MAME game minimizing when playing 2 player with Hyperspin - SOLVED

[kahlid74]

I found a few posts in the wild about this and thought I would collapse them into one in case anyone else has this issue in the future.  The issue is when playing a 2 player game in MAME and player 2 hits buttons 2 and 3 simultaneously.  This is with default MAME keys.  Q and S are mapped as player 2 buttons 2/3 and when pressed together are also a AHK for Hyperspin called "exitscriptkey".  I found no reason to need the ExitScriptKey so I removed it from the AHK.

• Install Auto Hot Key onto the computer you are using for emulation (You need this because you have to recompile the AHK script
• Go to your root Hyperspin folder
• Find a file called HyperLaunch.ahk
• Right-Click the file and select Edit Script
• Notepad should open.  Click edit, and select search
• Search for exitscriptkey
• It will be found three times.  Each line it is found on you need to REM out.  To do this simply put a SEMI-COLON at the front of the line
• Now search for GET AND CHECK PATHS
• Look for emuPath := GetFullName(iniEmuPath)
• Change it to emuPath := iniEmuPath
• Look for romPath := GetFullName(iniRomPath)
• Change it to romPath := iniRomPath
• Save and close the file
• Right-Click on HyperLaunch.ahk and select Compile (NOTE - Compile may fail if you have launched a MAME game through Hyperspin.  Restart and do the above BEFORE running any games)

At this point you should be all set.  Q and S will no longer cause MAME to minimize and the error about / paths will also be resolved.

Credit -
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?10081-quot-Make-sure-your-paths-contain-a-backslash-on-the-end-quot-Help - POST #7
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?6321-NEED-HELP-How-to-edit-HyperLaunch-ahk-to-disable-quot-exitScriptKey-q-amp-s-quot - POST #6

[GWOZDZilla]

Thanks for doing the leg work and finding this info out. I'm going to try it when I get home from work tonight and report back with my results for anyone else that may stumble upon this post (I'm sure it will work, just wanted to give confirmation)

[somakurusu]

I cannot find that file to compile at all, I even redownloaded hyperlaunch and it still doesn't exist for me.  Please help, this really sucks that it crashes.