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Bender:
Hyper Spin too flashy, not finished
Maximus no U360 or LED blinky support
MaLa, ahhh, Just right
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--- Quote from: Bender on September 24, 2008, 12:55:38 pm ---Hyper Spin too flashy, not finished
Maximus no U360 or LED blinky support
MaLa, ahhh, Just right
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Pretty sure Game Ex does it all too. ;)
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--- Quote from: thatitalian on September 24, 2008, 06:06:25 am ---
--- Quote from: swaffar on September 24, 2008, 04:53:15 am ---Maximus is going in my all-in-one-cab-in-a-control-panel... hyperspin is just too flashy, too busy, and too much. it dazzles on first sight, but for everyday use, it's just plain unnecessary. even if they had themes for every game for every system i still wouldn't want to use it.
perhaps if i were putting my system on public display and trying to sell it, i'd use HSpin
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Isn't that half the fun? You want someone to go on it and say "Holy S**t!" and I think HS does that.
Don't get me wrong MA is very very good, is very user friendly and is very customisable. It becomes difficult to pick as if more themes were developed for MA then it would really rock!
However, I am still overly impressed with the feel and fun of HS
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Obviously mine! I kidd, but only a little. ;)
I've been working on my new C#/WPF/SQL Server FE for a while a while now and the first thing that came to mind when I saw HS was Holy S**t! also. Very GUIcally impressive.
Some of you may be saying SQL Server ::). The reasons are many fold.
1) Simplicity of all data access and manipulation. Believe me when I say, the amount of code is reduced drastically.
2) Everything is stored in one pot. Screenshots, game info, favorites, data, music tag info, lyrics and more.
3) SQL server compact edition will eventually (I hope) will be a part of the OS.
4) It's really fast bacause you can index whatever you want.
5) Easy to back it all up.
6) I got to play with the latest MS toys.
7) In terms of simplicity, it blows my old VB version out of the water (Except for the times when WPF gives me a hard time.
WPF kicks @SS!
I'll eventually post a video or something when the time is right. That time isn't now.
cadmium:
--- Quote from: Bender on September 24, 2008, 12:55:38 pm ---Hyper Spin too flashy, not finished
Maximus no U360 or LED blinky support
MaLa, ahhh, Just right
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To be fair, I have Maximus Arcade and 2 u360's which are handled just fine. MA can execute anything you want before during or after a game is launched, so that should work for LED Blinky too. Though I want to say that the developer is working on official LED blinky support for the next version.
RetroBorg:
I voted for HyperSpin, I think 3D Arcade is right up there though, but unfortunately I'm not clever enough to get it to do what I want it to do, so before HyperSpin came along I used MameWah but had tried out all the others.
I really like HyperSpin and sadly find myself enjoying the frontend more than the games at the moment. Since it's been released I've been pretty much addicted to making themes and have chalked up 18 themes so far, not bad for someone who's never made a skin for any frontend before. For those with basic photoshop skills it's really easy to make a theme especially now that HyperTheme has been released.
I don't really understand why people say it's any harder to navigate a large list in HyperSpin, it seems to me just as easy to navigate as MameWah.
I think the only reasonable reason for not liking HyperSpin would be that it currently doesn't have as many options as some other frontends right now and it doesn't have 6000 plus themes yet but it's only early days and it already has 245 Mame themes and it would seem that BadBoyBill is working around the clock adding features.
No doubt in about 6 months time the poll should be: Before HyperSpin came along which frontend did you use? ;D
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