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[gingerbeardman]

Ugh, don't have a monitor with an audio jack :U

I've never used one myself, but wouldn't something like this work? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721961F3/?tag=neogaf0e-20

I use a "HDMI2HDMI+Audio" box which was about £10 on eBay. Like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/263136506002

 

[Robin64]

Oh is that the same as doing -filter 2 -magfilter 0 that someone mentioned earlier?

I believe this lets you do those command without yourself modifying a file via FTP.

 

[Chucker]

Alright, finished up my square icons and applied the Illusion of Gaia patch.

No more modding this weekend, only playing lol.

 

[gingerbeardman]

I'm playing True Golf Classics: Pebble Beach in RetroArch with vsync off and the game is much more playable. About 1.5x speed. Very nice.

 

[TLZ]

I made one for DKC3 too. It's really good, I spent a long time with a focus group of people (not Neiteio) who all had their input. We decided to focus on the most popular thing about the game, the new precocious baby character, and we used art of him with his mouth open to emphasize that this is a fun game.

Please use it as much as possible.

Perfect for the Switch.

 

[Palom]

retroarch_with_cores.zip and it's not an error, it just doesn't let me drop anything into Hakchi and shows the disabled icon on the cursor.

I had this issue with another program once before. When I ran the program as administrator, it would not let me use drag and drop, but if I just ran it normally, it would. If you're running it as administrator, try doing it again without running as administrator.

 

[ParityBit]

I believe this lets you do those command without yourself modifying a file via FTP.

Does anyone use this? It says I will need to add it to the global command line, so what option do you guys use/like best? (or not at all)

 

[VNZ]

Tetris and Dr Mario overscan has been solved. It should work on other gamer that are going over the borders too.

Like with Goof Troop, set the ROM to not be compressed, then go into its folder in hakchi and open the .sfrom in a hex editor.

Find the following: 8D 33 21
Change the 8D to 9C

Save, sync game.



And unlike our pals over at Reddit, I will give credit to the person who found this.

Since this post I (!) made an updated patch. Link in the updated OP.

 

[ryan-ts]

It's not that far. I spent a lot of time messing around at the Fair, so in terms of time it was quite far for me, but you can get here super quick. Literally Fair -> Truce Canyon -> Forest to castle -> Tower (crash area)

And yes, unmodified ROM.

So one of the black chests in the castle caused the game to freeze? I opened/checked a couple chests in there and everything is fine with my game.

 

[Robin64]

So one of the chests in the castle caused the game to freeze? I opened a couple chests in there and everything is fine with my game.

The second time I got there, it was fine. But then I had another crash.

After seeing Marle vanish, I ran back down the tower, and one screen transition didn't make it. It just faded to black and stayed. This time I remembered the rewind feature, zipped back to before I entered the room, and tried again. Was okay this time.

 

[Chucker]

Welp, Namingway patch didn’t apply correct and IoG hangs after the title. Looks like I’m not done modding yet.

 

[Kadmac25]

It's not that far. I spent a lot of time messing around at the Fair, so in terms of time it was quite far for me, but you can get here super quick. Literally Fair -> Truce Canyon -> Forest to castle -> Tower (crash area)

And yes, unmodified ROM.

Not liking the sound of this. This is kind of a big deal if Chrono Trigger is not running correctly on the SNES Classic.

 

[JohnOfMars]

Here’s a super basic question:

When I’m doing my hackchi work (initial modding & follow up adding game) & my SNES Classic is plugged into my PC, can I have the HDMI plugged into my TV? Or should I unplug the HDMI?

 

[Robin64]

Here’s a super basic question:

When I’m doing my hackchi work & my SNES Classic is plugged into my PC can I have the HDMI plugged into my TV? Or should I unplug the HDMI?

Yeah it's fine to have it plugged in to the TV. I've got my USB connected to the PC and the HDMI plugged into the TV, and I haven't removed them since day one.

 

[PSFan]

Do the ROMs need to have a certain extension before compressing and loading them with hakchi2?

 

[LOUD915]

Does anyone use this? It says I will need to add it to the global command line, so what option do you guys use/like best? (or not at all)

I do. I use filter 2 and magfilter 3.

It looks a little better scrolling in my opinion.

 

[ZServ]

It's not that far. I spent a lot of time messing around at the Fair, so in terms of time it was quite far for me, but you can get here super quick. Literally Fair -> Truce Canyon -> Forest to castle -> Tower (crash area)

And yes, unmodified ROM.

