Of course, comparing what a hacked Sega Mini can do to what an emulator program on a Mac can do is like comparing apples to grapes - and I love grapes, but if you were just looking for one solution to start playing old retro video games, and if you already have a Mac, I would say that maybe you don’t need to bother getting yourself a mini console to hack and you should just stick with your Apple. Also, organizing/sorting your video game library ( you can even give games star ratings) is a lot nicer & easier to do on OpenEmu when compared to Hakchi.

Same thing with all the Playstation games that wouldn’t work properly on the Sega Mini ( which was a lot of the sports games). So all those Nintendo 64 games that your little Sega Mini couldn’t handle, those now play pretty good on OpenEmu. The one major advantage to using OpenEmu to play retro video games on your Mac instead of on a hacked Sega Mini is that your Mac has a lot more processing power. The path I took to realizing I could just play any old retro video game, right here on my old 2009 iMac, was a bit more convoluted than it needed to be, BUT, hey, sometimes life is a bit more convoluted than it needs to be.įor example, it wasn’t until I won a flat screen tv while watching the 2020 Super Bowl at my local pub that I started thinking about maybe getting an old video game system to hook up to our first tv in years, which led to me discovering that they now make mini consoles that come loaded with a bunch of games, which led to me discovering that you could also hack those mini consoles to add any games you want, which led to me ordering a Sega Mini right before the global pandemic kicked in and we all went into quarantine mode, which led to me going deep into the rabbit holes of mini console hacking and retro video gaming Youtube, which led to me writing blog posts about how to hack a Sega Mini and creating lists of games that I find enjoyable to play as an old millennial in the 2020s.

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