Official hakchi2 - NES Mini very simple pimp tool

[byevoltor]

New improved version of 'Gradius' for MSX2 computers....

The question: how to play if we do not have virtual keyboard .... for msx?

And neither for the amstrad cpc 464

 

[ArcNoculus]

How are you compressing the png's ???

As DR1001 said, PNGGauntlet. I saved better than 16MB processing my games folder and it's all lossless compression.

 

[keithelmcity]

As DR1001 said, PNGGauntlet. I saved better than 16MB processing my games folder and it's all lossless compression.

Do you compress the game folder ir each png 1 by 1. ? Large and small ?

 

[EleonoraYumizuru]

Do you compress the game folder ir each png 1 by 1. ? Large and small ?

Drag and drop the 'games' folder where it says 'Drag and drop images here' on PNGGauntlet.

 

[keithelmcity]

Drag and drop the 'games' folder where it says 'Drag and drop images here' on PNGGauntlet.

thank you so much !!

 

[keithelmcity]

Drag and drop the 'games' folder where it says 'Drag and drop images here' on PNGGauntlet.

did you do the "folder imagges "also?

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lol i lost all the roms and folders using PNGgauntlet just pngs in the games folder What did i do wrong?

 

[DR1001]

did you do the "folder imagges "also?

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lol i lost all the roms and folders using PNGgauntlet just pngs in the games folder What did i do wrong?

Make sure over write original box is checked.

 

[Mad-Mega]

New improved version of 'Gradius' for MSX2 computers....

The question: how to play if we do not have virtual keyboard .... for msx?

And neither for the amstrad cpc 464

According to the manual, you can play it with the joystick, so basically you do not need any keyboard.
I have been playing some MSX games for a while now, i never needed a keyboard, and i am playing with the original NES mini joysticks.

 

[diobrando19]

Hello guys! Question; how do you make a particular button setting for a specific core in retroarch the default button combination? Like for example, I wanted to set a default button setting for the Sega Genesis emulator in retroarch, so that all games I add in my NES Mini would follow/use that default button setting for both player 1 & 2. I know you can remap the buttons via the quick menu, but I wanted to make a default button setting across all games. How do you do that? Thank you in advance!

 

[Reyn_the_Insane]

Hi, I know this was posted a while ago, but have you experienced some graphical glitches with that hack on the NES Mini? For me, the Stage Select's bottom row keeps shaking, as well as the pause menu.

EDIT: I've read some pages and apparently that's normal with that hack on the NES Mini, but does anyone know what causes it?

Rgs!

Play the game with retroarch. That seems to fix the stuttering on the stage select.

 

[youngtune27]

It isn't a bug. It is that 2.15 calculates all temp data being games, save states, modules, original 30 games into the memory. This actually makes the NES a lot more stable in the long run

Actually there is bugs.

 

[nl255]

It depends on emulator and platform. But hakchi2 save-state backup is just .tar.gz file with saves and screenshots

If it helps, the default NESC save format for sram saves is just the battery save padded to 32768 bytes with the sha-1 of the padded .sav file stuck on front. Here are some sample files, note that since Zelda2-padded.sav has a sha-1 of a1240457c7a69498b27c9f7b6449b2fb427bfaeb all I did was open it in HxD, paste insert (not overwrite) a1240457c7a69498b27c9f7b6449b2fb427bfaeb at the start of the file as text (not hex), and then saved it as Zelda2-save.sram. To export to standard .sav format, just strip the first 40 bytes and if desired trim to 8k.

While I used HxD and trunc.exe I am sure it could be done pretty easily with a Linux shell script, sha1sum and truncate.

 

[LuckY07]

Actually there is bugs.

Have you taken the time to verify the files/file sizes using the command line tool?

That way you could isolate a BEFORE/AFTER snapshot of the memory you're losing when you add and then remove games. I'm really curious where
that memory is going to. Hopefully the command line tool can shed light onto this subject.

After reading several pages it appears that the new Hakchi 2.15 is more accurate in terms of what it counts.. but from the reading here it appears
there's something that's holding onto memory when you add/remove games which would be the new bug everyone is talking about. I'm still on 2.13e and have been waiting to upgrade btw..

EDIT: If anyone can reproduce this problem the following might lead us to determine where the memory is being hogged:

1) Use command tool to get a list of all files along with sizes.
2) add a couple games, then do step #1 again.
3) remove the games you added in step #2. Then do step #1 again.

With the 3 logs from above we can hopefully see what's hogging up the memory. Have you used the file command tool for Hakchi before?

 

[sromeroi]

So if I'm down to ~270 MB of available space in 2.15, is there any way to free up space besides removing games? What could be bringing the total available down so low? In my games folder, the total amount is ~305 MB, pictures included. What's eating up the extra 35 MB?

Did you add the space required by the cores themselves? (retroarch, fba, mame2003, whatever)...

In my "ARCADE" NES mini I have different available space (mame2003 and fba) than in my "CONSOLES" mini (snes9x2010, picodrive, pcengine, etc).

(EDIT: read about "the bug"... I'll wait for Clusterrr's answer about this...).

 

[LuckY07]

Did you add the space required by the cores themselves? (retroarch, fba, mame2003, whatever)...

In my "ARCADE" NES mini I have different available space (mame2003 and fba) than in my "CONSOLES" mini (snes9x2010, picodrive, pcengine, etc).

Shouldn't all this be able to be determines using the command line tool? Just print out the files w their sizes listed and add them up.

The part I'm curious about is when he adds lets say 44MB of games, then removes the 44MB worth of games.. yet his total memory goes DOWN.

 

[sromeroi]

The part I'm curious about is when he adds lets say 44MB of games, then removes the 44MB worth of games.. yet his total memory goes DOWN.

I noticed that when you remove games, it sometimes doesn't "recover" the used space. In that case, I close hakchi, reopen it again, and voila, the "used space" is calculated again and (AFAIK) is correct.

 

[LuckY07]

I noticed that when you remove games, it sometimes doesn't "recover" the used space. In that case, I close hakchi, reopen it again, and voila, the "used space" is calculated again and (AFAIK) is correct.

Nice find. So to the others.. have you tried closing Hakchi and reopening it like it's listed here?? It may be a minor annoyance but if this fixes the issue..

 

[syndrome208]

Actually there is bugs.

ya but most only think of the bug as when you only have like 260mb of space. But he could have been referencing the bug that only allows you to put like 100mb of games on like we had discussed earlier.

 

[Beanmonger]

Could someone help me with understanding atari games?
I tried uploading a few atari 2600 games, however the roms I have are all in the .bin format, which hakchi doesn't recognize as being valid. What format should they be in?
Also, where can I get hmods for other Atari systems?
Thanks!

 

[LuckY07]

ya but most only think of the bug as when you only have like 260mb of space. But he could have been referencing the bug that only allows you to put like 100mb of games on like we had discussed earlier.

Have these people that can only put 100MB worth of games on restarted their PC and try it again? sromeroi has indicated that when you close Hakchi and re-open it.. it goes back to normal..