The rare NES Classic Edition has been hacked to play games from other consoles.
Hackers just can't get their hands off the mini NES Classic and they keep giving people more reasons to want one. The latest and probably the best reason so far is that owners can now play games from the Super NES, GameBoy, and Sega Genesis consoles.
According to Nintendo Life, the modders utilized emulation hardware to achieve the feat. The playability of the games from the three consoles on the NES Classic was made possible using RetroArch, a program that could emulate the said consoles. It's not perfect in terms of user interface plus there were moments that the games seemed choppy. I other instances, the games seem to slow down every now and then.
Because of hackers, the supposed pre-installed 30-game limit of the mini NES' library grew to 60 and later to around 90 titles. Eventually, someone figured out how to put 600 games into the retro console using ROMs. Just late last month a hacker who goes by TootyUK was able to download the entire 700-game line-up of the NES and FamiCom consoles.
Another modder turned a FamiCom Mini into a GameBoy version of the Japanese take on the mini NES Classic. But perhaps one of the best things that came about from all the hacking and modding of the NES Classic, however, is the discovery of a hidden message inside the console. The message from the Hanafuda Captian was directed to hackers indicating that the company fully expected this to happen. One could also easily assume that Nintendo intended the NES Classic to be hack-able.
Since there is no more NES game to add to the mini NES, hackers trained their sights on other consoles particularly the SNES, GameBoy and Sega Genesis also known as the Mega Drive. But as Digital Trends pointed out, the legality of such actions is still questioned despite the impressive work the hackers put in.
