Thanks I'll stick to canoe then. I already have higan on my pc for accurate emulation I can settle for the lowest input lag emulator on snes classic even if it has worse compatibility
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SNES Mini Classic Hacking | More games, more borders, more gooder.
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Thanks I'll stick to canoe then. I already have higan on my pc for accurate emulation I can settle for the lowest input lag emulator on snes classic even if it has worse compatibility
Robin has maintained a compatiblity sheet in the OP to help see what games work.
I have done similar tests on a sheet as well if you want a second pair of eyes here: link
Tldr - compatibility is very good, and problem games are being fixed almost daily by 90s leet hacker sluffy
Unless you plan to fill the SNESC with all the romz evar made, then compatibility won't be a huge issue. If you have a curated list of games, games you like, and games that are good. Then the amount of games with problems is reduced dramatically for you. You WILL need Retroarch for certain games, like Tales of Phantasia that so far is impossible for Canoe to play it.
Thought this might be interesting. I expanded Super Mario World in various ways to find out what size ROMs Canoe does and doesn't support, and here are the results.
As you can see, you can only get 48 Mbit and 64 Mbit games running if they are LoROM. And even then, they need to be a certain type of LoROM. The ones that use the 00:8000-6F:FFFF map don't work, but the other two types do. HiROM at these sizes doesn't work at all. This means stuff like Tales of Phantasia and Crimson Echoes will never work properly in Canoe as they are HiROM at those sizes.
As you can see, you can only get 48 Mbit and 64 Mbit games running if they are LoROM. And even then, they need to be a certain type of LoROM. The ones that use the 00:8000-6F:FFFF map don't work, but the other two types do. HiROM at these sizes doesn't work at all. This means stuff like Tales of Phantasia and Crimson Echoes will never work properly in Canoe as they are HiROM at those sizes.
Star Ocean is a "48 Mbit ExLoROM (6 MB) ²"
Sadly not. By default, DQ3 is a nice green tick in the image above, but the translation expands it to one of the red ones.
Might as well throw all the SNES Minis into the trash then. What's the point? :P
Still wondering: can you install custom borders to the USB storage if it doesn't have Hakchi directly installed to it?
On the subject, I remember Robin64 had a do-it-yourself border program, which was neat. Problem was there was no way to manually adjust the images afterwards (say I wanted to split the image left or right since the center block covers up the artwork). Has there been an improvement on this?
Adding custom borders as backgrounds for the games was one of my favorite early mod features, so I want to start adding them again. It'd be great if the OP was updated to include all the galleries people added too.
On the subject, I remember Robin64 had a do-it-yourself border program, which was neat. Problem was there was no way to manually adjust the images afterwards (say I wanted to split the image left or right since the center block covers up the artwork). Has there been an improvement on this?
Adding custom borders as backgrounds for the games was one of my favorite early mod features, so I want to start adding them again. It'd be great if the OP was updated to include all the galleries people added too.
Is this the source of the issues with the Project Naga patch?Thought this might be interesting. I expanded Super Mario World in various ways to find out what size ROMs Canoe does and doesn't support, and here are the results.
As you can see, you can only get 48 Mbit and 64 Mbit games running if they are LoROM. And even then, they need to be a certain type of LoROM. The ones that use the 00:8000-6F:FFFF map don't work, but the other two types do. HiROM at these sizes doesn't work at all. This means stuff like Tales of Phantasia and Crimson Echoes will never work properly in Canoe as they are HiROM at those sizes.
If I reinstall Hakchi to update to a later version, will I lose my SRAM and save states for games that I had added earlier?
Flash original kernel, do a factory reset, then start the process. You will lose all your saves unless you back them up.
Your saves will always stay inside the system unless you manually delete the saves or unless you do a factory reset.
Thanks. I assume that there's no need to select "Uninstall" within the Kernel drop down menu if flashing the original kernal? Trying to understand what that Uninstall option actually does. Appreciate the help!
Yup. It expands the game to a type that Canoe says nope. Same with DQ3 patch.
This seems to be the more common crash with ExHiROMs. I believe the reason is because theres nothing inherently wrong with the boot instructions, but the problem will occur as soon as it addresses memory that Canoe does not cope with. Super Mario World when expanded crashes in the same way.
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Actually you don't need to flash the original kernel at all. Choose uninstall, then ignore any request to install original kernel, then flash custom kernel and do a factory reset.
All hail sluffy!!! He is amazing!!
Say has anyone asked him yet if it would be possible for him to look into the possibility of improving Canoe's performance to resolve games with slowdown/warping sound?
Say has anyone asked him yet if it would be possible for him to look into the possibility of improving Canoe's performance to resolve games with slowdown/warping sound?
sluffy modifies games to remove slowdown, in fact that's how we found him.
What examples are there? They'd need to be reproducible 100% reliably.
Modifying canoe would require somebody with ARM CPU skills, which isn't sluffy.
