Morning All, So I got all the NES Roms on the SNES Classic using Hakchi. 3 of them do not work and one of them is Ring King. I load it to play and the screen is just grey. When I delete the Rom and put it back even a message pops up saying it might not play. Any idea how to get that to work?
TL;DR: issue with audio channels as shown, how fix?
Not sure if this is a question for here or the RetroArch sub but I figured I’d try here first. When I originally downloaded hakchi and tried running it on my crt, the black bars still appeared on the sides of the screen which crunched the image, but only for games running on Canoe, so I downloaded the snes9x core and added —retroarch to the global command line for all canoe games. As you can see, I successfully solved that issue, but not without creating a new one. As you can hear, some of the audio channels are missing. I first noticed this in MegaMan X when I realized that his arm cannon wasn’t making any noise when I shot it or charged it up. Being optimistic, I switched to Link to the Past to see if this bug inadvertently broke the annoying low health beep, but instead I found the title screen fully silent with the exception of the sword. I’ve combed thru the menus and settings but I can’t quite find what I’m looking for to fix it. Please advise.
Hello,
To give some context: I'm back into modding my SNES Mini mainly because my Kid is now 5 years old, and I'm having him discover "old classics" with easy/basic gameplay - Which fits a lot of SNES/Megadrive games.
Like most young boys, he's crazy into cars / racing, and I've set-up some 2.5D classics (outrun, F1 games, etc.), and I am wondering if there is a way to set-up a racing controller for him to enjoy.
I have a pair of 8BitDo retroreceivers, as I am using the 8BitDo modkit for SNES Mini controllers.
I guess that I can use a bluetooth-enabled racing controler, connect it through the retroreceiver, and configure it in RetroArch / Mame, but I'm looking for feedbacks / recommendations from anyone that tried to achieve a similar exercise.
Controller I was eyeing was something like a Hori Pro Mini, but I have no clue if such a set-up could actually work.
So after setting up a USB successfully on my genesis mini that runs genesis, game gear, master system games successfully, I am trying to do the same with my nes mini.
The issue I am having is that my nes mini is refusing to show up games I add to the usb. Doesn't matter the game, doesn't matter the system the game was designed for.
I am trying to add games for gb, gbc, turbografx 16, and turbo cd. I can add the games directly to the console but the turbo cd games are where I have an issue as they are too big for anything but a cd. I was able to get things working but I ran into an issue with putting saves on the USB. Mainly it felt slow and clunky and caused crashes. So I deleted a file to try to get rid of the saves and it has not worked since.
I am using the portable version of hakchi. My USB drives are fat32
Things I have tried:
I have tried resetting the mini to factory settings and reinstalling hakchi, cores, and retroarch on it. I reformatted my drives and added the games again. I formatted the USB and added a fresh version of hakchi.
I have tried to change the USB stick to another as I thought space or power draw may be the issue as my original USB that worked temporarily has a led light that I thought might be drawing power. Still won't boot from USB.
I installed bios files for each game type in the right directory on my mini (system folder I think)
Other games are running fine from the mini so this is a headscratcher for me. It plays turbo cd games before temporarily before I deleted the saves folder.
I have tried with and without linked export.
I look at tutorials and am seeing a simple 3 step process that I am following. It was that easy with the genesis. Now why is the nes mini giving me this much trouble? The portable version is still new to me so maybe something there? I did use a portable version with the nes mini.
I haven't checked the move saves checkbox when loading to usb and it's the only thing I feel I have not tried.
I recently dug out my SNES and NES Classics after not using them for years. I modded both around 2017ish(I think), but unfortunately the old computer I used is long gone. I'm embarrassed to say that I only vaguely remember what I actually did, and unfortunately made some modding-newbie mistakes.
One of the mistakes was putting all the added games into the main default folder. My SNES Classic currently has 58 games in total. I've since learned about the old Hakchi recommendation of keeping folders to around 30–40 games, but I don't remember ever having any problems with mine.
I also somehow managed to create a "Back" folder with the Mario-on-a-pipe picture, as well as a separate folder for my Game Boy games with a Game Boy picture on the NES mini. I have no idea how I figured that out back then 🤫
I just tested the SNES Classic again, and scrolling through all 116 games is extremely fast. I haven't encountered any navigation glitches or C8 errors, the added games ( that Ive tried) launch normally, and save states work. So far, the only actual game issue I've found is the minor known Yoshi's Island/Canoe graphical glitch.
I don't have hundreds of hours of playtime on it or a massive number of save states, though. If everything is working normally so far, should I expect it to remain fine, or is it possible that problems could start appearing as I continue using it?
My NES Classic is interesting too. It has 81 NES games plus 15 Game Boy games but unlike my snes mini, the games are not dorted alphabetical. I also discovered that the Game Boy games are running through RetroArch because START+SELECT brings up the RetroArch Quick Menu, while the NES games appear to be using the native emulator.
I don't really want to "fix" either console just for the sake of making the setup more optimal. I'm mainly curious whether I can safely re-mod /augment/clean them up if I ever want to. I'm pretty sure this was an older Hakchi setup, and I no longer have any of the original files or backups.
EDIT: I made a mistake, I do not have 118 snes games. Its only 58 games in total. The NES mini having 81 in the main folder would then I imagine be the more problematic setup.
Does having a USB drive prevent the need for folders? I prefer the look of having no folders, but I don't want any issues or crashes.