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The Super Nintendo Classic Edition has been hacked and Hacked to a point that you can apparently add new features So I found this on a website called ours technica comm written by Sam Mechelvic and Let's just get right into the article itself and what has happened with the SNES Classic Edition It says after guesses estimations in positive early results The Super NES Classic has emerged as a hackable little piece of gaming nostalgia and quite an easy one to hack at that This weekend saw the September device receive a simple exploit in the form of hack Che2 a Windows program designed by a Russian hacker who calls himself cluster M and among other things It allows fans to add far more games to the system than its default set of 21 If any of that sounds familiar as opposed to gibberish It's because the same program and hacker emerged shortly after the launch of the Linux powered NES classic Cluster M found a way to wrap the systems fell mode exploit in a tiny Windows gooey Which allows fans to use Windows Explorer menus to dump game ROMs emulator cores and even new art into their boxy Ode to the 80s Nintendo bliss Cluster M announced plans to repeat his trick well before the SNES classic landed in stores And his hacking hopes looked promising with the reveal courtesy of Eurogamer that the SNES classic has a near identical Chipset and board compared to the NES classic initial test of the fellow mode exploit Which requires booting into a telnet interface to talk to Nintendo's Linux box proved Promising and cluster M returned eight days after the system's launch with a new hack Che2 version which now works with either Nintendo classic system to use cluster M's updated program plug an SNES Classic into a Windows computer by using a standard micro USB cable Then run the hatchy to program while following all on-screen instructions Which include a few taps of buttons on the SNES classic This will back up your system's original state and then let you add new ROMs and other tweaks while showing how much on-board memory Remains free on your system The beauty of the NES classics hack is that the default NES emulator works with pretty much every NES game thrown at it The same cannot be said about the SNES classic as the Nintendo developed emulator Which appears to be superior to the one on the Wii U at least Chokes on a few more games in some cases That's due to a lack of support for certain custom chip implementations while others just glitch out in funky ways But even the NES classic didn't have a 100% success rate when added Unofficial ROMs and in very good news the SNES classic supports that system's same backup path Installed retro arc emulation cores fans have already confirmed that these support more SNES games Along with a variety of other classic consoles basically if an emulation scheme works on the NES classic It will also work on this one more Enterprising and hack g2 users can also add two interesting new tweaks to the SNES classic though These require some telnet Operations first users can now add custom background images Which fill out the rest of the 16 by 9 screen not filled up by the original games much smaller resolutions And the SNES classic only ships with a few of those and some of the ones made by the community including two collections shared at NeoGaff Already look better than Nintendo's offerings again That's obviously a personal opinion Even better the SNES classic had a tweaked scan line filter hidden inside of it Which can now be enabled with some command line editing based on my experience I would say this tricky update which adds horizontal scan lines when the filter is turned on is Worth the effort so I'll try to show some images of this while I'm talking about it But this is just crazy to me that This happened now obviously every device out there every video game specific device of you know included gets hacked, right? there's nothing that's really 100% uncrackable and The fact that it was using the exact same chipset as the NES classic really meant it wasn't gonna be that difficult to hack it Now obviously here at Nintendo Prime We're not you know people are being hey go hack your super NES classics and add ROMs to it and do this and do that because we don't believe necessarily and playing games illegally And I understand there's a lot of moral gray area When it comes to whether or not you should be allowed to emulate games and download ROMs and all that stuff But it's still really interesting just to hear that the SNES classic itself has been hacked and that they're able to do things I actually think personally when I get an SNES classic I might actually try the The editing of being able to add in the custom images for the background. I think that's a really cool thing I wish the SNES classic just supported that natively But you know with this hack I can do that and I also like the idea of the horizontal scan lines now Personally, I'm not gonna play with scan lines I'm a lot of times and I heard that the scan lines that are available on the system by default really aren't that great But apparently the horizontal scan lines are just a whole new level and are probably what should have been included You know by default in the system setting So those are two hacks that I'm really interested in and I I gotta say I'm quite surprised Nintendo usually creates systems that are extremely difficult to get into I mean the switch has been accessed by hackers for a long time But they still have not gained full access to every functionality on the system yet and it still might be another year or two before that happens if it ever does and It's interesting to see Nintendo release these cheaper products Intended for you know one purchase and you have a set limit of games no online connections It's interesting to see how easy it is to hack these devices. It definitely shows That maybe Nintendo just didn't care with these devices because they were cheaper We know that there were obviously hacking issues with older Nintendo devices that Nintendo has been trying to combat over The years and Nintendo has taken a strong stance against hacking I mean, they're even willing to pay people who discover hacks and exploits on their platforms I think it's like paying them up to twenty thousand dollars actually depending on what they discover And there are some hackers out there that have taken advantage of that program I mean if you're gonna hack a system you might as well get paid for figuring out how to hack the system And so Nintendo can patch it. I mean why not? It's more money than you're gonna get just releasing the hacks free online But obviously there's people that think things should be free should be hacked Should be able to do whatever you want and that's fine I'm not gonna, you know, judge you negatively if you decide to hack your system and add in more, you know ROMs and all that stuff, especially if you dump those ROMs yourself I obviously have no issue then But let's be honest most of you guys out there did not dump your own ROMs nor do you even know how to do that It's a little bit of a complicated process depending on which platform you're talking about, but yeah, I'm I'm just extremely excited That this happened I'm interested to see if there's anything else the hacking community can do with it And this is obviously a nice reminder that yes hackers are still constantly working on the Nintendo switch and we'll see Whatever comes from it. I still remember the only hack I ever took advantage of our own Nintendo system was back On the Wii I remember when that got hacked and adding the homebrew channel I did that and it was very interesting seeing all the additional functionality features games and all that stuff that you could play Thanks to the homebrew stuff I'm actually kind of curious Just from an outsider's perspective not that I think you know I don't want these systems to be hacked But if they are going to be hacked I'm always interested in what we can find out and what can be done with the system that maybe Nintendo themselves Isn't going to do but yeah Kind of cool for those interested if you have an SNES classic awesome If you don't have one as I've said in the past be patient. There are more shipments coming They should be a larger shipments than the NES classic. 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