A new Hyperspin?

[ninja2bceen]

Maybe also provide a total list of supported systems thus far too

[JoyStickKilla]

Maybe also provide a total list of supported systems thus far too

 

It's a frontend, it supports whatever systems you add. 

[phulshof]

Set has been updated with:
- Amstrad GX4000
- Atari 5200
- Atari 7800
- ColecoVision
- GCE Vectrex

[phulshof]

Maybe also provide a total list of supported systems thus far too

 

The rest will take me some more time due to many missing files. The list so far:

- Amstrad GX4000

- Arcade (MAME)

- Atari 5200

- Atari 7800

- Capcom Play System I

- Capcom Play System II

- Capcom Play System III

- Cave

- ColecoVision

- GCE Vectrex

- NEC TurboGrafx-16

- NEC SuperGrafx

- NEC PC Engine

- Nintendo Entertainment System

- Super Nintendo Entertainment System

- Nintendo 64

- Nintendo Virtual Boy

- Nintendo Game Boy

- Nintendo Game Boy Color

- Sega SG-1000

- Sega Master System

- Sega Genesis

- Sega 32X

- Sega Game Gear

- SNK Neo Geo MVS

 

Of course you can add any system you like; these are just the ones that are (practically) complete.

[JoyStickKilla]

Keep up the good work phulshof. I am glad you picked it up and are keeping it going when emb decided he was done with it(at least for now). I honestly feel retrofe is better than HS. Biggest thing it needs is themes per system/game and then there won't be too much for HS users to complain about(except that they can't just use already made HS themes as is).

[phulshof]

Keep up the good work phulshof. I am glad you picked it up and are keeping it going when emb decided he was done with it(at least for now). I honestly feel retrofe is better than HS. Biggest thing it needs is themes per system/game and then there won't be too much for HS users to complain about(except that they can't just use already made HS themes as is).

 

Themes per system is already supported; themes per game is on the wish list.

[phulshof]

Set is currenly off-line to zip things up; there was too much demand and too many files involved...

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[JoyStickKilla]

A package without the videos would probably make things much easier, as I am sure a large amount of people who may download it have most of them already.

[phulshof]

You'd be surprised how many files are misnamed in the sets here and on EM, so unless you use a fuzzy match sync there's a lot of work left to do.

Let's be honest though: if your HS sets are complete and correct you can very quickly convert them to RetroFE, so you wouldn't need this pack.

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[JoyStickKilla]

You'd be surprised how many files are misnamed in the sets here and on EM, so unless you use a fuzzy match sync there's a lot of work left to do.

Let's be honest though: if your HS sets are complete and correct you can very quickly convert them to RetroFE, so you wouldn't need this pack.

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You would think so but there are many people around that seem to want a lazy route and for other frontends to include some kind of HS conversion script. RetroFE is very easy to setup though for anyone who cares.

[JoyStickKilla]

I see it contains the artwork as well (boxes, wheels, etc). Seems a little wrong to do that, no? Main benefit of paying for HS platinum besides supporting the site is to have a quick, easy method for downloading full packs of artwork. This pretty much circumvents that if a large amount of the available artwork is going to continuously get put into system packs for retrofe.

[phulshof]

Considering that these packs are already available on EmuMovies I don't really see an issue here; you need platinum on EM to download this set.

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[JoyStickKilla]

Hmm well damn, never woulda bought HS platinum if I knew I could get all the artwork there lol.

[phulshof]

I have both, and don't even use HS.

[phulshof]

The set is available again at /Official/Retro FE Media Pack 1.0/. The collections have all been rar-ed, so you'll have to unpack them before you can use them. This way the download will be much faster.

[progets]

Thanks. I saw it was taken down quickly and thought it might take a while to get back up.

[suspendedhatch]

Does RetroFE store all outwork outside of the program folder or am I going to need a third copy and wait for a third download of all the emumovies content (HyperSpin, LaunchBox, RetroFE)?

 

I'm really frustrated with this and wish the admins at emumovies or fe authors would standardize the art directories outside of the program folders the way RL moved emulators and roms out of the HS folder.

 

I know there's technically a way to do it but it's simply not plausible to do it individually for each of the tends of thousands of games. I'm looking for real support in an FE.

