Mame Clone SubWheel

[Blackened15]

Is there a way to have mame clones as a subwheel to parents. Would make browsing the Mame game list much nicer, while still giving the posibility of playing every version.

Mostly usefull for me for games I sometime rather play the 2player clone version with character choice, as opposed to the 4player parent version with character set in stone to each control.

[Agrajag]

There's currently no way of doing this but a new version of HyperSpin is in the works so maybe Bill will surprise us with a load of handy features like this.

EDIT: there IS a way! See below.

[fire10]

The easier way like me is to go into the mame.xml (im guessing you have hyperhq set as display parent only) and go to the clone that you want to have available in your list aswell as the parent ,ctrl F in the xml will help to do this just type the parent name and search this will also find the parent and all the clones to that parent, then remove the bit in the game section that says clone of for example <clone>goldnaxe<clone/> and just put <clone/> (you delete "goldnaxe<clone/>") it is important to put the forward slash in the remaining clone text like this <clone/> otherwise you will get xml errors. When you reload the hyperspin wheel you will be able to have for example 2 player and 4 player versions of the games you want without every clone for every game, it takes a little time but this was essential for me as the parent to games like sunset riders, tmnt moo mesa to name a few are 4 player versions and I have a 2 player cabinet. This way I can have both and play perfectly on my 2 player cab. I hope this helps you.

[fire10]

Heres a better example change this;

<game name="ssridersubc" index="" image="">

<description>Sunset Riders (2 Players ver UBC)</description>

<cloneof>ssriders</cloneof>

<crc>aca7fda5</crc>

<manufacturer>Konami</manufacturer>

<year>1991</year>

<genre></genre>

<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>

<enabled>Yes</enabled>

</game>

to this;

<game name="ssridersubc" index="" image="">

<description>Sunset Riders (2 Players ver UBC)</description>

<cloneof/>

<crc>aca7fda5</crc>

<manufacturer>Konami</manufacturer>

<year>1991</year>

<genre></genre>

<rating>Other - NR (Not Rated)</rating>

<enabled>Yes</enabled>

</game>

[Agrajag]

I just found this thread on the HyperLaunch site pointing back to two threads here that show how to do this with the rom mapping tool. I'm on my phone so haven't read it all or tried it.

http://www.hyperlaunch.net/forum/showthread.php?t=770

[fire10]

I think for me I just wanted to pick certain clones and also clones that I had nice themes for with their clone names etc. Works well