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[Maurobr76]

Im happy with the old hakchi 20.15 with retroarch from a few days ago...

But...

Will i gain anything if i instal newest retroarch? But keep My hakchi as it is.

 

[PPlays]

With Retroarch installed, a few games seem to have the edges cutoff. CASTLEVANIA being the main culprit. I tried adjusting the aspect ratio, but then you just get a black bar and still can't see the "e" on enemy. Any fix for this?

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There should be another size option a couple lines below the aspect ratio one.

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Im happy with the old hakchi 20.15 with retroarch from a few days ago...

But...

Will i gain anything if i instal newest retroarch? But keep My hakchi as it is.

Better compatibility, some nice new bells and whistles.

 

[Kumoashi]

I don't know, all you can do now is "hide" them, and then replace them with their counterparts, there isn't anything we can do otherwise for now. Sorry, but we can't do anything about that. The space the 21 games takes up is negligible. Either that, or we do nothing, but come on, this is just nitpicking at this point.

So if they used to not be in the 'nand' and were editable at one time (you mention older versions and that cluster 'moved them')? THen wouldn't be possible to actually create a nand patch that would at least 'remove' the epilepsy filter patches, and then back up the unpatched copies in the nand instead?


Again, my issue is not about 'removing the games' but actually replacing them with better copies of the games... and leaving the space in the other areas alternate 'new games'. NO 'redundancy'...

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Well I thought you were a 'she' based on your name and screen picture. I've been calling you a 'she'/'her' etc... Glad I wasn't wrongfully 'assuming' your gender.

The original 21 games have always been in the read only area of the system.
Older versions of Hakchi2 were not able to access the games directly from there, so a copy would be added to the re-writable section, which would waste space that could be used by other games.
The new version now simply links to where the games are originally stored. So it has never been possible to change, replace, or mod, the original games directly, we have always needed to hide them, and then add a the new modded version.

 

[RevRaven]

I can confirm that Robin64's Illusion of Gaia patch works on Canoe. Spreadsheet updated with the link to the patch. Hakchi 2.21c will say it's incompatible when adding, but it will load into the program (and SNESC) with no problem.

 

[Kumoashi]

I don't know, man, it works with both EU and NA, a lot of people from the EU have used it fine. Don't use the portable version or web install version then. Or trade a EU one with a NA one on the Temp.

Then what "version" should they use? Do you mean they should use an older version? If not, then you are only confusing people, because Cluster only has 2 ways to get Hakchi2.
1. Download the Portable Version, which is a self contained version that can be extracted and ran from any drive or folder on your computer.
2. Download the Web Installer Version, which installs it's self to the C drive and will auto-update it's self whenever a new version comes out.

As far as using an older version VS a newer version, I for one am using the newest release, version 2.21c A.K.A. 2.0.21.42, and I have had no problems at all. It installs and runs just as good, if not better, then the older versions. Maybe people that are having problems are not doing something right?

 

[the_randomizer]

Then what "version" should they use? Do you mean they should use an older version? If not, then you are only confusing people, because Cluster only has 2 ways to get Hakchi2.
1. Download the Portable Version, which is a self contained version that can be extracted and ran from any drive or folder on your computer.
2. Download the Web Installer Version, which installs it's self to the C drive and will auto-update it's self whenever a new version comes out.

As far as using an older version VS a newer version, I for one am using the newest release, version 2.21c A.K.A. 2.0.21.42, and I have had no problems at all. It installs and runs just as good, if not better, then the older versions. Maybe people that are having problems are not doing something right?

I'm not the one having issues flashing the kernel.

 

[Kumoashi]

I'm not the one having issues flashing the kernel.

I wasn't saying you were. Sorry if it sounded that way. I was just commenting on how you said that you don't use the Web Installer and you don't use the Portable version. You also told the other person not to use either one as well. You may have typed it wrong for all I know, but I didn't mean anything negative by what I was saying. I just want to help stop some of the confusion that people are having on this thread.

