(for the guide), <b>erightsoft</b> for SUPERConverter


DSOrganize is a pretty popular homebrew for NDS, yep. The name explains itself. DSOrganize can organize your NDS files. It can do alot of things. It is an Organizer, music player, image viewer, wav recorder, IRC client... all in one.

<b>Fixes found in 3.2</b>
Added multi track support to SID files (finally!).
Added support for the gbs file format.
Added confirmations to text editor on save or exit.
Added /describe to irc.
Added basic cookie support.
Tied Y to the stop function on the web browser.
Changed IRC receive mode to hopefully squash memory error.
Changed internet enabled applications to allow downloading/processing while the lid is closed.
Decreased memory footprint to allow larger images to load again.
Fixed annual dates causing every day to underline in some cases.
Fixed e^x freezing in some instances.
Fixed inconsistent save message on scribble screen.
Fixed IRC bug that appeared while typing with fixed width irc.
Fixed aac/mp3 streams skipping sometimes.
Fixed bad font characters in the smallest font.
Fixed a html rendering crash with css pages.
Fixed random crash that happened when switching tabs in web browser.
Fixed garbage display in hbdb if you cancelled the list then pressed left or right.
Fixed graphical issues with themes loaded.

Download links:
<a href="http://www.dragonminded.com/ndsdev/DSOrganize_3_2.zip" target="_blank">DSOrganize v3.2</a>
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=1742" target="_blank">DSOrganize v 3.2 on GBATemp Download Center</a>
<a href="http://www.dragonminded.com/ndsdev/es_r4m3.zip" target="_blank">custom exec_stub files for R4</a>

credit goes to: <b>DragonMinded</b>

GBAExploader allows you to use a slot-2 pak's RAM (like, EZFlash 3-in-1 RAM for Opera browser)

so, I provide the link here:
<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=1969" target="_blank">GBAExpLoader v0.5(Final)</a>

credit goes to: <b>Rudolph</b>

R4 Cheat Code Editor is a wonderful Cheat Code Editor made by YASU, that has so many features compared to the R4's Official cheat Code Editor

Download Link:
<a href="http://yasu.rank.nu/yasu/count.cgi?n=r4cce&l=http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA013928/bin/r4cce08.zip" target="_blank">R4CCE v0.8</a>
credit goes to:<b>YASU</b>

5. <b>CUSTOMIZATION TOOLS</b>

Injektor2 is a small software made by zorgrage to edit your DS_MENU.DAT, literally edits strings and other few things. So you can delete that R4DS English Version text that meddles with your awesome theme <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

download link:<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?download=2840" target="_blank">Injektor2 v1.09</a>
credit goes to: <b>zorgrage</b>

For the true fan of R4 (or just own an R4), having a custom theme is a must (that is, unless you're OK with the basic theme provided)

That said, making a custom theme is not hard, but takes a lot of time. Thankfully, a program called R4 Theme Creator Alice
is here to help us.

This program is easy to use, has lots of good features, supports drag-and-drop system.

<a href="http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_download_shared_file&file_id=f_148398472&shared_name=w4f00uggsg" target="_blank">R4 theme Creator Alice v0.7</a>

<a href="http://dxe22.wordpress.com/r4tc/how-to-use/" target="_blank">How to use Alice?</a>
R4 Alice neds Microsoft .net frameworks 2.0. Download it <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5" target="_blank">here</a>

credit goes to: <b>dream Xanadu e</b>, <b>Microsoft</b> for Ms.net fx 2.0

Yasu said:
GUI patcher with r4bugfix2 and r4trans. For those who don't know, the more casual term is, you can fix a bug in R4, causing some cheats to work, and you can translate R4 loaders from chinese version to English version


<a href="http://yasu.rank.nu/yasu/count.cgi?n=r4custom&l=http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds/r4custom.zip" target="_blank">R4 Kernel Customizer</a>
credit goes to: <b>YASU</b>

This is a small software made by YASU to decrypt and encrypt your DS_MENU.DAT, it can encrypt any .nds file to .dat file, and extract files from .DATs

