MAME loads some games in Hyperspin, but not others...

[jumpingjay]

I have Hyperspin set up, and it is working fairly well, just trying to get out some of the kinks here and there. The one that is bugging me the most right now is that I have all of the main MAME games that I love, but I am having a difficult time getting the various Mods of those games to run in Hyperspin.

Let's take Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition as an example. I have a ton of different versions of this game that I would love to be able to play and enjoy all of the differences, but Hyperspin seems to only display the ones that it wants to, not all of the ones that I have in the ROM folder or in the Mame.xml file. All of these games are listed in Hyperlaunch HQ and they are all showing as green and they can even be launched and played through Hyperlaunch HQ and the Mame Emulator, but they will not show up in Hyperspin unless I hit 'Tab', open up the control panel and manually select the game, and even sometimes then they won't play & lock up the system.

Anyway, here is some code from my .xml file. I think that the problem must lie here, but I could be way off. Just let me know what you think please.

The only game in this section that is working is the 'sf2ce', which I highlighted in red.

<game name="sf2v004" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (V004, bootleg)</description>
	<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>bootleg</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
<game name="sf2ceea" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (World 920313)</description>
	<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>Capcom</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
[color="#FF0000"]	<game name="sf2ce" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (World 920513)</description>
	<cloneof></cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>Capcom</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
[/color]	<game name="sf2koryu" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (Xiang Long, Chinese bootleg)</description>
	<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>bootleg</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>
<game name="sf2yyc" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (YYC, bootleg)</description>
	<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>bootleg</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>

[AxelTerizaki]

In HyperHQ, under the MAME wheel, do you have "only show parents" checked? It would thus only show SF2CE I believe, which might explain your issue.

You can keep it like that though so your wheel doesn't get polluted by multiple SF2CE titles, and enable Multigame in HLHQ so it prompts you which clone you want to run.

[gigapig]

Like Axel says, unchecking parents only makes a big mess out of your wheel.

Two ways round this that i can think of are to create your own xml, removing clones and other games you don't want. That can be done using Hypertools which could take sometime but is worthwhile but not so good if you regularly update your Rom set.

Adding the games to your favorites is another alternative.

[Dime333]

<game name="sf2ceea" index="" image="">
	<description>Street Fighter II': Champion Edition (World 920313)</description>
	<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>
	<crc></crc>
	<manufacturer>Capcom</manufacturer>
	<year>1992</year>
	<genre>Fighter</genre>
	<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>
	<enabled>Yes</enabled>
</game>

To display this game in Hyperspin after checking parents only. Edit this line:

<cloneof>sf2ce</cloneof>

And change it to this:

<cloneof></cloneof>

This will trick Hyperspin into thinking it is a parent game.

[jumpingjay]

I will try the changing the 'show parents only' suggestion first. My .xml file is custom, so that won't be a problem. I might a favorites or just a Street Fighter wheel eventually, but hopefully this will solve the problem short term.

I'll let you know!

[AxelTerizaki]

What about using MutliGame? The feature exists for this sole purpose.