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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
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I half impulse bought one from Best Buy this Wednesday (needed to mess around though) and it came with cord and AC adapter. Are these people gutting them?
And I wouldn't assume the PAL one would have had Nintendo of AMERICA on the box at all. Nevermind having the SFC design instead.
It's strange that the power socket is sort of like a UK socket but rotated by 90 degrees? But it's a USA style purple SNES.
Somebody in the USA tweet Nintendo about it?
Somebody in the USA tweet Nintendo about it?
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Amazon is buying these wholesale or something from an international distrubtor then selling them full price as a "Lightning Deal"
What PSU do people use?
I'm using a 1.5Amp PSU from an eBook Reader but the unit powers of during some demanding games and infrequently when I hit reset to get back to the menu.
Would a 2Amp PSU help me out?
I'm using a 1.5Amp PSU from an eBook Reader but the unit powers of during some demanding games and infrequently when I hit reset to get back to the menu.
Would a 2Amp PSU help me out?
Maybe there's some non-USA or at least NA markets NoA services and they don't give the adapters there? I can see Amazon getting their hands on those.
Yes but not everyone could power it up my friend isnt hardcore like us. He just wanted to plug it up and play and couldnt do it unless he took his iphone cable out the wall and put it next to his tv outlet. Just a dumb hassle and he should've received one
Yeah, of course. But at least now he's secured a SNES Mini and maybe Amazon can send out a power adapter. The hard part's over, is really my point, but Amazon do need to rectify further.
Oh wow~ It's the real McCoy. Your twit pic only showed the UK (?) adapter but now Hero_of_the_Day 's pic not only shows the UK adapter, but A US SNES? O.o
This makes me wonder how this should be handled...
This. I'm happy I finally got my nostalgic US version for retail price.
The USB adapter being taken out and not included isn't cool but my TV powers my SuperFamicom just fine. I'm still going to email Amazon about it though.
these mario world hacks i posted are savin me from serious boredom, hell yeah
if anyone knows any other good ones that work speak up! can't wait to have a friend over and dive into the zombies ate my neighbors hacks soon as well (or hacks in general really, they're bringing new life to the system for me since i've already beat everything. zelda, or metroid ones worth playing that aren't save state gobblers?)
if anyone knows any other good ones that work speak up! can't wait to have a friend over and dive into the zombies ate my neighbors hacks soon as well (or hacks in general really, they're bringing new life to the system for me since i've already beat everything. zelda, or metroid ones worth playing that aren't save state gobblers?)
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Hey Robin, a few more:
Super Caesars Palace = Fine
Super Conflict = Fine
Super High Impact = Fine
Super Off Road: The Baja = Fine
Super Play Action Football = Looks like this needs high res text. Also, team selection screen unusable, but clicking through to game, game plays fine.
Super Caesars Palace = Fine
Super Conflict = Fine
Super High Impact = Fine
Super Off Road: The Baja = Fine
Super Play Action Football = Looks like this needs high res text. Also, team selection screen unusable, but clicking through to game, game plays fine.
Amazon ships European versions of games to people in the U.S. all the time too. They just suck as a company.
AFAIK, that's straight-up false advertising.
Edit: I'm outside the US but use US Amazon for a lot. Once they sent me a repackaged game but was still in new condition but I had ordered new; they sent me an actual new one at no cost and since the return cost would have cost them more.
Meanwhile the SNES Mini is 75 bucks in Italy on Amazon, and I've seen plenty in physical stores sitting unsold...
Just got my 8bitdo SFC30 controller and love it. Playing Secret of Evermore again and it brings back so many memories
Would anyone be interested in donating towards a Japanese Wii U being purchased for the purpose of hacking it and dumping Marvelous so we can get it working in Canoe? Lost Bible III, Super Chinese World, Metal Slader Glory, Wrecking Crew 98, Rudra no Hihou, Tsukikomori, Bishoujo Janshi Suchie-Pai, Super E.D.F., Rushing Beat, Fire Fighting, and Bokujou Monogatari would also be dumped.
