SNES Mini hack tool Hackchi2 released, lets you add more games

SNES Mini hack tool Hackchi2 released, lets you add more games

By Gerald Lynch

It’s only been on store shelves for a little over a week, but the SNES Mini has already been fully hacked, letting brave owners load up their miniature consoles with a suite of additional games.

Now, before we go any further, it’s worth noting that the hack requires the use of ROMs, the legality of which is forever spoke of in shades of grey, while tinkering with the SNES Mini in this way will invalidate your warranty. So proceed at your own risk. But there’s been suggestion earlier that Nintendo itself is prepared for this to happen, and even added an Easter egg within the NAND.

But the Hackchi2 hacking tool, developed by hacker ClusterM, is a very simple piece of software to use, making it an approachable project for any SNES Mini owner.

Simple to use

Download the software from Github, and the Hackchi2 software will walk you through every step of the process – aside from how and where to acquire the additional ROM games.

Hackchi2 opens up the 300MB of internal storage of the SNES Mini, letting you use space that would be reserved for saved games to instead be filled with ROMs, automatically converted into a …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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