Board 8 > SNES Classic Launch and Hacking topic

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sorry to keep asking this question. But where are we at on the ROM types? Will any SNES rom type work. like .SMC, or .SFC etc. Or does it have to be a specific rom type?

chstar posted...

sorry to keep asking this question. But where are we at on the ROM types? Will any SNES rom type work. like .SMC, or .SFC etc. Or does it have to be a specific rom type?

.smc and sfc. It converts them to what's necessary from there automatically.
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Snrkiko posted...

wait

is it possible to add mbga to this

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I do not know what that is or I would have answered, sorry.

It can add retroarch which apparently has a bunch of stuff on it, if that means anything
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StealThisSheen posted...

chstar posted...

sorry to keep asking this question. But where are we at on the ROM types? Will any SNES rom type work. like .SMC, or .SFC etc. Or does it have to be a specific rom type?

.smc and sfc. It converts them to what's necessary from there automatically.

thanks

added all the SNES games I wanted

it was 40MB over the limit

figuring out what to cut
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ninkendo posted...

added all the SNES games I wanted

it was 40MB over the limit

figuring out what to cut

I only did US stuff so far. Is there anything we didn't get that you'd suggest.
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well I'm putting retroarch on mine for the "problem games" so I have stuff like DBZ: Hyper Dimension on there

I'll probably have a video of everything I put on there once its all in
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ninkendo posted...

well I'm putting retroarch on mine for the "problem games" so I have stuff like DBZ: Hyper Dimension on there

I'll probably have a video of everything I put on there once its all in

I'm probably gonna put retroarch on because I want Uniracers
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isn't retroarch really annoying to configure
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Snrkiko posted...

isn't retroarch really annoying to configure

Maybe on other stuff

This seems really easy though
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so everything I put on works except the stuff that uses retroarch

so I probably messed up installing it at some point I need to figure that out
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also I think I already figured out what I did wrong I need to test it
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question about the naming of the ROMS I am downloading my list of ROMS now. Simply because I have so many games starting with "Super" I'd like to rename them into their proper titles...just without the super. If I do that before I load into hakachi or my snes (just rename the file while on my computer), will this have an adverse effects? Will it show up in the SNES classic library in the alphabetical order of it's new title (say under M for mario world instead of S for super mario world?)?

pretty sure once you load them up into hakchi you can rename them in there without editing the ROM file name and they'll appear in alphabetical order
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chstar posted...

question about the naming of the ROMS I am downloading my list of ROMS now. Simply because I have so many games starting with "Super" I'd like to rename them into their proper titles...just without the super. If I do that before I load into hakachi or my snes (just rename the file while on my computer), will this have an adverse effects? Will it show up in the SNES classic library in the alphabetical order of it's new title (say under M for mario world instead of S for super mario world?)?

Hakchi will open them with the correct names (Super Mario World, etc.), however I believe you can change the names in Hakchi itself before you sync them over to the SNES
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okay I figured out what I was doing wrong and have retroarch working

however i'm out of time and need to work in the morning so I'll have to fix the rest of the games either in the morning or after work tomorrow

zzzzz
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I ended up with 126 games on mine. The final cut was Star Ocean because I've already played other versions of it and it just took up way too much space (over 6MB)
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ninkendo posted...

I ended up with 126 games on mine. The final cut was Star Ocean because I've already played other versions of it and it just took up way too much space (over 6MB)

what games? I'm realizing i don't really have too many snes games i need to have atm
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video is uploading now of me just scrolling through the list and loading a few of them (some of them still aren't loading but I'll fix that later)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIp9WLamNc

here it is

Finished hacking my SNES Classic for the most part. Some games still aren't working yet, but I'll figure those out in time. There isn't enough space to put the entire SNES collection on there so I had to pick and choose the stuff I thought was worth putting on there. Boosting the library from 21 games to 126 or so with a combination of english games japanese games with english fan translations.
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ninkendo posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdIp9WLamNc

here it is

Finished hacking my SNES Classic for the most part. Some games still aren't working yet, but I'll figure those out in time. There isn't enough space to put the entire SNES collection on there so I had to pick and choose the stuff I thought was worth putting on there. Boosting the library from 21 games to 126 or so with a combination of english games and japanese games with english fan translations.

what are the notable Japanese games with fan translations? I'll have to go through your video later, but any standouts?

I'm realizing now how un-hip i am to the snes
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Something I'll consider doing tomorrow is getting rid of the games that come with the classic because they're uncompressed and take up more space and replace them with regular rom versions so I have more space to add even more
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And that's the whole reason I made the video so you can see what games I put in there I'm not going to list all of them
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ninkendo posted...