Weird. I've gotten to the Future on two separate occasions (I.. accidentally loaded a quick-save thing and deleted my save, don't judge me), and have had zero issues. Hm.

 

[gingerbeardman]

What version SNES version do you guys each have? @Robin64 @ZServ

telnet in and:

cat /etc/issue

 

[JayBabay]

I haven't gotten far in the Woolsey Uncensored patch, but so far it's much better than the RPGOne patch which was a literal, literal disaster. As in, they made that translation so clinical and correct it felt and played awful.

So far it feels closer to what Woolsey probably would have done if he had an extra 33% of the rom for text and no Nintendo censors to worry about.

Thanks for the informative post, excited for the more enjoyable experience these patches will bring.

 

[dvolovets]

Don't mean to double post, but it seems like my question fell through the cracks here. Could someone please direct me to the proper resources to get Illusion of Gaia to work on this? I have no experience with any of this stuff, so I've tried sifting through the thread and just ended up confused... Thanks!

 

[ZServ]

What version SNES version do you guys each have? @Robin64 @ZServ

telnet in and:

2.0.14-0

 

[Handsome Ralph]

So I successfully hacked my SNES Mini earlier this week and was able to load additional games onto my system.

Now though, when I plug my system into my PC and try to synchronize new games and remove old one, I get the "Waiting for NES/SNES Mini" popup, despite having already turned the system on.

Anyone else have the same issue?

 

[denx]

Anyone has cover art for Chaos Seed?

I haven't gotten far in the Woolsey Uncensored patch, but so far it's much better than the RPGOne patch which was a literal, literal disaster. As in, they made that translation so clinical and correct it felt and played awful.

So far it feels closer to what Woolsey probably would have done if he had an extra 33% of the rom for text and no Nintendo censors to worry about.

Should add that there's a version of Woolsey's Uncensored Translation that uses the GBA port script for the Opera scene. Haven't got that far, but there seems to be agreement that the translation work on the Opera scene is better in the GBA version than the SNES version, so you should probably look that up.

Another thing to consider is that WUT is a patch that must be applied to a 1.0 version of NA FFIII, NOT to JP FFVI.

 

[gingerbeardman]

2.0.14-0

Interesting, I'm on 2.0.7-0 I wonder what @Robin64 is on?

I read that the emulator is quite different between builds, maybe he's running into a bug that was fixed in a later build?

 

[Chucker]

Alright, got Gaia to play so that's good.
Patched FFV for the GBA translation, III for the Woolsey Uncensored, but no matter what I can't get Namingway II to boot.

Strange.

 

[potatohead]

I feel like it makes more sense to just emulate

Can have more filters and upscale to 4k and such

 

[polyh3dron]

So I successfully hacked my SNES Mini earlier this week and was able to load additional games onto my system.

Now though, when I plug my system into my PC and try to synchronize new games and remove old one, I get the "Waiting for NES/SNES Mini" popup, despite having already turned the system on.

Anyone else have the same issue?

Flash back to the original kernel, then flash the custom kernel again.

 

[Palom]

Alright, got Gaia to play so that's good.
Patched FFV for the GBA translation, III for the Woolsey Uncensored, but no matter what I can't get Namingway II to boot.

Strange.

Make sure your ROM does not have a header. I recommend NSRT to make sure your ROM matches what the patch is looking for, and you can remove the header if it's present.

 

[rubbishmonkey]

Anyone has cover art for Chaos Seed?

It's a bit big...

 

[pitt_norton]

Since this post I (!) made an updated patch. Link in the updated OP.

Do I need to have the latest hakchi installed for the overscan fix to work. I patched it with Lunar and I'm getting no overscan fix

 

[Handsome Ralph]

Flash back to the original kernel, then flash the custom kernel again.

That fixed it, thanks!

 

[JayBabay]

Sure.

Hakchi2 -> Settings -> Controller hacks

In this menu, from my understanding, it's saying you can leave the current reset combination (L+R+Start+Select) to just reset the game; or the second option to set a "Select" button combination custom reset, does this also just reset the game or allow you to set a combination to take you back to the home menu?

 

[Dimentios]

In this menu, from my understanding, it's saying you can leave the current reset combination (L+R+Start+Select) to just reset the game; or the second option to set a "Select" button combination custom reset, does this also just reset the game or allow you to set a combination to take you back to the home menu?

Both for taking you back to the home menu. (L+R+Start+Select) is the default which also resets certain games to the title screen. So not ideal.
Most chose Down + Select, but you can put any combination as you see fit. I have L + R.

