Don's HyperSpin Tools 3.0!

[DrMoney]

I'd definitely be for that.

[PaintNothing]

Just thought of a potential idea for 3.1. Would anyone be interested in having the wheel icon and have the video play when you click on a game in the HyperList generator? I figure it might help you make decisions on whether or

not to filter a ROM.

Any thoughts? Is it worth the time to add?

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Hmmm that would be good. I would maybe incorparate an option for it though. Would be better to toggle, mainly for when you want to work quickly having all that video and art loading up would be quite cpu intensive.

[emb]

Hmmm that would be good. I would maybe incorparate an option for it though. Would be better to toggle, mainly for when you want to work quickly having all that video and art loading up would be quite cpu intensive.

I agree. That was one of the first things that popped up in my mind

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[PaintNothing]

I agree. That was one of the first things that popped up in my mind

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Seriously though these tools are great, i really hope they get bundled in with the latest hyperspin 2 build when it gets released. I went through all my setups checking the artwork and games via the easy to use table, i found nearly 3 errors with about 15 systems i would never have noticed by eye. It's great to finally have a fully working setup and know that it's 100% working, thanks again.

[evil eye]

Just thought of a potential idea for 3.1. Would anyone be interested in having the wheel icon and have the video play when you click on a game in the HyperList generator? I figure it might help you make decisions on whether or

not to filter a ROM.

Any thoughts? Is it worth the time to add?

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Sounds like a great idea!

[PaintNothing]

EMB, I am having a problem it's probably me not doing something right. When i use your list merger, to merge say a load of sports genres i have created using list splitter. I make one big xml called sports, this contains all the different sub genre's. I get it set up in hyperspin, got my wheel and background etc. I select a game and it comes up cannot find "name of genre" .ini?

It's like it's looking for the sports genre i merged? It's also done it with role-playing on my snes setup, i merged a load of other games into the list and now it doesn't find the ini when i launch the game in hyperspin, but when i create a rpg list out of the master xml without merging, it works fine? Am I doing something wrong?

[skullboy74]

These tools are invaluable. I was driving myself bonkers trying to figure out what I did wrong in the NES set of ROMS but then found that there was a new version (rc2). I had downloaded the previous version just the day before, so who would think there'd be a new one the next day. hehehe. Everything worked after that.... well, the emulator worked, but...

I'm fairly a newb to HS, so be gentle.

Question.

I seem to be having issues using HyperSync with my NES directories. It looks for the rom files, but acts like they are not there, so it doesn't download anything.

I selected the force option and downloaded my wheel art no problem.

Any ideas on what is going on? I didnt know if it's a directory thing I screwed up, or has something to do with something else.

Could it be a Renaming Issue:questionmark:

(I haven't had any issues with MAME or Daphne).

Thanks for any help!

[Bonky0013]

Thanks for your work

[emb]

Hey everyone. I wanted to give a heads up that I will likely not be on the forums to support anything for a while.

I ended up getting a promotion and it has been tying up a lot of my free time. Hopefully things will wind down soon.

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[jackhammersalm]

a rather godly idea

[Jumpstile]

Congrats, emb! Good luck in your new position!

- J*

[evil eye]

Congrats man, good luck and thanks for the heads up.

[MrX_Cuci]

Would it be possible to create a XML list from a directory? A lot of stuff is missing from the hyper spin XML files unfortunately. I use jap rooms for example.

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[emb]

EMB, I am having a problem it's probably me not doing something right. When i use your list merger, to merge say a load of sports genres i have created using list splitter. I make one big xml called sports, this contains all the different sub genre's. I get it set up in hyperspin, got my wheel and background etc. I select a game and it comes up cannot find "name of genre" .ini?

It's like it's looking for the sports genre i merged? It's also done it with role-playing on my snes setup, i merged a load of other games into the list and now it doesn't find the ini when i launch the game in hyperspin, but when i create a rpg list out of the master xml without merging, it works fine? Am I doing something wrong?

It seems as if there was a "name of genre.xml" that you imported into the list merger. After you added the XML, did you also update the System Name to represent the sytstem (e.g. Super Nintendo Entertainment System")? The list merger "guesses" what the system name is based on the XML file.

[Pyramid_Head]

I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow use your tools to copy themes by genre for example ( I have a fighting games wheel and driving games wheel I want to use themes from Mame/consoles but don't want to copy over the entire set if that makes sense? lol I guess this could be a feature request too if it's even possible

[emb]

I was wondering if it would be possible to somehow use your tools to copy themes by genre for example ( I have a fighting games wheel and driving games wheel I want to use themes from Mame/consoles but don't want to copy over the entire set if that makes sense? lol I guess this could be a feature request too if it's even possible

Yea, it's a pain in the arse for copying stuff over when dealing with multi wheel support. I might wait that feature out and see if it is fixed in HS 2.0

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[Pyramid_Head]

It sure is! Though I'm not really low on space or anything so I'll probably just copy over the entire sets till then

[lilsui1]

Quick question, what systems has the renaming tool been verified to work with? Thank you for your time. I'm stoked about these tools!

[emb]

I have used it against NES,SNES, genesis and 32X without any troubles. As long as the XML list contains a crc tag for that game, it should work, given that there is nothing unique with the ROM (headers and such).

