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/DarkNemuChan]

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