 

[the_randomizer]

I wasn't saying you were. Sorry if it sounded that way. I was just commenting on how you said that you don't use the Web Installer and you don't use the Portable version. You also told the other person not to use either one as well. You may have typed it wrong for all I know, but I didn't mean anything negative by what I was saying. I just want to help stop some of the confusion that people are having on this thread.

I did type it wrong. Portable version works better.

 

[Kumoashi]

I did type it wrong. Portable version works better.

I personally prefer the Web Installer, but whatever works for you is still fine.

 

[Liriel]

With Retroarch installed, a few games seem to have the edges cutoff. CASTLEVANIA being the main culprit. I tried adjusting the aspect ratio, but then you just get a black bar and still can't see the "e" on enemy. Any fix for this?

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thats new and come with the borders and with 1.0 retroarch from cluster

 

[Baggins]

Flashign the kernel was fine... It has a shell error when trying to add games. There have been around 4-5 people so far that have the problem and its always on the EU systems.

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To be honest the program itself is fool proof... by that I mean a monkey could figure it out... It gives you straight tforward intructions, and ten tells you when and what buttons to push... and warns you if you if need to install something first. LIke the 'driver'.

I can't control what it does after that, when it starts trying to copy over roms... and then crashes at the end....

 

[josete2k]

With Retroarch installed, a few games seem to have the edges cutoff. CASTLEVANIA being the main culprit. I tried adjusting the aspect ratio, but then you just get a black bar and still can't see the "e" on enemy. Any fix for this?

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As I've seen... The aspect ratio needs to be set at 5:4 but the vertical size is still a little larger.

Maybe a custom resolution...

 

[Baggins]

Hi,

Thanks for your great job !


I get this error when I try to upload new games in my european SNES mini :

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I used 2.21c portable version.

I don't know why people keep mocking you and anyone else with this problem, instead of trying to be helpful and figure out what might be causing the problem in the first place...

It really is rather rude....

 

[Liriel]

Flashign the kernel was fine... It has a shell error when trying to add games. There have been around 4-5 people so far that have the problem and its always on the EU systems.

strange no errors with my eu mini snes and flashing

 

[mattmanforever]

As I've seen... The aspect ratio needs to be set at 5:4 but the vertical size is still a little larger.

Maybe a custom resolution...

So what I did was go to Retroarch menu, options, disable crop overscan. And then I went to settings, video, and set every game to the "core" aspect ratio. That fixes Castlevania. Only game that looked weird was Battletoads, which has a black bar on the left side... but that's an issue with the game.

 

[Kumoashi]

How do you make it so that your name is visible when you're editing the compatibility list (or any other Google Docs page)? I'm logged in, but it shows me as anonymous, and I can't seem to be able to find the setting to change that.

 

[Baggins]

strang eno errors with mei eu mini snes and flashing

Right, whatever it is not effecting everyone. So it makes it harder to tell what is causing it... Slightly different models of UK systems out in the wild (from different sources)? Differences in computer hardware causing issues? .... cross contamination form previous hacked NES backups in the same files? (one person seems to think it works if they keep files form the NES and SNES in separate folders, rather than sharing the same HACKCHI folder). Who knows...?

It's weird enough that there seems to be people having success with games running on the mini, that others say 'doesn't work'.... SO there maybe many factors people aren't figuring into the equation.

 

[mattmanforever]

thats new and come with the borders and with 1.0 retroarch from cluster

Hopefully fixed in the next version.

 

[Sappoide]

Hi guys, I'm currently using Hakchi 2.20 and I'd like to update to the newest version.

Should I reflash the original kernel and delete all the games\cores added before updating? Thanks

 

[PPlays]

Hi guys, I'm currently using Hakchi 2.20 and I'd like to update to the newest version.

Should I reflash the original kernel and delete all the games\cores added before updating? Thanks

I would recommend that. There are different directories the new version writes to as opposed to the old version that could be causing people some errors. If you know what folder to put your original dump in though you can do that instead of reflashing it.