RotDS v2.9.8 download

The fellow wrote me back, I'm not entirely sure what he's talking about as I've no experience with SNES Mini, but here's what he said he did:

"Ok so RotDS and Chrono FoE both work using the following cores that are obtained from the KMFD's mod hub (not the store)

Retro arch Extreme 175
Snes 9x 2005 Plus

These 2 cores are experimental but they are literally the only combo that allows me to play the game with perfect video and audio even the custom tracks in RotDS!"

I'm not familiar at all with changing the core emulator let alone understand it, I can ask him to elaborate on the process if need be.

I tried a few different things to get RotDS running on my SNES mini console and nothing worked.  I couldn't get the title screen to come up or anything.  Finally, I stumbled upon the Patton Plays YouTube channel, where Patton got BS Zelda running on the SNES mini by changing the emulator.  After some more digging though some of his video tutorials, I found what I was looking for and recalled the fellow that you mentioned who got this running.  I finally understand what the message from this contact of yours means.

The easiest way to do this is to migrate over to Hakchi CE.  The original version of Hakchi can do it, but you need to change things in the command line, and even though I did it just like Patton, it never worked for me.  In the following video Patton walks through how to either download Hakchi CE and get it running.  Or, if you have already used the original Hakchi, Hakchi2, how to revert stock and then change over to Hakchi CE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGGzAxYMrP8

Once this is done you will need to go to the go to Modules tab and then the KMFD mod store.  Once there, go to the KMFD RetroArch tab and download the latest version of RetroArch EXtreme.  I chose the 184 Ozone one, since it says that it focuses on stability and latency.  Once you do that you will need to get a core to work with it.  Following the suggestion from the fellow above, I went to the KMFD Cores tab and got the SNES 9x2005 plus core and downloaded that.  Now from the Hakchi main menu go to the Modules tab and select Install extra modules to flash those to your SNES mini. 

Load up your patched RotDS ROM on your SNES mini, as Patton walks you through in the video.  Now right click on the selected game and you can select to change the emulation core to SNES 9x2005 plus.  After you choose this you can click on View to sort the games by core to see that it did actually work.  By default any game that you add will use the Canoe emulator, which doesn't work for RotDS.

I ended up getting RotDS ver 2.0 working on the SNES mini, using this method.  For all of the BS Zelda games I did the same thing just with the SNES 9x2005 module, rather than the plus module, since Patton got them to run on that module.  On the NES classic I had issues with a couple of Zelda ROM Hacks running: Zelda - the Legend of Link and Legend of Zelda Challenge Outlands - Zed Edition.  I went through the same method with by downloading Retroarch Extreme 184 Ozone, but instead of the SNES 9x2005 (or plus) I downloaded the Nestopia core.  Those now work too.

All of the Metroid ROM Hacks on the NES mini worked on the default emulator and core (Canoe).  Also, the Super Metroid ROM Hacks all worked on the SNES mini with the default emulator and core.  It was just some of the Zelda games on each and RotDS on the SNES Mini.  Hopefully this will help others trying to play this game on the SNES Mini.  I can't wait to go through this ROM Hack.  It looks really cool.  But, the title screen comes up and everything looks and sounds great going through the intro.