Gameboy, MegaDrive, SNES and More now playable on NES Mini, all thanks to MadMonkey, HaxChi2, and RetroArch!
If there was not a reason to look for the still hard to find NES (Mini) Classic Edition, now there is a reason, as RetroArch is working on the micro-console, giving you more than 30 old NES Games, infact you can now upload your ROMs for GameBoy, MegaDrive, SNES!
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We have reported on before the progress of hacking the NES Mini, and the fact you can upload as many NES ROMs as you want, but now even better news, you are no longer stuck just playing old NES games, you can now enjoy things like SNES, Gameboy, MegaDrive.
So, if someone is still interested in RetroArch, I've made a new pack (and removed the previous one from my Google Drive). Now the game ID is a little more meaningful (CLV-H-RARCH), and all RetroArch files are in /games/[Game ID]/libretro instead of /games/[Game ID]/etc/libretro.
Also I've added .desktop_temp file in the "game" folder and few lines to the init script that remove automatically generated .desktop file and replace it with the temp one. This is basically a quick hack meant to bypass Haxchi2's .desktop generation.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByJabzdhjqvQdC1aZ19NTWgzY1k
You can download other cores directly from LibRetro's BuildBot
How to use this:
Extract archive contents to Haxchi2 folder, agree to replace init file
Copy additional cores to games/CLV-H-RARCH/libretro/core (not necessary)
Copy ROMs to games/CLV-H-RARCH/libretro/roms
Open Haxchi2, enable RetroArch
If you need folders, clone and build Haxchi2 from GitHub, then make sure to enable "Settings -> "Pages/folders structure" -> "Custom - show Folders Manager every time"
Synchronize. Make sure to move RetroArch to the root folder if you enabled custom folders in the previous step.
That's it.
As always, thanks to madmonkey for the RetroArch binary and Cluster for a very convenient Haxchi2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj4_clJg_kA
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