I had a freeze once while playing starfox. At the start of Mission 2.
I could reset to the main menu and rewind the game, but the freeze happened again at the very same moment.
The game itself is the original one from the system. Unaltered.

 

[JayBabay]

Both for taking you back to the home menu. (L+R+Start+Select) is the default which also resets certain games to the title screen. So not ideal.
Most chose Down + Select, but you can put any combination as you see fit. I have L + R.

Thanks, just tried it and it worked like a charm!

 

[Lettuce]

Try adjusting levels (auto levels in Photoshop) to get better contrast in the main image. Before you paste it onto the template.

Yeah it doesnt seem to remove the glare that much before you make the rest of the image too dark. Is there an anti glare tool or the like?

 

[Weltall Zero]

Can't get Gaia to work. I checked the ROM and it had the same checksums as KojiKnight posted in that pic; the patched ROM works fine on an emulator, but it gives me a straight error C7 on the mini as I boot it. Ah well.

 

[eot]

I use a "HDMI2HDMI+Audio" box which was about £10 on eBay. Like this:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/263136506002

I've never used one myself, but wouldn't something like this work? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0721961F3/?tag=neogaf0e-20

Cool, thanks.
Didn't know these breakouts existed.

 

[LOUD915]

Don't mean to double post, but it seems like my question fell through the cracks here. Could someone please direct me to the proper resources to get Illusion of Gaia to work on this? I have no experience with any of this stuff, so I've tried sifting through the thread and just ended up confused... Thanks!

Install Retroarch.

It takes 5 minutes.

 

[baddvision]

So I successfully hacked my SNES Mini earlier this week and was able to load additional games onto my system.

Now though, when I plug my system into my PC and try to synchronize new games and remove old one, I get the "Waiting for NES/SNES Mini" popup, despite having already turned the system on.

Anyone else have the same issue?

ran into this issue, i just waited a few seconds, and it synced

 

[KojiKnight]

Can't get Gaia to work. I checked the ROM and it had the same checksums as KojiKnight posted in that pic; the patched ROM works fine on an emulator, but it gives me a straight error C7 on the mini as I boot it. Ah well.

The patch I initially posted was bad. I'll edit that part in a bit (not home right now). Grab the one from a few posts down by Robin64 or just patch it yourself using ucon64 and the -l flag.

 

[Zee-Row]

Other than saving space does compressing the ROM introduce problems with the emulator running the game?

 

[soundtest]

Huh, DBZ Super Butouden 2 is the only of the 3 games games that glitches like crazy on the mini and it's my favorite of the bunch. Shame

 

[mdsfx]

I'm now getting c7 errors on my 3 most played roms, regardless of removing them, replacing them, flashing original kernel and back to custom. WTF?

 

[KojiKnight]

I'm now getting c7 errors on my 3 most played roms, regardless of removing them, replacing them, flashing original kernel and back to custom. WTF?

Which games? Anything you've recently changed?

 

[mdsfx]

Which games? Anything you've recently changed?

Mortal Kombat 1 & 3 and killer instinct. Not really. I was trying to fix my crashing issues buy flashing the original then custom kernel. I have 46 games and only these 3 are giving me this issue now.

Is there some game data of some kind that isn't removed even after removing the game?

 

[Chucker]

Make sure your ROM does not have a header. I recommend NSRT to make sure your ROM matches what the patch is looking for, and you can remove the header if it's present.

This was the culprit, everything works great now.

Thanks!

 

[PMS341]

Finished up a few new custom frames, all based on PC98 Engine games. Luminosity options work well for most of them.

That being said, I've finally consolidated all of my custom game icons, borders, frames, etc. into a shared Drive folder for ease of access. Needed to do this a little while ago, but I finally got around to it.

 

[ACESmkII]

Finished up a few new custom frames, all based on PC98 Engine games. Luminosity options work well for most of them.



That being said, I've finally consolidated all of my custom game icons, borders, frames, etc. into a shared Drive folder for ease of access. Needed to do this a little while ago, but I finally got around to it.

Absolutely beautiful. Is that the standard CRT filter? It looks less blurry.

 

[PMS341]

Absolutely beautiful. Is that the standard CRT filter? It looks less blurry.

It's the standard, and I actually need to read up on fixing that. My capture card is pretty crisp though! ;D

 

[Drilbit777]

I patched terranigma on my snes classic and with the ntsc patch and I get issues. Any tips?