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[ReyVGM]

I'm amazed people choose to install a program that doesn't need to be installed in the first place.

 

[T.O.P]

Messing around with making borders and made an SNES box one

Link is here if anyone wants to try it out

Yeah, found my border

 

[OctaviusZarda]

Does anyone know if there is a way to carry your save over from the different parts of BS Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets? I have all four “weeks” downloaded to my Super NES Classic but so far it seems that I can’t carry my stuff over from one “week” to the next.

 

[Robin64]

Really do need an elegant way to set a per-game border and for it to failsafe to another one if none are selected.

 

[Fjordson]

Apologies if I've missed this, but is there a way to have the borders show with games running through Retroarch? Even just the default borders?

 

[DonMigs85]

Question, if you delete a game from Hackchi that you had synced before, it also gets deleted from the SNES when you resync right? Don't want any leftover files

 

[Robin64]

Question, if you delete a game from Hackchi that you had synced before, it also gets deleted from the SNES when you resync right? Don't want any leftover files

Yep, aside from the save files.

And if you want to get rid of those too, use hakchi's save manager.

 

[traveler]

Hmm. I kind of want to handle all of this in one go, but Illusion of Gaia isn't supported yet.

If I go ahead and start playing my classic now, will I potentially lose suspend points/save data later when attempting to hack it?

 

[bubumiao]

Hmm. I kind of want to handle all of this in one go, but Illusion of Gaia isn't supported yet.

If I go ahead and start playing my classic now, will I potentially lose suspend points/save data later when attempting to hack it?

Nope you won't.

 

[traveler]

Thank you!

Time to jump into Stumps SMW challenge

 

[Fjordson]

Hmm. I kind of want to handle all of this in one go, but Illusion of Gaia isn't supported yet.

If I go ahead and start playing my classic now, will I potentially lose suspend points/save data later when attempting to hack it?

IoG runs perfectly with Retroarch.

 

[Randam]

I'm amazed people choose to install a program that doesn't need to be installed in the first place.

What program are you talking about?

 

[RaginRoss]

I think the only things i'm waiting on are The Firemen and Uniracers/Unirally.

I also messed up by following a tutorial that didn't mention dumping the kernel - unless hackchi automatically did it for me and i've just not found where it put it. Not planning to mess with it much more unless there's an update that fixes the above games (or I eventually get bored and use RetroArch) so hopefully i'm fairly safe.

 

[Robin64]

Street Fighter Alpha 2 now runs natively on the SNES Mini.

Download this file and follow the instructions in the readme.txt!

Credit goes to DarkAkuma.

But if you were hoping for Star Ocean as a result of this...

I'll quickly address another topic, as I'm sure I'm going to be asked about it. Star Ocean. Any hope?

I'm afraid to say... not much. As I said, SDD-1 isn't emulated. It's bypassed. The issue boils down to the same issue as other non-chipped games. Preset ID's. If any known preset ID worked with the Japanese compressed Star Ocean, it would play with broken graphics. But that's not the case. It doesn't play at all. Black screens and C7 errors only. Sadly this means the same for the decompressed hack. If the base game won't play at all, decompressing the graphics won't fix it that.

 

[XaosWolf]

I think the only things i'm waiting on are The Firemen and Uniracers/Unirally.

I also messed up by following a tutorial that didn't mention dumping the kernel - unless hackchi automatically did it for me and i've just not found where it put it. Not planning to mess with it much more unless there's an update that fixes the above games (or I eventually get bored and use RetroArch) so hopefully i'm fairly safe.

Whats up with The Firemen? Works fine as far as I've seen.

 

[KZXcellent]

I keep getting a C8 error whenever I turn off my mini. Checked around and people say that happens when you hit 60 games or above. I only have 50 games on this though so I have no idea why it's happening.

Granted I can just shut it off by unplugging it but I'd rather not do that every time.

 

[RaginRoss]

Whats up with The Firemen? Works fine as far as I've seen.

Ah really? Nice one.

I'd seen it on here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12HKfz4ZQBy6Ip5awvh8t2aV5cVswYlnsdKxn9xoIW2Y/edit#gid=2014317767

That lists the US version as fine, but it says 'US Prototype ROM'. I assumed that meant it was an incomplete version or something since it was only released in Japan and Europe.

