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Black screen when selcting MAME


Hawkeye71

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Infuriatingly, I was so close to finishing the set up yesterday. Hyperspin Mame was working lovely

I added the Austin Mame cosmetic Media folders yesterday  and now I just get a black screen that I have to ctrl alt delete out of when I select Mame. All the other emulator systems  work  I've swapped all the Austin folders back to the originals but still I get the black screen.

Does anyone have any clue what in these new media folders has caused this?

 

many thanks

 

 

 

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By way of an update, and if it helps for anyone to explain to me what on earth is going on. I've started from scratch with a brand new Hyperspin and Mame.

As soon as I added all the roms the black screen issue when I press enter returns.

Deleting all the roms does not rectify the issue. The black screen continues with an empty roms folder.

Every suggestion I have googled does not rectify.

Help?

 

 

 

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Are you using RocketLauncher? If so remove the Rom path and emu path in HyperHQ if you set them and remove any check marks from the wheel filters.

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Thank you.

Yes, i'm using RL

It hasn't made any difference at all to the original once working Hyperspin. Still black screen when selecting Mame

The second  Hyperspin I set up yesterday, well I seems to be able to gain access to the Mame list now but the enter button is not working (or the up and down arrows within Mame which is a new symptom ive not seen before).  The enter button problem I had on the first Hyperspin. I found the solution to that 48 hours ago online somewhere. Explained as something that was overlooked on the Austin tutorial but I will be buggered if I can remember what it was, what I amended or where I read it from.

Yes, I go into each respective Hyper HQs when i'm trying to resolve this.

Is there any way to hard reset Hyperspin to erase whatever it was in these  cosmetic media folders that has stopped my first Hyperspin working?

 

Update : I note that in the wheel images, only the artwork for the game  88 Games shows up as a PNG. All the other PNGs are the pictures of the dandelion. This is presumably significant, Ill have a fiddle around.

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Because external guides can be inconsistent, old and just plain wrong, I would suggest looking at the guides in our tutorials section. The guides by Avar and the written guide by ghutch should help you.

 

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Many thanks Gig. Must admit I thought Austin was one of the team.

It seems the black screen problem was non viewable PNGs in the wheel folder  after all. Dont know why they were in that state but I have downloaded fresh ones.

No more black screen but my enter button problem has returned. Sorry, Looked at AVARs tutorial and couldn't see any difference to what I was doing.

Curiously enough. I was in Hyperspin - MAME with a working enter button for a short while going from rom to rom some working , some not. The enter button has stopped working of its own accord whilst I was inside Hyperspin. I've not touched any settings outside. is there a logical reason why this would happen?

 

 

Update : ah, now I run Hyperspin at 800 x 600 resolution, I see some certificate permission pop up windows  behind the Hyperspin window awaiting my response blocking any more enter button pushes. Blimey, how would I know that when HS is at full screen?

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