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MALA vs Hyperspin
Mordwaffe:
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--- Quote from: TheShaner on June 08, 2012, 09:51:03 am ---Dazz, Im just looking for slick examples. No need to clarify slick, just shoot some winners my way.
Any timeframe on 2.0?
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This one is quickly becoming one of my favorites... Not sure if he's got it completed or not though.
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I like this layout; I have considered Hyperspin (have it downloaded) but I am not a huge fan of the GBs of movies; so seeing a setup that uses just box art is ideal to me. Is there instructions on setting it up like that? or a download for that theme?
wp34:
--- Quote from: Slippyblade on June 02, 2014, 09:05:20 pm ---I'm in the "I wanted to like HyperSpin, but couldn't" camp.
I *think* I DL'd all the parts I needed. There were so many links to so much crap, and there's basically nothing spelling out what part does what to who or for how many cookies it gets done. When I fired the .exe it ran and presented me with wheel after wheel of stuff that I didn't have and I could find no way to limit to what I DID have.
When I looked at Mala there was one zip that I DL'd and unzipped into a directory. Ran the .exe and it asked me some basic setup questions, then presented me with a simple and functional list of the stuff that I actually had. Making separate lists was simple. Even the layout editor that is included in the single zip file was easy to use and I had my first custom layout within an hour.
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This is exactly where I'm at. I can fire up HS and it does look more "modern" than Mala. But I can't for the life of me configure the menus. I'm leaning towards sticking with Mala.
What is funny is that I prefer just using the command line. The front-end is only for my family.
ChanceKJ:
I eventually switched to Maximus. Now I've got it in two builds and I'm not looking back. :D
Cryofax:
I use Hyperspin. It has a steep learning curve and several times I was ready to throw up my hands and walk away from it, but something kept compelling me to stick with it. I'm glad I did as I was able to build a nice global widescreen launcher that handles about 25 game systems + WMC + My recorded media (which I can access and view outside WMC) + Streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, HBOGo) all launchable and previewable inside Hyperspin.
I also spent quite a bit of time maximizing efficiency. Using a lot of tricks to get it run to smoothly and keeping CPU usage to a minimum. Still the whole thing at times does have a feeling of being in a state of chaos, as programmers seem to come and go, there are bugs to work around etc. The community around it is quite active but not always helpful with your problems. There will be a lot of researching, trial and error.
bulbousbeard:
I was so unimpressed by every frontend I tried (MALA and Hyperspin included) that I made my own. I couldn't even imagine going back to MALA or Hyperspin now.
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