Game not launching in Hyperspin, but works from emu and HLHQ *epsxe*

[midas]

Hey there, new Hyperspin user here. Just downloaded the most recent files from the site a few days ago and am digging into all this.

Right now I'm setting up ePSXe. I've followed various guides and the emulator itself is working, and when I do a System Audit in HyperLaunchHQ the game is green and I can launch it using the red rocket icon in the toolbar. However if I go into HyperSpin and select the Sony PlayStation wheel and go to this game (Castlevania - Symphony of the Night) and hit Enter nothing happens.

I experienced these same symptoms when setting up MAME as well, however the issue there was my use of HyperLaunch.exe to test the MAME launch capability would sometimes leave a HyperLaunch.exe process running in Task Manager. Once I killed that process I was able to launch MAME games from within HyperSpin no problem. In this case however there is no HyperLaunch process running, so I'm not sure what the issue is.

I am running on Windows 8.1 with UAC disabled if that helps. Thanks.

[midas]

After poking around it looks like one of the guides may have missed some info (unless it's different since that guide was created, it can be found here: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?29906-Guide-ePSXe-in-HyperLaunch-3). Once I went into HyperHQ and set the PlayStation wheel up with the path to the emulator, the ROM file extensions, etc it was able to launch fine.

One thing I notice, though--with HyperLaunch set to launch the executable I can't exit out of the emulator. I have to use Task Manager to get out of epsxe. Running it manually or from HyperLaunchHQ I can hit ESC to exit out. I tried instructing HyperHQ to use Normal execution but then the process launches and nothing else happens (HyperSpin becomes the inactive window; I assume because it's trying to switch to the ePSXe window that isn't coming up). I noticed that it is in fact launching an ePSXe process, but not switching to it.

Any idea why hitting ESC won't quit out when using HyperLaunch?

**EDIT** I see an archived post here: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-14816.html

I'll go through this and see try the things in there.