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SNES Mini Classic Thread | No preorder or shipping discussion here

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Dreams-Visions

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Well it's time for me to give a special shout-out.

As an old-school gamer that group on on the SNES (my GOAT system), this was the first of the "mini" series that I was truly excited for. Memories of ActRaiser, Super Mario World, UN Squadron, Turtles In Time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition, NBA Jam, my lame-ass Super Scope 6....so many of my best memories were on the SNES with my friends. I instantly knew I would want one of these SNES minis when they were announced, but considering how the NES mini went down I was duly skeptical of my chances. Well, fast forward to the pre-order phase and I found myself among the masses who tried and failed grandly trying to get a pre-order in. I was happy to see others squeeze an order in between the madness, but was kinda disappointed that I might not get a chance to relive some of those classic memories outside of regular old emulation.

Fellow GAFer Earthbound64 reached out to me about the SNES classic and let me know that he might have been able to score one for me among some he was able to pre-order along the way. He couldn't promise me that he would have one for me when it came time for orders to be fulfilled (and who could given all the random cancellations we've seen) but that he would try. Given his reaching out to me was totally unsolicited, I could only send him appreciation that he thought of me at all. I asked him what the best way to compensate him for his troubles would be if he was able to happen upon one for me and he refused payment. Not used to any sugh generosity from someone I don't know, I kept pressing on a way to pay him back and he kept on refusing. Well, fast forward a few weeks and sure enough: he was able to get one extra and he wanted to give it to me. *tear* After struggling to convince him to let me pay him, I finally acquiesced.

So this shout-out is to Earthbound64 whose generosity and kindness has made an old-school Nintendo gamer smile. I get to jump into A Link To The Past and Super Mario World again in style for the first time in about 25 years thanks to you.

GAFers are the best, but some are decidedly better than others. Now to figure out how to pay it forward. :-D

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Foov

Member
Just wondering, will I lose my current progress and save stats if I mod my snes classic? Or is that retained?
 
MilkLizard

MilkLizard

Member
KZXcellent said:
Finished adjusting the size of the small thumbnails so everything fits nicely! I also replaced the standard boxart with some neat 3D versions. Really happy with it.

Only at 38 games. Need to add some more gems.

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How can you adjust the thumbnails of the stock games?
 
MilkLizard

MilkLizard

Member
Robin64 said:
You technically can't. You need to hide the original games and reupload them as custom ones.
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Yeah I just found your earlier post

Robin64 said:
This is a little trickier. You need to FTP into the machine (hakchi has the info you need in the Tools menu) and browse to /usr/share/games/. There you will find the preinstalled CLV-P-xxxxx games. Download those to your PC. (Make sure to set your FTP client to transfer only 1 file at a time, the SNES Mini really hates more than that)

Now copy those folders to hackchi's /snes_games/ folders where your custom games are.

Now restart hakchi and you will see they appear as custom games too alongside previous ones you added, so you will want to deselect the original 21. Now you have copies that you can work with, such as changing their box art and thumbnails.
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Will do this now. Thanks for all the useful info you're droping in this thread.
 
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"D"

I'm extremely insecure with how much f2p mobile games are encroaching on Nintendo
Dreams-Visions said:
Well it's time for me to give a special shout-out.

As an old-school gamer that group on on the SNES (my GOAT system), this was the first of the "mini" series that I was truly excited for. Memories of ActRaiser, Super Mario World, UN Squadron, Turtles In Time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition, NBA Jam, my lame-ass Super Scope 6....so many of my best memories were on the SNES with my friends. I instantly knew I would want one of these SNES minis when they were announced, but considering how the NES mini went down I was duly skeptical of my chances. Well, fast forward to the pre-order phase and I found myself among the masses who tried and failed grandly trying to get a pre-order in. I was happy to see others squeeze an order in between the madness, but was kinda disappointed that I might not get a chance to relive some of those classic memories outside of regular old emulation.

Fellow GAFer Earthbound64 reached out to me about the SNES classic and let me know that he might have been able to score one for me among some he was able to pre-order along the way. He couldn't promise me that he would have one for me when it came time for orders to be fulfilled (and who could given all the random cancellations we've seen) but that he would try. Given his reaching out to me was totally unsolicited, I could only send him appreciation that he thought of me at all. I asked him what the best way to compensate him for his troubles would be if he was able to happen upon one for me and he refused payment. Not used to any sugh generosity from someone I don't know, I kept pressing on a way to pay him back and he kept on refusing. Well, fast forward a few weeks and sure enough: he was able to get one extra and he wanted to give it to me. *tear* After struggling to convince him to let me pay him, I finally acquiesced.

