My custom SNES Classic Mini 

Does that surprise you? The SNES had a much more advanced sound chip than the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. Gen/MD had only one set of sounds and a few selected slots for samples. Those were most often used for sound effects and not as instrument channels. This is why sega games from that era all sounded the same, with very few exceptions. All games used that same waveform library the chip could generate. Crystal clear sound, but very raw and quite limited. Like trying to produce hundreds of albums with varied music using only one synthesizer. The SNES was all sampled based instruments, which also had its drawbacks especially if the game was big, and where they had to compress the instuments making the music sound muffled (most often in skimped, fast cashgrab multi platform ports). But if done right, the SNES had just as crystal clear sound as the Gen/MD, even in huge games like Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, and Donkey Kong Country. But to address you comment, the reality is, you could make a SNES sound like a Genesis via samples, but never make a Genesis sound like a SNES. It just wasn’t built for that. In this case however, it’s all kinda irrelevant because the Mini consoles aren’t actual consoles. They are glorified Raspberry Pi:s designed to run emulators. (Although amazing and adorable... yeah I got NES/SNES/Genesis/PS1... because I want them assembled on my game shelf 😊) The Genesis games run on what essentially is a software version of a Sega Genesis, not a SNES. You probably know all this, but wtf I just had to. ;))

Well i want to say that if it has only gba games on it not snes and other systems games on it. The reason is simple titles. Gba has much better and variety of titles you can play from arcade graphics style street fighter 2 final fight to snes graphics style and nes style fds collection.

@@My2Cents1 Sorry but you can't make a SNES sound like a Genesis and you can't make a Genesis sound like a SNES. The YM2612 sound the Genesis has if very specific soumd just like the SPC700 on the SNES is specific. Not all Sega games from that era sounded the same, their were differences I think you need to do more reading my friend because you clearly sound ignorant making such outlandish comments.

@@VirajKathwadia I know and love both consoles very well. They both had their strengths, but for Genny, music versatility sure wasn't one of them. SNES music was sample based whereas the Genny worked off its own internal Yamaha2612 synthesizer chip which made up most of its sound resources. As such, in theory you could sample all the most signature sounds from the YM2612, them use SNES a game, effectively making it sound like the Genesis. You could never do that in reverse, because the Genesis have very limited sample capabilities, especially for use in music. That's why all the Genny games sounded the the same, which made their music feel a bit generic. The advantage of that was of course that the resources for music took up very little space, whereas on the SNES they took up a lot.

@@My2Cents1 Sorry I wholeheartedly have to disagree with you when you talk about music versatility when it comes to the Mega Drive. The Sample based stuff on the SNES was great when listening to some of the lovely orchastra themes from ActRaiser, Terranigma and Chronotrigger, this is something the YM2612 could not do. You talk about sampling the signature sounds from the chip, but lets be blunt that hasn't happened and the clarity would not be crisp and if it could happen I'd like to think Tommy Tallerico would have given Earth Worm Jim (A Mega Drive Game) a proper sound unlike with the inferior sound the SNES gave out. Frequency Modulation was a skill to learn to make music for and it took some talented sound programmers to get it right such as Yuzo Koshiro with the streets of rage soundtrack and Revenge of Shinobi, you can't replicate that on SNES. I have no idea what you are talking about stating that all the sounds on Mega Drive sounded the same, the soundtrack and tones from Masato Nakamuras Sonic the Hedgehog to Rob Hubbard's theme to Desert Strike are on two different levels you must tone deaf if you think they are the same. Whether or not more or less was taken up was irrelevant, you clearly need to play more Sega Mega Drive games because it appears you are one of these Nintendrones that lack experience in hearing just how great and varied Mega Drive music is. Music is subjective and I get you have your preference but you're wrong in thinking that the SNES could replicate Mega Drive sound, it can't. Guitar and Bass sounds weak on SNES compared to Mega Drive.

How is it?

