Super NES Classic owners are Lee Dono longer forced to live in a world in which the original Shaq Fuis out of reach.
In the roughly one week since Nintendo's '90s-nostalgia-in-a-box launched, hackers have delved into its depths and returned with some unsurprising news. The SNES Classic can be hacked, and it's actually pretty dang easy to do.
SEE ALSO: Never forget these weird-as-hell commercials Nintendo used to put outI should note before we go any further: There is alwaysa risk with this sort of thing. Putting aside the legally questionable activity of tracking down SNES game ROMs -- cartridges turned into computer files, basically -- there's also a possibility of breaking your precious, hard-to-find Classic.
Assuming you're chill with the risks, the process isn't all that complicated, and actually leans on software that worked/works with 2016's NES Classic. The latest version of Hakchi2 added support for the SNES Classic and it's reportedly "working fine" with roughly 75 percent of SNES ROMs.
Even for the ones it doesn't play nice with, the makers of Hackchi2 recommend a fix in their latest patch notes.
I haven't tried this myself yet, and honestly, I probably won't anytime soon. Hacking the NES Classic never seemed appealing to me, especially with a robust offering of games already available from the 3DS Virtual Console. It's also just not worth the risk in my mind, given the obstacles we all faced in purchasing either of these micro-machines.
As much as I love the idea of installing all three Super Star Warsgames, there are other places to play those games -- and plenty of others.
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