Psychosis Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 Hi everyone. I'm new to Hyperspin and have spent the past few days messing around to get everything just right. Tonight I ran into a small error I was hoping to receive help with. While setting up my GBA emulator (VBA), I came across an error saying it wasn't valid as a name, or that the system was not yet supported. I've tried this with another emulator as well with the same result. I'm unsure of how to proceed from this point. This wouldn't be too large of an issue, but for some reason, something I did has made this happen with every other emulator I'm trying to run for any other system now. I've tried a clean install but keep running into this same problem and have no clue what I'm doing to make this happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a screen of the error and the accompanying HyperHQ settings for the GBA wheel.
JayC Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 Shouldn't it be named Nintendo Game Boy Advance. Not Gameboy Advance. Always check the database page to get the correct naming for the systems.
Psychosis Posted April 9, 2016 Author Posted April 9, 2016 Shouldn't it be named Nintendo Game Boy Advance. Not Gameboy Advance. Always check the database page to get the correct naming for the systems. Thanks for the reply! If I rename the folder and xml file (in the database folder) as that I run into this error (screenshot). It doesn't seem to want to work with the proper way of wording it. A friend has it as you suggested and it works fine. So I'm guessing it's something I've yet to catch. It still does this even if I rename the media folders accordingly, too. And the main menu.xml. Pretty much everything I could rename, I did. And turned out with that error. But if I rename back to the "improper" way again then I'm back to square one.
JayC Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 You will have to rename database and media folders as well. But you should definitely remove the old one and add the new through HyperHQ or RocketLauncer. Then download the database from the database page here on the forum and put it in the new database folder for GBA.
Metalzoic Posted April 9, 2016 Posted April 9, 2016 Thanks for the reply! If I rename the folder and xml file (in the database folder) as that I run into this error (screenshot). It doesn't seem to want to work with the proper way of wording it. A friend has it as you suggested and it works fine. So I'm guessing it's something I've yet to catch. It still does this even if I rename the media folders accordingly, too. And the main menu.xml. Pretty much everything I could rename, I did. And turned out with that error. But if I rename back to the "improper" way again then I'm back to square one. That screenshot doesn't show that it's renamed correctly. That says "Gameboy Advance.xml" not "Nintendo Game Boy Advance.xml" Everything must be named exactly the same and that goes for capitalization, spaces etc...
Psychosis Posted April 10, 2016 Author Posted April 10, 2016 You will have to rename database and media folders as well. But you should definitely remove the old one and add the new through HyperHQ or RocketLauncer. Then download the database from the database page here on the forum and put it in the new database folder for GBA. Just got in a couple hours ago, sorry for the late reply. I tried exactly what you said. I deleted the media and database folder subfolders for the GBA, and created new ones through HyperHQ. Then I downloaded Simply Austin's GBA media pack and copied it over (+ the GBA database xml file from the database section of this site). After doing so I'm running into a new error: "make sure your paths contains a backslash at the end". After checking to make sure everything was correct, I launched again. I tried to start a GBA game only to arrive at the exact same starting error of telling me the VBA was not a supported (or was an invalid) system at this time. I've renamed everything I could, both manually and through HyperHQ (separate times to experiment) but nothing works.
Psychosis Posted April 13, 2016 Author Posted April 13, 2016 I got it working! Took me a couple days of messing around with, but boy does it feel worthwhile. As for the version I used, it was the one included in 'The Hyperspin Project' frontend pack. I'm not sure how okay torrent-talk is here, but the file said they had a talk with the HS people. I assumed it was okay so went ahead and got started on it. I removed a lot of stuff, and had to do a lot of configuring to make it be how I wanted it. The exact problem I faced was that whomever did the pack messed up the name of the handhelds. I ended up having to fix it because it did not work out the box. It took several tries at renaming and finagling with HyperHQ and RocketLauncher to make it work. But it does now, and it's a great thing. What started as a pain has quickly become a project I'm willing to invest a lot of time into. I'm glad I stuck it out and didn't give in to a pre-made drive you see everywhere. Makes you appreciate it a lot more once you figure everything out for yourself.
Metalzoic Posted April 13, 2016 Posted April 13, 2016 Pre-made drives are generally even more jumbled and messed up than it sounds like that torrent was. Glad you got it working. Sent from my SM-G935V
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