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lanman31337:

Can you put a space and another character, so that up arrow or I could be joystick up for player 1?  I too have a 4 player control panel and a huge schlong on my nose, so it would definitely help.

TheShaner:



DaveMMR:

I like Hyperspin. I used it for quite a while and even submitted a couple of themes for it (not the best but decent stopgap offerings). I may use it again. But I went back to Mala for a number of reasons:

1. Hyperspin needs a relatively beefy computer. The machine in my cab is not a slouch for basic MAME usage but chokes on the HS animations, transitions, etc. I turned off everything but it's still a little too slow and defeats the purpose.  Not the FE's fault - it works fine on my main computer. But I wasn't ready to upgrade the cabinet computer for the benefit of the frontend.

2. Mala is a bit more flexible than Hyperspin. Where Mala and HS share a similar feature, it seemed a bit easier to work it with the former. This may change with HS 2.0; we'll see.

3. Game lists. I never figured out a proper way of making a game list in HS - though I just used the "themes only" setting so that only themed games show up. For this reason, I think HS is much better with a smaller list of specific games.  I do tend to keep my list small but when I wanted to add that obscure gem, it's a lot more work than just "adding to list", unless I wanted a bunch of games with a generic theme (again, defeating the purpose).  

They're both great frontends - it just all boils downs to wants and needs.

MTPPC:

I think MALA works great. I had it on two machines, but when one started having focus problems, I jumped to hyperspin. I found that if you make HS jump to favorites straight off, it's much more usable.  Then If I want to go to the "all games list" I just hit the genres wheel and look for any games that aren't in favorites. If I like the game, I add it to favorites and the next time I start that emulator, it's there and I don't have to look around for it.

mhermann:

+1 for Hyperspin. I had no problems setting it up and configuring it. Any issues I had were specific to the emulator I was using. Looks the best in my opinion.

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