Jump to content

Shield TV: hyperspin immediately closes


killa909

Recommended Posts

I have a shield TV. I have a micro SD installed with a hyperspin directory which contains a settings and emulators directory. I got the android settings from the forum. Inside the emulators folder, I Ave various folders like mame, Nintendo entertainment system, etc.

I've also got retroarch installed. Just screwed around with that for a few minutes and it seems that it sees my mame Roms just fine.

How can I troubleshoot hyperspin? I've cleared data and cache and reinstalled.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Your Hyperspin folder should have the following folders copied from a PC installation

Hyperspin Folder

- Databases

- Emulators

- Media

- Settings

You can then

1. Adjust your databases to order and display everything how you want

2. adjust your artwork in the media folder to display how you want

3. Add your rom folders to the emulators folder or you can keep them somewhere else

4. Adjust your settings files to launch you emulators and adjust your rom path to wherever you have your rom folders stored

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Your Hyperspin folder should have the following folders copied from a PC installation

Hyperspin Folder

- Databases

- Emulators

- Media

- Settings

You can then

1. Adjust your databases to order and display everything how you want

2. adjust your artwork in the media folder to display how you want

3. Add your rom folders to the emulators folder or you can keep them somewhere else

4. Adjust your settings files to launch you emulators and adjust your rom path to wherever you have your rom folders stored

 

AH! Thanks for this. I only had /Settings and /Emulators. 

 

How can I go about setting up the database and media folders on through OS X? Is this even possible?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Oops

Yeah def possible

I will post up a default Hyperspin folder for you to help. If you can wait a day?

You need to view/edit text .ini files and xml files so as long as you can do that you are fine.

 

It can wait. But I really want to get my Street Fighter on!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hyperspin wont emulate anything!

 

what are you using to play Street Fighter? I would say MAME4droid is easier to setup for standard arcade games.

 

Just thought of a way for you to crack on

 

1. download hyperspin1.3.3 from the downloads section

2. Download any database's you want from hyperlist.hyperspin

3. get the settings_android.ini pack from download

(adjust the mame settings.ini to the settings listed in the tested emulators sticky thread

4. put your roms in and rompath to settings ini.

5. copy over to Shield

 

Setup MAME4droid or retroarch

 

Play Street Fighter

Play Street F

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've been able to get Hyperspin to open, it shows some options for consoles, but every time I select a console it says each game in the listing is not available. For MAME, I click it and it tries to load a MAME menu and doesn't and reverts back to the console selection wheel. 

 

Not sure whats up. My databases? My folder path is right, but maybe my Settings don't point to the right path. Anybody have any input?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

can you post one of your settings files?

 

does it say "Atempting to Launch Missing ROM"?

 

missing roms is usually the wrong file path to roms folder or the incorrect extension for the rom files you have.

 

not sure if i understand your mame problem

Link to comment
Share on other sites

When I select Mame, no titles come up, and the Emulator reappears.

 

Here's my Mame.ini for reference:

 

 

[exe info]

path=H:\hyperspin\emulators\MAME\
rompath=Emulators/MAME/roms/
userompath=false
exe=com.seleuco.mame4droid/com.seleuco.mame4droid.MAME4droid
romextension        = zip
parameters=
searchsubfolders=false
pcgame=false
winstate            = HIDDEN
hyperlaunch=true
Per_Game_Modules=false
Skipchecks=false
Hide_Cursor=use_global
Hide_Desktop=use_global
Hide_Taskbar=use_global
CPWizard_Enabled=use_global
CPWizard_Delay=use_global
CPWizard_Params=use_global
Fade_In=use_global
Fade_Out=use_global
Fade_Color=use_global
Fade_In_Duration=use_global
Fade_Out_Duration=use_global
Fade_In_Delay=use_global
7z_Enabled=use_global
7z_Extract_Dir=use_global
7z_Delete_Temp=use_global
Keymapper_Enabled=use_global
Keymapper=use_global
MultiGame_Enabled=use_global
MultiGame_Background_Color=use_global
MultiGame_Side_Padding=use_global
MultiGame_Y_Offset=use_global
MultiGame_Image_Adjust=use_global
MultiGame_Font=use_global
MultiGame_Text_1_Options=use_global
MultiGame_Text_1_Text=use_global
MultiGame_Text_2_Options=use_global
MultiGame_Text_2_Offset=use_global
MultiGame_Use_Sound=use_global
MultiGame_Sound_Frequency=use_global
MultiGame_Exit_Effect=use_global
MultiGame_Selected_Effect=use_global
MultiGame_Use_Game_Art=use_global
MultiGame_Art_Folder=use_global
 