Download link:
<a href="http://yasu.rank.nu/yasu/count.cgi?n=r4denc&l=http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds/r4denc.zip" target="_blank">R4denc</a>
credit goes to: <b>YASU</b>


For some people, it's pretty annoying to actually turn off their NDS, remove R4, then boot NDS again to enjoy Download Play feature. So, YASU did a few things here and there and here's <b>back2fw</b>, it boots NDS firmware when you run it. Beware though: you can't get back to R4again once you run it. You have to turn off your NDS and turn it on again to access R4

Download link:
<a href="http://yasu.rank.nu/yasu/count.cgi?n=back2fw&l=http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds/back2fw.zip" target="_blank">back2fw</a>

credit goes to:<b>YASU</b>


With R4Team's controversial announcement (well, it's ahtin who found it, and many still argue about whether it's official or not), which claims the next update will destroy fake R4s, along with the fact that R4 has no update for months, YASU's so kind to make a custom loader for R4, it's called YSMENU.


For further information, I suggest you to go <a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=97615" target="_blank">here</a>. This topic tells you almost anything about YSMENU, along with a few download links

Download link:
<a href="http://yasu.rank.nu/yasu/count.cgi?n=YSMENU&l=http://home.usay.jp/pc/etc/nds/YSMenu0804200115.zip" target="_blank">YSMenu</a>

credit goes to:<b>YASU</b>

That's all the things I feel necessary, anyone who knows other files important for R4 may tell me and post it, I'll update the post

P.S: can the moderator stick this thread? I think this one is useful for R4 users out there
 

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Raestloz said:
Ah! Narin, it's OK to put the links here? Hmmm.. it's kernel v1.18 fixed in GBAtemp download section.. OK, as a mirror then. At Recommended Firmware Section
Yea, go ahead.
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Its a community database, I just maintain it so feel free to link to it all you want.
 

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good topic, but a bit confusing at first. subsections under firmware for example (1.1) make it first read like your saying the latest firmware is v 1.1. color headings and bold text make for better subtopic sections than numbering.

i really think you should include something on a dldi no-patch app (http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?title=DLDI_No-AutoPatch, http://dldi.drunkencoders.com/index.php?ti...ght_Click#v0.9) as dsorganize sometimes requires it for booting of homebrew with the r4.

also where is the section on moonshell, how to use moonshell, and how to update moonshell? granted the r4 firmware comes with the latest version (1.71) but that won't always be the case. also dpg encoding for moonshell would be a welcome addition, even if only a few links to help others find their way.

cheers,
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Umm....... sorry, but what's the point of making a spoiler tag? Since items here are meant to be known, arent' they?I thought spoiler tags was links that links you to a part of the post.... seems I'm wrong
 

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Raestloz said:
Umm....... sorry, but what's the point of making a spoiler tag? Since items here are meant to be known, arent' they?I thought spoiler tags was links that links you to a part of the post.... seems I'm wrong
Spoiler tags are also great for saving space in long guides like this.

So if someone is looking for something, they don't have to scroll past the entire text of every item. Once they find what they're looking for (which should be simple due to the table of contents), they just click the spoiler button and have what they want.
 

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Another World said:
the guide is looking good, nice job.

is there any way to add anchor tags in bbcode? it would be nice if the TOC was clickable to something further down in the post.
As far as I know the only way to do that would be with HTML, which is only available to staff members.
 

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Can this topic include things ON the R4, i.e. homebrews? if so you must add dsorganiser
if not you need R4 theme creator alice. very useful for creating themes. (obviously).
another useful program is yasu's R4 bugfix2 (although you already have links to the patchd firmware)
 

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Heh, never thought someone will actually post something on this thread

Sorry, I DID thought about adding homebrews, R4 Alice, and others, but seeing it ignored makes me too lazy.

I'll find their links and add them soon just you wait
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Yes, HTML can do wonders, I am pretty good when it comes down to HTML, however in most forums only admins can use it!
 

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