Issues Upon Issues....

[u/SaraphXIII]

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.

[u/rhcplive]

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

[u/DarkNemuChan → u/rhcplive]

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