This turned out to be an incredibly smart decision as my Parallels experience has been INFINITELY better on my Mac than what slogging thru Virtual Box was like ( I still have 10 days left on my Parallels trial, but will probably upgrade when the time comes). Now, Parallels is not free like Virtual Box, but it does come with a 14-day free trial and Virtual Box worked so badly on my Mac I figured it was worth a go. #2 - When trying to get some help in a Project Lunar chatroom, someone had suggested ditching Virtual Box and instead using Parallels as my PC virtual machine. So, worst case scenario, I was back to where I started. Thankfully, Project Lunar was setup smart enough that I was able to restore my Mini back to its original factory settings.
I’m not sure the exact specifics, but it seems like it was connected to the fact that I am a Mac user and in order to hack my Sega Mini I needed to use a virtual machine to pretend that I was a PC and the recommended option in The Project Lunar tutorial was to use Virtual Box ( probably because it’s free) and Virtual Box ran EXTREMELY slow and choppy ( at least on my 2009 iMac) and I think I just wasn’t able to make/maintain a good enough connection in order to sync my Mini anymore. And every fix I would try got me nowhere.
#1 - I started off hacking my Sega Mini with the Project Lunar hack, and that went from working good enough to bump my Mini up from the original 42 games to 96… to something suddenly going wrong while trying to swap out some games and then all of the sudden I was back to only the original 42 games working. As promised, here’s the follow-up post about how/why. If you are one of the good folks who not only has signed up for The HI54 Monthly Sunday Mass Email newsletter at some point over the years + also aren’t one of those people who immediately unsubscribe whenever I send it out once a month - well, you possibly noticed that one of the ‘FIVE things FOR’ I mentioned this month was a blog post about how I hacked my Sega Mini to be able to add any Sega game I want AND how I also have since re-hacked my Sega Mini with a different hacking software since writing that original post.
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