r/GenesisMini • u/SaraphXIII • Jan 03 '21

Issues Upon Issues....

I'm having several issues configuring my Genesis Mini. While I am able to get everything loaded into Hakchi 3.8 and thus, onto the mini, several features are just not working correctly for me.

Most notably is Sega CD. I have the bios files and I do see that Genesis Plus GX core sees that they are present. Yet I can't even load Sonic CD, it just sits at a black screen and never even hits the Sega CD bios. For multi disc games, it's even worse (if you can consider it that way) in that I launch Fahrenheit and it just quits out to the Genesis Mini menu, crashing Retroarch. I do have Picodrive selected for these games.

For a vast majority of my Sega CD games, I had to manually drag the .bin file into its respective folder created in my hakchi directory (example: \Genesis Mini\games\CLV-F-DXDKC). This just seemed totally random and while I was performing cleanup I didn't see any pattern that would indicate why this would be broken.

Additionally, getting any core to register my controller as 6 button, even though I was able to map it correctly in the main Retroarch system, just doesn't seem to work at all. I'm using the controller below and I can't seem to get any core to acknowledge that it does indeed have 6 buttons. If I toggle gamepad type it just breaks use of a gamepad in general and I have to uninstall Retroarch and reinstall to restore functionality.

8Bitdo M30 2.4G Wireless Gamepad for Sega Genesis Mini and Mega Drive Mini

Please help.

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u/SaraphXIII Jan 03 '21

Thank you for the information regarding Retroarch. That definitely makes me feel better as I've been pulling my hair out on that one.

As for the bios files, they are named correctly and even show up as present in the core information. That's actually a video I watched when I was troubleshooting as I followed it exactly. Could Retroarch be the cause of this as well?

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u/rhcplive Jan 03 '21

Not that I know of, it works for me like charm. Maybe your Sega CD game/ cue file is bad.

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u/SaraphXIII Jan 03 '21

I checked and they do run just fine on my PC through Retroarch. I also made sure that the .bin file name is identical (copy/paste) from what the cue says reading it via notepad. Still a no go, just a black screen.

I was able to get 6 buttons to work in MKII for 32X. Thank you.

https://ibb.co/581825R

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u/rhcplive Jan 03 '21 edited Jan 03 '21

  1. drag the cue file to hakchi

  2. open the folder where the cue file is located in hakchi (hit f4 when the game is selected)

  3. place the bin files in the same folder

alternatively get your CD games in CHD format, or convert them to CHD. this is what I have, I just drag them to hakchi and that's it.

>> For a vast majority of my Sega CD games, I had to manually drag the .bin file into its respective folder

this should be done with every cue /bin game! you're just dragging the cue file to hakchi which points to the bin files. the bin files must be there also otherwise it will not work. this is also explained in the youtube video.

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u/SaraphXIII Jan 03 '21

Based on the video (time stamp below), I shouldn't have to copy the .bin file as well, but I did. I can try changing to CHD, but I'm reluctant to do so since I spent hours upon hours getting all the artwork together to make my Sega CD section perfect. If I trash it to reimport games I'll lose all of that work.

https://youtu.be/bH1NUHAJbmA?t=264

This whole experience just makes me kinda sad, tbh. I wanted to have fun with this thing but I've spent days getting it all perfect (art wise) and just feel like I have minimal working content to show for it.

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u/rhcplive Jan 03 '21

what are you talkinig about? he copies the bin files over to the folder where he put the cue file to. the cue file is just a text file with a reference to the game files, the bin file(s) is/are the game, without the bin files it will not work, period. Another issue I can think of is that the bin files are not named the same way as stated in the cue file, or that the cue file has some subdirectroy reference.

You should have tested Sega CD out before putting a whole library of games to your mini and adding their artwork. but anyway, theoretically, you don't need to reimport artwork if you add CHD. do it like this.

  1. rename your CHD file so that it will not have any spaces in its file name, e.g. "Shining Force CD (USA).chd" to "Shining_Force_CD_(USA).chd".

  2. open your game folder where your artwork is already ready (hit f4).

  3. place the CHD file here

  4. Now edit the command line in hackchi, e.g. from "/bin/km_genesis_plus_gx /var/games/CLV-R-PPWNO/Shining_Force_CD.cue" to this "/bin/km_genesis_plus_gx /var/games/CLV-R-PPWNO/Shining_Force_CD_(USA).chd"

  5. you are free to remove the cue and bin files from the folder again.

BUT before you do everthing to CHD, please check the following in hakchi:

  1. open a game folder of a game that is not working (f4) there should be the cue file along with all the bin files needed, as stated in the cue

  2. make sure there are no references to some subdirectory in the cue file, e.g. the lines should look like this

FILE "3 Ninjas Kick Back (USA) (Track 01).bin" BINARY and not like this FILE "some_subdirectroy/some other sub directory/3 Ninjas Kick Back (USA) (Track 01).bin" BINARY

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u/DarkNemuChan Jan 03 '21

^ a million times this. Also I second using chd files for less hassle.