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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
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B1gg_Randall
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I still can't get Street Fighter Alpha 2 to work. 
ReyVGM
Member
I still can't get Street Fighter Alpha 2 to work.
Use retroarch.
I think the more games you have on it, the slower the boot
ReyVGM
Member
I only added 4 games.
KojiKnight
Member
Glad to see survivors starting to pop up. I'll continue to check in for anyone that needs help. Sadly I think the illusion of Gaia patch is all I could manage. I'll give robotrek another try in the coming days, but it's looking unlikely as with Terranigma.
Lupin the Third
Member
There's a DarkAkuma-made patch I thought?I still can't get Street Fighter Alpha 2 to work.
Oh. Sorry. I read a bunch of stuff while this was down and that seemed to be a common thing. Resetting and reflashing seemed to help people also.
ReyVGM
Member
I reset and reflashed multiple times. And still nothing.
I had hacked a SNESC for a friend before mine and I had added Retroarch for him.
When it came time to hack mine, I forgot the retroarch files where there and I hacked it in. When I realized that, I flashed the original kernel back, and deleted every trace of Retroarch, and flashed the custom kernel again, but the slow boot time was still there. So I don't know if the system has some retroarch files inside even though I flashed the original kernel several times?
whiteninja
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Mine takes a bit to start and i never put retroarch on it. Although i never payed attention to the boot times before hacking it though.
Did you try booting up with the thing totally clean and also factory reset? I think that should clean everything up and you can see if it is back to normal.
ReyVGM
Member
I didn't do a factory reset because when I flash the origina kernel back, the boot time is normal. So it's either regular hacking that will slow it down, or there are retroarch files inside the system that I can't see and that is slowing it down.
I mean, that's assuming the regular hakchi hacking doesn't slow down the boot time.
Without hacking the system should start in about 1 or 2 seconds. With the hack, it takes about 6 seconds.
lifeexpectancy
Member
Been seeing some reports of 200+ games on these now. I only added 15 or so... think my total now is close to 40 with the pre installed ones. What is the consensus on stabity if you push the memory limits with multiple folders of games? I know it creates limits on save files/save states but other than that is there any impact?
KojiKnight
Member
No retroarch here. Definitely in the 6-8 second range, which is much more than before but only effects when you turn the system first on so doesn't bother me.
So this was a question that I had and I finally got things to work. I transferred a saved I had on my game cartridge to the SNES Classic but its a little bit of a process. It does work though.
So the location of the SRAM saves is here (you'll need to FTP in to the SNES Classic):
var - lib - clover - profiles - 0 - (Select CLV Game ID folder)
The cartridge.sram and cartridge.sram.hash are the two files that are essentially the saves off a game cartridge. I replaced these files with the save off my cartridge but first I had to load the save in an emulator like Snes9x. I loaded up the game and resaved over the initial save so it would overwrite the previous file.
With the new save file, you need to covert it so that it outputs two files (.sram and .sram.hash). I found a program someone put together on reddit called srm2clover.py
You can find it here.
You'll need to have python installed on your computer for it to work. Once I threw my save through this python script it produced the two files that I needed. I used the two files to replace the original cartridge.sram and cartridge.sram.hash files. Started up SNES Classic and the saves worked perfect.
Hope this helps.
Drilbit777
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Thank god this thread is still alive, i wanted to keep up with the borders and updates at least.
ReyVGM
Member
Ok thanks. Good to hear it wasn't just me.
You can have as many games as you can fit as long as you leave enough room for saves.
You can't have over 63 games per page or folder or else you'll get errors. The recommended amount is 45. For a friend a set the limit to 35 per page so the icons on the bottom don't go offscreen.
As for amount of games, well, each save takes up about 2 megs. Assuming you use all 4 saves slots for the original 21 games, that's 168 megs (more than half of the available space). If you don't plan on using save states, you need to leave space for the battery saves and the temporary rewind option. I really doubt that can go over 2 megs though.
So, depending on how you are going to use it, you can either almost fill it up with games, or leave a bunch of space for at least 1 save state per game.
I hacked one for a friend and added over 120 games (SNES, NES, GBA) and he still had about 130 megs left.
ZiggyPalffyLA
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Most of the info here is at Reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods
Klappdrachen
Member
Yeah, love this thread.
Feel_The_Pain
Member
Sorry guys, but can anyone provide a link to some good resolution boxarts, some of the ones on haxchi aren't very good when googling.
Robin64
Member
You definitely want Street Fighter Alpha 2 on Canoe, for that less latency.
First, download the patch and extract it to a new folder. Put your SFA2 ROM in that folder too. Patch your ROM with WUP-JCGE-PCM.ips. Then drag the SFA2 ROM file on top of the "make_sfrom_pcm.bat" file in that folder, which will run a script and create the .sfrom file for hakchi to use.
First, download the patch and extract it to a new folder. Put your SFA2 ROM in that folder too. Patch your ROM with WUP-JCGE-PCM.ips. Then drag the SFA2 ROM file on top of the "make_sfrom_pcm.bat" file in that folder, which will run a script and create the .sfrom file for hakchi to use.
