Ahh that's probably it. I'll give that a shot when I get home. Thanks to all!
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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
- Thread starter Robin64
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It's one of the better translations from the era.
mullet2000
Member
The script is totally good outside of weird quirks with item and spell names.
FF2/4 was the bad one that gen.
LordRaptor
Member
I mean, outside of what - is it BGBW? - is doing with remaking boxarts PAL style, if the built in google doesn't find an okay result, an actual google search will find nicer custom US SNES style boxarts for the majority of titles, even ones that never got an NTSC release
Damn was Super Mario always this hard or was it just easier with six year old jacked-up reflexes.
I've been stuck at Lemmy's Castle for a good while now. I've made it to the boss a few times but I usually get destroyed by the wizard bastard at the very beginning. That ranged attack of his is fast and goes on forever and sometimes I don't have enough room to jump over it or anything. Thank god for save states, I'll get through this eventually.
As for the rest of the system, holy shit SF2 feels slow as molasses. I gotta get used to it again, getting my ass handed to me. It's a great title though. DK is fantastic as always. This is a great little system, so glad I managed to snag a preorder.
Nintendo 64 Mini: so ready for you. That'll be the true king. In terms of couch multiplayer that thing might be the GOAT. Stuff like 4 player Smash, Mario Kart, DK, single player masterpieces like Mario 64, Zelda OoT/MM... the library may be on the small side but it's a perfect fit for the amount of games we can expect from a curated Mini catalog anyways.
I'm getting heartburn just imagining the goddamn hassle it'll be to order first-party additional N64 controllers for the Mini though (basically no chance of them bundling it with the REQUIRED 4)
I've been stuck at Lemmy's Castle for a good while now. I've made it to the boss a few times but I usually get destroyed by the wizard bastard at the very beginning. That ranged attack of his is fast and goes on forever and sometimes I don't have enough room to jump over it or anything. Thank god for save states, I'll get through this eventually.
As for the rest of the system, holy shit SF2 feels slow as molasses. I gotta get used to it again, getting my ass handed to me. It's a great title though. DK is fantastic as always. This is a great little system, so glad I managed to snag a preorder.
Nintendo 64 Mini: so ready for you. That'll be the true king. In terms of couch multiplayer that thing might be the GOAT. Stuff like 4 player Smash, Mario Kart, DK, single player masterpieces like Mario 64, Zelda OoT/MM... the library may be on the small side but it's a perfect fit for the amount of games we can expect from a curated Mini catalog anyways.
I'm getting heartburn just imagining the goddamn hassle it'll be to order first-party additional N64 controllers for the Mini though (basically no chance of them bundling it with the REQUIRED 4)
Don't have video proof for you, but yes. It fucking works! Just tested with two games.
Edit: Uploading a potatoe quality video right now.
Edit 2: Here it goes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENaMghNzGlo
Robin64
Member
Well indeed. It's part of why I didn't want to dedicate too much space to that, even though some people were desperate for albums etc to be made.
Excellent!
Was I correct in saying that manually picking a border then overwrites the global settings and stops it working?
1. Video uploaded (potatoes)
2. By manually picking another border, that new border will be there for every game including those with the edited command line. However, if you chose the first system border again (black one), the command line works again and your custom borders show up.
Robin64
Member
Figured as much. Thanks for confirming.
Could you remove the system boarders so that they can never be selected? Just curious.
You can replace them or straight up delete them I guess. I don't know if the system will have any display difficulties if there are less than 4 borders to chose from tho.
Of course only in the folder you overwrite to. The other one is read-only.
Has anyone encountered this in their FTP?
"Copying files from remote side failed.
shell command "cat "/usr/share/games/CLV-P-SAAAE/autoplay"" returned exit code 1: cat: read error: Is a directory
"
This is when trying to download all the folders for the 21 original games to my pc so I can set it up for modding the art. I have connections set to 1 in WinSCP
"Copying files from remote side failed.
shell command "cat "/usr/share/games/CLV-P-SAAAE/autoplay"" returned exit code 1: cat: read error: Is a directory
"
This is when trying to download all the folders for the 21 original games to my pc so I can set it up for modding the art. I have connections set to 1 in WinSCP
Good idea. It's the autoplay file in the folder that isn't allowed to be downloaded. Every other file is fine.
Edit: I just batch queued and skipped all on the autoplay file. I hope that's not needed.
MyEpitomeCliché
Member
Are there currently any hmods available for changing the game title font? Like the one made for the NESCE?
Robin64
Member
It'll just be a subfolder in hakchi if you used the portable version, and in Documents if you used the web installer.
MyEpitomeCliché;251900159 said:
I was actually looking into this. I'm not certain how to convert/break down .fnt or .font files back to .otf or .ttf, but if I can figure that out, I'll at least be able to do it manually.
Currently, they are located in /usr/share/ui/snes-usa/resources/fonts, as such:
I need Futura everywhere.
