How to Hack and add games to your Sega Genesis Mini using Hakchi CE 3.7 (Tutorial) 

Awesome happy I could help!

Glad you liked it!

Awesome! Happy to help!

Yeah it's a great program!

Thank you! There will be many more to come.

​@Patton Plays hey do you think if there's a way to get rid of games that are not working properly by all means by any chance you can get?

Thanks for the kind words my man. And I agree, hakchi is so easy to use and really is a labor of love.

I dont like how u get the cover art. It's so time consuming. Letting the program do it for u gets most of the cover art wrong. I think lunar program does it better, but its just a tad faster

@@jeremyrozensky8985 The problem most people had with the snes classic was throwing hundreds of games/consoles on the main UI. Even in folders and not exceeding the 50/60 games per folder would cause C8 errors. To fix this was "dummy folder" and loading thousands of games in folders on a USB and just using Retroarch. For some, that can be handled better on a Odroid or Pi, even the PS classic can get the job done. The huge request was wanting to add Genesis/Mega Drive games on the main UI of the MD mini while also tending to the needs of others wanting other consoles on the main UI. But the skinny of it is, the more you bog the console down the slower it gets. Load times, slow down in menu and resetting back to main menu. Realistically on the classic consoles if you add 30 to 50 games they run like a champ. I did this for my nes, snes and MD mini. But no body wants to do that, we all want the whole library of every console. So yes, adding box art and spine art for many games can be a pain. I won't hate on Lunar or their team, but hakchi as well as the men and women affiliated have been a huge pleasure and help throughout the years. They rock. 😊

I dont know why I want every genesis game on there. Maybe 100 tops I will actually play and enjoy.

@@brokensprites what are your favorite 32x and sega cd games u like that u would add to the mini.

Thanks!

Well worth the wait, honestly. Got my system up and running right off the bat. Had issues with Lunar not having folder support or ui retroarch integration on first launch. Even the recent update still has no folder support. I can't work with that because I have many games I wanted to load up. Folders are a must and Hakchi made that happen on boot.

Me neither I waited cause I was already familiar with hackchi. and lunar doesn't look as good, time to play rocket night adventures and the other tougher version of alladin, and many others that I never got to play when I was a kid. all I had was a snes and the only games I played on genesis was the sonic games over at my freinds house.

Happy to help! Just released another video you might like as well :)

@@PattonPlays another question brother , im trying to get "super street fighter 2 - the new challengers "for sega genesis to work on the mini ,but it keeps going to red screen even with retroarch. Just wonder how to get it up and running?

@@acb723 You might have to download a different rom

have fun!

Did you have luck with the 32x games?

@@michaelkazanjian349 I'll be completely honest, I haven't even jail broken it yet.

What an asshole!

Thanks man!

Yeah the native emulator is not great...

The wait us definitely worth it.

Lucky you, if you had Lunar, you would had to uninstall it, it would uninstall with all custom games and game saves.

I would like one, but I'm not holding my breath.

Nintendo of America confirmed it isn't happening anytime soon, so we'll have to wait if anything.

Thank you so much!

Once hakchi and retroarch are installed and working will ANY usb controller work or only the select few that work natively?

Happy to help!

Hi is there anyway I can get more choice of games on hackchi or are the ones on the list the only ones available at the moment thanks?

@@PattonPlays do you have to anything special to play Japanese ROMs on the US genesis mini? I just want to add pulseman

Glad it could be helpful. You are correct. Once you flash the system you don't have to do it again.

@@PattonPlays Cheers! :D

@Death Adder nah theres no lag. I got em separated into different little folders and stuff. Just make sure to put it like 4 games in a folder

@Death Adder 40 games a folder I meant

Thank you for the request!

F zero works really good on the mini.. After it running so choppy on the Pi3 B+ , i’m surprised how much better it works on the genesis mini.

Happy I could help!

Patton Plays how many games can you add to it

Thank you!

Awesome man!

Yup! I'll be working on that video soon.