And that's the whole reason I made the video so you can see what games I put in there I'm not going to list all of them

how wude
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Just get gundam w endless duel

Best fighting game on SNES and works in the native emulator
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ninkendo posted...

Just get gundam w endless duel

Best fighting game on SNES and works in the native emulator

im sorry that's not power rangers ninjazord OP fighting edition
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Snrkiko posted...

what are the notable Japanese games with fan translations?

Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei II
Tales of Phantasia
Star Ocean
Final Fantasy V
Dragon Quest V
Seiken Densetsu 3
Live A Live
Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
Shin Kidou Senshi Gundam W: Endless Duel
Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
Rockman & Forte

I'm sure there are many others but those are the ones that come to mind.
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Snrkiko posted...

ninkendo posted...

Just get gundam w endless duel

Best fighting game on SNES and works in the native emulator

im sorry that's not power rangers ninjazord OP fighting edition

actually.....isn't it?
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WhiteLens posted...

Shin Megami Tensei
Shin Megami Tensei II
Tales of Phantasia
Star Ocean
Final Fantasy V
Dragon Quest V
Seiken Densetsu 3
Live A Live
Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
Shin Kidou Senshi Gundam W: Endless Duel
Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
Fire Emblem: Thracia 776
Rockman & Forte

it's weird how this is almost a specific list of the SNES games I like
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I put almost all those in there too

Maybe with a proper snes controller I'll finally play the snes fire emblems
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How easy is this to do?

I found a good on Reddit but it looked complicated and I got scared
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It walks you through 99% of it and for the rest of it there's YouTube videos out there.

I've yet to find a good video though it shows you how to do it and put retroarch on at the same time for the problem games

I had to figure that part out on my own
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ninkendo posted...

It walks you through 99% of it and for the rest of it there's YouTube videos out there.

I've yet to find a good video though it shows you how to do it and put retroarch on at the same time for the problem games

I had to figure that part out on my own

There is a fantastic step by step tutorial on minisnesmods that walks you through it, both regular and retroarch
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Okay yes I see they have them now they were not there last night when I was figuring it out

https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/751rhw/new_user_step_by_step_guide_to_installing_hakchi/
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How hard is it to get the bells and whistles (box arts and release dates) for these games? The little I've seen makes it seem like you need to find and save that stuff individually for each game.
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CaptainOfCrush posted...

How hard is it to get the bells and whistles (box arts and release dates) for these games? The little I've seen makes it seem like you need to find and save that stuff individually for each game.

There's a feature in the program that finds the box art for you. You have to do it for each game, but it's super easy.

It fills out the release dates automatically.
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It automatically Google's box arts for you sometimes it messes up and you can fix it

The release dates and publisher are already in there for most of the North American release stuff but none of the Japanese stuff so you'll have to fill in that yourself
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Also new to this version you can highlight all the games on the left column in mask Google all the Box Arts
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I'm getting a c7 error every time I try to run a game set to run on retroarch. I added the module after adding the games but re-synced them. I doing something wrong? All the other games I added work fine.
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Lupin the 4th posted...

I'm getting a c7 error every time I try to run a game set to run on retroarch. I added the module after adding the games but re-synced them. I doing something wrong? All the other games I added work fine.

When you added the module, did you add both the retroarch one and the snes9x one, or just one?
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At the end of the command line of every game you want to use retroarch you need to add " --retroarch"

That's a space, two hyphens than the word retroarch immediately after the 2nd hyphen

That's the thing that I was trying to figure out last night for like 2 hours
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And yeah you need to add both the retroarch module and the SNESx module
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It's gonna be one of those two things. Either you forgot to add --retroarch, or you missed a module. That's the case like, 99% of the time.
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removing some of the original 21 games in the SNES Classic and replacing them with just ROMS of the same game does help save on space so I can fit a few more games on here
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my count went from 126 to 139 after replacing only a few of the stock roms with basic roms
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I realize this is a massive long shot. But anyway to play gameboy games through some sort of super gameboy Rom natively through the snes mini?

I'm going to guess no

the best you can probably do is just install a GB (or more likely GBA) module using retroarch and play GB games that way
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ninkendo posted...

I'm going to guess no

the best you can probably do is just install a GB (or more likely GBA) module using retroarch and play GB games that way

I didn't think so. oh well. But no thanks, I only want the native emulator on the mini snes.I have plenty of other devices that can play roms, I want to keep my snes classic...pure in a sense. (though I realize installing roms kind of makes me hypocritical. I guess it's my definition of pure.)

thanks for all your help though

looks like the next version of hakchi2 (don't know if it's out yet) will automatically let you know if a game is going to be a problem game


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