Black Screen and Hyperspin Hangs After Selecting System [Solved]

[krazyscotsman]

I'm running into a problem with Hyperspin. I have Hyperspin setup and I have 40+ systems installed and running including MAME. MAME works perfect - no issues at all games launch and when exiting, exit to Hyperspin correctly. However, I have AAE installed and I have the Hyperlist XML. I'm using MAME to launch AAE games. AAE games launch and exit correctly from Hyperlaunch HQ. In Hyperspin when I select AAE and press ENTER, Hyperspin "acts" like it's going into the game list wheel; but the screen goes black / blank and Hyperspin seems to crash because I'm forced to close Hyperspin with CTRL+ALT+DELETE and end the process. There's nothing in log that specifies anything is wrong it shows that Hyperspin is going into the game list. But nothing happens afterwards.

Any thoughts on what is causing this? I'm at a loss on this one.

Thanks for any help.

[gigapig]

Go into the Hyperspin settings folder and a look at the ini for AAE or post it here. Perhaps there's something amiss.

[baddeolv]

I have the same problem. I think you have to define an exit key that isn't esc

[krazyscotsman]

I'm not sure what the problem is. For AAE, I am using MAME as the emulator and my MAME.ini is exactly as the AAE.ini file. MAME games opens and closes exactly as they are suppose too. I'm at a loss for what the issue is.

Thanks for chiming in.

[gigapig]

So the issue is just entering the sub wheel not launching anything?

If that is true have a look at the AAE.ini for anything strange or do it through HyperHQ, sounds like a path, extension or wheel filter issue.

[baddeolv]

Wait...I wonder, and this could be a long shot, but I wonder if you have the currupted asteroids theme that caused the same type of issue. It could cause this to happen if the subwheel is trying to start on that theme. Just for shits and giggles, delete the theme, and see if the problem goes away, then update to the new version of the theme

[krazyscotsman]

baddeolv - that's exactly what it was - or at least I'm pretty certain. I spent some time trying some different stuff and I finally stripped everything out of the media folder as it was the only thing left. Once I restarted Hyperspin, it worked.

Thanks baddeolv and Gigapig for your help troubleshooting this.

[baddeolv]

baddeolv - that's exactly what it was - or at least I'm pretty certain. I spent some time trying some different stuff and I finally stripped everything out of the media folder as it was the only thing left. Once I restarted Hyperspin, it worked.

Thanks baddeolv and Gigapig for your help troubleshooting this.

Holy crap, I'm glad that popped into my head lol. You must have just updated your cab with media, or frontend version. Would have been scratching my head fo a while on this one lol. Alright Jai, mark it solved

[baddeolv]

Oh! Make sure you replace that asteroids theme on your mame wheel also!