Darktalon
Member
I created a perfect loop of a High Quality Rip of the Wii Shop music.
I hope this brings joy to someone.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pt1zqf203anlhha/music.wav?dl=0
I hope this brings joy to someone.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pt1zqf203anlhha/music.wav?dl=0
Thanks! I figured it out when I realized it had to be something in front of my eyes.
Now, I need to find donkey country 1 and Earthbound switch style art! I don't see them in the linked websites in the sticky.
Robin64
Member
Doom runs like a sack of shit. Even worse than on the SNES, unless you use -no-lowlatency and -boost-fx 2 to. And even then, it's shockingly bad.
Yup, I just removed it from my system entirely. I love Doom, but... not like this.
one4myhomies
Neo Member
Pardon my ignorance, but who's updating the game compatibility log? and if a game is not listed does it just mean it hasn't been tested yet?
Reason I ask is, I don't see the original Tecmo Super Bowl listed. I played the game last night with no issues.
Reason I ask is, I don't see the original Tecmo Super Bowl listed. I played the game last night with no issues.
CrunchyFrog
Member
Bust a move works totally fine for me, played about a half hour yesterday no issues, I'm on hakchi2 v2.21c
Legendary Wizball
Member
Do you think you could add a frame to this as Robin64 has in his SFC version in the OP?
I've been wondering this too, I've played a few games with issues that are not on the list.
These ain't photoshop skills.
Just open them in paint and add a 2px frame to them. Done.
Don't bother with the _preview and _thumbnail ones tho.
Legendary Wizball
Member
Still does this. Very annoying.
This, and with the newest hakchi, problem games tend to be sorted out via window prompts as it is. Not every title, naturally, but it definitely helps.
Also, still messing around with the fonts. I opened "title.font" up in Notepad and it mentions "title_bmf_0.png" in the header (as well as Yu Gothic UI, the current font), though it is clearly calling to a font sheet of sorts. Couldn't seem to find the file when searching remotely, but I'm sure I just need to dig around some more.
Legendary Wizball
Member
I'm on a Mac with no similar software.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/
http://download.cnet.com/Gimp/3000-2192_4-10322178.html
Or, just do what I did and set up Bootcamp for times like these.
TheMoon
Member
I've been fascinated by this, and done some further research.
I believe it's actually not a Nintendo Australia design, but rather it's a NCL (Japan) design, since SCN and UKV used that format a lot in the late years, as well.
NOE style box - first party games only
Markets
- Germany
- Rest of PAL markets, sporadically
Games
- First party games only
Used
- 1992-1997 (Germany)
- 1994 (other markets, sporadically)
Designed by
NOA, modified by NOE
Old NCL style box
Markets
- Germany (third party games only)
- Rest of PAL markets
Games
- First party games 1992-1994 (except for Germany)
- Third party games
Used
- 1992-1997 (third party games)
- 1992-1994 (first party games, except for Germany)
Designed by
NCL
New NCL style box
Markets
- AUS, UKV, SCN
Games
- First party games 1995-1997
Used
- 1994-1997
Designed by
NCL
Post 1995, Nintendo released games in PAL regions in both old NCL style and new NCL style for a while, before fully settling on the new style. All games were also released in the NOE style.
Nintendo Australia was the first to adopt the new NCL style, and was most consitent in using it, however, probably because they didn't have NOE close by to mess things up with US-like NOE style boxes.
Here are some examples of the new NCL box in UK and Scandinavia, note lack of Australia rating symbol:
The first ever new NCL style box seems to be Wario's Woods in late 1994, where UKV used old NCL style, and Australia used new NCL style.
The Australian version seems to be incredibly rare, I haven't even been able to find a picture of the AUS box, but the new label shows it's the new NCL style.
According to my calculation, only 13 games were ever shipped in the new NCL style box.
1995+ games with old style NCL box only (+NOE style)
- Tetris & Dr Mario
1995+ games with new NCL style box only (+ NOE style)
- Arkanoid
- Donkey Kong Country 2
- Donkey Kong Country 3
- Kirby's Fun Pak
- Secret of Evermore
- Space Invaders
- Terranigma
- Tetris Attack
- Yoshi's Island
1995+ games with both old and new NCL style boxes (+ NOE style)
- Super Mario World (late SCN re-release)
- Wario's Woods
- Kirby's Dream Course
- Kirby's Avalanche
Fascinating and headache inducing.
Enjoy your blasphemy.
This is fucked.
Transistor
Banned
Robin64
Member
Ooooooh, howwwwwww
Added to the OP below the section about adding custom borders to the SNES Mini.
Added to the OP below the section about adding custom borders to the SNES Mini.
Thank you (And everyone else in this thread) You guys are helping so much. Although it sucks being at work and wanting to head home and do this!
I am forever unclean.
Pixel Samurai
Member
If I hack my SNES mini, can I just bind a button combination to get to the home screen with the stock controller and do nothing else?