Subj : Re: Nintendo Classic Mini consoles
To   : Warpslide
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Jun 24 2025 12:23:18

  Re: Re: Nintendo Classic Mini consoles
  By: Warpslide to Nightfox on Tue Jun 24 2025 02:38 pm

 Wa> We got an SNES mini & then I loaded up one of the Pi's I'm not using with
 Wa> RetroPie and loaded a bunch of ROMS from different systems on it.  We
 Wa> still have the SNES mini but it mostly sits there as decoration as we'll
 Wa> either play these on the Switch 2 or the RetroPie.

 Wa> I'm not sure I ever thought about hacking the SNES Mini, but now I'm
 Wa> intrigued. The RetroPie is kind of neat, but sometimes the Bluetooth
 Wa> controllers we use with it will just glitch or disconnect, which isn't
 Wa> something that happens when using it with a PC.

I'd thougbt about setting up a RetroPie, but I already have several different ways of running old console emulators, so I hadn't really looked into it too much.  But one of my other devices is a portable Pi-based handheld using a RetroFlag GPi 2 case and a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, and it's running Recalbox.  That was the default they recommended, and I've stuck with it.  I looked into possibly putting RetroPie on it, but I seem to remember reading that RetroPie can be a little finnicky.  And one thing that I think is nice about Nintendo's Classic Mini consoles is that it 'just works'.  And hacking it is pretty easy too, with the Hakchi software.  You can add more games fairly easily and it will do the configuration stuff for you (but you can still customize the emulator command lines if you want to, and you can even SSH and telnet to the device when it's plugged into your computer via USB).

Nightfox
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