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OldSNES: SNES Virtual Console for Old 3DS users

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OldSNES: SNES VC for Old 3DS users

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Create a folder for each game on the input folder (Earthbound, for example).
  • Put your SNES rom on this folder.
  • Put an icon image on this folder and rename it icon.png or icon.jpg. This can be whatever image you want for the home menu icon (a screenshot, for example).
  • Run make_blarg.bat for blargSNES and make_snes9x.bat for Snes9x.
  • Type in the game's title, description (optional), publisher, product code (SNS-MW-USA, for example), and unique id (whatever you want from 00000 to fffff).
  • Install the generated CIA file.
  • Enjoy.

Note: If you don't provide an icon image, banner.png/banner.jpg will be used for the icon instead.

CUSTOM BANNER (OPTIONAL):

  • Before you begin make sure your screen resolution is 1366x768, otherwise the automatic banner generation will not work.
  • Put a screenshot of the game on the folder you created for the game, and rename it banner.png or banner.jpg.
  • OPTIONAL: Put a box art or cartridge label image of the game on the folder you created for the game, and rename it label.png or label.jpg.
  • Run banner.bat.
  • Type in the game's title and release year.
  • OPTIONAL: Type in the virtual console's title (the title that will be appear on the banner).
  • OPTIONAL: Set the banner text's font size, number of lines, letter spacing and word spacing. Leave it blank to use default values.
  • Press Enter then DO NOT touch anything, just wait until it's done.

CUSTOM BORDERS AND CONFIG OVERRIDE (OPTIONAL, BLARGSNES ONLY):

  • Put your border on the folder you created for the game. It can be named whatever you want, as long as it is a .bmp image file.
  • Go to config folder and select a config template.
    • Mode7: activate Mode 7 filtering.
    • Normal: normal template.
    • Borders: sets scaling to 1:1 so you can use a custom border.
    • Fullscreen: sets scaling to fullscreen.
  • Copy the config template to the folder you created for the game.

Note: You need to use the "borders" config template if using custom borders.

UPDATING EXISTING CIAS:

  • Put all of yours cias inside the cia folder (keep a backup of them just in case something goes wrong).
  • Run update_blarg.bat for blargSNES and update_snes9x.bat for Snes9x.
  • OPTIONAL: If you want to add or replace files, put them into the folder you created for the game, then confirm when prompted to "include or update any extra files".
  • OPTIONAL: If you want to delete existing files, go to the romfs folder and delete whichever file(s) you want. DO NOT DELETE ROM.SMC.

Credits:

  • StapleButter and DiscostewSM for blargSNES.
  • bubble2k16 for Snes9x 3DS.
  • Asia81 for the SNES VC banner template.