The wild thing is that even thought there is not much internal memory included on the Sega Mini (it’s like 180mb total) - vintage games are actually super small file sizes in the modern era. I mean, 90s teenager me would’ve lost his shit to have access to this collection of games.
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search ‘sega roms reddit’) and you should find some threads/links that come with a bit more context on which sites you can probably trust.īy following that process, I think I found a good website for future downloading of individual games from any gaming platform ( which is another cool thing about Project Lunar, there’s the ability to play games from NES and SNES on your Sega Mini - but that requires some extra hacking so I’ve just stuck with Sega games for now) and I also found a thread that had a big ZIP file containing basically every game released on the Sega Genesis.Īnd since I had to wait a week for my Sega Mini to arrive in the mail, and because I could no longer do my usual watching of NBA highlights while I rode the exercise bike, I went on a deep dive of Sega videos on Youtube ( which is a whole world unto itself) and I slowly started putting together the list of games I was going to try to add to my Mini once it arrived.Īnd I gotta say, I think I narrowed it down to a pretty sweet collection of games.
So I will just pass on the advice that I saw someone else say, which was “just search ‘sega roms’ and you’ll be on your way” and then I would add-on my previously mentioned trick of adding ‘reddit’ on the end whatever you’re searching Google for ( ie. Which leads to the most obvious next question you’ll probably have after wrapping your head around how relatively easy it is to hack your Sega Mini: Where do I get the games to add once I’ve hacked in?Īnd the short answer to that is I can’t really say because I don’t want to be that guy that blows up anybody’s spot. I definitely lost an hour or so searching the internet for answers ( and, as is often the case with sneaky computer/internet stuff… I ended up finding the answer by including ‘reddit’ at the end of the questions I was Googling), but once I got over that hump it was pretty much as simple as just following the instructions and being a little bit patient.
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Since virutal-box-on-a-mac is the process I went through, I will just add that the one road block I ran into was ( besides the fact that Virtual Box ran slow as all hell for me) when The Project Lunar instructions say “your host operating system should detect a new device plugged into its USB port” my Mac wasn’t showing any new USB device being added in my Finder window, and that got me thinking that the microUSB cable I was trying wasn’t capable of data transfer ( some microUSB cables, including the one that comes with your Sega Mini, do not transfer data) - which got me trying that step over-and-over with every microUSB cable I could find in the flat.Įventually, I found a Reddit thread that linked to an article on how to hack the SNES classic and I was able to work out that just because my iMac isn’t registering that I plugged my Sega Mini into a USB drive on the Mac end, when I get to the ‘Activate the USB-Controller’ part of the Virtual Box setup instructions, my Sega Mini was actually showing up when hitting the ‘Add New USB’ button ( look for something called ‘Onda’).
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But if you’re like me and only have Apple computers, they also have some slightly more involved step-by-step written instructions on how to setup Virtual Box so you can pretend your Mac is a PC for hacking purposes. All you need to do is watch one tutorial video ( there’s a bunch out there if you want to watch more) and you’ll see that the whole process has been made pretty easy for you, regardless of your lack of hack skills - especially if you have a PC.
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