Would be cool to have Sega CD and 32X games on a flash drive inside of the fake empty minis of those that connects somehow to the Genesis when you put it under/ on top.

No problem!

I always go with RA simply because the emulation is almost always better than what you get with stock. This holds true with the nes and SNES as well.

Don't want to use added storage?

I have all my games on my usb drive. But after installing retroarch, plus bios and every core I’m using to get those games to run I’ve only got 15 mb left on my system. I’m running like 15 cores and some cheats. There’s several cores I’m using for just one or two games cause that’s the only way I could get it to work. Is there a way to load the cores on my usb drive to save space? Or some other trick?

You should get a popup saying a new version has come out. Just need to update the scripts.

It does have wifi support and description scraping is being worked on.

No problem!

How many roms did you add

@@seanheffernan754 Hi Sean. I currently have 428 games in total, from multiple Sega brand systems (32x, Sega CD/Mega CD, Master System and Game Gear hand held games). But I trust I'll be pushing it to about 600 by the time I'm done with it. I'm scraping through more Master System games, hoping to find some gems.

On the standard mini megadrive without external hdd?

@@seanheffernan754 Oh no, I wouldn't never be able to fit even one Sega CD game on it directly. I'm using a very small black USB drive of 128gb, by Sandisk. It's called a Cruzer Fit drive and they hide pretty well. 128gb is way more than I need for my build though. A 64gb would have sufficed, as I've only reached 22gb usage.

Pretty much all genesis games will work either through m2engage or retroarch. I'm going to be doing a lot more videos for many systems.

Yes they do!

And you can put Sonic and knuckles on!

Yes it does. One of the first things I tested out after using Hakchi. It loads the translated theme of the menu and language format. However, if you're speaking on behalf of game versions (USA, Japan, EU) Hakchi actually exposes all games, including 2 additional games that weren't even on the list of included games. Sword of Vermilion and Mortal Kombat II were hidden games for some reason. This allows you to actually load up any variant of the game to your main UI along with your other games. So you don't technically have to switch languages to access them. This is actually not a negative though. I find it to be a bit more of a convenient. But if you want to separate them from your other games, you can create a directory for just those versions. You can always change the theme setting based on region in the language settings. :)

No problem!

Yup, just install it like any other mid. It's in the kmfd mod hub under the retroarch tab.

@@PattonPlays awesome, thanks!

There may be some technical differences but I wouldn't know because I do not support Lunar. The developers are not nice people.

@@PattonPlays that’s too bad, I can’t find anything about them being unfriendly online. Thanks for your vids man I really enjoy em!

Oh thank you! I'm going to try and have one out really soon!

You will still have to set a hotkey in ra to exit. It's under input-hotkeys.

Me too!

Yea, would be a game changer. I can see those flying out faster than the NES version. Even for $120

@@kepeb1 At that price I doubt it. And I also don't think the N64 games would hold up anywhere near as well as the 8-bit and 16-bit games do to be honest. I mean great pixel art games still look and run great even today, which is why many developers continue to this day to release brand new games using pixel art, but those first gen 3D games just tend to look and run a bit crap now. I would like an N64 Mini, don't get me wrong, but I question how satisfying playing those old games would be in 2020 when stuck with the single analog stick and so on. Some of the best N64 games are still cool when I play them on my PC via emulator, but that's because I can remap the controls to dual analog and even run them at higher resolutions and framerates and so on. It would certainly be interesting to see what Nintendo would do with this.

@@PattonPlays So the only problem is I downloaded a Sega CD game and now there are 2 copies of the same game in the menu. I am guessing since it's a Sega CD game it's because I highlighted the .bin and .cue files. Is that normal to have two copies of the same game or did I do something wrong? Also will I have 2 files when I turn on my Sega mini for that same game and if so which one do I select? It also kills the storage space on Sega Mini so I feel I did something wrong. Can you please let me know. I will just uninstall that Sega CD till I hear back. Thanks in advance.