Black screen of death when starting up HyperSpin

[Konamito]

I have a big problem now...

 

When I start HyperSpin I just get a totally black blank screen after the intro video and nothing happens... Looks like HyperSpin loads but doesn't show anythin on screen. I only thing I can do is using CTRL+SHIFT+ESC to stop the Hyperspin.exe process.

 

I can normally run games from RocketLauncher withou any problem.

 

I didn't get too much info from the log file:

05:33:55 PM |  HyperSpin Started 
05:33:55 PM |  Going FullScreen 
05:33:55 PM |  Checking for updates 
05:33:55 PM |  Update Check Complete 
05:33:55 PM |  Startup program unavailable 
05:33:55 PM |  Error intializing joysticks 
05:33:55 PM |  Menu Mode is multi 
05:33:55 PM |  Loading Main Menu.xml 
05:33:55 PM |  Main Menu.xml successfully loaded 

And here's my Main Menu.xml file:

<menu>
  <game name="American Laser Games" />
  <game name="PC Games" />
  <game name="Dice" />
  <game name="Future Pinball" />
  <game name="Pinball Arcade" />
  <game name="MAME" />
  <game name="Amstrad CPC" />
  <game name="Amstrad GX4000" />
  <game name="Atari 2600" />
  <game name="Atari 5200" />
  <game name="Atari 7800" />
  <game name="Atari Lynx" />
  <game name="Atari Jaguar" />
  <game name="Bally Astrocade" />
  <game name="Bandai WonderSwan" />
  <game name="Bandai WonderSwan Color" />
  <game name="Bandai Super Vision 8000" />
  <game name="Casio PV-1000" />
  <game name="ColecoVision" />
  <game name="Commodore 64" />
  <game name="Commodore Amiga" />
  <game name="Commodore Amiga CD32" />
  <game name="Commodore CDTV" />
  <game name="Creatronic Mega Duck" />
  <game name="Fairchild Channel F" />
  <game name="GCE Vectrex" />
  <game name="Magnavox Odyssey 2" />
  <game name="Mattel Intellivision" />
  <game name="Mattel Aquarius" />
  <game name="Microsoft MSX" />
  <game name="Microsoft MSX2" />
  <game name="Microsoft MSX2+" />
  <game name="Nintendo Entertainment System" />
  <game name="Nintendo Famicom" />
  <game name="Nintendo Famicom Disk System" />
  <game name="Super Nintendo Entertainment System" />
  <game name="Nintendo 64" />
  <game name="Nintendo Game Boy" />
  <game name="Nintendo Game Boy Color" />
  <game name="Nintendo Game Boy Advance" />
  <game name="Nintendo Virtual Boy" />
  <game name="Nintendo Satellaview" />
  <game name="Sega Master System" />
  <game name="Sega Genesis" />
  <game name="Sega CD" />
  <game name="Sega 32X" />
  <game name="Sega Saturn" />
  <game name="Sega SG-1000" />
  <game name="Sega Dreamcast" />
  <game name="Sega Game Gear" />
  <game name="Sega Model 2" />
  <game name="Sega Model 3" />
  <game name="NEC TurboGrafx-16" />
  <game name="NEC TurboGrafx-CD" />
  <game name="NEC PC Engine" />
  <game name="NEC PC Engine-CD" />
  <game name="Sharp X1" />
  <game name="Sharp X68000" />
  <game name="Sinclair ZX Spectrum" />
  <game name="SNK Neo Geo CD" />
  <game name="SNK Neo Geo" />
  <game name="SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color" />
  <game name="Panasonic 3DO" />
  <game name="Sony PlayStation" />
  <game name="Sony PSP" />
  <game name="Watara Supervision" />
  <game name="Philips CD-i" />
</menu>

Could you help me please to solve this BIG problem? I don't know what to do...

[Konamito]

If I choose Menu Mode --> single, HS loads the MAME System fine. So the error must be in certain system...I'll keep looking manually, but maybe you know a better way to proceed...

[Konamito]

I just added Commodore VIC-20 system to HSHQ. But I deleted it after and the problem is still there.

[Konamito]

I've been making some tests and HyperSpin doesn't work when Mode > Multi under General tab is selected in HyperSpinHQ. But it works when I select Mode > Single.

 

In this case, HyperSpin starts and I the wheel shows up no matter which system I choose in HyperSpinHQ (Commodore AMIGA, MAME, Microsoft MSX, etc.).
 

[gigapig]

The next step for the log should be.

 

04:41:47 PM |  Main Menu wheel loaded successfully.

 

So after the Main menu check it's looking for the Main Menu wheel. Is this a bad piece of Main Menu artwork? 

 

You could also try removing from the Setting.ini the last system, in case it's hung up on that.

 

Example

 

[Main]

Menu_Mode=multi

Single_Mode_Name=MAME

Enable_Exit_Menu=true

Enable_Exit=true

Exit_Default=yes

Exit_Action=exit

Version=1.0.0.0

Last_System=MAME

Hyperlaunch_Path=O:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe

[Konamito]

 

The next step for the log should be.

 

04:41:47 PM |  Main Menu wheel loaded successfully.

 

So after the Main menu check it's looking for the Main Menu wheel. Is this a bad piece of Main Menu artwork? 

 

You could also try removing from the Setting.ini the last system, in case it's hung up on that.

 

Example

 

[Main]

Menu_Mode=multi

Single_Mode_Name=MAME

Enable_Exit_Menu=true

Enable_Exit=true

Exit_Default=yes

Exit_Action=exit

Version=1.0.0.0

Last_System=MAME

Hyperlaunch_Path=O:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe

 

 

Hi, gigapig. I did what you suggested and I get the same error.

 

Also, I tried systems in Single mode enabling one by one in HyperHQ and all the wheels loaded fine except one system. So I deleted that system from my Main Menu.xml file.

 

Then I changed into Mode > Multi and occurs the same thing: black screen and no message at all.

 

I've checked the png files for systems wheel in Main Menu/Images/Wheels and their names are exact the same as the names written in the xml file in Databases/Main Menu/Main Menu.xml.

[Konamito]

Error found!!!

 

Checking the Systems wheelart I couldn't see MAME.png in Windows Explorer (it was not able to open it) so I just made a new one and probelm solved...

 

So I know that everytime I get this error I have to check the media files first.

 

Thanks to all for your help here.