What examples are there? They'd need to be reproducible 100% reliably.
Modifying canoe would require somebody with ARM CPU skills, which isn't sluffy.
Well Seiken Densetsu 3 and Marvelous are easily reproducible. Robin posted a video of the slowdown in Seiken Densetsu 3 a few pages back.
Found another obvious bug in Seiken Densetsu 3. In the Corridor of Wind, any tile that has the "wind" effect (which blows your party members around) appears black:
(Sorry for the potato quality of the photo, I have no way to take direct feed shots of my Mini, since I lent my external monitor to a friend.)
(Sorry for the potato quality of the photo, I have no way to take direct feed shots of my Mini, since I lent my external monitor to a friend.)
Street Fighter Alpha 2 needs the SDA patch from here: http://darkakuma.z-net.us/p/sfromtool.html#Patches
Found another obvious bug in Seiken Densetsu 3. In the Corridor of Wind, any tile that has the "wind" effect (which blows your party members around) appears black:
(Sorry for the potato quality of the photo, I have no way to take direct feed shots of my Mini, since I lent my external monitor to a friend.)
Please provide a save and directions on how to get there.
In this vid (emulator) there doesnt seem to be a wind "effect" so to speak, just a sound signifying wind and you get pushed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KHDsWy8sVM
Reposting for new page... I'm not sure whether these are all considered stupid questions or something?
1. USB Host is for people who want ALL THE GAMES - do you want ALL THE GAMES? Then use USB Host
2. SFROM is not built into Hakchi, its an opt-in addon. Yes you still need to look into games that require header or unheadered. There are tools that do this work for you.
3. I dont know, I guess? I'm sitting pretty on 2.21f
My only unanswered question is how to install borders on the USB host if I don't have Hakchi directly installed to it.
Reddit's been real slow answering this, the last comment said to "install them as an hmod". Seeing how I haven't messed with hmods, I have no idea how to do that.
Ok here's a Canoe save for Seiken Densetsu 3 near the Wind Corridor Cave. Someone that has the game with the proper ID (1610 in Hakchi) and the latest fix patch please test the wind effect issue on this post. Use the original Japanese game just in case.
To get to the spot in question (it's easy and short), just load the first save, exit left, take the stairs up then right, continue the linear path until you get to a cave entrance on the left next to a bridge. The Cave entrance might be hard to see. Enter the cave. Inside go all the way up, then left through an almost hidden entrance. You'll hear the wind, follow the path to get to the spot where the issue happens.
Here's a map to get to the Wind Corridor Cave from your save file in case you need it. And here's a map inside the cave in case you need it (you start in the bottom-right).
SRAM Save
https://www.sendspace.com/file/o4nkrw
Canoe Save
https://www.sendspace.com/file/3mtyrf
To get to the spot in question (it's easy and short), just load the first save, exit left, take the stairs up then right, continue the linear path until you get to a cave entrance on the left next to a bridge. The Cave entrance might be hard to see. Enter the cave. Inside go all the way up, then left through an almost hidden entrance. You'll hear the wind, follow the path to get to the spot where the issue happens.
Here's a map to get to the Wind Corridor Cave from your save file in case you need it. And here's a map inside the cave in case you need it (you start in the bottom-right).
SRAM Save
https://www.sendspace.com/file/o4nkrw
Canoe Save
https://www.sendspace.com/file/3mtyrf
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It's.. okay. Nowhere near good enough to be worth doing in my opinion but I know what some people are like with emulators.
My auto border generation tool had been broken for a while, but I fixed it by changing web hosts.
http://www.robin64.co.uk/autoborder/
http://www.robin64.co.uk/autoborder/
Do you think you could update this so that we have the option of manually adjusting pictures? Like if I added a picture where a character's face was cut off by the middle, so I could just adjust the left side of the picture while keeping the right side unaltered?
Shouldnt you be playing Rudra instead of dressup? You were the one who wanted to play it after all
I have not checked in here in a while, but I went to the first page to see if there were updates to Hakchi and I see there is a link to a different program? So I am confused. Is Hakchi not used anymore? Is this a completely different program? And if so, what is the pro over Hakchi?
Thanks for confirming. Sad, the DQ3 patch explicitly lists that its expands the rom to 48Mbit too. Taunting me
Its not a different program, its a different build by a different team.
If nothing is wrong with your current setup, dont stress over updating, the changes are few and not very impactful.
People seem to have this need, desire to update to the latest when they don't have to and then come back like "BUH ALL MY STUFFS IS BROKE HELP"
Just IMO and this is not directed to you specifically.
Everything runs fine and have no desire to add more games really. I have all my childhood favorites and some I never got to try but always wanted but did not know a lick of Japanese.
Actually, I'll take that back. Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma. Are they working now? With the native emulator? Have n no desire to add RetroArch or anything. If they still don't work, oh well. No biggie.