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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
- Thread starter Robin64
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Acidote
Member
Ok, I have my snes mini pretty much ow I wanted it to be, with retroarch for the conflictive games. I'm only missing a few now and I won't bother until I finish some first.
Add --retroarch at the end of the command line of whatever game you want to run through it.
Add --retroarch at the end of the command line of whatever game you want to run through it.
apieceofstrange
Member
I just disabled the thumbnails so I could add some more games. I have a total of 47 now including the base 21. Seems like the system takes much longer to boot now. Used to take a few seconds and now it takes 10+ seconds. The background music will start playing before the screen shows an image. Is that normal?
It's a side effect of removing the thumbnails. Hope that it's eventually improved. I ended up resizing all my thumbnails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrcJZCynFA&feature=youtu.be
i tried this but the retroarch i get has 2010 only. i tried following the guide and i get a black screen then eventual boot back to the main menu trying to add snes games using snes9x
i tried this but the retroarch i get has 2010 only. i tried following the guide and i get a black screen then eventual boot back to the main menu trying to add snes games using snes9x
CrashPrime
Member
I suppose you could use the fba retroarch core for the arcade version.
Thanks, these are great.
Can we get a collection of all the custom borders people have made so far?
And are they easy enough to apply to the Classic?
CookedChocobo
Member
Thank you so much for this thread. So happy I can play Chrono Trigger and TMNT IV Turtles in Time
apieceofstrange
Member
Thanks. That's no good, but I'm glad to know I didn't screw something up at least.
Did you manage to work out the CRT editing and scan line mods? If so please share i would like to try this.
Robin64
Member
This is my little collection so far.
Note: As of 13th October, all borders have had a small black border added to the window. All .zips in the folder have been updated accordingly.
(I'll probably use this post to update when I add more, and just point people here when they ask)
Note: As of 13th October, all borders have had a small black border added to the window. All .zips in the folder have been updated accordingly.
Game Collection - 12 to 28 said:
(I'll probably use this post to update when I add more, and just point people here when they ask)
Can anyone help me out on this? Apparently Yoshi's Island and Star Fox 2 aren't working either. Just using the default kernel. Didn't install Retroarch.Really kinda frustrating that I lost all the original roms that were on this thing. No idea why that happened. Now Secret of Mana(the one I installed) isn't working and I don't know what to do.
Sweet! My wife is happy. I have the Genesis version of Lion King which is her favorite game. I had it running through steam link but this is much easier for her to utilize. She has no complaints of input lag. Seems fluid.
Robin64
Member
There's a volume bit in the command in hakchi, it's always set to 100, but some games need to be lower.
MacGurcules
Member
Is it just me, or does it take way longer to start up when modded?
After you made the first preparations mentioned in the OP, adding further backgrounds is easy, although kinda tedious. You have to create 5 images with different resolutions and names (to save space). After that you just upload the folder to the ftp server. As for now, there is no click-and-forget method yet.
We probably should make a collection.
I haven't noticed it yet. I only have 35 or so games setup though.
poodaddy
Member
As someone who can't wait to hack this to put all the beat em ups on it, this has me terrified. Someone please help this poster, if only to make me feel good about the process. If there's a way to mess this up, then I certainly will.
Are those game-specific frames or do you have to manually change frames for each game?
Robin64
Member
You currently have to change for each game, but there's a command argument I have been trying to investigate that is supposed to change frame automatically on game load. Currently can't get it to work.
Grindlefly
Member
Have you tried reflashing with your dumped kernel?
MrPressStart
Member
Dumb question but how can I tell what version of hitachi you have? Mine says 2.2 but I suspect theres is more and I cant seem to find it.
I just downloaded what I thought was the latest
Version a few minutes ago. It worked but felt warm while testing... of course I could be paranoid from having it hooked to my pc so long and stuff.?.!???
I just downloaded what I thought was the latest
Version a few minutes ago. It worked but felt warm while testing... of course I could be paranoid from having it hooked to my pc so long and stuff.?.!???
