ryguy55 Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 Hi everyone, I'm running SNES and Genesis through HyperSpin and had everything working fine with the default Hyperlist XMLs. Tonight I decided to make more selective XMLs by taking two "Top 100" lists that someone else created and tweaking them slightly myself. The problem is, when I open the XMLs, the <exe> line for every game is set to a unique system name that the original XML creator made, rather than just "Sega Genesis," and as such, HyperSpin can't launch the games. I was searching around and messing with Don's Tools but couldn't find a way to easily change the <exe> line in the XML from a unique name to the name of the system it's being used with. Thanks in advance for the help!
Aorin Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 You can leave only roms that you want in your Genesis/SNES folders, once they're all filtered (i.e. removed those games you don't want in your database), you can crop your database with Hyperchecker (Hyperspin rom & Media Manager), there you can crop it easily pressing "Crop XML to only found games", done.
ryguy55 Posted July 23, 2015 Author Posted July 23, 2015 Thanks for the quick response! I was hoping there would be a less time consuming way than weeding through all 125 some-odd games for every system and moving files around, though. I'm absolutely not dismissing your method, I just figured that since Don's Tools has a way to filter and remove large sets of games by genre, or change the name of thousands of games at once just based on matching CRCs, there would also be a way to quickly change every instance of "Sega Genesis - Top 100 List" to just "Sega Genesis." If there isn't, I think my plan of attack will just be to open the XMLs in Wordpad, search " - Top 100 List" and manually delete every instance of it, it just seemed like something there would be an easier way to manage.
Iggy Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 Hi ryguy55...your best bet and easisest way is to get Notepad++, open the xml, and do a search and replace for all those entries to what you want it to be. If you want to output your XML into specific genres, try the latest version of Don's Tools....Its attached to the database tutorial found at: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/tutorials/article/42-written-4-common-tasks-when-working-with-system-databases/%C2'> (Scroll to the bottom to get the suite of programs.....ill be uploading this tool soon to the downloads section but for now get it there). The beta tools (Don's last set of tools) has some additional functionality....you can split based on genre using the Split Hyperlist.exe. Let us know if you need further explanation or help and we can assist
ninja2bceen Posted July 23, 2015 Posted July 23, 2015 Check out the downloads page. Relic made top xmls for most systems and they are clean. Also check out hyperxml on the download page. If u want to create ur own, use hypertools to easy create ur own (Tapatalk)
ryguy55 Posted July 24, 2015 Author Posted July 24, 2015 Thanks for the help guys! I have one more question about this, since I'm still new to a lot of these concepts. Why would someone go through the trouble of renaming the wheel that all these games are associated with? Is it so that they live on a custom wheel that is separate from the systems themselves?
Metalzoic Posted July 24, 2015 Posted July 24, 2015 Thanks for the help guys! I have one more question about this, since I'm still new to a lot of these concepts. Why would someone go through the trouble of renaming the wheel that all these games are associated with? Is it so that they live on a custom wheel that is separate from the systems themselves? They probably simply created their own system and gave it that name at the time, instead of picking from the default list. Or maybe it was made on an older version of Hyperspin/HyperLaunch that had no default list... Other than that if you want a wheel/system with a different name it's far easier to just change your wheel art. For example My Daphne wheel is named Daphne in RLauncher and for all folders/paths/media/emu/roms etc..., but my Wheel art says Laserdisc Classics. Same with AAE (Vector Games) and MAME (Arcade Classics). Why are some systems named after Emu's anyway? Just a mistake someone made forever ago and it's just never been fixed?
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