So this shout-out is to Earthbound64 whose generosity and kindness has made an old-school Nintendo gamer smile. I get to jump into A Link To The Past and Super Mario World again in style for the first time in about 25 years thanks to you.

GAFers are the best, but some are decidedly better than others. Now to figure out how to pay it forward. :-D

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There's still some good people out there left in the world, present-Trump era at that.

Good lookin' out, Earthbound 64, and enjoy Dreams-Visions
 
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TheNotoriousAFG

Member
Dreams-Visions said:
Well it's time for me to give a special shout-out.

As an old-school gamer that group on on the SNES (my GOAT system), this was the first of the "mini" series that I was truly excited for. Memories of ActRaiser, Super Mario World, UN Squadron, Turtles In Time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition, NBA Jam, my lame-ass Super Scope 6....so many of my best memories were on the SNES with my friends. I instantly knew I would want one of these SNES minis when they were announced, but considering how the NES mini went down I was duly skeptical of my chances. Well, fast forward to the pre-order phase and I found myself among the masses who tried and failed grandly trying to get a pre-order in. I was happy to see others squeeze an order in between the madness, but was kinda disappointed that I might not get a chance to relive some of those classic memories outside of regular old emulation.

Fellow GAFer Earthbound64 reached out to me about the SNES classic and let me know that he might have been able to score one for me among some he was able to pre-order along the way. He couldn't promise me that he would have one for me when it came time for orders to be fulfilled (and who could given all the random cancellations we've seen) but that he would try. Given his reaching out to me was totally unsolicited, I could only send him appreciation that he thought of me at all. I asked him what the best way to compensate him for his troubles would be if he was able to happen upon one for me and he refused payment. Not used to any sugh generosity from someone I don't know, I kept pressing on a way to pay him back and he kept on refusing. Well, fast forward a few weeks and sure enough: he was able to get one extra and he wanted to give it to me. *tear* After struggling to convince him to let me pay him, I finally acquiesced.

So this shout-out is to Earthbound64 whose generosity and kindness has made an old-school Nintendo gamer smile. I get to jump into A Link To The Past and Super Mario World again in style for the first time in about 25 years thanks to you.

GAFers are the best, but some are decidedly better than others. Now to figure out how to pay it forward. :-D

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This story made me smile, enjoy man and shout out to EarthBound64 for being a real one :)
 
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AzureSkies

Member
Dreams-Visions said:
Well it's time for me to give a special shout-out.

As an old-school gamer that group on on the SNES (my GOAT system), this was the first of the "mini" series that I was truly excited for. Memories of ActRaiser, Super Mario World, UN Squadron, Turtles In Time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition, NBA Jam, my lame-ass Super Scope 6....so many of my best memories were on the SNES with my friends. I instantly knew I would want one of these SNES minis when they were announced, but considering how the NES mini went down I was duly skeptical of my chances. Well, fast forward to the pre-order phase and I found myself among the masses who tried and failed grandly trying to get a pre-order in. I was happy to see others squeeze an order in between the madness, but was kinda disappointed that I might not get a chance to relive some of those classic memories outside of regular old emulation.

Fellow GAFer Earthbound64 reached out to me about the SNES classic and let me know that he might have been able to score one for me among some he was able to pre-order along the way. He couldn't promise me that he would have one for me when it came time for orders to be fulfilled (and who could given all the random cancellations we've seen) but that he would try. Given his reaching out to me was totally unsolicited, I could only send him appreciation that he thought of me at all. I asked him what the best way to compensate him for his troubles would be if he was able to happen upon one for me and he refused payment. Not used to any sugh generosity from someone I don't know, I kept pressing on a way to pay him back and he kept on refusing. Well, fast forward a few weeks and sure enough: he was able to get one extra and he wanted to give it to me. *tear* After struggling to convince him to let me pay him, I finally acquiesced.

So this shout-out is to Earthbound64 whose generosity and kindness has made an old-school Nintendo gamer smile. I get to jump into A Link To The Past and Super Mario World again in style for the first time in about 25 years thanks to you.

GAFers are the best, but some are decidedly better than others. Now to figure out how to pay it forward. :-D

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Wow, what an amazing guy.

