Copying hyperspin complete set up to other pc - Doesn't work? Anyone know why?

[barakawins]

I set up hyperspin on my laptop. Have colecovision and atari 2600 working no problem. I tried to copy the same hyperspin folder to my pc with a crossover cable.

Hyperspin comes up but the games don't run. Anyone know why? Emulators come up, wheels come up but the games don't. Do I have to redo this all?

[derekablackburn]

Probably the paths

[barakawins]

Yes. I copied the entire hyperspin folder directly to my c: drive including all roms. It won't run. Any files I should be checking? It should just run.

[Climber]

The source drive was also c? is so then i dont know otherwise you must change the new drive to the same letter as the source for the proper paths.

[derekablackburn]

Check file permissions also

[32assassin]

you don't have to redo anything, all you need to do is make sure your emulators can run OUTSIDE of Hyperpin

make sure you can load a game directly through the emulator

make sure you can load a game trough Hyperlaunch

[Aorin]

I copied HS once for my older brother, it didn't start and other day we figured out that I hided some files from HS main folder so I could find what I wanted quickly, I hided Dll's and other files that HS needs to run, but these files were not copied to my brother HDD, you could re-download HS installation and make sure all files are OK, I think your problem is simple to solve.

[rfancella]

Someone wrote a script to change all the drive paths in HyperSpin and HyperLaunch. It was a while ago, and I didn't save the script or the post.

Does anyone have it or know where to find it?

This has come up a couple times in the last month and it would be nice to have that post handy.

In the mean time, i'll keep looking.

Thanks,

Ron

[Climber]

Wow that would come in handy, I keep having to change my drive letter to my source drive when i copy my setup. If you find the script please let me know where, so i can save it to my hs utilities folder.

[Styphelus]

I just moved mine to a new drive. All I did was go through all the ini and config files and change the paths manually. Took me about 30 min or so.

[derekablackburn]

A quick powershell select string could take care of the settings file in a pinch.

[DrMaxwell]

Do a replace string and just change drive letters that way. Takes about a second.

[keltoigael]

Something to think about, some emulators write their settings to the registry of windows.

[Fromlostdays]

^^^ A lot of emulators do this. They store stuff in app data without you even realizing it. Depending on which emulator, you may have to do a quick reinstall.