If you got a computer that's basically a steal 😆

​unless the guy solders an sd card to the board...

But anyway you can fit more than 120 games for sure

you can add more storage with an otg adapter and one usb

I now appreciate my dad +10 for giving me his a few years ago

Nicholas Willoughby Hackchi has them

default icon pack btw u can also use the retro redux icon pack (its so cool)

Sounds great👌

the snes has 280mb internal storage, it can be used for games ;)

Ok this is old but both the snes and nes classic can also be modded to allow an external USB to be used, people have 250gb snes classics.

I kno this is two years old but I just figured out how to do it. you would click start and select to get to the hack menu. Press back and go to settings, under settings you’ll see video. Click on video then click on aspect ratio. From there you can change the ratio for gba games. I make them the 1:1 ratio since it looks the best for gba games. I now play legacy of goku on tv without it being stretched

Ryan Davadi thanks! I've since been learning alot about retroarch and have learned how to do it, even applying Gameboy overlays.

Jonathan Beattie that’s dope bro! I made my nes classic into a gba player. I love playing these games on a tv lol. Then I got snes and sega games on my snes classic. Wbu

@@Itsfayd is there a way to trade pokemon on gba on this? Curious if anyone knows

Jon Lennins it’s running on Linux

Jon Lennins The original games still run on the systems native snes emulator (which is called kanoe) anything else can run on retroarch (even other SNES games that can't play on the native one.)

you can organize them and make folders within hackchi

Yes, you can put any game in one folder. but you can't have more than 63 games in one folder otherwise the system will malfunction.

yes but GBA rom you would have to compress because they can be big, if you want to fit more roms on your mini

Yes

I'm curious too

Yall know hakchi has tutorials same as RU-vid right? Lol

@@PrivateBryan son of a lbitch

Use the properly emulation core such as Genesis Plus GX. If that doesn't help, then the game was not made properly to be played on snes. Same thing happens when you try to play DS Games.

Yes

King Dedede?? Does that apply just Genesis titles? Will other consoles supported on the Wii U's virtual console will be natively supported on this device?

The only games that run on the "native" emulator are snes games. Everything else runs on retroarch cores (other emulators like genesis plus, snes9x, mame etc) But define what you mean natively.. they seem to run perfectly and launch from the snes mini menu as normal so that's all you want right? :)

Jonathan Beattie nothing that needs me to install anything else other than the ROM

Search "install retroarch on snes mini" That should explain everything you need within 5 minutes.. its quite simple. It's basically drag and drop and ticking boxes lol.

Yeah man, is too easy

you need to set up a soft reset button combination for the controller in hakchi.

did you install the retroarch and corepack? --retroarch is for snes games that are packed with sfrom header. For Genesis you use the script /bin/md script

hakchi let you create folders

@@NexXxus86ty

err the performance would probably not be the best, and not to mention that you only have around 260MB free storage for games.

Yeah I guess, eh well I'm happy with Pokemon Yellow, Gold & Ruby.

Nothing is permanent, unless you want them to be, on this console. Meaning, you can add and remove them, if you wish it so. They won't just disappear one day. Unfortunately, there is no simple solution, to play lightgun games, without a functioning lightgun and a crt television. Maybe some day, someone will come up with a way to make it happen, with some hardware modifications, but as far as I know, they're still reliant on old TV tech, to work. (phosphors, and such).

kgcyoutubeaccount the eye.net has rom files for every game ever. They store files to ”preserve history”. Otherwise Romhustler or Romsmania/Loveroms

Easy to find. Just google

They're everywhere on youtube...

you can use a skin for other interfaces like emulationstation. The original snes mini interface can't run on PCs because it was compile for ARM CPUs. you could however get it to run on a raspberry pi probably with some effort by reconstructing the file structure and installing the neccessary depencies.

The Meeper Laper romsmania.com or Loveroms.com or the-eye.net

ColeNadsProductions If the emulator supports it, yes. Otherwise there is mods to import your own

Will this run Crysis 3?

