Author Topic: Cant take HS's setup anymore..other front ends with video snaps?? (Read 6930 times)

willybeamish · « **on:** February 25, 2013, 01:58:04 pm »

So im getting to the point where Id prefer not to spend the next 4 months configuring Hyperspin..it is beautiful dont get me wrong..but for me not worth the aggravation. So what would be a easier front end that still utilize's video snaps???

gonzo90017 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:04:21 pm »

Mamewah. Not as flashy as HS but very powerful and get's the job done.

yotsuya · « **Reply #2 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:08:31 pm »

What issues are you having with HS? I've found it to be pretty easy if you take the time to do it right.

willybeamish · « **Reply #3 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:14:47 pm »

Quote from: yotsuya on February 25, 2013, 02:08:31 pm

What issues are you having with HS? I've found it to be pretty easy if you take the time to do it right.

Mainly just matching up the roms with the xmls mostly with Mame only, I got the right sets but still seems like more than half of the wheel rom names dont work. Id rather have 200 working names listed than 8000 non working ones. I got everything else to work thou with nes,sega,snes, and N64

yotsuya · « **Reply #4 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:17:13 pm »

Quote from: willybeamish on February 25, 2013, 02:14:47 pm

Quote from: yotsuya on February 25, 2013, 02:08:31 pm
What issues are you having with HS? I've found it to be pretty easy if you take the time to do it right.

Mainly just matching up the roms with the xmls mostly with Mame only, I got the right sets but still seems like more than half of the wheel rom names dont work. Id rather have 200 working names listed than 8000 non working ones. I got everything else to work thou with nes,sega,snes, and N64

I set mine preferences to Wheel Only or Theme Only, and that weeds out a lot of the issues.

willybeamish · « **Reply #5 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:20:49 pm »

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I set mine preferences to Wheel Only or Theme Only, and that weeds out a lot of the issues.

Are you talking about in the HQ settings??

yotsuya · « **Reply #6 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:26:08 pm »

Yeah. I bought a Gold Membership, downloaded complete theme and wheel sets, and went from there. Honestly, "Theme Only" is the best setting.

willybeamish · « **Reply #7 on:** February 25, 2013, 02:44:04 pm »

Quote from: yotsuya on February 25, 2013, 02:26:08 pm

Yeah. I bought a Gold Membership, downloaded complete theme and wheel sets, and went from there. Honestly, "Theme Only" is the best setting.

Im very close to buying the gold membership and emumovie snaps but I wanted to get a good grasp on the Mame roms. I never played around with the mame wheel settings when i go home ill give it a go and see what it looks like.

yotsuya · « **Reply #8 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:08:46 pm »

Try it. If you have any questions, shoot me a PM or a message here.

willybeamish · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:09:53 pm »

Will do appreciate it..ill put em up here to benefit any other noobs

lordnacho · « **Reply #10 on:** February 25, 2013, 03:13:22 pm »

Did the same. But then to further filter it down, you can use the built in favorites functionality. I took the top 100 lists off of hyperlist, those are xml files, so I opened them in excel, took the romname out and put them into favorites.txt
Think I did this for most of the system I use.

I could provide these if you want instead

Paul Olson · « **Reply #11 on:** February 25, 2013, 07:31:53 pm »

If you don't pay for the gold membership at Hyperspin and the emumovies subscription, I agree that it is hard to use. Once you pay for both of those, it is a lot better.

Otherwise, Mala will work well with video.

willybeamish · « **Reply #12 on:** February 25, 2013, 08:11:22 pm »

Quote from: Paul Olson on February 25, 2013, 07:31:53 pm

If you don't pay for the gold membership at Hyperspin and the emumovies subscription, I agree that it is hard to use. Once you pay for both of those, it is a lot better.

Otherwise, Mala will work well with video.

and that's the thing I got no problem paying for the membership it's just that if I can set this thing up the way I want it with roms.. I I don't really see a point spending money on video clips. I'm sure most of my problems all due to my own lack of knowledge but the issue for me is all those awesome third party apps out there for changing the ROM list and also modifying the XML file doesn't have any instructions. It seems like everybody already knows exactly what to do but nobody's giving a step by step really.

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #13 on:** February 25, 2013, 10:05:50 pm »

Man.. I have several emu's setup in hyperspin. EVERY question that I have had was answered by searching those forums. MAME setup is really easy, and with hypersync, you can download XML, themes, artwork, and vids automatically... just click the sync button and eat a sandwich. If you are having trouble all you have to do is read.. everything you need is right there for the taking, and that includes some of the more difficult systems. NO FE is magic. Just invest a little time. Literally.. MAME only should take you a few minutes to get ready to roll.

willybeamish · « **Reply #14 on:** February 25, 2013, 11:15:36 pm »

I dont know what happened but I had to reboot my pc and now everything seems to be loading great with Dr Nicks xml. Im currently attempting to figure out how to get mame to see my tankstick trackball for games like golden tee and what not, I was reading about changing something in the Mame.ini which I dont have and am having problems creating it. I believe because its not in the right directory so im moving everything over and im gonna try making that ini file. After really using this thing im thinking I need to max out my ram on this thing lol. I might of overreactted Idk what happened but it seems much better now. Ive been picking games I know well play and adding them to the favorites list too which I think will help out greatly. I noticed on a few games when hitting two buttons at once it kicks me out of mame..so I need to figure out whats happening there.

