Frustrated with Mame Looking for advice

[JohnnyChimpo]

So I have HyperHq and HyperSpin downloaded and setup, along with MAME emulator and ROM (unmerged) and CHD sets from MAME .284 loaded in (almost 1 TB of data). There's over 40,000 games, which is entirely overwhelming and none have any media according to HyperHQ and none will launch... The old computer I have running my cabinet arcade has Hyperspin 1.5 hyperspin has all the games organized nicely on the wheel by system. I am hoping to replicate that with the newer faster computer and updated game ROMS. Looking for advice on if I should try and figure out how to make this MAME set work or if it's easier to find and download Games in sets or individually. I have read through the DOCS extensively to try and figure out what I am missing to no avail. I am new to this setup effort and curious if others have had success with getting a large MAME ROM set uploaded and nicely organized with artwork and media in HyperHQ or if I might be better off loading in games individually or via another route. 

[gigapig]

First off does MAME run games outside of Hyperspin on your new computer.

Secondly about the organisation, first try to use parent ROM settings when you set up MAME as this will have less game as the clones won't be visible.

To further reduce the games you will eventually be able to use 'Collections' but as the software is beta that feature is not implemented yet.

[JohnnyChimpo]

2 hours ago, gigapig said:

First off does MAME run games outside of Hyperspin on your new computer.

Secondly about the organisation, first try to use parent ROM settings when you set up MAME as this will have less game as the clones won't be visible.

To further reduce the games you will eventually be able to use 'Collections' but as the software is beta that feature is not implemented yet.

Okay thank you. I can get some of the games to fire up in Mame outside of hyperspin. Still no artwork. I truncated the set to parents only and got rid of all the casino games, fruit games, quiz games, etc. Down to about 3000. Wondering why no MEDIA. Do I need to download the artwork or .dat, .ini, files separately from the ROMS/CHD's? I found: progetto-SNAPS Support Files

 

So at this point there's no way to organize the games by system (NES, SEGA, etc) on the wheel in 2.0?

 

[thatman84]

You should definitely have media.

close HyperHQ and right click and hit quit on the HQ icon in the system tray. Then reopen, if nothing downloads there’s a bug.

you can try hitting refresh games in the mame games menu. That should go off and check for media.

also you can try validating cache in HyperHQ settings cog top right of the progam.

[rondar]

And make sure you're logged into EmuMovies, too.

 

Go to settings (gear icon on the top right in HQ)

Once you're in settings, scroll down to user accounts and click on EmuMovies Account.

On that screen you'll be able to log in and/or see if you're logged in.

[JohnnyChimpo]

Thanks Team! May have been the EmuMovies... I got that logged in and all the artwork etc is there!

I ended up deleting the new Mame .284 I had downloaded and reverting back to the MAME set I had from the old computer which was organized and worked well for me. Seems to be working! I've started adding other systems now and everything seems to be going well.

When I launch the games in Hyperspin (either Mame or Retroarch) none of the keyboard buttons seems to be working... only ENTER and ESC. Anyone have trouble with the keyboard buttons? I will soon be setting this up in my cabinet with an IPAC 2 setup, but I think I need the keyboard working correctly before that setup...