Adding games to your mini | hakchi2-CE Documentation

Adding a new game to your mini

1. Click ‘Add more games’

With hakchi started and connected. From the hakchi main screen: Click ‘Add more games’

2. Select your games

Browse your computer and select the game you would like to add and Click “Open”

Note: When selecting your game(s) you may select a single game by clicking on it, a group of games by holding shift while you click on the second game or individual games by holding CTRL while clicking on each game after the first.

The game will now be added to the “New apps” area of the “Current games collection:”

3. Click ‘Synchronize selected games’

Note: As of hakchi 3.8.0 a scraper has been added for NES, SNES and Sega. This will attempt to pull cover art and info from thegamesdb. If this fails, you wish to change it or you are using a system that doesn’t scrape you can follow the steps below..

Adding art

1. Select game and click “Artwork” tab

To add art to a single game, select the game and press the “Artwork” tab in the “Game options” area.

Button descriptions:
Default - Restores the default Images
Browse - Locate and use images located on your local computer
Google - Brings up a window of google images based on the game name
Spine - (Sega only) Opens the Spine generator window with a Google images window for spine art

2a. Add individual art from google image search

For our Sega Genesis Battletoads example we will click the “Google” Button.

Double click on the image you like and it will populate cover artwork.

Note: Spine art is only for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive.

Now we click on “Spine”, Select our spine art and style then Click “OK”

Now your artwork is complete!

2b. Adding art to multiple games from google image search

To add art to a multiple games, select the games you want to add art to, right click on one of them and select “Download box art for selected games”

Note: This will use the first google image result that is found based on the name. It also will not populate spine art for the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive. To add spine art refer to Step 2a

3. Click ‘Synchronize selected games with mini’

Now we add the game to the mini. Make sure the game(s) you want to add are checked in the “Current games collection” then click “Synchronize selected games with mini”.

You will see the uploading dialog box.

Then when it’s completed the “Upload games done” dialog box will appear.

Note: System game limits per folder. On the S/NES systems it is recommended to keep the number of items (games and folders) to 30 or less per screen / folder. Going beyond this may cause errors. On the SEGA system you may be able to go as high as 200 before you experience menu lag.

You are now ready to play your newly added game(s)!!!