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Hey everyone, my name is Anton from London, this is my first post and I'm very new to emulators! I saw a video of Hyperspin and I was blown away completely! So my first few questions are these,

1.I really want to run Hyperspin on my PC but I know my specs at this moment won't be able to handle it so what are the best specs to run it on?
2. I'm honestly thinking of having my own arcade cabinet with Hyperspin running it but again, I'm a complete newbie to this so would you say it wouldn't be worth doing for right now? Also by dong this can I continue to upgrade Hyperspin?

3.How hard is it to setup Hyperspin?

 

Well that's all I can think of right now but if I think of anything else, I will post.
Thanks everyone for your help so far!

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Those seem like pretty fair questions, I am also interested in hearing from someone about how hard it is to set up and maintain this.  I have looked at the project before but am just now starting down the road of actually making a cabinet.

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I just started working with Hyperspin and building my arcade cab on 2/08 this year. Before then I didn't have/use emulators and didn't even play PC games. I didn't even make my account here until 4/03 about a month before I finished the project. I just dove straight in, build a full blown Hyperspin arcade machine. 3 months later on 5/8/2015 I applied my finished graphics to my finished arcade machine.

Steep learning curve (and I'm still fine tuning things, working on it regularly and adding stuff) and a massive time-sink (and money sink)

Nearly every moment of my spare time during that 3 months I was either building something, painting something, photoshopping artwork or reading topics for hours upon hours figuring out what to do.

However I finished in a pretty short time frame. Many people have been slowly building theirs over years.

EDIT: Ah the PC. I don't know what is required to run Hyperspin, but I wanted to be able to run all the latest Arcade Cab friendly PC games too.

So I built: a mini ITX ASUS motherboard, i3 CPU, 8 gigs of really good ram, Windows 7 64 bit (seemed most recommended for a stable HS machine), AMD R9 280 graphics card, 1 1TB OS drive, 1-2TB rom drive. Altogether it ran me about $700 if I remember right and it can run the latest games at full settings (so far).

I'd recommend going 4TB's at a minimum though and you'll also need a backup system. I'm using a 5TB Seagate Backup drive, but I don't really recommend it. The UI is bad and it runs slow.

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I too highly reccommend that you watch and follow Simply Austins videos on youtube. Just remember Google is your friend :) - I have basically spent weeks/months planning the build of a bartop arcade machine and now decided to get the hard-drives built with emulators/roms before I dive into the construction of the unit.

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