I definitely lost an hour or so searching the internet for answers ( and, as is often the case with sneaky computer/internet stuff… I ended up finding the answer by including ‘reddit’ at the end of the questions I was Googling), but once I got over that hump it was pretty much as simple as just following the instructions and being a little bit patient.

Since virutal-box-on-a-mac is the process I went through, I will just add that the one road block I ran into was ( besides the fact that Virtual Box ran slow as all hell for me) when The Project Lunar instructions say “your host operating system should detect a new device plugged into its USB port” my Mac wasn’t showing any new USB device being added in my Finder window, and that got me thinking that the microUSB cable I was trying wasn’t capable of data transfer ( some microUSB cables, including the one that comes with your Sega Mini, do not transfer data) - which got me trying that step over-and-over with every microUSB cable I could find in the flat.Įventually, I found a Reddit thread that linked to an article on how to hack the SNES classic and I was able to work out that just because my iMac isn’t registering that I plugged my Sega Mini into a USB drive on the Mac end, when I get to the ‘Activate the USB-Controller’ part of the Virtual Box setup instructions, my Sega Mini was actually showing up when hitting the ‘Add New USB’ button ( look for something called ‘Onda’). But if you’re like me and only have Apple computers, they also have some slightly more involved step-by-step written instructions on how to setup Virtual Box so you can pretend your Mac is a PC for hacking purposes. All you need to do is watch one tutorial video ( there’s a bunch out there if you want to watch more) and you’ll see that the whole process has been made pretty easy for you, regardless of your lack of hack skills - especially if you have a PC.

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