HyperRemote

[asdfrewq]

New update with system specific "favourites" and "most played" lists, and (hopefully) fixed search once and for all!

 

Stability was better. I toyed with it for a good 15-20 minutes, launching games, browsing systems, viewing videos. Like you said its a little slow on the systems with 1000-2000 games, but otherwise works great. What are your future plans for features/additions? I can think of a few ideas if you are interested. 

 

Good to hear things are performing better. Future plans include getting browsing, searching, sorting and launching functional and stable. Global lists for favourites, most played and recently played games will be the next thing to tackle, along with a re-think of the main menu. I also have big plans for the "Now Playing" screen, I want to add similar functionality as RocketLauncher's pause menu; save/load states, exit game, volume control, controls, manuals... things like that.

 

I'm all ears for suggestions or comments from the community!

[Neonrage]

"I also have big plans for the "Now Playing" screen, I want to add similar functionality as RocketLauncher's pause menu; save/load states, exit game, volume control, controls, manuals... things like that."

 

That was EXACTLY where I hoped you were taking that. Mimic the Pause menu from RL. Can't wait to see that!  Also, exclusion of systems/games that are not "Enabled" would be nice. And honoring what Hyperspin has set in terms of exclude entries with Missing Roms, Wheel Art, etc. I will let you know if I think of anything else while testing each update!

[Neonrage]

Search works in v.005. The way it displays the wheel image for a system then the game wheel images is a little clunky, but functionally its great. Favorites/Most Played looks great too! Great work!

[bob.records]

Great work, really impressed.  Will custom wheels like pclauncher get supported?

[asdfrewq]

Great work, really impressed.  Will custom wheels like pclauncher get supported?

 

If they launch via rocketLauncher they should work out of the box. Are you getting any error message in the console when attempting to launch?

[Metalzoic]

Interesting... maybe I'll give this a try when my new S7 Edge shows up in a few days.

Although I'm still having a hard time thinking what I would actually use it for. Still nice work!

[asdfrewq]

Another day, another update... Just a small one this time, Global Favourites, Recent Games and Most Played games are now available from the System Menu.

 

Along with a general code clean-up, the next features to be added will be the 'Now Playing' controls. Updates will probably be much less frequent as I'm not inclined to release features which can alter data on the users system without thoroughly testing them first.

 

Thanks to everyone who has helped test HyperRemote so far, and if you have any comments, critiques or suggestions, please feel free to offer them up!

[Neonrage]

v0.6 changes look good. I see you switched to using text instead of the wheel image for system names in the search results. One suggestion is put the system name above the results for that system instead of below? When a system has many games that match a search, you can't see what system they are on until you scroll down.  And if you ever need someone to test before posting it public, let me know and I'll gladly help out.

[asdfrewq]

v0.9 Out today.

 

Some pretty big changes to the interface this time. As well as a general facelift, HyperRemote now looks for images in your artwork3 folder. Box art tends to work best, but cart/disc art or screenshots will be fine too.

 

Things should be a lot more user friendly. If there's anything that doesn't work, or could be better, feel free to comment.

 

Also added save/load state functionality and a trigger for rocket launcher's multigame menu to the now playing screen. This should further remove the need for using rlauncher's pause feature which, for me at least, is highly unstable at the best of times.

[Pyramid_Head]

Very impressive! Keep up the awesome work dude!

[asdfrewq]

v0.10 Available now. The "NowPlaying" screen gets an overhaul this time. Also added the external search function to this screen. This is basically a query builder to speed up searching for common game specific material, eg: Manuals, cheats, walkthroughs or emulator help.

[asdfrewq]

v0.11 Fixes broken search, revamped home menu and some UI tweaks.

 

I'm just wondering if there's anything you guys would like to see from HyperRemote?

 

Basic functionality is mostly complete now, with only a few additions I want to add soon such as adding more launch options (Eg: selecting alternate emulators or configurations), combining multidisc games into a single listings adding a disc selector at launch, and adding support for adding/removing items from "favorites" lists.

 

I also have some bigger ideas that I may or may not implement, depending on interest.

Probably the first thing I'll look into is a "collections" system. Collections would be groups of games that are tied together by a common theme. Examples include "16-bit classics", "Mario's greatest hits", or "SNK arcade megamix". You get the idea, there's a pretty endless number of possibilities. I imagine this working much like playlists do in music streaming apps like spotify, where there's a list of "official" curated collections, but anyone can create their own and share them. This would all require a user account system to manage submissions and a back-end server to handle requests, which I don't have access to right now. But it could be an interesting feature to look into in the future.

 

There's also some other stuff that I won't go into right now. But as v1.0 release nears, and HyperRemote gets a proper installer and updater, I'll make more announcements regarding the future of HR.

[yakk00]

I have a vertical monitor setup with MAME set to play full screen.  The Windows desktop is still in vertical mode, so all of my marquees are rotated.  In HyperRemote, they are all sideways.  Is there an easy way to rotate these marquees so they are displayed correctly?  Thank you for this program, it's great!!

[SupraKarma]

This is a fantastic add-on, I love this kind of stuff.

The 'now playing' menu isn't working for me (the 'loading' symbol appears and nothing happens), that's my only problem with it.