Alright, so my friend knows I’m into console “modding” and such, and asked me if he could get Battletoads on his NES Classic Mini.
I said, it’s decently involved, it will wipe everything, has the potential to brick it, and maybe not worth it for 1 game. He’s not the type to really care about authenticity (and it’s emulation anyway), so I suggested just to play it on the myriad of websites where you can emulate right out of a browser. I get that it’s not the best solution as they probably don’t have anything hooked to their TV that can do that (they’re apple-only users as well. That’s the other reason I didn’t think modding their console would be a good idea for them).
Am I thinking right or should I just flash it for him and see how it goes?
it’s called hakchi - i think you need windows to use it sadly. I wouldn’t risk doing it through a VM (did that once to update a mouse firmware and bricked it)
Oh, jesus fuck. I’m glad you said that. I’ve been spending the past 2 days trying to figure out how to update the firmware in my Magic NS adapter. It will not recognize it through the VM of Windows 10 I have. So I grabbed an old hard drive, small, and trying to just legit install a copy of Windows 10. Apperently I’m an idiot, and can’t even figure out how to get a USB stick, a legit copy of Windows 10, and figure out how to install it. I’m doing something wrong. I’ve tried Raspberri Pi imager, and Fedora Media Writer. Neither worked.
I’d have been pissed if I COULD get the program to work in a VM, and it bricked it.
I think if you use a better VM than virtualbox you may be OK, but I wouldn’t risk it. Booting into windows isn’t too bad once a year
I was using a program called “Boxes”.