ReyVGM
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http://hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/7947-super-nintendo-2d-box-pack/
You need to join to download. It has a collection of all USA boxarts. They are small in size, but they will look just fine on the SNESC.
ReyVGM
Member
The read me says:
WUP-JCGE-SPC.ips : Use if you want to use normal SNES audio.
WUP-JCGE-PCM.ips : Use if you want to use PCM audio.
What is PCM audio? Does it make the music sound different or something?
Robin64
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Ever so slightly. You'd be hard pressed to notice. All the games on the SNES Mini bar Starfox and Starfox 2 are using the PCM audio. What it does is extract the .spc data from the ROM, append it to the end, and use pointers to play it from there instead, bypassing the SPC emulation.
Applying a PCM patch actually makes Mega Man X2 sound a lot better. I can only assume proper SPC emulation is a little rough on the machine?
We also think this would fix Terranigma, but without a VC release to compare to (they all use the PCM data trick too) we can't even begin to work out what to extract.
ReyVGM
Member
Thanks for the reply.
I guess what I really want to know is, which is supposed to be the accurate one to the actual cart playing on a real SNES, SPC or PCM?
And when you say "it sounds better", better how exactly? I assume it isn't adding some new sound channels, instrumentations or anything like that, now is it?
Robin64
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In X2's case, there is just less crackling. I can't notice any difference between the actual samples, but it seems to just handle the actual playing of samples better.
SPC would be the more accurate, but if it can't run it without some issues then the point is lost anyway. And I think you'd have to be a real audiophile to tell. (Of course, there are people who say they can instantly tell...)
Alter_Fridge
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Best thread on Gaf
ReyVGM
Member
Ah got it. I thought it "changed" the way the music sounded. I don't mind the process being used to play the music, as long as it sounds like the original.
KojiKnight
Member
Interesting... Does it have the crackles when you enable nolowlatency?
Robin64
Member
Good question, and sadly I'm at work now so can't test.
Worth noting, though, that this has been an ongoing issue on the github and the only solution proposed was the patch. I guess somewhere there might've tried nolowlatency?
KojiKnight
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Good question, and sadly I'm at work now so can't test.
Worth noting, though, that this has been an ongoing issue on the github and the only solution proposed was the patch. I guess somewhere there might've tried nolowlatency?
Yeah I can't test it right now either. Just wondering if the cx4 is taxing enough that spc emulation on top is causing minor sound desyncs, which in theory nolowlatency should fix.
ReyVGM
Member
Good question, and sadly I'm at work now so can't test.
Worth noting, though, that this has been an ongoing issue on the github and the only solution proposed was the patch. I guess somewhere there might've tried nolowlatency?
I only tested the MMX2 intro level and I heard no crackling at all. Is it something that happens later? If so, where is the MMX2 patch?
Mailenstein
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Made a few Super Famicom boxarts for a few NP flashcard releases in Japan which never had a proper retail release, so I thought I might share them. Too bad there is almost no HQ official artwork from those days.
Robin64
Member
I don't have much experience with X2 myself, so couldn't say, but the github issue says "specific portions of the game". The patch is there too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/78chn3/seiken_densetsu_3_hires_working_in_canoe/
Seiken Densetsu 3's high-res mode working natively on Canoe. Sound's a bit glitchy on the menus, but works great it seems
Seiken Densetsu 3's high-res mode working natively on Canoe. Sound's a bit glitchy on the menus, but works great it seems
Robin64
Member
Added the ability to choose border thickness to my tool.
Hah, I knew someone would bruteforce their way through Preset IDs. Good stuff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/78chn3/seiken_densetsu_3_hires_working_in_canoe/
Seiken Densetsu 3's high-res mode working natively on Canoe. Sound's a bit glitchy on the menus, but works great it seems
Hah, I knew someone would bruteforce their way through Preset IDs. Good stuff.
https://www.reddit.com/r/miniSNESmods/comments/78chn3/seiken_densetsu_3_hires_working_in_canoe/
Seiken Densetsu 3's high-res mode working natively on Canoe. Sound's a bit glitchy on the menus, but works great it seems
Awesome!
Thanks for the heads up, missed this thread the last couple of days, glad it's back.
I may not post that much, but I really appreciate all the great work and discussion in here.
Oswen
Member
People are reporting sound problems in stock Yoshi's Island in the hackchi 2 Issues section, .21c/d/e seem to be affected while .21b seems to work fine.
Hopefully it is something that can be fixed down the line.
A question now: are new updates affecting NES classic aswell or are the new fixes for SNES only? Is it worth to flash custom kernel again on the NES after each hackchi 2 update?
Hopefully it is something that can be fixed down the line.
A question now: are new updates affecting NES classic aswell or are the new fixes for SNES only? Is it worth to flash custom kernel again on the NES after each hackchi 2 update?
Robin64
Member
Select a game in hakchi and press ctrl alt E
gingerbeardman
Member
If this is the case it's strange because hakchi doesn't change the emulator in any way?
Robin64
Member
No, but it could be setting an incorrect value in the .sfrom somewhere.
snausagesUK
Member
Apologies if this was every answered but are there tools like this which can be used on Ubuntu/Linux?
Got no Windows sadly.
Got no Windows sadly.