hey guys Harrison here and the SNES mini is really really cool after
using it for a few weeks now it's pretty easy to understand why it's been so hard
to get a hold of one in fact I'd say it's only downside is that it only comes
with 21 games pre-installed on it and there's no official way to add extra
games to it luckily though there is an unofficial way to add some extra games
onto it and that's what we're gonna be looking at today as a warning before we
get started if you do make a mistake there is a possibility that you could
end up breaking your SNES Mini so make sure you're following along closely so
the first thing we need to do is download Hackchi which is the program
that's going to allow us to add those extra games to our SNES so just visit
the link in the video description and download the zip file and then extract
it you're also gonna need some SNES roms you'll have to find those for
yourself and they can come as either a .zip or .SMC file now we're gonna
start up the hackchi program select SNES from the menu and now we can
import the SNES roms that we want to add onto our SNES mini to do that just
press add more games and then choose the games that you want out onto your SNES
MINI Hackchi will process them and then add them to the queue now you'll see at
the bottom of Hackchi there's that little green bar that tells you how much space
you've used up most SNES minis have around 200 megabytes of free space so
make sure that you do not exceed that once you've imported all your roms
select them all and right-click and then press download boxart to have hackchi
automatically download the box covers for each game now we're almost ready to
upload the games to us SNES mini there's just one thing left what we're gonna do
is dump the kernel from our SNES mini this means that if anything was to go
wrong in the future we can basically factory reset our SNES mini so to do
that we're gonna go kernel dump kernel select yes and now we have to connect
the SNES mini into our PC so just plug it in with the micro USB cable that it
came with and make sure that it's turned off now we have to put our SNES
Mini into a sort of recovery mode so to do that make sure that the power switch
is turned off and then hold down the reset button on this SNES mini and
while you're still holding it down flick the power switch on keep holding the
reset button down for a few seconds and you'll see that the power light does not
come on and that means that it's been put into recovery mode back on our
computer now just press install driver and hackchi will install the driver that
we need to talk to the Snes mini then press enter and hackchi will
automatically start dumping the kernel now do not touch your snes mini while
this is happening don't even breathe on it seriously just keep your hands off
the snes mini whenever this green loading bar is on the screen because
these are the times that you can end up breaking your snes mini so give hackchi
a few seconds and it'll say that it's finished now I strongly suggest
that you save this file that it's created somewhere because if you do lose
this file and something goes wrong with your snes mini then you're in big
trouble so I just copied it to my Google Drive now we're almost ready to flash
the games onto our snes mini make sure your snes mini is still in that
recovery mode and then go back to hackchi and press that synchronize button
because this is the first time they were adding games to our snes mini
hackchi will tell us that we need to flash the custom kernel just press yes
and hackchi will automatically flash the kernel to our snes mini once it's
done press ok and then hackchi will flash those games to our snes mini
and that's all there really is to it if your unplug your snes mini from your
computer and reconnect it to your TV or monitor and power it up you should see
that a new folder has been created on your snes mini open up the folder and
inside you'll find all the games that you've added so open one up and give it
a try you'll find that it plays exactly like the games that came pre-installed
on our SNES mini they run perfectly and they even support the extra features
like savestates and if you want to add some more games to your snes mini it's even
easier the second time around just reconnect you snes mini to your PC make
sure it's switched on and then just add the extra games
to hackchi make sure to download the boxart like I forgot to and then press
synchronize don't touch anything and there you go that's all there really is
to it though so thanks for watching I hope you found this video useful and I'm
gonna have more videos on the snes meanie coming up in the future including
how to get Game Boy games on the sess mini so if you want to see those make
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awesome if you could let me know in the comments section some of your
recommendations for snes games that I should try out also don't forget to
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video