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SNES Classic Revealed
FritzWhite:
I'd rather just play my sd2snes that has way more games than this hyped up crap.
ShoothimNow:
Hack it, and it virtually becomes an SD2SNES. I'm in for like 3, no joke.
Hacking the NES Mini took like... 5 minutes...
breakmanexe:
What is the difference in performance between the "official" emulator and Retroarch? Will Retroarch support more roms or something?
ShoothimNow:
Retroarch will allow you to play other emulators on the NES Mini (SNES / Genesis / etc). You can (without changing the emulator) easily put all the NES games onto the Mini. Retroarch just allows you to save some space so you can put moar games on it. Lightgun games obviously wont work, and Hakchi2 lets you know before a game is transferred if there is an error. But I have about 500 hacked NES roms and most to all loaded just fine. Enjoying my NES Mini with over 1300 NES games.
Sure, $80 for 30 or so games sounds terrible, but so did $60 for the 30 NES mini games. After hacking the NES Mini, my god, best $100 and $75 (2nd mini - for storage / backup - couldn't say no to $75 brand new in box with controller extension) ever spent (due to me not wanting to buy the system when it came out and waited until the freaking day that it was cancelled to buy it before people realized and jacked up the prices to todays prices)
breakmanexe:
Hm, interesting. I own an NES Classic myself and did successfully load my own up with hundreds of extra games using Hakchi2, but some of the hacked/patched games either did not transfer over at all or transferred over in a screwed-up fashion. For example, the FF7 NES game (english patch applied) did not transfer over, but The Legend of Link did, although it has some severe tiling errors when displaying the intro (which, if I understand correctly, means that I am going to also see some severe tiling errors in the later dungeons, which sucks). Most discussion I've seen on the NES Classic seems to only cover how to load it up with extra games in general; niche examples like mine don't come up often so I'm unsure how/if it can be corrected at all.
I had considered adding additional emulators, but thematically (to me) it felt "wrong". To each their own. But this is also why I really want to secure myself an SNES Classic (and depending on reviews of the Genesis Mini's audio/video quality, one of those eventually): so I can load it up with its own respective library and hope that all of the games with special chips emulate properly.