midway arcade treasures Convert Dreamcade interface to Hyperspin

[spysly]

I have a 4-player dreamcade cocktail machine with licensed games (Midway Arcade Treasures Volumes 1 - 4, Capcom Classics Collection, etc.) I want to replace the front end with Hyperspin but launch the games installed on the system. I don't want to add mame roms or additional games. How would one go about doing this? Has this been done before and can point me to a guide/instructions.

[32assassin]

you need to find out whats inside your machine in order for anyone to give you any assistance.

and by inside your machine,  you need to find out what hardware you have, is it windows or android based.  ( hyperspin only runs on this 2 OS)

second

you need to find out what type of software you are running.  are you running Midway Arcade Tresures on a stand alone PC game?

if this is the case you will only be able to launch the Arcade Tresures as a PC game and THEN select the game you want to play.

[spysly]

Yes, it's a PC running windows 7. Since dreamcade has their own frontend, I can see they are launching the games via a batch job. Example - here's the one for joust.bat

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@echo off
cd\
cd "program files"
cd Midway 
CD "Midway Arcade Treasures"
cd Volume1

rem explorerControl hide
rem taskkill /F /IM DreamArcadesMenu.exe
rem MidwayLaunch2.exe /app Game.exe 3 /keys ~~~ /pause 1 /exit %{F4}
dlairlauncher "C:\program files\midway\midway arcade treasures\volume1\Game.exe" Game "{ENTER}\\" "3" "%%X\\"

rem explorerControl show
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I was thinking of creating an uber batch job that launched these batch jobs (and the ones from Capcom, etc.). Use PC Games to launch the uber. Was wondering if there was a slicker way.

Thanks

[32assassin]

if you are just launching batch files you might want to look into this

a user once asked how to load a single MAME game  from the main menu,  I suggested to create a batch file and load the batch file from Hyperspin

 

 

 

all you need to do is create the stand alone batch files for each game

name them to the MAME rom names  (so that the Hyperspin Media matches your game names)

and launch those batch files via the Hyperspin front end.

 

[spysly]

Ok - will experiment - I did set to the mame media type for the video preview and background art and it looks good. I was hoping that hyperspin/rocketlauncher inherently supported these pc arcade game packages and could automagically enable it. The mame/daphne/snes/nes/atari/etc. was amazingly easy to setup on other boxes I put together and thanks to hypersync cloud and emumovies it made my life _very_ easy.

 

[32assassin]

the thing is that Hyperespin is just the front end that hides your windows environment.

Hyperspin relies on Hyperlaunch 2.0  or Rockectlauncher (aka hyper launch three point 0 re-branded after it started supporting other front ends)

to launch emulators /PC games.

 

in order for Rocketlauncher to launch your game packs you will need to create a module for your specific emulator( in this case PC games)

if you do not have the ability to make one you should head over to the rocket launcher forums

http://www.rlauncher.com

 

and ask if someone with the ability to create one is willing to make one for you.