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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
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Robin64
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mntorankusu
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Just to follow up on this a bit, I tried all of the different flags that supposedly have an impact on input lag on Samurai Kirby, but I always got a score of 15 or 16 no matter what. So at this point I think I can recommend the -no-lowlatency flag to improve performance if you want to overclock your Super FX games to 3x or more, or if you're playing Mega Man X2 or X3.
The point is that it's up to you. If you want the game to run at a pretty steady 20fps, then you can use -boost-fx 8 -no-lowlatency, but your cutscenes will be out of sync and the game will be more difficult than the designers probably intended.
Thanks.
Thanks!! Weird nostalgia for that game from before I realised Puyo Puyo was a thing!
Tried it again and it worked this time!
That doesn't seem to work either, it either does nothing or I get an "unregonized device" message. For whatever reason it isn't detecting the Mini when I try to synchronize it detected it fine for anything else. When I turn it on without reset the PC does two "beep" sounds.
ZiggyPalffyLA
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Sigh, still no way to disable epilepsy protection. I'm holding off on continuing Earthbound until I can get rid of the awful, distracting blur effect.
Buddy Mcpuddy
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Thank you so much for this, the inconsistencies in size, colour and clarity have been driving me mad.
If you accidentally back up your dump folder while its hacked, it'll get hacked files on it.
works with the retrorarch.
Robin64
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I made a video of Corneria in Starfox with -boost-fx 8 and -no-lowlatency. Keep in mind I never get less than 100% in stage 1 when I play this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJW5Efy7CU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJW5Efy7CU
ZiggyPalffyLA
Member
MMX slowed to a crawl during the underwater dragon fight in Launch Octopus stage - was this always the case?
Buddy Mcpuddy
Member
Wow, I need to set this up, Starfox at its stock frame rate gives me motion sickness.
Nice but does can this cause the unit to overheat as your overclocking? Also did you enter this in hakchi2 as an argument?
WordAssassin
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Pretty sure the "unrecognized device" is what you want, because that's the computer recognizing that it has something plugged into it. It's not like Windows knows it's called an NES Classic because it's not meant to interface with Windows, there's no drivers Windows can install to recognize it. So it knows it has something plugged in, but not what it is.
At least, that's how it worked for me when I stumbled through hacking my NES Classic yesterday.
the_milkybar_kid
Member
Oh man... Any clues?
Originally tried to add the custom snes boarder to the folder, ended up with no boarders on the menu when I synced (games add fine). If I flash the original kernal it adds the boarders again but whenever I flash the custom kernel it seemingly deletes all the boarders (including the one I'm trying to add).
Any help please chaps?
Originally tried to add the custom snes boarder to the folder, ended up with no boarders on the menu when I synced (games add fine). If I flash the original kernal it adds the boarders again but whenever I flash the custom kernel it seemingly deletes all the boarders (including the one I'm trying to add).
Any help please chaps?
This looks like how I remember it playing!
How is this done? I tried it as a global command and I get C7 errors.
mntorankusu
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Yes. You can tell the difference between emulator lag and lag that affected the original game by the audio. If the music keeps playing correctly without any skips or stuttering, then mostly likely what you're experiencing is something that affected the original hardware.
Right, however it says that it's not working correctly when I turn it on without holding reset, when I hold reset it detects it as "NES Mini", on either case it doesn't seem to do anything when I click "Synchronize selected games with NES/SNES Mini", I keep getting the same window "Waiting for your NES/SNES Mini...". My guess is that it might be an issue with the driver maybe?
Robin64
Member
Best to only do it for Starfox, but that will mean you need to add it as a custom game and untick the stock one.
mntorankusu
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Yeah. It's rough. When I first discovered the -no-lowlatency flag, I tried to play through the whole game like that but I couldn't beat the Meteor stage. Given that I can normally beat the game blindfolded, it's clearly a huge difficulty spike. But, it's really fun too.
Vital Tundra
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Wait does Mario Paint not work?
How's the input lag in RetroArch? I'm asking because somewhere in this thread (around page 15-16, this thread moves fast!) someone (Robin64 iirc) mentioned that there's better devices to run RetroArch on. Is the input lag that noticeable or does RetroArch not run that well on this? Kind of a bummer if true :/. I know that Cluster will soon add KMFDManiac's RetroArch cores which also contain multiple versions of Snes9X, so that should be cool to play around with the games that aren't properly emulated by canoe.
mntorankusu
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I've been going back and forth for about an hour testing every combination of command line options I can, and I'm about 90% sure at this point that the -render-soft command line option reduces input lag by two whole frames.
Edit: Just to clarify, this is not a reply to the above post. I'm still talking about Canoe.
Edit: Just to clarify, this is not a reply to the above post. I'm still talking about Canoe.
Buddy Mcpuddy
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I can't speak to the input latency, but the problem titles that I've set RA up to run are pretty much unplayable; Hyper Dimension has audio artefacts, Marvellous runs like garbage as does Seiken Densetsu 3.
It's fun to tinker with, but it isn't a good enough alternative to get unsupported titles to run.
WordAssassin
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Fuck, I wish I could remember what I did because that same thing happened to me. I was really stoned but for some reason decided that was as good a time as any to hack the one item I own that's like worth more than gold, messed up multiple times on each step yet somehow still came out of it with a perfectly working hacked NES.
