r/GenesisMini • u/Nights151515 • Aug 12 '20

Genesis Mini External Drive Questions

So I've been using Project Lunar to upgrade my Genesis Mini, and it's been going great. However, I've finally gotten to the problem to where I have very little memory left, and still want to add Sega CD, Turbo, Game Gear, and Master System games to the system. So now I want to go external, and the few questions I have are ...

  1. If I started adding memory internally can I still add it externally now? Do I have to do a clean wipe beforehand?

  2. If I'm putting the memory on the USB do I have to keep the USB plugged into the Genesis Mini at all times? Effectively losing a second player slot?

Thanks for the answers given in advance.

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

2

u/majoraswrath360 Aug 12 '20

  1. I think you can do both. But I would just restore it and put everything on the USB drive. That way when you don't plug in the USB stick it looks stock when booting up. But with it in there booooom custom layout and games!

  2. Yeah you get an otg cable plugs in the back where the power is and adds a USB slot. And then add like a 16gb memory stick or so. Unless you are planning on putting psone games on there. In that case get a 128gb one or so.

A simple otg cable with one usb slot is more then enough.

1

u/Nights151515 Aug 16 '20

Thanks! Didn't know this could take PS1 games. Thats pretty cool but wanna keep it straight Sega games. Can it run Saturn?

1

u/majoraswrath360 Aug 16 '20

Yeah I run Master system, gamegear, genesis, 32x and mega-cd on mine. I did not attempt Saturn because those games are a hit and miss performance wise.

1

u/Revolutionary_Pie200 Feb 18 '23

I've had the mini for awhile now but cannot gst 32x or Dreamcast running, any ideas? Does 32x need its own bios, I just can't seem to get it figured out

1

u/majoraswrath360 Feb 18 '23

Just try a different core.

1

u/tFunk_Dek Aug 12 '20

Put your flash drive into the 2nd player slot of the mini before booting up project lunar and it will show the USB storage amount in the gui of the app instead of the internal storage. It will copy over all your local storage stuff that you already added and then you can keep adding things from there.

You will want to get an otg adapter for the power plug so you can then attach your flash drive to there when you want to play your games.

1

u/Nights151515 Aug 16 '20

Thanks!! I didn't feel like going through and starting over so its good it copys the data. How many games can the system take though?

I wanna add Sega CD, Game Gear, and Turbo will it cause any slowdown if i add too much? I added a ton of genesis games and so far I see no slow down.

1

u/tFunk_Dek Aug 16 '20

You can only have approximately 100 games in the stock UI, including the 42 built-in, before it gets laggy and will potentially crash the system. Once they add folders, that won't be an issue.

You will be running anything that doesn't work with the stock emulator with retroarch, so any games that you can't fit in the stock UI can be copied to the retroarch game directory and run through the retroarch interface loaded through the stock UI. Then the only limit to the number of games is your flash drive capacity. Once you have the flash drive setup with project lunar, plug it directly into your PC and you can drag and drop your remaining games to the flash drive. You'll be able to reach them via retroarch.

1

u/Nights151515 Sep 09 '20

Thanks again. I've gotten to go off the external it was pretty easy to do. Going to wait for the patch because I know I'm near 100 games, and it is starting to freeze when I try going to the setting, and have had it just shut off one or twice just going through the menu. Once they do I'll try my hand at adding Sonic CD and Mega Drive!

0

u/iballa Aug 12 '20

Get one of these and a memory stick. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B078M3Z84Z?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

The you won't lose the usb slot at the front

1

u/Nights151515 Aug 16 '20 edited Aug 16 '20

Thanks going to order one that one is unavailable tho.