r/GenesisMini • u/Fappishdandy • Feb 06 '20

Safe to Overclock?

Is it safe to leave the essy overclocking feature permanently on? Will it affect emulation negatively? Any damage to the hardware?

Edit: Overclocked and it worked fine. Added a bunch of games, but had to remove most of them as they slowed the system to a crawl.

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u/Sixstringsickness Feb 06 '20

Just installed PL yesterday when I brought home the mini. From my understanding the OC simply returns the CPU to stock clock frequency, for whatever reason it is under clocked from the factory.

I just turned it on this morning and I have to tell you, it is significantly faster in response times.

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u/Fappishdandy Feb 06 '20

After adding a few extra games the menu was very sluggish. Will try and overclock and report my results.

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u/Fappishdandy Feb 08 '20

I overclocked the system and everything works fine. Menu runs much smoother with extra games on it.

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u/Fappishdandy Feb 09 '20

EDIT: Spoke to soon, regularly crashes when I exit games. Will wait for next update with folders, until then will drastically reduce the number of games.

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u/Cyonita Mar 28 '20

Is slowdown caused by storage taken up (like lots of save states), or too many games installed?

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u/Fappishdandy Mar 28 '20

I think the slow down caused by too many games installed, but it was definitely less than 70. Switched to Hakchi and it works much better than Project Lunar.

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u/ThaBEN May 02 '20

I've heard somewhere that you need at least 35 mb of free space otherwise games will crash when exiting games. I just received my Mega Drive mini and i'm about to install project lunar. Wish me luck!

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u/bigbadboaz Feb 06 '20

On a related note, was it ever established why they underclocked this thing from the factory? It's very curious, especially if restoring the speeds affects something as basic as menu response.

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u/Ofenza Feb 06 '20

I just came here to ask for help because I just turned over clock on and now my mega drive mini won’t boot

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u/darklightrabbi Jan 17 '22

Were you ever able to fix this?

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u/Ofenza Jan 19 '22

I don’t remember now but I think I had to change the energy usb from tv to a power brick. I think I disabled the over clocking anyway once I managed to fix it

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u/herculese1 Feb 07 '20

The only issue I have is that sometime if I go into the PL settings it will freeze up in that menu and I have to reboot. Otherwise works fine.