[Help me] With Hakchi on my Sega Mega Drive Mini

[Octopolus]

i hope this is the right place for this thread ☺️

so i managed to finally get hakchi to work. thank god for my laptop!

i began with uninstalling an outdated avira antivirus on my laptop, disabled both windows firewall and antivirus and i also found some included vpn on my windows there, it didnt look active but i unckecked the 2 alternatives it had just to be sure it was really not active. then i downloaded and ran hkachi(version 3.7 because thats the one they use in all guides), plugged in my sega according to the instruction and after some minutes i got the install success icon and the green icon instead of the red one 😀 

i first tried this on my normal pc and did the exact same thing (disabled antivirus and firewall) but i do have a free vpn installed but it was not on at the time, but maybe its enough that you have an installed vpn on your pc for hkachi to not be able to install? because it didnt work for me.

anyway, so i added my roms (nhl and other games) and even retroarch with the sega gx core (or something like that) and those games work fine. i discovered same problem like other people when i played my nhl-games but i followed their advice about using retroarch for these games and that made them work 👍

the only problem now is that i couldnt download the artwork for my games. "no info found" or something like that.

this is an interesting thing: i tried to plug in my sega to my regular pc instead of the laptop.

first i got this https://imgur.com/a/LmlgvFv i dont know if its safe to do what is says so i skipped it for now, what do you think, can i do that? or can that mess things up? on my pc i have updated to the latest version of hakchi so thats probably why i get this message. couse the games i added using hakchi on my laptop are not there when i use hakchi on the pc. however, i just tried to add another game to it on the hakchi on my pc and the artwork showed up without me searching for it and when i searched for it i got that same message again "no info was found". i didnt add that game.

strange things here but i can play my games thats the important thing and i dont wanna mess it up.

any suggestions? i really would like google to do the job and find the artwork for my games and i know it should work.

 

Edited August 23, 2025 by Octopolus