I remember getting to that step and seeing the window after I'd already installed the drivers, and that progress bar in the background, and I was like what the fuck do I do? I've already installed the drivers... I think I turned it off and on again and waited a few seconds, then my computer made the "hey something's plugged in sound" and the power light to the NES Classic came on (which scared the shit out of me because I thought it was supposed to be off for it to work but I guess that's the SNES Classic) and then a third thing happened and the progress bar started to fill. Maybe I just hit the "X" out of that dialog box? Ugh I'm sorry I can't remember more clearly ):
Edit: Oh shit I just remembered I was using Hakchi2 version 2.17d if that makes any difference? From your screen it looks like you're hacking the NES Classic so maybe download that version and try? I wonder if there's something in the newer Hakchi2 versions that's messing up NES hacks
Lupin the Third
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And play it with the D-pad imitating the SNES Mouse? Ick.
Technically you could maybe use a SNES->SNESMini adapter with an SNES Mouse or the Hyper Click clone?
It's really easy!
Go to your /hakchi/games_snes folder. You'll see lots of folders with names like "CLV-P-SAAAE" (which is the default name for Super Mario World, for example).
Inside those folders you'll see a bunch of files, two of which correspond to the boxes: "CLV-P-SAAAE.png" (the big box for the icon) and "CLV-P-SAAAE_small.png" (the small box used as a thumbnail). Simply replace the "XXX_small.png" file with whatever you want.
I have every thumbnail set to a transparent 10x21 PNG, and modified my packed.png, so I don't see neither the arrow-shaped cursor nor the thumbnails
I'm having the exact same problem. Tried to turn off the driver signature thing in Windows (I'm using Windows 8), that didn't work. Tonight I'll try reflashing to my original kernel. I don't know what the fucks wrong. I've seen at least 3 or 4 people in this thread and on gbatemp with the same problems.
Also, if I turn on my SNES Classic edition on my TV it wants me to put in the Konami code? What the fuck I didn't set this to do this anywhere. And I can't figure out how to turn it off in retroarch menus. Anyone else have that happen?
TheMoon
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That looks not fun and borderline unplayable actually (imagining later levels). Will happily stick to slideshowfox. I hope people realize it speeds up the game and doesn't just make it run smoother.
If it comes back to ya please let us know. It was pissing me off last night so I just gave up and went to bed.
WordAssassin
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You caught me before my edit but I remembered I was using Hakchi2 version 2.17d, which was the one before they added SNES support. Maybe using that one would help?
Vital Tundra
Member
It's really easy!
Go to your /hakchi/games_snes folder. You'll see lots of folders with names like "CLV-P-SAAAE" (which is the default name for Super Mario World, for example).
Inside those folders you'll see a bunch of files, two of which correspond to the boxes: "CLV-P-SAAAE.png" (the big box for the icon) and "CLV-P-SAAAE_small.png" (the small box used as a thumbnail). Simply replace the "XXX_small.png" file with whatever you want.
I have every thumbnail set to a transparent 10x21 PNG, and modified my packed.png, so I don't see neither the arrow-shaped cursor nor the thumbnails
Ill definitely have to do this.
Dreams-Visions
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It's really easy!
Go to your /hakchi/games_snes folder. You'll see lots of folders with names like "CLV-P-SAAAE" (which is the default name for Super Mario World, for example).
Inside those folders you'll see a bunch of files, two of which correspond to the boxes: "CLV-P-SAAAE.png" (the big box for the icon) and "CLV-P-SAAAE_small.png" (the small box used as a thumbnail). Simply replace the "XXX_small.png" file with whatever you want.
I have every thumbnail set to a transparent 10x21 PNG, and modified my packed.png, so I don't see neither the arrow-shaped cursor nor the thumbnails
tyvm!
ZiggyPalffyLA
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One more question: If I decide to add a duplicate version of one of the original games in order to add a patch, would I be able to transfer my save from the patched duplicate version to the original version?
For example, if I put 20 hours into the Ted Woolsey patch version of FFVI (after adding it as a second ROM) would I be able to use that save/save state in the version of the game built into the system?
For example, if I put 20 hours into the Ted Woolsey patch version of FFVI (after adding it as a second ROM) would I be able to use that save/save state in the version of the game built into the system?
I'm not sure how that would help. I'll try reflashing tonight and see what happens. Gonna read through this and see if that helps.
http://www.drivethelife.com/windows...e-enforcement-on-windows-10-8-7-xp-vista.html
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How are people saying this is unplayable? Going to have to playthrough this myself when I get time to actually hack mine cause it looks fine to me.
Just like I did with the NES Classic, I'm only putting a select amount of games on here and then I'm done.
With that being said, I have ONE more game I want to put up here, and I don't want to use retroarch to do it.
If anyone can find a way for me to put Super Demo World up here, I will forever be grateful.
With that being said, I have ONE more game I want to put up here, and I don't want to use retroarch to do it.
If anyone can find a way for me to put Super Demo World up here, I will forever be grateful.
Could be you have too many games in a row (more than 60). Or a bad rom file? Robin64 would know more reasons, that's all I can think of.
When I try to close that window it asks me if I want to "cancel the current operation", if I click "No" it's still stuck on the same thing, if I click "Yes" it cancels the whole thing.
When I try to play on my TV everything works fine as if I haven't changed anything, I guess because I couldn't add any game.
How many games do you have installed, and how many of them are in the same folder/page?
If you have more than 63 games in a page or folder, the system will give you a C8 error when you turn it off.