[Tomkun]

I created a batch file that if you put it in your Hyperspin media folder will set up your artwork and databases. I'll post it later when I have a chance. It means that both Hyperspin and RetroFE can share media with very little overlap.

[JoyStickKilla]

Yeah not sure where you get that emulators and roms ever had to be inside the HS folder, that wasn't necessary at all. It would be silly for FE authors to write their program to accommodate the way another one is setup. For my RetroFE setup I use all my HS media from its folder, only exception to media I keep in RetroFE are the system logos and main video. Plus with symlinks you could use media in whichever want you ever wanted.

[phulshof]

Does RetroFE store all outwork outside of the program folder or am I going to need a third copy and wait for a third download of all the emumovies content (HyperSpin, LaunchBox, RetroFE)?

 

I'm really frustrated with this and wish the admins at emumovies or fe authors would standardize the art directories outside of the program folders the way RL moved emulators and roms out of the HS folder.

 

I know there's technically a way to do it but it's simply not plausible to do it individually for each of the tends of thousands of games. I'm looking for real support in an FE.

 

As indicated by others: the default directories for RetroFE art are inside the collections subdirectory of RetroFE, but you can change all paths via the settings.conf files, so you can easily share the art between multiple front-ends if that is your preference.

[suspendedhatch]

Most people haven't been using multiple FE's, but that was before the recent rise of several great alternatives. I only recently started using LB, but there are  things I like about HS that make me want to keep it. RetroFE is enticing but I don't want to walk away from LB or HS.

 

Setting the paths for each game individually was in reference to LaunchBox. That appears to be the only solution to move the art outside of its directory for now.

 

RL made a big deal of migrating the emulators out of the HS folder. They basically broke everyone's install to make it happen. I fully agree with this move. It was worth that small pain. I would like to repeat this with artwork (sans pain). I think emumovies is in a prime position to carry the responsibility of standardizing how FEs store artwork.

 

Thank you for the responses, I'm going to follow the advice given.

[JoyStickKilla]

Most people haven't been using multiple FE's, but that was before the recent rise of several great alternatives. I only recently started using LB, but there are several things I like about HS that makes me want to keep it. Now RetroFE is enticing me, but I don't want to walk away from LB or HS.

Setting the paths for each game individually was in reference to LaunchBox. That appears to be the only solution to move the art outside of it's directory for now.

RL made a big deal of moving the emulators out of the HS folder. They basically broke everyone's install to make it happen. I fully agree with this move. It was worth that small pain. I would like to repeat this with artwork. I think emumovies is in a prime position to carry the responsibility of standardizing how artwork is stored.

Thank you for the responses, I'm going to follow the advice given.

Again, where do you get this whole emulators needing to be in the HS folder deal? That was never a requirement or anything you had to do. The only thing with moving locations with RL is that it enabled you to have the launcher outside of the HS folder unlike with hyperlaunch.

And you don't have to set artwork per game in lb and you can define paths for all the media you want to use except what is used directly for theme. I have a LB setup with 50+ systems and I didn't move a single piece of artwork or even duplicate it, I just defined the paths to use my HS stuff.

On another note, does anyone know of a program that can copy/backup a harddrive and maintain the symbolic links. Using them for for a few things and I use dsynchronize to update my backup drive and it copies the files instead of copying it as a symlink

[phulshof]

I put an update in the Upload section containing the latest RetroFE build, and a simple launcher/emulator setup. Hopefully Circo can add that to the official section soon, but for now you can simply download and copy this over the unpacked 1.0 download to get the added functionality. Just add the games, and you should be set. Of course you can always upgrade from there with better emulator choices or configurations, but this at least should be a decent start.

[dougan78]

Decent? Its an awesome start! Thanks!

[marxkemp]

I put an update in the Upload section containing the latest RetroFE build, and a simple launcher/emulator setup. Hopefully Circo can add that to the official section soon, but for now you can simply download and copy this over the unpacked 1.0 download to get the added functionality. Just add the games, and you should be set. Of course you can always upgrade from there with better emulator choices or configurations, but this at least should be a decent start.

 

Is it Build 0.7.18 ? really enjoying retrofe!