A few years ago I purchased an NES Classic for myself. I’ve been playing these Nintendo games since childhood, but when I saw this little device come out, with the original style game controller, I just had to have it. Call me nostalgic, I guess.
The NES Classic comes with a selection of games chosen by Nintendo, some of which you might not care for. That’s where a tool like Hakchi comes in.
I used this app to remove some of the games I wasn’t interested in and kept only the ones I wanted. Hakchi modifies your NES Classic system, so you have to be careful. I know some people add other games using this app, but I don’t have much experience with ROMs and that kind of thing.
Hakchi also has useful sorting features for your games. For instance, you can organize them by console type, first name, and other options if you have games from other consoles.
I wanted to put all my games on the top level menu so they would all be listed by default and I could just scroll through and play them. However, my list of games was too big and this caused problems.
I got an error called the “C8 Error” every time I shut down the device. It wouldn’t shut down properly and needed manual intervention.
After some research, I found out that the problem was having too many games on the root menu without organizing them into folders. If the main menu has too many items, the system crashes on shutdown.
I’m not sure what the maximum number of games is before this happens, but I decided to sort them by first name instead. Now I have a series of folders starting with A, B, C, and so on.
It’s not exactly what I wanted to do, but this fixed the C8 error. Another option might be to delete any games you don’t use and see if that helps, but sorting was quicker for me at the time.
I thought I’d share this info since it took me some time to track down the meaning of the error code.
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