Also, 1610 does indeed fix Super Play Football. You get the usual gamma increase on screens with hi-res text, but it's still much better than the blur.
Also, 1610 does indeed fix Super Play Football. You get the usual gamma increase on screens with hi-res text, but it's still much better than the blur.
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I would spend some Money to get Marvelous and Rudras working
Glad this thread is back.
For the new forum: Here's my album of PAL style cover art for the SNES Classic Mini.
Here's covers for the built-in 21 games:
Examples of covers for other SNES games:
And even box art for games never officially released here:
There's a lot more box art in the link above.
As a bonus, here's NA versions for Panel De Pon and Sutte Hakkun
These are excellent! I don't suppose you have a version of the Final Fantasy III cover that instead says "Final Fantasy VI"?
I tried adding a re-translated version of FF6 but no matter what I tried hackchi keeps telling me it's an "incorrect rom type" and refuses to add it, so far it's the only game that has given me trouble. Is this exclusive to the pack in games or something?
Also I was a bit disappointed that there was no source of game covers in the style of the originally included games, but turns out that "switch styled" icons look much nicer to the point I want to change the originals now haha.
Also I was a bit disappointed that there was no source of game covers in the style of the originally included games, but turns out that "switch styled" icons look much nicer to the point I want to change the originals now haha.
I would love US boxarts of FF IV and VI that are exactly the same as what we officially got just with the correct numbered logos
You mean in size? Yeah I guess so, but what's even weirder is that I even tried adding the clean rom and it's the same.
I only say that cos the Mario world hacks I've tried that used expanded Roms have not loaded on the mini for me
So has Amazon just totally failed at every turn with the SNES Mini or has it gone smoothly for anyone even once?
I managed to get a tricky Super Mario World ROM hack working by re-adding the .SFC file manually (not allowing it to be converted to sfrom by hakchi) and pointing retroarch to that file.
Decided to plug back in my Classic tonight for the first time since huh... early November? lol
I see that there's now a way to specify a custom border for each game! This is great... Is there a good place to find Borders? I got a couple back in the days but I bet there's a ton more available now
I see that there's now a way to specify a custom border for each game! This is great... Is there a good place to find Borders? I got a couple back in the days but I bet there's a ton more available now
Hey Robin, ran through some more games:
Time Slip = Fine
Time Trax = Fine
Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games = Fine
TKO Super Championship Boxing = Fine
TNN Bass Tournament of Champions = Audio popping on bass instruments, similar to Super Pinball
Tom and Jerry = I'm not seeing any of the graphical glitches in the hud. Played through 3 stages, beat the first boss, played the next stage and nothing. Game works fine for me.
Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme: Skiing & Snowboarding = Fine
Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer = Fine
Toys = Fine
Troddlers = Fine
Troy Aikman NFL Football = Fine
True Golf Classics: Wicked 18 = Garbled title screen and in game graphics, but playable
True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club = Fine
Tuff E Nuff = Fine
Time Slip = Fine
Time Trax = Fine
Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games = Fine
TKO Super Championship Boxing = Fine
TNN Bass Tournament of Champions = Audio popping on bass instruments, similar to Super Pinball
Tom and Jerry = I'm not seeing any of the graphical glitches in the hud. Played through 3 stages, beat the first boss, played the next stage and nothing. Game works fine for me.
Tommy Moe's Winter Extreme: Skiing & Snowboarding = Fine
Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer = Fine
Toys = Fine
Troddlers = Fine
Troy Aikman NFL Football = Fine
True Golf Classics: Wicked 18 = Garbled title screen and in game graphics, but playable
True Golf Classics: Waialae Country Club = Fine
Tuff E Nuff = Fine
How to get .tik from your legit eshop game. (It's really easy)
1. You need tik2SD installed on your Wii U SD card - opens in homebrew channel
2. Load up tik2SD and dump the tickets for your games.
3. Eject SD card from Wii U and add to PC. You can find a tik2SD folder, inside are the tickets
4. Now we need to find the specific .tik you are interested in. Download WiiU_Ticket_Info and load it.
5. On the right choose 'show filename in results'
6. At the top point it to the tik2SD folder on your SD card
7. Click 'Get info for all tickets'
8. Click 'Save info to text' and save this .txt file somewhere
9. Inside that text file do a search for the specific game you are interested in (Japanese characters maybe?). You will find a section for that game with its own 'Title ID' and 'Title Key' AND the location of its ticket on your SD card.
