Trying to put the finishing touches on my long overdue (4 year) arcade project.

[iamnaeth]

Hey guys n gals. Over the next month or so I'm trying to finally get my arcade up and running smoothly. About a year ago I got hyperspin and a ton of emulators up and running. Not all running smoothly, but well enough that I could have a few people over to play the arcade with some babysitting. I had people over for the SB yesterday and I spent more time that I wanted getting the front end and games working well together so I thought I'd ask you guys a few simple questions. I'm sure more will come over the next couple weeks but here are the first few.

• For some reason, when playing arcade games using Mame, the game will alt-tab back to the hyperspin front end leaving the game playing in the back ground. No combination of my P1 and P2 controls are alt-tab. They're all just regular keyboard letters. I have no clue what's going on here. It's not consistent, it seems random but my guess is the FE is pulling focus back somehow.
• My Nintendo emulator, Nestopia, will launch, then go back to hyperspin. When I launch a second time, it keeps focus on the game but then I have two instances of the game running.
  
• All my letters for quick jumping do not show up on my wheel. For example, I have B, C, but no A. Q,S,T but no R.
• Not hyperspin related but I can't figure this one out on Mame. For games that use a spinner or trackball. Let's say arkanoid. How can I make my spinner control the paddle? It says Mouse X but still isn't moving the paddle.

   

Let's start with that. Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide!

[lordnacho]

For the Hyperspin questions, I'd check what version of Hyperlaunch you are using.  And make sure all the autohotkey scripts are up to date. 

[Sparkolicious]

below is my response to another thread about the letters...


you can also go to the xml and edit it. I have had the same problem when using Hypersync to keep my setup up to date. Here's an example below. The bold parts are the parts to add if they don't exist.

<game name="88games" index="true" image="'"> 

The first title of each letter, number, symbol has to have index="true" and image="(corresponding letter/num/sym)" Some systems will not have a game for every letter and/or number, so I just went through and made sure that the ones that are there are indexed correctly.  Again.. only the FIRST game for each letter or number needs to be checked.

[Sparkolicious]

also for Hyperspin, browse their forums. I have been able to solve all of my issues just by searching. If there's an issue, someone has almost surely solved it.  Make sure you are using the latest .exe and modules. Also if you right click the individual .ahk's, and select edit, you can read the notes which are VERY helpful.  If you have more specifics with regard to what version you are running I can help, I have many hours in hyperspin builds over time, and I have some little tricks that I have stumbled on here and there.  I actually wish I would have created a log at thins point lol!

[iamnaeth]

Great, thanks for the feedback everyone.  I'll have a look tonight or tomorrow, try your fixes, do some searches and if I have any more questions, I'll fire em out!

[jammin0]

Hey guys n gals. Over the next month or so I'm trying to finally get my arcade up and running smoothly. About a year ago I got hyperspin and a ton of emulators up and running. Not all running smoothly, but well enough that I could have a few people over to play the arcade with some babysitting. I had people over for the SB yesterday and I spent more time that I wanted getting the front end and games working well together so I thought I'd ask you guys a few simple questions. I'm sure more will come over the next couple weeks but here are the first few.

• For some reason, when playing arcade games using Mame, the game will alt-tab back to the hyperspin front end leaving the game playing in the back ground. No combination of my P1 and P2 controls are alt-tab. They're all just regular keyboard letters. I have no clue what's going on here. It's not consistent, it seems random but my guess is the FE is pulling focus back somehow.
• My Nintendo emulator, Nestopia, will launch, then go back to hyperspin. When I launch a second time, it keeps focus on the game but then I have two instances of the game running.
  
• All my letters for quick jumping do not show up on my wheel. For example, I have B, C, but no A. Q,S,T but no R.
• Not hyperspin related but I can't figure this one out on Mame. For games that use a spinner or trackball. Let's say arkanoid. How can I make my spinner control the paddle? It says Mouse X but still isn't moving the paddle.

   

Let's start with that. Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide!

Sparkolicious helped me out on that Hyperspin literally days ago.  There is a checkbox in HyperHQ that says something like use XML index.  Uncheck that box and it will fix the skip to problem.  As for your other problem, do you happen to have joy2key running?  I have noticed problems like this when you have a Joysticks and joy2key running at the same time.  Try giving only player 1 control of the Hyperspin menus, I have noticed when both sets of controls are enabled and I get button smasher kids then I end up having erratic things happen with the background app coming forward.