Absolutely, you plug it in, put the cartridge in, reset it and you have your ROM as if it was on a USB dongle.
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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
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Absolutely, you plug it in, put the cartridge in, reset it and you have your ROM as if it was on a USB dongle.
Weltall Zero
Member
Super SF II's Japanese version works perfectly for some reason, perhaps he used that?
PhantomThief
Banned
If you install retroarch you have to reflash the cystom kernel right? Can I overwrite my old custom kernel?
angelic
Banned
Why does no one believe me? I have the US and the JP versions on, both work. My video shows the US version too.
here, note I scroll past the JP one and the title screen says Capcom USA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfJCHMJTvX8
Mine starts up fine 100% of the time while clean and 0% of the time while hacked. If I unplug and plug the hdmi wire in, it works hacked 100% of the time.
If you read my posts Ive been trying for days to fix the lack of audio and simply unplug/plug works.
I finally took the step and hacked my SNES Classic.
Pretty happy with the results so far all things considered.
Sure some games I'd have liked to see aren't supported like Terranigma and Illusion of Time and the sound can be a bit tinny on some games, but the emulator is really great when it comes to responsiveness.
Donkey Kong Country 2 haven't felt this responsive on any emulator I've tried.
So Nintendo did a spot on job on that front if nothing else.
How does one go about adding to the compatibility Sheet?
Daffy Duck The Marvin Missions has a screen flickering bug when you jump and Street Racers and Pit Fighter have small graphical glitches on the char select screen but seem to work fine in game. Would be nice if those could be added to the list.
Pretty happy with the results so far all things considered.
Sure some games I'd have liked to see aren't supported like Terranigma and Illusion of Time and the sound can be a bit tinny on some games, but the emulator is really great when it comes to responsiveness.
Donkey Kong Country 2 haven't felt this responsive on any emulator I've tried.
So Nintendo did a spot on job on that front if nothing else.
How does one go about adding to the compatibility Sheet?
Daffy Duck The Marvin Missions has a screen flickering bug when you jump and Street Racers and Pit Fighter have small graphical glitches on the char select screen but seem to work fine in game. Would be nice if those could be added to the list.
Blue Submarine No. 6
Member
Thanks for this; there are some games I've been meaning to try for years here but they keep slipping under the radar...
Word of advice: when connecting your Mini to your PC, use the included USB cable. I kept having issues with my PC detecting it until I finally just used the official cable.
Anyone manage to get Famicom Detective Club part II working? Tried it with the fan translation but it wouldnt boot up.
That game also needs a custom box art.
Anyone manage to get Famicom Detective Club part II working? Tried it with the fan translation but it wouldnt boot up.
That game also needs a custom box art.
William Bonney
Banned
It works for me, added it last night and played a few matches.
I updated from the initial release to the latest beta last night and added a few more games. After searching around to figure out how to upgrade the process was pretty smooth. It made me flash custom kernal again and I got some wierd MD5 hash error when I did so, but everything is working fine.
A few more of my favorite super fami robot games and everything plays great with the default emulator:
A few more of my favorite super fami robot games and everything plays great with the default emulator:
pitt_norton
Member
I'm enjoying touching up or redesigning what are, in my opinion, atrocious USA SNES boxarts... Here is my latest effort...
Jurassic Park, the original:
My retroactive fix, use if so desired
Jurassic Park, the original:
My retroactive fix, use if so desired
Everything Jurassic Park was black background plus the logo. It looks like the VHS box.
pitt_norton
Member
True but it didn't have a blue contrasted raptor to the right haha
Why did it need a barely visible raptor on the side when there's already a dinosaur right there in the easily recognised (and now way off centre) logo.
The Elite
BOSS
My US version of Super Street Fighter started working with the latest hakchi.
Terranigma and Star Ocean still don't work without Retroarch.
Oh wow I didn't even see it. Crazy.
angelic
Banned
Uk company Ocean were absolutely terrible at all forms of presentation, art, boxes and so on. They were a pile it high sell shit in a licensed box publisher, almost everything they did was trash licensed clipart images smushed together:
angelic
Banned
Well I think I'm about done with it, all my troubles seem to have been smoothed over. SFA2 is at last working happily, blur filter is turned off, got about 50 games on it all running great, loving the down+select reset combination.
It's safe to say the hack elevates a nice little box into something else entirely, a real, scanlined, 2 wired pad 98% full functioning SNES under my TV. Here's to the next few weeks and maybe getting hi res mode going for Seiken 3.
It's safe to say the hack elevates a nice little box into something else entirely, a real, scanlined, 2 wired pad 98% full functioning SNES under my TV. Here's to the next few weeks and maybe getting hi res mode going for Seiken 3.
Transistor
Banned
Anyone looking for a good FFIV one, I pieced this one together.
Robin64
Member
My Mystic Quest most definitely warns me.
catpurrcat
Member
I got some good advice last week on this. Just use save states all the time. Nothing else. Most reliable.
Robin64
Member
You definitely have the battery save icon on the game?
Is that something I have to tick in the settings? I think that might be missing on my added games.
Transistor
Banned
I'd like to see a warning pop up when I have a save state open and I go into the menu and accidentally click on the box art of the game, which takes me to the title screen and wipes out my floating save. I've done that a few times and lost some progress
Robin64
Member
Old versions of hakchi missed it off, but new ones should fix it. But you might have to remove and re-add the game to get it to work.
So many times, this...
Lupin the Third
Member
Can anyone who has implemented the SF Alpha 2 mod tell me whether it still has the three-second pause in each round after the announcer says "Fight!"?
Endless Duel holds up so well. My buddy and I keep going back to it.
Robin64
Member
Yeah, it does. God bless the SNES version of SFA2.
angelic
Banned
It's not 3 seconds but yes it's there.
What I'd like now is a global command line to increase the blackness of the scanlines, is this possible at all?
Famicom Detective Club part II works fine with the built in emulator. Its using the English patch.
Transistor
Banned
Glad I'm not the only one. From your knowledge, do you think a warning message preventing it is something that can be done?
Lupin the Third
Member
A shame that isn't corrected since it's only that way, AFAIK, to give the chip time to decompress the sprite graphics, a chip we are bypassing with decompressed graphics.
I mean, it's not like the game would be perfect with that one change but it would be nice!
Edit: That said, I am grateful they got it working, imperfect as it may be.
angelic
Banned
A shame that isn't corrected since it's only that way, AFAIK, to give the chip time to decompress the sprite graphics, a chip we are bypassing with decompressed graphics.
I mean, it's not like the game would be perfect with that one change but it would be nice!
Edit: That said, I am grateful they got it working, imperfect as it may be.
There's probably some sort of timing built into the game in waiting for it, unfixable I imagine. What's also bad is how the audio cuts out as soon as the round winning attack lands, voice samples etc all stop. It's an impressive version of it spoiled by really small presentation issues.
Robin64
Member
Transistor
Banned
With the files we have access to, no, sadly not.
Booooooooooo
Guess I'll just have to be careful
Brock Reiher
Banned
Thank you, just saw this!!
ZiggyPalffyLA
Member
Would make more sense for Chrono Trigger, considering that's the first game everybody is putting on their system. Oh and it's also the best game ever made
Transistor
Banned
Would make more sense for Chrono Trigger, considering that's the first game everybody is putting on their system. Oh and it's also the best game ever made
First game I put on was the Woolsey patched FFVI
I tried this and nothing changed. Any tips?