(I think there might be some headers for A portable Atari system that I need to support)

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[Lionheart]

I have a folder for each playstation cue and bin game. The list Generator show N on game exists. What i´m doing bad?

[emb]

I have a folder for each playstation cue and bin game. The list Generator show N on game exists. What i´m doing bad?

It is likely because the HyperList generator does not support recursive scanning. I bet it would work if everything was in one directory. I'll add recursive functionality to the todo list.

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[RodentVienna]

I have been working with the tools today in production environment, and after 2 hrs my mouth is still open.

AWESOME WORK DUDE, SERIOUSLY! This is very similar to the gamesetmatch sourceforge project i was working with.

Here, have several Feature Ideas after working with the tools:

1) saw your own feature idea of adding video preview. please have in mind, that some users do not use video, and instead have a static PNG file instead of a FLV, which hyperspin is able to display. please if you do video support, have flv and png supported as video types

2) List Generator: Have Table Fields not only sortable, but also filterable (similar as in ms excel)

3) List Generator: Have Option to define a "Project Name", which is then used as default filename for all export files. Have a Directory automatically created based on $project_name for all project files.

4a) List Generator: Have Save Output XML also available for Ignore Lists (apply IGNORE_ as a prefix to the automatically generated filename from "3" in Save as Dialogue)

4b) List Generator: Option to Import Ignore Lists created from "4a". Use case: When updating Lists e.g. from MAME 0.144 to 0.146 the whole existing ignore list can be applied, reducing steps to create new personal list. Unapplicable entries would be moved to "Misnamed/Missing"

5a) List Generator: Ability to add custom columns to a project on a per-project-basis. e.g. Favorite, personal notes, personal ratings - names can be user-defined

5b) List Generator: Make entries within custom headers writable.

6) List Generator: Have textfield for project info, which gets commented on top of an XML file (MAME version, creator,"created by HS Tools 3.0rc2", etc)

7) List Generator: Provide Parent/Clone View that lists all clones alphabetically inside a parent entry

8) List Splitter: add indicator when creation is done

9) List Splitter: have ability to define "project name", have a folder created with $project_name, save as dialog defaults to this dir.

9a) List Splitter: have a "create all" option, that creates all lists within subfolders in one click- dir structure: $project_name/$based_on/$lists

10) List Splitter: have a "System" category to split into

11) List Generator / List Splitter: these two tools could be merged into one. List Splitter then would have another Tab "Split" - input taken from "Output XML" Tab, $project_name is shared

thanks so much, best tool in ages - especially with mame list xml support.

12) now if you would find a way to also include nplayers.ini, catver.ini and controls.xml, this tool would be universal for anybody who wants to benefit the scene, e.g. by filling missing entries in controls.xml or e.g. matching genres against new MAME versions.

i am so excited! really!

alex

[emb]

Thanks Alex! I appreciate the feed back. These are some of the most constructive comments I have heard for this project!

You really helped open more possibilities of what to throw into my next release. Again, I cannot emphasize how productive those comments are.

On an unrelated note, I love Austria. My wife and I flew over there to go skiing the other year. We stayed in Partenen.

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[RodentVienna]

OffT: there's more to see than skiing in Austria, but I strongly agree - living in flat vienna, the mountains are wonderful in Austria -during summertime even more than in winter in my opinion - i am not much a winter sports guy

OnT: you realized so much within List Generator, that Linulo and I wanted to realize through GSM, which never really launched, due to Linulo being busy a lot.

I will have a look into our GSM sourceforce project to dig out even more feature ideas. Thanks for the appretiation, I understand it is much more inspiring to deal with qualified feedback.

thanks and take care, kind regards

Alex

[RodentVienna]

More:

1) List Generator: When using Search functionality, the popup screen does not provide a "close" button. Instead one has to click Search in an empty to close the window. It works, but may be illogical to understand for a user.

2) List Generator: on toe bottom right corner the total amount of games displayed in tab are shown. This could be extended to permanently show stats from all 4 tabs on all 4 tabs:

Source XML: 10000 Games | Unused: 4000 Games | Ignored: 2500 Games | Output XML: 3500 Games | Displayed: 1500 Games (Displayed is used, if a table header displays filtered results)

3) List Generator: Ability to parse renameSET.dat and provide deviation output against existing XML lists (interesting for easy list updates between MAME revisions)

4) List Generator: the mame listxml output provides even more entries to display, sich as hor/vert/cocktail, may be nice to review the full list of available options.

5) List Splitter: when generating Genres, the generated XMLs are way more files and Genres, than the official HS ones.

I guess, this is OK, but should be extended by a function, that merges the genres generated by List Splitter into the official HS Genres.

In conjunction with earlier feature Idea, Subfolder creation would be named "GENRE_LISTSPLITTER" and "GENRE_HS_MERGED"

This could be done for Manufacturers as well.

in scope: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?19405-Manufacturers-Games-Pulled-From-MAME-with-Main-Menu-Themes&highlight=Manufacturers

For both Merge Ideas there is a transscript needed as which entries from Mame merge into what entries for HS.

I'll try to look around and find out.

kind regards

Alex