10. Save the 'Title ID' and 'Title Key' into their own .txt file. Save this somewhere safe.
11. Go and find the specific .tik file on your sd card (as pointed out in step 9)
12. Copy this .tik file to the same location as your new title id/key .txt file.
13. That's it! These two files contain everything you need to make legit backups of your legit games.
Let me know if there's any problems.
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I have about 150 with a reasonable amount set aside for saves. If you use the Save State Compression Mod you could probably squeeze in at least 200 comfortably.
This assumes you are using NO retroarch or other mods, and just the Canoe emulator.
I am using the compression mod, and it makes a huge difference. I have retroarch for just a few SNES titles and Mega Drive. I also have dual boot NES installed. My dual boot NES and all my mega drive games are stored on the hidden NAND to save about 45mb space on the main NAND.
On the SNES side I have 200 SNES games and about 40 Mega Drive. On the NES side I have about 60 games. With all that I am still looking at about 80mb free for saves or future games (Cluster hides about 30mb as a safety buffer, which I include in that figure).
Basically there are a lot of ways to squeeze more out of that 500mb
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Had some cool talk with DarkAkuma today, I think you guys will be pleased with some future developments.
While chatting, he taught me a little bit about the .sfrom Tool workings and how to make .cnp files. As his program only supports official Preset IDs, there are a bunch remaining where the community have discovered Preset IDs that work for other games, such as 10EF removing sound errors in a bunch of games. Well I've made a .cnp file which you just need to put in the "Patches" folder, and importing one of those games will now apply the working PID as well assign it the proper Product ID (instead of saying WUP-JXXY).
Unzip the .cnp from this file here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1COcDLAmwRU1h2lwKZvVBnGOQ_TlD2orE
and
Grab .sfrom Tool from here: http://darkakuma.z-net.us/p/sfromtool.html
Also, keep your eye on daphie's builds of hakchi2. I think this is where we'll be going moving forward.
https://github.com/daPhie79/hakchi2/releases
While chatting, he taught me a little bit about the .sfrom Tool workings and how to make .cnp files. As his program only supports official Preset IDs, there are a bunch remaining where the community have discovered Preset IDs that work for other games, such as 10EF removing sound errors in a bunch of games. Well I've made a .cnp file which you just need to put in the "Patches" folder, and importing one of those games will now apply the working PID as well assign it the proper Product ID (instead of saying WUP-JXXY).
Unzip the .cnp from this file here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1COcDLAmwRU1h2lwKZvVBnGOQ_TlD2orE
and
Grab .sfrom Tool from here: http://darkakuma.z-net.us/p/sfromtool.html
Also, keep your eye on daphie's builds of hakchi2. I think this is where we'll be going moving forward.
https://github.com/daPhie79/hakchi2/releases
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The PAL SNES minis are all curvey though, so it can't be from the EU market.
Nice... what are your thoughts on pre-existing collections? I already have 200 games added to my SNESc and the idea of doing SFROM tool on all of them is a bit much. Which games would benefit from the process?
I am hoping when daphie incorporates SFROM tool into her build you'll be able to redo all the old games, update presets automatically and stuff like that.
Hello I'm trying to run a Tetris game with the "hold piece" in the snes mini... the only game I found is The New Tetris for N64 but I don't know how to config mupen64 or the other one to make it run at decent speed...
Anyone can share with me the optimal config for the N64 emu for the snes mini or if exist any other Tetris game that uses the the "hold piece" mechanic that I can run on the snes mini??
thanks in advance
Anyone can share with me the optimal config for the N64 emu for the snes mini or if exist any other Tetris game that uses the the "hold piece" mechanic that I can run on the snes mini??
thanks in advance