Raspberry Pi 3

[MA18EN]

We've got a Raspberry Pi 3

and we have the following idea

to use Hyperspin and Rocketlauncher

as a Mediacenter ( for mother )

she is not technical, so we must make it as simple as possible

we tried to experiment with Kodi on our PC, but is not very user friendly

and looking through the files and folders with no luck

( because where do the scraped image's go, we do not know )

so to explain our idea

HyperSpin boots up Automatically

she will see the wheel with different Categories

for example The Movie Theater

after selecting and entering, she will see the movie's name

in the wheel, then the DVD Cover as the background

and a trailer is also being played ( or without, whatever )

Yes Hyperspin is versatile after experimenting with it

and watching a dozen of video's but now only one question remains

is this possible on the Raspberry Pi 3 or should we just go for a Barebone

but that would increase the costs

so do you guys have any idea's or knowledge that might help us

Thanks for the help

[Guest]

Not gonna work as HyperSpin and RocketLauncher are windows only.

RetroPie is fantastic though...
https://retropie.org.uk

That's for game emulation though, which isn't going to help as a media centre.

For that, maybe try OpenElec. It's kodi based but with a better UI.

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[32assassin]

Hyperspin will not work on the Pi but their is an alternative called Attract Mode,  this frontend runs with retropie.

their are probably 100s of pre made retropie/Attract Mode  images available for download,  you just need to look for them.

 

I been building one from scratch,  with Hyperspin  themes

 

[MA18EN]

On 4/15/2017 at 10:48 AM, tonesmalone said:

Well Tonesmalone That is not entirely true

HyperSpin on the Desktop can be used as a Mediacenter ( sort of )

we created a new theme, renamed a two hour video to match the NES Video name ( experiment )

and resized the video window to fit the entire screen and then we opened up HyperSpin and voila

the video was being played fullscreen, also to remember we removed everything from the media pack everything

so while the video was being played, the control pad popup did not show up at the bottom

the only problem was that when you go to another screen and come back again the video

would play from the beginning again and cannot be paused, other than that not bad we would say.

There were some other video's showing that VLC Media Player was being used, but we have not tried this ourselves

 

[MA18EN]

On 4/15/2017 at 1:15 PM, 32assassin said:

Great video 32assassin but you mentioned

that you started from scratch

how exactly and what did you used

so maybe we can do this on our own someway

what are your steps and tips and such

 

[32assassin]

as I mentioned their are now literally 100s of pre made images you can download now,  they are pre-loaded with roms,  Hyyperspin artwork and emumovies videos.

go to youtube, do a search for retropie,  and you will find the most popular ones.

the only problem with them is that they come with systems/games  you don't want,  they might be missing systems/games you want,  and they all seem to have the same generic look.

 

alternately you can go to the official Retropie page 

https://retropie.org.uk/

and download the base image.  This image comes with all the emulators pre installed, but it does not contain any roms, Hyprspin artwork or emumovies videos.

by default it will boot to emulaton station,  a very generic looking front-end.   if you like to have a "Hyerspin" look to it.  You will need to install Attract Mode

 

I got the basic default retropie image, and built  it from the ground up.

by that I mean that,

-  I made multiple attract mode themes.

- I made my own rom lists

- I configured everything to what I want.

-I modified and fixed multiple Hyperspin themes that crashed Attract Mode.

[MA18EN]

On 4/20/2017 at 1:13 PM, 32assassin said:

as I mentioned their are now literally 100s of pre made images you can download now,  they are pre-loaded with roms,  Hyyperspin artwork and emumovies videos.

go to youtube, do a search for retropie,  and you will find the most popular ones.

the only problem with them is that they come with systems/games  you don't want,  they might be missing systems/games you want,  and they all seem to have the same generic look.

 

alternately you can go to the official Retropie page 

https://retropie.org.uk/

and download the base image.  This image comes with all the emulators pre installed, but it does not contain any roms, Hyprspin artwork or emumovies videos.

by default it will boot to emulaton station,  a very generic looking front-end.   if you like to have a "Hyerspin" look to it.  You will need to install Attract Mode

 

I got the basic default retropie image, and built  it from the ground up.

by that I mean that,

-  I made multiple attract mode themes.

- I made my own rom lists

- I configured everything to what I want.

-I modified and fixed multiple Hyperspin themes that crashed Attract Mode.

How exactly from default retropie img to the Hyperspin Wheel

what are the exact steps for doing so, or can they be found online

and building from the ground up is a great idea

by using the official retropie img