Oliver Martinez I don’t think it could run Dreamcast because that’s a different chip

You can apply them through Hakchi

yes

It depends. you have around 300MB of free memory to add new roms.

awesomecat3345 the awesomest I’ve never heard of anybody bricking one and the GBA games do take up a lot of space.

dave_mx85 I guess just reflash OG kernel and then go back to the snes mini. Do restore factory settings. Then reinstall hackchi

Nophoria you need to put --retroarch at the end of the commandline otherwise they gonna run on nintendos emulator. Rom files I used are good dumps with the [!] at the end

I did that but these two won't work, maybe you got good roms.

He's right, just add the command line changes and try different roms. Took me a couple times. Hardest ones for my game line up were the English translated Dragon quest vi and Der Langrisser ... Those took some tinkering

Nice, similar to mine. You should add star ocean and tales of phantasia, and secret of mana 2

T@wesomE uhm about 260MB free space for roms. The system and preinstalled games are taking the rest. If you want more storage look for the USB OTG mod

I have the system I just need it moded.

Do it yourself. It takes ten mins unless you want custom folders and custom menu music

How do I change the back icon? That's the last thing I don't know how to do lol.

The games work fine enough, the only problem is that it's imposible to do a get all pokemon because of the lack of a link cable or anything like that

Hylian OnSwitch Hey I don’t know if you fixed your issue if you didn’t the Capture Card I use is the Elgato HD60S

He can't tell you that

depends on the core and retroarch version you're using. But you can have it so there is barely any input lag.

@@NexXxus86 All right thanks.

anyone? I have an HDMI capture card in my PC.

1º Es edicion no editacion. 2ºSi piensas que es falso,no no lo es hay programas para moddear la consola y añadir mas juegos.

eh? from the SNES Classic Mini? I never changed the music.

It’s a SNES midi tune they put together using the Super Mario World instrument set, I think. Needless to say it sounds VERY snes. ;P

Bs it's easy as pie

only a few less demanding games would run, snes mini CPU is not very powerful, you would be better off buying a used PSTV for around 100 bucks and hack it to play PSP using Adrenaline, it plays 100% of all PSP games.

did u end up buying it? I did and modded it lol.

Look up patton plays he's got tutorials on how to install hakchi and which kernals to add for different systems like so

joshua fernadeezee use the reset switch

The default remote soft reset on hakchi is to press/hold down+Select.

Hakchi

Yeah those are Chinese knockoffs tho

Just get a NES Classic instead

whats boy abvanse?

@@NexXxus86lol i thinj they meant game boy advanced maybe

I don't think sonic mania would work cause its so new. Even though it has an old art style it's probably way more demanding than n64 or gamecube games and n64 games are already kinda iffy on the snes classic.

emuparadise to name one of them.

download hakchi

00thisisnotreal00 yes

Hackachi

works with all.

There are plenty of tutorials on youtube. just look one up. search for snes mini hakchi tutorial

Thomas Kings can you send me a link? For a video or just the hack sorry for wasting your time

github.com/TeamShinkansen/Hakchi2-CE/releases

@@NexXxus86 Oh... Thanks man!

Hakchi

Thomas Kings it’s hard ?

@@daniloalarcon4688 no. theres tutorials on youtube and on the internet.

Thomas Kings thanks man !!!!

well yea, I'm using retroarch to emulate other systems.

You can play some n64 games on it, but you need a wii classic controller

not intended. the sound is just very low quality 8bit sound, thats why it sounds so distorted. A gameboy can't play sound samples any better because of its hardware limitations.

Thomas Kings i know i just think its kinda funny

Google dumby its not hard

Google it dummy

wrong you can add games to your snes With a program soo think before you comment

Not fake. this is the program to add more roms and emulators: github.com/ClusterM/hakchi2/releases

Lucas Ciminelli no fake at all litterly so many people did this

Lol

Not fake, goober