Hakchi2 to “hack” the NES Mini: download and how it works

<br /><br /><br />The NES Classic Edition, more popularly known as the NES Mini, has been a huge sales success. So much so that the few units that have been manufactured fly off the shelves shortly after going on sale, as happened this morning with the stock Amazon restocked at the retail price of 59.99 euros. As good news for its buyers, a tool called Hakchi2 will let you "hack" the NES Mini and load your favorite games that weren't included with the console.<br /><br />This weekend we reported that the console had been "hacked", meaning that more games than those included by default could be loaded onto it, and there were already tutorials on how to do it, being a relatively simple process that allows you to add famous games from the original NES that weren't included in the NES Mini, since the console only includes 30.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To speed up the process and make it more accessible to all console owners, a user named Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión. This tool, which is basically a ROM manager, is a Windows program that lets you change practically any aspect of the console. Among them, we find:<br /><br />

• We can add games in .nes format, that is, any ROM compatible with the console.

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• We can change any game setting, and even the name of the company that made it, the release date...

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• Automatic cover art search so we can set whichever one we want for the game we add.

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• Hide the 30 original games included with the console to go straight to the new ones.

<br /><br />Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The program is compatible with Windows 7 and later, and requires .NET Framework 3.5 to be installed in order to run it. We have analyzed the program with Virustotal, and the scan came out completely clean (except for one false positive). In addition, you can check the program's source code at the link its creator has made available to users on Los enlaces son solo para miembros. Registrate o iniciá sesión.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Using it is really simple. We unzip the zip file we downloaded and run the .exe. At the bottom, in 'Add more games', we select the ROM in .nes format that we want and add it. Not all games are compatible, so we'll have to choose carefully. In my case, I tried Bomberman and the program raised no objections.<br /><br />Once we have added the games we want to load onto the NES Mini, we click on Synchronize selected games with NES Mini. We connect the console to the PC via USB while it is turned off. We hold down the console's reset button and flip the power switch. After a few seconds, we release the reset button, and the POWER LED should be off.<br /><br />If you still can't get hold of a NES Mini due to its limited stock, remember that when the NES Mini was announced, we made a comparison of what the console offered versus the possibilities offered by a Raspberry Pi 3 with RetroPie, with dozens of emulators and thousands of games available to the user for a price similar to that of the NES Mini.<br /><br /><br /><br />Source: adslzone.net