- Nintendo just recently re-released
their Nintendo Entertainment System
and rebranded as the Nintendo Classic.
Now, it's been updated with an HDMI out
instead of those AV that used to have,
which I'm pretty sure nobody could use anymore,
different controller containers,
and then also they got rid of game cartridges,
which I'm kinda sad about
because there's something super nostalgic
about opening, the way the thing opened
and putting in the cartridge
and slamming it down.
And blowing in it because it wasn't working.
But it's fine.
I understand why they did it .
Then instead of game cartridges,
they actually have 30 of the popular Nintendo games
pre-installed.
Thing is, Nintendo essentially though
made a miniature Linux computer
that's running an emulator of their own games.
So it shouldn't be too hard to add more games to it, right?
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Thanks to some crafty developers on a game forum,
Mad Monkey and Cluster,
we now have a really simple GUI
that we can use to essentially just plug in the Nintendo,
flash a different kernel
and put on a bunch of different games.
Essentially, any games that you can find online
and there's a lot of places to find the games, online.
Now, quick disclaimer,
time.
Installing the software using this software is not illegal.
Hacking your Nintendo is not illegal.
But the ROMS, the games themselves,
which are not included with this program,
you have to go find them yourself,
those are probably under copyright law
and by doing this or loading any of those games,
you're doing so at your own risk.
If you're okay with that, to get started,
simply plug in the Classic via USB to your Windows computer.
It has to be a Windows computer
because the tool only works for Windows.
Then we're going to download the Hack G version two
from the developer's page that I've linked below
and save it to your desktop.
Extract the Hack G program
and open the .exe file that's inside.
Click 'Synchronize'
and when you do that,
it's gonna ask to first dump the original kernel image.
Now it needs this first off,
but then also it's going to use this
as a backup for your NES should anything go awry.
Click 'ok' and it'll give you some instructions.
Now basically you need to make sure
that the power button is off.
Plug in the NES to the computer
via the USB cable that came with it,
then hold the reset button and press the power button
while continuing to hold the rest button
and then let go of the reset button
as well after a few seconds.
Then on the computer,
it will have a button for click to install the drivers.
You're gonna click that.
Wait for it to do that
and then it'll automatically start
backing up the current kernel.
Once that's done, click 'Synchronize' again.
If it didn't automatically already start doing this for you
and it'll tell you that it needs to flash the custom kernel.
It should automatically start,
if you haven't unplugged the console.
If not though, unplug it,
turn the power off again,
plug it back in, hold reset,
push the power button again
and let go of reset after a few seconds
just like we did originally,
just to get it back into the mode it needs to be
and to start flashing the custom kernel.
When it recognizes that it's in that mode,
it'll automatically start
and you can click okay when it's done
and we can start loading games.
Now again,
the games themselves are something you're gonna have
to find on your own.
But you could google the words NES ROMs
and you're going to find a bunch of places that have it.
You need to find them and then when you have those,
simply download it in .zip format from that site
and save it to your computer.
You then click add games in the Hack G2 program
and select the zip file from your computer,
wherever you saved it and click 'Ok'.
It'll then show up as a selected game
in the selected games list.
You can continue to do this
until you have all the games that you want
and when ready, click 'Synchronize'
and wait for it to flash the Nintendo
with the new games installed.
You're gonna optionally also use the program
to put in the cover photos for the games
that'll show up in the Nintendo menu.
You'll then find all the games you selected
in the normal game menu.
Just keep in mind that it uses the same storage
for the games as it does for your saved files.
So don't install so many games that you can't save anymore.
To undo it all, follow the original steps of plugging it in
and holding your reset et cetera
and once it's recognized by the program,
click on kernel at the top and then flash original kernel
and wait for it to flash the kernel
that you originally dumped to be completely back to stock.
And there you go, more classic games
for your Nintendo Classic.
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