Drnick · « **Reply #15 on:** February 26, 2013, 02:12:31 pm »

Quote from: willybeamish on February 25, 2013, 11:15:36 pm

I dont know what happened but I had to reboot my pc and now everything seems to be loading great with Dr Nicks xml. Im currently attempting to figure out how to get mame to see my tankstick trackball for games like golden tee and what not, I was reading about changing something in the Mame.ini which I dont have and am having problems creating it. I believe because its not in the right directory so im moving everything over and im gonna try making that ini file. After really using this thing im thinking I need to max out my ram on this thing lol. I might of overreactted Idk what happened but it seems much better now. Ive been picking games I know well play and adding them to the favorites list too which I think will help out greatly. I noticed on a few games when hitting two buttons at once it kicks me out of mame..so I need to figure out whats happening there.

Turn off Hyperlaunch for the mame wheel. With any luck that should stop the exiting issue. Chances are you are somehow sending the exit command. Are you using an Ipac with default settings?

Glad to see the XML helped you out.

As for the ini file you need to run a cmd prompt,
Click start, Run, type in CMD and then click ok.
type X: and press return (Where X=whichever drive letter mame is installed on)
then go to the folder mame is in. this is done by using CD\XXXX then press return. (Where xxxx = folder location, ie Hyperspin\emulators\mame
You then type mame -cc hit return and this should create the ini file.
Type exit and press return to close the open cmd prompt window.

You should now have a mame.ini file which you can edit using notepad.

Make sure that the mame.ini file has the correct rom path before anything else

I spent ages wondering what was wrong with mine once.

Paul Olson · « **Reply #16 on:** February 26, 2013, 02:33:58 pm »

Quote from: willybeamish on February 25, 2013, 08:11:22 pm

Quote from: Paul Olson on February 25, 2013, 07:31:53 pm
If you don't pay for the gold membership at Hyperspin and the emumovies subscription, I agree that it is hard to use. Once you pay for both of those, it is a lot better.

Otherwise, Mala will work well with video.
and that's the thing I got no problem paying for the membership it's just that if I can set this thing up the way I want it with roms.. I I don't really see a point spending money on video clips. I'm sure most of my problems all due to my own lack of knowledge but the issue for me is all those awesome third party apps out there for changing the ROM list and also modifying the XML file doesn't have any instructions. It seems like everybody already knows exactly what to do but nobody's giving a step by step really.

It just takes a lot of reading. I can get around all of this stuff fairly well now, but I have probably spent 1000 hours reading and setting stuff up over the last 10 years. I still have to search and read about new stuff regularly. The problem with a step by step guide is that everyone wants to do things differently. Between this site, and the hyperspin forum, the info is there. It just takes time to find it sometimes.

On the video snaps, you are probably fine with the free ones if you are using a standard res arcade monitor. If you are using an LCD, the higher resolution of the paid ones will be well worth it (I think it is $60 for a lifetime membership). The gold membership at hyperspin also gives you access to more artwork and themes. I refused to pay for these for years, and never used HS because of it. Now that I have both of those memberships, I am really enjoying HS. I am using a big LCD TV now though, so that was the reason for the change. On an arcade monitor I was very happy with MALA and the low res video snaps.

On the MAME.ini question, once you have it created as outlined in the above post, find the controller section, and change trackball (and dial and anything else that uses an optical encoder) from keyboard to mouse.

willybeamish · « **Reply #17 on:** February 26, 2013, 10:16:56 pm »

So a few hours ago I took the plunge and bought a platinum membership for Hyperspin. Now I immediatly got the FTP info and that works fine however im lazy and wanted to try to use Hypersync. And dammit its not syncing

I made sure I had installed Net 4 framework. Ah well the fun continues.

Drnick · « **Reply #18 on:** February 27, 2013, 01:31:49 pm »

Did you get it all sorted out in the end? I haven't tried Hypersync yet as my machine is still in pieces undergoing renovations

willybeamish · « **Reply #19 on:** February 27, 2013, 01:54:10 pm »

Quote from: Drnick on February 27, 2013, 01:31:49 pm

Did you get it all sorted out in the end? I haven't tried Hypersync yet as my machine is still in pieces undergoing renovations

No hypersync yet..I tried this mourning and it didn't work. Idk if its a network issue or something blocking it from going out. I've sent a pm to badboybilly and made a post about it not connecting..not sure what it is since I'm not getting a error.

Drnick · « **Reply #20 on:** February 27, 2013, 02:12:44 pm »

Have you got a subscription at emumovies? I think that Hypersync may not work without it. If you have that then BBB will be the one to advise best.