 

[Acidote]

Street Fighter Alpha 2 now runs natively on the SNES Mini.

Download this file and follow the instructions in the readme.txt!

Credit goes to DarkAkuma.

I don't understand how this would work. Do those .bin files get "injected" in the rom when you apply the .ips patch? Or you load them into hakchi2 in a zip whit all those files inside? I can't check it now and I'm curious about it.

 

[Legendary Wizball]

I think the only things i'm waiting on are The Firemen and Uniracers/Unirally.

I also messed up by following a tutorial that didn't mention dumping the kernel - unless hackchi automatically did it for me and i've just not found where it put it. Not planning to mess with it much more unless there's an update that fixes the above games (or I eventually get bored and use RetroArch) so hopefully i'm fairly safe.

Have you tried the US version of the Firemen? AFAIK it’s 100% complete but it’s labelled as a proto

 

[Robin64]

I don't understand how this would work. Do those .bin files get "injected" in the rom when you apply the .ips patch? Or you load them into hakchi2 in a zip whit all those files inside? I can't check it now and I'm curious about it.

I'm at work and can't do it myself right now, but I would imagine the .bin files get appended to the end of the ROM and then the header points to where this data begins and ends.

 

[angelic]

Made some boxarts for the games I'm adding that I've not seen on here. Here they are if anyone wants them, all US covers 228x160, JP covers 88x160.

 

[Zolbrod]

I think the only things i'm waiting on are The Firemen and Uniracers/Unirally.

I also messed up by following a tutorial that didn't mention dumping the kernel - unless hackchi automatically did it for me and i've just not found where it put it. Not planning to mess with it much more unless there's an update that fixes the above games (or I eventually get bored and use RetroArch) so hopefully i'm fairly safe.

I think hakchi prompts you to dump the kernel the first time you try to synch new games, so you're probably good.

 

[Legendary Wizball]

Made some boxarts for the games I'm adding that I've not seen on here. Here they are if anyone wants them, all US covers 228x160, JP covers 88x160.

I thought Japan were meant to be 114x204?

 

[RaginRoss]

Have you tried the US version of the Firemen? AFAIK it’s 100% complete but it’s labelled as a proto

Cool thanks, will give that a try later.

I think hakchi prompts you to dump the kernel the first time you try to synch new games, so you're probably good.

Ah ok. I'll have a look when I get home. Thanks!

 

[Alter_Fridge]

How much room are people leaving for save states?

 

[Catvoca]

How much room are people leaving for save states?

Saw people on Reddit saying they take up ~2mb per save state. So you'd want quite a bit of space if you'll be using them.

 

[XaosWolf]

Saw people on Reddit saying they take up ~2mb per save state. So you'd want quite a bit of space if you'll be using them.

Do we know if that's for all the slots and their rewind data? Or is it per individual slot?

 

[Robin64]

Do we know if that's for all the slots and their rewind data? Or is it per individual slot?

Per slot indeed.

 

[the_milkybar_kid]

Just want to give a shoutout to Robin, he's been helping me with no fuss in the background trying to get these bloody backgrounds to work. Top man!

 

[Mr. Pointy]

Is there a hard limit on the number of borders you can add?

 

[angelic]

I thought Japan were meant to be 114x204?

You may be right, I was possibly too cautious. Will redo them shortly and add SFA2 now it's working.

 

[Serge84]

Cluster said on gbx.ru, that SNES Mini partition nande size 64 megabytes, and is not used at all. He wrote a script that transfers saving there, resulting in more space for games.

 

[XaosWolf]

Per slot indeed.

I'm assuming that includes the rewind data too then. (Which is also for the demo playback)

 

[Alter_Fridge]

Is there a way to get hakchi to auto download google images for all the box art or do you have to do each one individually?

