So is the one we have been waiting for for a very simple use case? I still have not taken the step to trying this.
It is, I'm going to try and explain the full process of updating this or installing it for the first time. Bear in mind, I'm in no way an expert about this stuff so others who know more may well correct me
The process is correct though.
I hope this helps somebody, I'm completely new to this stuff and I was confused as hell when I started an I still am about some things. ��
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INSTALLING HAKCHI 2.13 ON YOUR PC
Hakch is is the programme that allows us to "hack" the NES Mini.
The first thing we need to do is to install hakchi or to update the version that you have installed already, if it's an older version. Download
hakchi2.zip and move to the downloaded hakchi2 folder over to wherever your current
hakchi2 folder is, it will ask you if you want to copy over files with the same name that are in the earlier folder. When you do that it won't copy over things like your settings, games and original kernel dump. They'll all still be exactly where they were before.
Done, you've installed hakchi 2.13 on your PC.
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PREPARING RETROARCH ON YOUR PC
The "hacking" that we're doing is running additional emulators on the NES Mini, these different emulators are all components of a larger programme called RetroArch. RetroArch allows us to change settings in the installed emulators, to change the emulator that we use for a specific consoles, etc. Download
retroarch-clover-master using the green "Clone or Download" button on the right hand side of the screen.
We now need to add the emulator files to wherever you've installed hakchi on your PC, the emulators in this case are known as
modules. These modules include the different emulators themselves, the RetroArch program which controls these emulators and any other hacks that we may want to add.
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First of all, you need to add these modules to the hakchi program, you do this by going into the
retroarch-clover-master folder that you've just downloaded and dragging the
.hmod folders or files over to wherever you just installed hakchi and drop them into the
user_mods folder within the main
hakchi2 folder. Again, it may tell you that you've already got one in there with the same name that you've copying over.
Inside the
retroarch-clover-master folder that you downloaded, there are three .hmod folders as soon as you go into it. The first one,
retroarch.hmod MUST be installed as it enables all the other hacks to work, move
retroarch.hmod across to the
user_mods folder in
hakchi2. The other two,
bios_template.hmod and
libretro_core_template.hmod are templates which are there to assist people who are custom adding their own bios and librettos to hakchi, I don't anything about doing that but you don't have to copy them across if you're not going to use them to do that.
Inside the
retroarch-clover-master folder that you were just dragging stuff from there's another folder called
core_modules and that's where the majority of the .hmod folders are that you need to copy across to the
user_mods folder are. Each one is a different hack and you may again get a message telling you that you're copying something that has the same name as a something that is already inside the
user_mods folder.
Done, you've now installed the emulators into Hackchi 2.13 on your PC.
*I've noticed this time that modules aren't always emulators, they've actually included a new XMB styled theme which is also a module.
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INSTALLING THE EMULATORS ON YOUR NES MINI
Now, we need to install the emulators from your PC onto your NES Mini
Open the
hakchi.exe program that you installed earlier. Remember that the emulators in hakchi are known as modules, so in hakchi select the
Modules heading and you'll see two options,
Install Extra Modules and
Uninstall Extra Modules. I don't know how accurate this is but some people have suggested that if you're adding new modules that it's always best to uninstall the modules that you already have installed. Accurate or not, I always do it though.
Instaling and uninstalling uses the same process, you select either
Install Extra Modules and
Uninstall Extra Modules which will bring up a list of all the different modules that you've put in your hakchi folder earlier.
Remember, you MUST install the retroarch module for anything else to work, all the others are optional. Select any module and it will show notes for that particular module explaining what it does. Other modules in there will be
music_hack which allows you to disable the menu music or change it to whatever music that you want and any template modules that you chose to pace in the
core_modules folder earlier.
You don't need the template modules on your NES Mini so don't select them. Once you've selected al the modules that you want to install or uninstall, select the "OK" button at the bottom of the widow and follow any instructions that it gives you.
You've now installed RetroArch and the modules/emulators on your NES Mini.
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Install your games as normal, keeping an eye on the new green bar at the base of the window which shows you how much space you still have remaining.