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #21 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:30:12 pm »

did you set up your accounts in hypersync? both hyperspin and emumovies? read this http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?19658-HyperSync-Technical-Support if you think you have dot net4 install it again using the links in the thread and then restart your computer.

wp34 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:42:48 pm »

Do you need to have a Platinum membership to use Hypersync? I was thinking about getting a Gold membership but would also like to try Hypersync.

willybeamish · « **Reply #23 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:54:09 pm »

Quote from: wp34 on February 27, 2013, 09:42:48 pm

Do you need to have a Platinum membership to use Hypersync? I was thinking about getting a Gold membership but would also like to try Hypersync.

I think Gold will only give you access to all the media files via FTP but you have to manually insert them into the correct folders and to be honest its not that hard. Plat will give u the ability to use Hypersync and I gotta say at this point for me at least it wasnt worth it (only saying this because Hypersync doesnt work and Ive tried the one thing everyone recommends reinstall net framework 4.) It would also sync up Video snaps but again nothings working right now for me at least.

willybeamish · « **Reply #24 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:55:55 pm »

Quote from: Sparkolicious on February 27, 2013, 09:30:12 pm

did you set up your accounts in hypersync? both hyperspin and emumovies? read this http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?19658-HyperSync-Technical-Support if you think you have dot net4 install it again using the links in the thread and then restart your computer.

I dont have a paid account yet at Emumovies but I would do it as soon as I figure out whats up with Hypersync, figure I should be able to sync some simple artwork first before taking that plunge..I suppose if Emumovies gives me access to folders via FTP and all I have to do put them in the right directory then whatever ill do it.

willybeamish · « **Reply #25 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:56:29 pm »

Quote from: Drnick on February 27, 2013, 02:12:44 pm

Have you got a subscription at emumovies? I think that Hypersync may not work without it. If you have that then BBB will be the one to advise best.

Yeah I PMed him yesterday about it and havent heard back from him yet so IDK maybe hes busy

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #26 on:** February 28, 2013, 10:51:18 pm »

you need an account at emumovies.. as far as I know Rain, the author of the above linked thread is the person you should be asking about Hypersync.. or.. better yet.. read the thread! Today I took a brand new computer.. downloaded hyperspin... 1.3 update and hyper launch2.25c.. put it in the proper place, and had NES, SNES, Gensis, master system, 32x, sega cd, turbo grafx 16, game boy, and gameboy advanced ready to run in 30 minutes. Most of that time was spent moving files around. This is NOT complicated, you just have to dig a little. Platinum membership is required to use Hypersync. Once you get it working it will sync EVERYTHING. All you have to do is link your systems and select what you do, and do not want synced. That's it! Walk away and let it work.. when you come back all of your artwork and videos will be there.

I want to help you get past the hump, because I like the FE, and I really think it isn't too terribly difficult, but man you HAVE to READ the tuts. A lot of people have spent a decent amount of time spelling things out in great detail. Now with hyperlaunch2.25c, all you have to do is download modules, rename them, and roll!! No script editing! Each module has instructions.

willybeamish · « **Reply #27 on:** February 28, 2013, 11:03:09 pm »

I hear u man its a great front end. Im cool with it the way it is for now. I haven't heard back from rain but so far..

-Platinum account for HS..got it logged in
-I logged into emu movies with hypersync but I dont have the membership just standard account but I dont think would cause it would it..
-.net 4 framework installed got it

Not sure what else I'm missing

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #28 on:** March 01, 2013, 09:45:05 am »

you need to sign up for membership at emumovies... I did the lifetime, but you can do one year.

willybeamish · « **Reply #29 on:** March 01, 2013, 10:05:14 am »

So you think that maybe not having a paid membership might throw it off?? for Emumovies

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #30 on:** March 01, 2013, 11:05:37 am »

jackhammerslam · « **Reply #31 on:** March 01, 2013, 06:43:14 pm »

Willy, don't sell hyperspin short yet

willybeamish · « **Reply #32 on:** March 01, 2013, 06:47:38 pm »

Quote from: Sparkolicious on March 01, 2013, 09:45:05 am

you need to sign up for membership at emumovies... I did the lifetime, but you can do one year.

I signed up for emumovies and still no go..I've been using ftpto grab videos..so I'm doing it manually not too bad thou

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #33 on:** March 04, 2013, 09:53:58 am »

Exactly what error are you getting, and when? Are you able to log on to your accounts at least?

willybeamish · « **Reply #34 on:** March 04, 2013, 10:14:46 am »

Quote from: Sparkolicious on March 04, 2013, 09:53:58 am

Exactly what error are you getting, and when? Are you able to log on to your accounts at least?

I was able to log in and I got it working. I ended up deleting all the hypersync stuff and put it in the Hyperspin folder instead of the C: root folder. Everything is working great so far. Wish there was game themes for NES but oh well.

Sparkolicious · « **Reply #35 on:** March 04, 2013, 11:26:19 am »

Start making some!

deadpool18 · « **Reply #36 on:** March 09, 2013, 08:27:48 am »

GameEx works great with emumovies and video snaps. It might be a nice alternative if you give up on Hyperspin.


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