Great job EarthBound64! It's heartwarming to read stories like this on GAF.
 
HitCtrlAltDel

HitCtrlAltDel

Member
Is there a good tutorial on how to keep the original games, but edit their art? I want to add more games than 31, which would have the thumbnails go off the screen. So I want to rescale the thumbnails to about 80% so they all fit.

As I understand it, I think you need to FTP into the mini, download the included games’ folders, copy them to your ROMs folder, edit the images, then add them back in manually with the “original games” option turned off. Is this right? I would need a couple of specifics answered though like how do you FTP in.
 
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Zonic

Gives all the fucks
The real question out of all the hacking is..........can you play 3D Super Noah's Ark, the only unofficial SNES game?

In a weird way, I'm slightly glad I haven't gotten my SNES Mini yet just for all this news about adding games & borders so that way, when I finally get mine from Amazon, it seems it'll be almost 100% ready to just plug & drop games into it.

Though I'm gonna try & limit myself to games that never came to the US. Some that come to mind are Mario's Super Picross, Pop'n TwinBee: Rainbow Bell Adventures, that Holy Umbrella game that was featured on Did You Know Gaming, etc.

Would be funny to see stuff like Mario Paint, Super Scope 6, etc. working since those used special controllers.

& wow, huge props to Earthbound64, glad to hear that story.
 
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"D"

I'm extremely insecure with how much f2p mobile games are encroaching on Nintendo
Is the Retroarch mod a plugin for the SNES Mini's emulator or is it a stand-alone emu? Like will I still be able to boot a game from the SNES Mini's main screen without having to tap into another emu?
 
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soundtest

Banned
I think the game Robin64 meant to mention is The Great Circus Mystery starring Mickey and Minnie and not the Great Caper. Game does not work at all on the SNES mini neither does Super SFII for me
 
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celebi23

Member
Is there an idiot's guide to getting set up with hakchi? I just want to make sure I back up the things I need to and don't miss anything important.
 
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daman824

Member
I've never done anything remotely close to this and I really don't want to break my snes classic.

But there are still a few snes games I own that I'd love to add to the system.

So it's not too hard right?
 
OmegaDL50

OmegaDL50

Member
[QUOTE="D";251269883]Is the Retroarch mod a plugin for the SNES Mini's emulator or is it a stand-alone emu? Like will I still be able to boot a game from the SNES Mini's main screen without having to tap into another emu?[/QUOTE]

As far I'm aware it acts like a forwarder.

The GUI is identical to the basic SNES Classic menu, but the underlying core makes it so it just loads the game via RA. You don't actually go into a separate Retroarch menu and load the games individually from there. The library of added RA games still show up in the SNES Classic game list. It just not using the Native built-in Emulator.

This is useful for problem games that don't play nice with the default emu such as Terranigma for example.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Robin, given that hakchi is release ready, it'd probably be pretty good to actually make a thread explicitly for hacking the SNES Classic. That'd have the benefit of making this thread about the games AND having an OP with all the best and most up to date FAQ stuff.
 
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"D"

I'm extremely insecure with how much f2p mobile games are encroaching on Nintendo
OmegaDL50 said:
As far I'm aware it acts like a forwarder.

The GUI is identical to the basic SNES Classic menu, but the underlying core makes it so it just loads the game via RA. You don't actually go into a separate Retroarch menu and load the games individually from there. The library of added RA games still show up in the SNES Classic game list. It just not using the Native built-in Emulator.

This is useful for problem games that don't play nice with the default emu such as Terranigma for example.
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Ok. So the games that don't work at all under the normal emu like the ones Robin64 mentioned...do those not work with Retroarch either or will they work? And the one exibiting issues, if ran with Retroarch then they should work fine then?
 
TLZ

TLZ

Banned
daman824 said:
I've never done anything remotely close to this and I really don't want to break my snes classic.

But there are still a few snes games I own that I'd love to add to the system.

So it's not too hard right?
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Sutton Dagger said:
Same here...
Any issues adding DKC2, Lufia 2 and Terranigma?
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It's very easy :)

Stumpokapow said:
Robin, given that hakchi is release ready, it'd probably be pretty good to actually make a thread explicitly for hacking the SNES Classic. That'd have the benefit of making this thread about the games AND having an OP with all the best and most up to date FAQ stuff.
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Finally an OP with all the updated info in one place :)
 
OmegaDL50

OmegaDL50

Member
[QUOTE="D";251270825]Ok. So the games that don't work at all under the normal emu like the ones Robin64 mentioned...do those not work with Retroarch either or will they work? And the one exibiting issues, if ran with Retroarch then they should work fine then?[/QUOTE]

Correct.