[filters]
parents_only        = false
themes_only         = true
wheels_only         = false
roms_only    = false
 
[themes]
use_parent_vids=true
use_parent_themes=true
animate_out_default=false
reload_backgrounds=true
 
[wheel]
alpha=.15
small_alpha = 1
style               = normal
speed               = high
pin_center_width    = 500
horz_wheel_y        = 512
vert_wheel_position=right
y_rotation          = right
norm_large          = 360
norm_small          = 230
vert_large          = 400
vert_small          = 240
pin_large           = 500
pin_small           = 200
horz_large          = 240
horz_small          = 150
letter_wheel_x      = 800
letter_wheel_y      = 384
text_width          = 700
text_font           = Style2
small_text_width    = 260
large_text_width    = 400
text_stroke_size=6
text_stroke_color=0x000000
text_color1=0x00BFFD
text_color2=0xFFFFFF
text_color3=0x00BFFD
color_ratio=139
shadow_distance     = 0
shadow_angle        = 45
shadow_color=0x000000
shadow_alpha        = 1
shadow_blur         = 0
 
[pointer]
animated=true
x                   = 975
y                   = 384
 
[video defaults]
path=H:\hyperspin\Media\MAME\Video\
 
[sounds]
game_sounds         = true
wheel_click         = true
 
[navigation]
game_jump=50
use_indexes=false
jump_timer=400
remove_info_wheel=false
remove_info_text=true
use_last_game=true
last_game=thunderl
random_game=false
 
start_on_favorites=false
[special Art A]
default=true
active=true
x=512
y=720
in=0.4
out=0.4
length=3
delay=0
type=normal
start=bottom
 
[special Art B]
default=true
active=true
x=512
y=740
in=0.4
out=0.4
length=3
delay=0
type=fade
start=none
 
[special Art C]
active=false
x=512
y=384
in=0
out=0
length=3
delay=10
type=fade
start=none
 
[Game Text]
game_text_active    = true
show_year           = true
show_manf           = true
show_description    = true
text_color1         = 0xFFFFFF
text_color2         = 0xFFFFFF
stroke_color        = 0x000000
text_font           = Style3
text1_textsize      = 26
text1_strokesize    = 7
text1_x             = 32
text1_y             = 610
text2_textsize      = 36
text2_strokesize    = 8
text2_x             = 30
text2_y             = 640
 
Link to comment
Share on other sites

To clarify: I believe I have two issues. Probably resolved by settings.

1. My ROMs aren't showing up.

2. When I select NES for instance, I can see a list of games but everything says not installed. Even ones I know I have installed. When I select Mame, nothing happens. No game list. None of my ROMs.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Under your (filters) section in the mame ini change

themes_only = true

Themes_only = false

Then need to sort your rompath I will put some more info up later.

Have a look at the pinned thread for setup hyperspin android in this forum

 

So, this worked. I was able to at least load the MAME menu. Unfortunately, I am still unable to load any ROMs. I guess it's a ROM path issue, but I've been trying to tweak it and it is not working.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Should not make much difference to your problem but worth changing this line

Taken from pinned setup thread

userompath=<not supported, it's always "true">

You should have

Userompath="true"

Rompath wise

Where are your roms stored?

When I setup mame my roms had to be within the mame4droid/roms folder not Hyperspin/emulators/MAME/roms

I have everything on the internal hdd of my shield and all of my rompaths start like this

Storage/emulated/0 or something similar

Link to comment
Share on other sites

When I setup mame my roms had to be within the mame4droid/roms folder not Hyperspin/emulators/MAME/roms

 

 

 

That would only be the case if you choose "Deafult Mame Path" when prompted on the very 1st launch of mame4droid.  Instead you can choose your own mame path by saying no, or after the fact by going into the settings.   I have my setup running from the "Hyperspin/emulators/MAME/roms" and everything works as it should.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

hmmm.

 

I have a 128 GB MicroSD in my Shield. I am using it as removable storage. 

 

On my microsd called "SHIELD", there is a folder called Hyperspin. 

 

Roms are located:

storage/sdcard1 (aka SHIELD)/Hyperspin/Emulators/MAME/roms

(Come to think of it, maybe I have an issue due to case sensitivity. I think my folder is actually Roms.)

 

In the ini, I just kept the settings the same as what I downloaded from the hyperspin downloads. 

userompath is currently set to false. I will change it to true. 

the actual rompath is Emulators/MAME/roms/. I thought that would work.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

×
×
  • Create New...