 

[Robin64]

I'm assuming that includes the rewind data too then. (Which is also for the demo playback)

It does, yeah. Interestingly, you can see the rewind period to 0 in the command line for a game and it will keep recording til you fill up the remaining space on your SNES Mini.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

So i asked the question if theres a possibility that Ilussion of Time could work in the future (as its the only game i really want right now) in page 5 but nobody answered me.
Now im reading it works with something called retroarch but ive read rewinds dont work (also saves?) And i really dont know if its better to wait.
Is there a good easy tutorial for putting retroarch and ilussion of time on the super nes mini? im terrible at this things if i dont have easy steps process lol

 

[angelic]

Upped to standard size and dropped a SFA2 in there.

 

[Alter_Fridge]

So i asked the question if theres a possibility that Ilussion of Time could work in the future (as its the only game i really want right now) in page 5 but nobody answered me.
Now im reading it works with something called retroarch but ive read rewinds dont work (also saves?) And i really dont know if its better to wait.
Is there a good easy tutorial for putting retroarch and ilussion of time on the super nes mini? im terrible at this things if i dont have easy steps process lol

When it doubt, turn to reddit

There's a full guide there

 

[Hasney]

Saw people on Reddit saying they take up ~2mb per save state. So you'd want quite a bit of space if you'll be using them.

How much are Retroarch states taking up?

 

[robinsxe]

So, how safe is this to do? Polygon said something in their article about this possibly breaking my SNES Classic

 

[Robin64]

So, how safe is this to do? Polygon said something in their article about this possibly breaking my SNES Classic

Their article was written back when we had to do things mostly manually. Now that hakchi is out and updated, breaking your SNES Classic would be be very hard.

 

[angelic]

So, how safe is this to do? Polygon said something in their article about this possibly breaking my SNES Classic

Polygon are still amazed Sim City Snes works offline.

 

[wild_fire987]

So do we think there will be any major changes/additions/etc. to this tool or the modding scene? Me and my wife are trying to start a family and I would love to load my miniSNES with some of my favorite games for the kids, but I'm in no rush if some other features may come down the line...

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

When it doubt, turn to reddit

There's a full guide there

Thanks!

Saw the borders dont work in retroatch, nothing major but any possibility this is added in the future?

 

[LOUD915]

So do we think there will be any major changes/additions/etc. to this tool or the modding scene? Me and my wife are trying to start a family and I would love to load my miniSNES with some of my favorite games for the kids, but I'm in no rush if some other features may come down the line...

go ahead and do it.

these are like $80 even if you want to buy a new one.

its not exactly a big purchase compared to having a kid.

 

[wild_fire987]

go ahead and do it.

these are like $80 even if you want to buy a new one.

its not exactly a big purchase compared to having a kid.

Oh it's not about price... I just figure that once I'm done messing around with the games on the system I'll mod the thing and then store it away in a closet for a few years until kids are old enough. But I didn't know if the original developer was thinking of adding new features or is the tool today pretty much "feature complete" Because I'll never remember to go back and update this tool in like 3 - 5 years.

I'll probably take this out of the closet and be like "dang, can't believe the miniSNES came with 100 of the best games, totally forgetting I added them myself, lol.

 

[Robin64]

Oh it's not about price... I just figure that once I'm done messing around with the games on the system I'll mod the thing and then store it away in a closet for a few years until kids are old enough. But I didn't know if the original developer was thinking of adding new features or is the tool today pretty much "feature complete" Because I'll never remember to go back and update this tool in like 3 - 5 years.

I'll probably take this out of the closet and be like "dang, can't believe the miniSNES came with 100 of the best games, totally forgetting I added them myself, lol.

There are some additional things you can do beyond the program, such as borders, but we have no idea if Cluster plans to implement them at all. Just go ahead and start now.

 

[robinsxe]

Their article was written back when we had to do things mostly manually. Now that hakchi is out and updated, breaking your SNES Classic would be be very hard.

Thanks, off I go

 

[wild_fire987]

There are some additional things you can do beyond the program, such as borders, but we have no idea if Cluster plans to implement them at all. Just go ahead and start now.

Cool! Sounds like a plan!!!

 

[angelic]

Street Fighter Alpha 2 now runs natively on the SNES Mini.



Download this file and follow the instructions in the readme.txt!

Credit goes to DarkAkuma.

But if you were hoping for Star Ocean as a result of this...

Could you tell me in simpleton speak what to do with these please, I dont understand the readme.