j600com Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Sorry I'm a complete dunce when it comes to this stuff :/ I managed (with some help off here) to setup Hyperspin on my Nvidia Shield TV but swiftly filled up the internal storage with the roms. So I've bought a 5TB HDD filled with all the bumf - but now I don't know how to change the settings on the Nvidia so that it ignores the previous setup and instead starts looking at the 5TB HDD. The HDD has all the artwork etc and the roms - I just don't know what/where settings are that need changed so I can view these extras. Any help would be amazing I'm complete baffled at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 It looks for a folder called hyperspin Rename your Hyperspin folder on internal storage or delete it. Make sure your Hyperspin folder is in the first level (root) of your external drive. Is your called Arcade? It should automatically find your setup. After that you need to make sure all you rompaths are adjusted in all systemname.ini files. Easy if you have placed all your rom files inside the Hyperspin folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 I'm having massive problems now, it won't even open hyperspin the nvidia just keep grinding to a halt and crashing (even when not on hyperspin) and the android file transfer on Mac won't upload any files :/ I think I've copied over something I shouldn't have. The HDD is loaded with 5TB of stuff but has non-android things on it like rocket launcher (it's from a windows arcade) - the hyperspin folder is called Arcade yeh. Should I uninstall hyperspin and start again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 You may have some fun with that. Are you going to plug the drive into the shield to use it? Probably best bet. Delete all Hyperspin folders from your shield then you could uninstall Hyperspin app and reinstall it no big deal. I suggest familiarise yourself with Hyperspin android by reading my tutorial in signature and the sticky posts and the beginners guide in the forum. You may well be better off leaving your arcade folder and duplicating a new Hyperspin folder and having a play with that before takeing on the whole lot. Maybe ask the person you got it from to help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 Thanks for the help! Managed to get it working on a few systems, but unsure on why some of the consoles on wheel arent working? When I click PlayStation or Sega Saturn the screen just flashes and goes back to the menu - it doesn't show the sub-wheel of games. Any idea what I'm missing / how to fix the ones that don't load to show the sub-wheel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Few things cause that. Off hand check and set all filters to false in "system".ini. Check your extensions are correct also and add them to the settings file if not. Most roms have to uncompressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badhemi Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Thanks for the help! Managed to get it working on a few systems, but unsure on why some of the consoles on wheel arent working? When I click PlayStation or Sega Saturn the screen just flashes and goes back to the menu - it doesn't show the sub-wheel of games. Any idea what I'm missing / how to fix the ones that don't load to show the sub-wheel? yes make sure filters are set right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 is there anywhere I can download the settings files and upload them all at once? seem to remember stumbling over something before with a link - it may have even been yours actually badhemi? I have a feeling the reason many of the systems arent working are the settings files I've got being wrong :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 think I might have found out why the roms aren't working on the others too - lots of the roms are 7z files. When I've added 7z to the settings ini - it no longer says missing Rom, but instead the screen just goes black? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badhemi Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 think I might have found out why the roms aren't working on the others too - lots of the roms are 7z files. When I've added 7z to the settings ini - it no longer says missing Rom, but instead the screen just goes black? Any ideas?depends if it is a emulator that needs a bios file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 ps. where is the system ini? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 I think badhemi 'a settings are linked in my install tutorial now thread now. All your android settings file should be in the folder Settings_Android along side your Hyperspin exe if your running Windows setup also. Example Sega Genesis.ini There is settings.ini and Main Menu.ini and the specific platform named .ini's that's all you need. You will have lots of trouble as not many android emulators work with 7z or zip files if any for 7z. (I got that from other forum posts so never tested) MAME stuff needs to be .zip though I'm writing all this up and cleaning badhemi's settings file at the moment. Give it a few days I will have a guide and pack for everyone to use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 I'm writing all this up and cleaning badhemi's settings file at the moment. Give it a few days I will have a guide and pack for everyone to use Sounds awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 The Tutorial is not finished yet but I have attached my progress and here is the cleaned settings files from badhemi's originals FYI I have NOT tested them yet so maybe just try ONE and make sure nothing goes wonky!! Attached the WIP tutorial also _Default Settings_Android.zip I'm done up to the Game System ini files. Some basic notes lifted from Reznates post. MAybe it will be finished tomorrow maybe not. :0 Hyperspin Android Settings.docx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 That's great thanks! Started doing them one at a time, Atari 5200 is taking me out of hyperspin and into the blue retroarch load core screen when I try to open the rom? Like the core isn't there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Sega Dreamcast won't work either, it's saying "Warning - Attempting to launch invalid emulator(s): com.reicast.emulator/com.reicast.emulator.MainActivity" Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 You may well be better off leaving your arcade folder and duplicating a new Hyperspin folder and having a play with that before takeing on the whole lot. Maybe ask the person you got it from to help you. Rather than try and copy all the roms over I'm tempted to just rename that Arcade folder on the external HDD Hyperspin then change the rom paths in the settings INI's - or is that a bad idea, would that cause me no end of problems? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I think that will cause no end of problems with you PC/RocketLauncher setup but I don't use much on PC. Not used RL for months. You could probably leave all you roms in same place (except anything that will use any retroarch MAME core. They need to be named as software list hash xml's and store in retroarch directory right now) Then change the rompath in any ini's in the Settings_Android. Then build a new Hyperapin folder with just the artwork and themes. That may still big fairly big but not as bad as the roms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Think that's what I'll do, copy all the media over to the internal storage of the Nvidia with as many roms as I can. But then point the rom paths to the external HDD for things like PS2, Gamecube or Dreamcast where they won't fit in the internal storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 That's great thanks! Started doing them one at a time, Atari 5200 is taking me out of hyperspin and into the blue retroarch load core screen when I try to open the rom? Like the core isn't there? Okay, so copied those settings across and set up the media and databases so my wheel is all set up. Next step is going through each of them 1 by 1. First one, Amstrad GX400 is doing the same as the Atari was whereby it just goes to a blue retroarch screen when you go to open the rom? Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 So anything that uses retroarch MAME (softlists) is a real pig to setup. Search on here or YouTube for Sting or Gavin Rea GX4000 Hyperspin setup. He has done the most vids on it. Basically if the only emulator you can use is retroarch MAME for non MAME systems like gx4000 and Atari 5200 Everything has to be in the retroarch system folder. Search for the Atari 5200 thread is this forum it has most of the info needed. So you have to have the MAME software list xml's. Download or look for your PC MAME emulator. Grab the "hash folder" Name all of your roms, wheels, videos etc to match the game name entries. In retroarch "system" folder create a MAME folder System/mame Place the hash folder in there System/mame/hash In system folder create the console folder for each system. Example gx4000 (named exactly as the hash file.xml for that system) System/gx4000 (place all your roms here, named as software list xml names) Create another folder for bios System/gx4000/gx4000 (place bios here) Point your retroarch.cfg file system/bios directory to the "system" folder In the Hyperspin rompath point it to the first console folder (example system/gx4000) should be something like /sdcard/Android/data/com.retroarch/files/system/gx4000 (DONT have a "/" at the end) Could be sdcard/RetroArch/system/gx4000 depends on your setup Have a look at the setup notes for Atari 5200 in my android base pack in signature. (It's a separate download so don't need all of it!) I'm actually trying to find an easier way to set this up at the moment. Setup log capture for my shield last night for this exact reason!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted October 27, 2016 Author Share Posted October 27, 2016 Ah mine aren't set up anything at all like that :/ My are under emulators/[system name]/roms I'll need to rejig it all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Hold fire I actually managed to launch MESS/MAME systems from different locations last night. (Atari 5200) which I have not seen documented on here anywhere. I'll try right something up tonight. It doesn't overcome the problem of having to change all the names though. You should just leave all the systems that are using retroarch MAME core until last. They are the most time consuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatman84 Posted October 27, 2016 Share Posted October 27, 2016 Not gonna get time to do a full guide on this one for a couple of days here is the rough idea though. 1st you need the official MAME emulator for PC. If you don't have one you need to create a mame.ini file. There's loads of ways to do it but the easiest way I found was to create a .bat file and put it with your MAME.exe in the PC version. Open notepad and type mame64.exe -cc (Where mame64.exe is the exact name of your exe file) Save this file as CreateConfig.bat Double click it and you should have a MAME.ini file now. Take the MAME folders (artwork, hash, roms, ini, cfg, ctrl etc) and the MAME.ini Drop them in a folder called mame Transfer that folder to you shield. It needs to be in the system folder retroarch is pointing at. Mine looks like this. Sdcard/RetroArch/system/mame Next Create your rom folder structure. For Atari 5200 mine is this. (I need to test this further to check if you can have different names but for now mine is) should be the same for other systems. Use the name of the relevant xml file found in the hash folder. "Anywhere"/roms/a5200 (place your bios here) Where "anywhere" is just that mine works on NAS drive and internal storage "Anywhere"/roms/a5200/a5200 (Place your roms in here) (All you roms need to be named to match the relenvent short names found in the hash folder) Now take that mame.ini file copy it and paste into the ini folder. Rename it to the system name like mine is a5200.ini You should have Sdcard/RetroArch/system/mame/ini/a5200.ini Open the .ini file and change the rompath line from "roms" to where your actual roms are. For my NAS mine is Storage/MYCLOUD/Atari_5200/roms/a5200/a5200 Copy your rompath from here and use it as the rompath in you Hyperspin SYSTEMNAME.ini file also. I think that's all. As I say there are other ways to do it and I need to test more but for me this seems a bit more flexible Btw don't have spaces in you rompath folder names. Retroarch/MAME won't read past a space so won't find your roms. I used _ to get round it but maybe "" around the full path would work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j600com Posted November 5, 2016 Author Share Posted November 5, 2016 I think i'm out of my depth. I don't actually know what a bios is lol i'm just fudging my way along as I go. I've attached an image to show what I've done (settings ini on the left, and android structure on the right) any ideas what I'm missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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