Struggling Newbie - FATAL ERROR 'No imaging component suitable to complete this opera

[simonrolley]

Hi, Im PC Savvie and I understand windows xp , folder structures etc. Ive followed the following guide for setting u Hyperspin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEaS-cKleI. Great tutorial, worked great. Th ePC I have is really basic, windows XP Home edition, service pack 3, net2 and 4 installed, pentium 4 3.2, 1 GB ram etc. I bought an arcade cabinet and i have a combat king dual controller ready to integrate into the cabinet. My main emulators will be MAME and Daphne. I have all the rooms and laserdiscs and they work just fine standalone, its an old version of MAME 32, 0,98.00. Ive stuck with this as all the ROMS I have work with it. Daphne isn't working and I have v1.0.0.14, ut have all the rooms / l;user disks etc for it. What I want is to with my arcade cabinet on and get hyper spin at startup, I'm going to buy the app to make the joysticks control hyper spin but before i do all that i want to ensure i get the hyper spin console working correctly. I followed the tutorial, hyper spin, hperlaunch and hperlaunchhq all work fine standalone. Ive added my MAME32 emulator and all roms/artwork etc to the MAME32 directory i created under ./hyperspin/emulators but when i launch hyperspinHQ and go to global/emulators and choose the correct directory for MAME32 (which all works ok) and then go back to the left hand panel list and choose MAME - I get the error FATAL ERROR 'No imaging component suitable to complete this operation was found. This is a fatal error and the application needs to be closed.' Can anyone help me resolve this issue as Im unable to carry on with the setup tutorials until I fix this. Any Help is much appreciated. I am patient and will listen to anyone who wants to help. Thanks.

[gigapig]

Welcome to the forum Simon.

So this error pops up while you are in Hyperlaunch HQ? Have you tried pointing to a newer version of mame? Download and extract a new version somewhere different to what you have already set up.

Have you double checked against Tehk geeks video?

And I assume you not launched any game yet, so you can't post your logs?

[simonrolley]

Thanks gigapig. I had tried MAMEUIFX which is what the tech geeks video recommends, however it doesn't want to play my ROMS, which is why I have stuck to the older version of MAME. I will try a few different versions of MAME to see if I can get any joy and see where that takes me. Thanks

[gigapig]

This might shed some light, it seems this is not a common problem.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?36846-HyperLaunchHQ-Fatal-Error-when-selecting-system

[simonrolley]

Thanks once again Gigapig - I just did a fresh install of all the Hyperspin files and it now works. I also moved to MAME32UIFX (some of my old roms now dont work), and audited games. I have followed the gigaguides setup on youtube to get hyperspin working with MAME -

as the previous instructions I was following have gone :/. Anyhow, followed the tutorial all the way through and Hyperspin now works. Thanks for your help.

[gigapig]

Did you update to version 0.156 or 0.157? If you can, update your Romset so they match.

Glad you got it working.

[Eksdad]

I see this thread has been dead awhile but I am a new member and I have the fatal error problem and have had no luck figuring it out. The above link doesn't work for me. Any suggestions?