Gateway3DS was a bundle of two flashcarts, a red 3DS flashcart and a blue DS flashcart. The blue DS cart was needed at the time to run the exploit that would allow the red 3DS cart to work. This page will not detail on how to get the red 3DS cart working as the focus here is on the blue DS cart.

The Gateway Blue was based on the R4iLS flashcart. The main difference between the two was that they used a different header on the boot file, R4IT for Gateway Blue, R4XX for R4iLS. Other than that, they mostly act the same.

This flashcart will use ACE Wood 1.62, not to be confused with R4 Wood 1.62. ACE Wood 1.62 is based on an old version of R4 Wood from when it was open source, and adds some patches on top of it to support more modern games. However, it is missing some anti-piracy patches for newer games (notably Pokemon Black/White 2).

Setup Instructions (Gateway Blue Wood 1.62)

1. Download Gateway Blue Wood 1.62
2. Extract the Gateway Blue Wood 1.62 .zip to your SD card root.
3. Place any .nds game ROMs you’d like to play into a folder of your choice which isn’t the __rpg folder.
   • (Optional) You may want to create a Games folder to store your ROMs in to keep the root of your SD card organised.

Setup Instructions (AOS)

AOS is a multi-loader for Ace3DS+ and related carts. You can find a link to an updated repack here: https://github.com/flashcarts/AOS

1. Download AOS for Gateway
2. Extract the AOS for Gateway .zip file to your SD card root.
3. Place any game ROMs you’d like to play into a folder of your choice which isn’t the __rpg folder.
   • (Optional) You may wish to use the /roms/ folder structure which comes with AOS for easy organisation. For instance, .gba ROMs will go into the /roms/gba/ folder, .nds ROMs will go into the /roms/nds/ folder, etc.

Cheat database location(s):

• Gateway_Blue_Wood_R4_1.62: SD:/_rpg/cheats/usrcheat.dat
• AOS_Gateway: SD:/_rpg/cheats/usrcheat.dat