Could you post instructions how to do that, as well as what number you would recommend for SMT (just to get a general idea)?
ReyVGM
Member
Flash the original kernel back, then start the process from from scratch again.
Fallout-NL
Member
Music's kinda screwed up on some of these games (mk3, finalfight3, lost vikings).
Robin64
Member
Trying this now. I really hope this works.
Edit: Yay! It's back to the normal original stuff! Now to try and add everything back and start all over from scratch.
Ah! Uh... I'm not a frequent thread creator, but I'll keep it in mind since you mentioned it. I actually plan on giving the restoration a second pass, I really want to see if I can restore the bottom bit. I also want to do some more research, since I'm really not too sure if my colour saturation is right, it should be but it just looks different from his other work so perhaps some scans I dismissed weren't as faded as I thought. So I should do that first. And before that I plan on creating a whole lot more SNES box art for myself, I still haven't found a Shin Megami Tensei 1 or 2 box to my liking because I'm really picky, and I want to tackle Dragon Quest III and VI since I did the other numbered DQ releases. ^^'
Perhaps I could frame it as a Hiro Isono appreciation thread, since I feel like his work doesn't quite get the attention it deserves. Or I could make some standard "what's your favourite artwork from classic games" thread, that'd be fun too.
Do you have to reinstall drivers to install the retroarch mod?
After testing out the games I added before I decided I might as well install Retroarch so I could play some of the incompatible ones. However on dragging and dropping it's asking me to do the reset/power off thing and install a driver again (I have the SNES Mini plugged in already).
Edit: Nvm, ignore me. On doing the reset/power thing it went through without reinstalling drivers.
After testing out the games I added before I decided I might as well install Retroarch so I could play some of the incompatible ones. However on dragging and dropping it's asking me to do the reset/power off thing and install a driver again (I have the SNES Mini plugged in already).
Edit: Nvm, ignore me. On doing the reset/power thing it went through without reinstalling drivers.
MacGurcules
Member
I only added Chrono Trigger to test it. Went ahead and reverted so I could time it. It does take longer. Unmodded, it's about 7 seconds to the menu. With one extra game added, it takes 13. Not an eternity, certainly, but enough that it's noticeable.
OmegaDL50
Member
I am working on something. Anyone who is a Breath of Fire fan will appreciate it. Look forward to it.
Thanks Robin. Do you know if we can apply these to games using Retroarch?
mntorankusu
Member
The launch script overrides the frame selection the same way it overrides the filter selection. Since the script always sets a frame, any frame you select will be overridden by the selection made in the UI.
Robin64
Member
Just here.
Give 75 a go.
Thanks as always!
gingerbeardman
Member
Microsoft give away free time-limited trial versions of Windows:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/
And VirtualBox is free: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
So there's nothing stopping us Mac users.
Bill R Boggess
Member
Just an FYI, Best of the Best Kickboxing seems to have some issues, including some odd sprite issues and sound quirks.
mntorankusu
Member
It's fixable, but I'm not very familiar with the script syntax and whatnot, so it would take me some time to work out how to do it. A simple way would be to just remove the part of the script that sets the frame, but then you'd get nothing for any game where you haven't manually set one.
Robin64
Member
I was literally just about to test that, heh. Removed:
Code:
--decorative-frame-path) options="$options --use-decorative-frame $2 $(decorative_options $2)"; shift ;;So let's see how it plays.
Okay. I'm confused as hell, and this is really frustrating. When I flash the original kernel, it removes all the original games that were on here, and when I try and add them back using roms I downloaded, not all of them seem to work right. Is there a way to JUST add games and not have the entire set of roms on the system removed?
Edit: I think I'm an idiot and I didn't click the "Original Games" tab. *facepalm*
I'm extremely tech unsavy, and I followed the directions in the OP and it worked perfectly. I think it would be pretty hard to screw up. Give it a shot.