Auto Start Specific Game at Launch

[parkersworld]

So I have MAME working, but I want to auto start a specific game when Hyperspin launches. Am I missing something? There doest seem to be a straight forward explanation of this, and I haven't been able to find a tut... Thanks for any help...

[griffin518]

That's an interesting request... I've never thought of that. Hmmm... you could certainly have it open up on one game, but I don't think anyone's ever tried to have it actually launch something at startup.

[Yeuxkes]

I don't really see the need for such a thing. If you want to launch a certain game each time you launch Hyperspin why would you use a frontend then? 

Just take out the middle step and launch the game instantly through a shortcut instead of using Hyperspin as an intermediary step.

[parkersworld]

For my example I used a MKII cabinet, and I would like it to start MKII when I power it up. If I want to play something different I can just back out and play something else. The first cab I built was a NBA Jam running Mamewah and I had it set to boot to NBA Jam. Its just kinda nice to have it feel like the real arcade, I like the front end it looks great, but I was just curios if that was an option and I just wasn't seeing it.

[Yeuxkes]

Oh I see now what you want to do. It's not natively possibly but I think you can work around the issue with 3rd party apps tho.

You can setup a batch file which start the mkii rom and after you quit it will start hyperspin.
Another option is to use a custom ahk script which launches the mkii rom but since this is the first time I've seen such a request you will have to write the code yourself.
A third option would be to use the Hyperspin startup script. It launches programs prior to launching Hyperspin but it's possible that hyperspin will become the active window after it launches the rom.
If those don't work or are too complicated you can create a new system on the main menu set it as an exe. This should work but has the downside that you need to press a button to start the game after you launch Hyperspin. 

 

[parkersworld]

Thanks, I actually tried the last option already, the downside was it also put the the shortcut in the wheel for the single game. I am fine with it the way it is , but I may try to do the ahk option and see if I can figure it out. Thanks for the ideas I will let you know if I get it to work.