diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index a98b797c4..0534d133d 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Bugfixes:
  - GBA Video: Fix regression adjusting brightness of backdrop
  - DS GX: Properly reject invalid commands
  - DS: Fix leaking BIOS and firmware filehandles
+ - DS: Fix freeing memory for partial BIOS on load failure
 Misc:
  - DS GX: Clean up and unify texture mapping
  - DS Core: Add symbol loading
diff --git a/src/ds/ds.c b/src/ds/ds.c
index 85ec8a187..8fdbd9629 100644
--- a/src/ds/ds.c
+++ b/src/ds/ds.c
@@ -597,7 +597,11 @@ bool DSLoadBIOS(struct DS* ds, struct VFile* vf) {
 		mLOG(DS, INFO, "Official DS ARM9 BIOS detected");
 	} else {
 		mLOG(DS, WARN, "BIOS checksum incorrect");
-		vf->unmap(vf, data, size);
+		if (size == 0x1000) {
+			free(data);
+		} else {
+			vf->unmap(vf, data, size);
+		}
 		return false;
 	}
 	return true;