Games that don't work with the Native Emu like Star Ocean, Street Fighter Alpha 2, Terranigma, etc will load fine using RA.

See this thread and the video within for more details - https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmo...o_play_snes_games_that_dont_work_with_native/
 
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Euphoria14

Member
Dreams-Visions said:
Well it's time for me to give a special shout-out.

As an old-school gamer that group on on the SNES (my GOAT system), this was the first of the "mini" series that I was truly excited for. Memories of ActRaiser, Super Mario World, UN Squadron, Turtles In Time, Street Fighter II Championship Edition, NBA Jam, my lame-ass Super Scope 6....so many of my best memories were on the SNES with my friends. I instantly knew I would want one of these SNES minis when they were announced, but considering how the NES mini went down I was duly skeptical of my chances. Well, fast forward to the pre-order phase and I found myself among the masses who tried and failed grandly trying to get a pre-order in. I was happy to see others squeeze an order in between the madness, but was kinda disappointed that I might not get a chance to relive some of those classic memories outside of regular old emulation.

Fellow GAFer Earthbound64 reached out to me about the SNES classic and let me know that he might have been able to score one for me among some he was able to pre-order along the way. He couldn't promise me that he would have one for me when it came time for orders to be fulfilled (and who could given all the random cancellations we've seen) but that he would try. Given his reaching out to me was totally unsolicited, I could only send him appreciation that he thought of me at all. I asked him what the best way to compensate him for his troubles would be if he was able to happen upon one for me and he refused payment. Not used to any sugh generosity from someone I don't know, I kept pressing on a way to pay him back and he kept on refusing. Well, fast forward a few weeks and sure enough: he was able to get one extra and he wanted to give it to me. *tear* After struggling to convince him to let me pay him, I finally acquiesced.

So this shout-out is to Earthbound64 whose generosity and kindness has made an old-school Nintendo gamer smile. I get to jump into A Link To The Past and Super Mario World again in style for the first time in about 25 years thanks to you.

GAFers are the best, but some are decidedly better than others. Now to figure out how to pay it forward. :-D

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Incredible generosity.

Thank you for sharing this.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
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Official Thread (this thread)
by: MRORANGE
Use for: Discussing games, UI, controllers, purchase impressions

Hacking Thread
by: Robin64
Use for: Modifying the SNES classic to add games, fiddle with the emulator, use custom backgrounds, or more.

Preorder Nonsense Thread
by: NeOak
Use for: Complaining about your preorder, SNES Classic stock, shipping, postal hiccups, etc.

SNES Classic Club: Super Mario World
by: Stumpokapow
Use for: Taking part in the SNES Classic Club: earn stamps for your passport by completing goals in the 21 original SNES classic games. Super Mario World is being played from October 1st-15th, and you can catch up by completing goals at any point this year.

Star Fox 2 OT
by: TheMoon
Use for: Discussing the brand new 2017 release, Star Fox 2.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
For anyone posting hacking stuff in this thread over the next little while, I'll be moving your posts to the hacking thread -- so if you're wondering what happened to them, please go there!
 
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muteki

Member
So nice to play Mario Kart with the buttons in the right places after so many years.

Also, never had a NES classic but at first use the save state/rewind feature is a little clunky and takes some getting used to.
 
Chittagong

Chittagong

Gold Member
BGBW said:
Well, since it was fairly easy to put together a new template now that I've done most of teh hard work:

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Glorious. That’s how it would have looked, for sure. Great choice of surround colour, amplifying the sinister mood of the art.

Really looks like it could have existed.
 
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SonicXtreme

Member
is there ken griffey modified with current rosters? i need klubot in there. i'll def put 2017 nba jam mod, even though it's already so far behind with the nba's last month
 
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twinturbo2

butthurt Heat fan
I tried framing the poster today. It didn't go well, so I found someone selling it on eBay for $10, paid for it, and am planning to get it resized and reprinted at a local print shop.

I'll probably flip the one I bought on the buy/sell/trade thread if anyone's interested.
 
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Transistor

Banned
So is there a way to patch the FFIII included with the system? If not, can I import my own patched FFIII rom and use my save state from the system?
 
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