Anyone able to help? ROMS wont populate hyperspin

[kingoddball]

Hello!

 

I've been trying to get HS to populate all day.

Lost about 6 hours, doing and redoing the same things.

 

So - Problem; When I launch HS it shows the wheel with systems, click on MAME - It'll load right back to the wheel.

Zero roms, zero new pages.

Loads to a black fade into the wheel again.

 

What I have done;

Ver: 1.3.3

HyperLaunch: 3.1.0.5

 

HyperLaunchHQ; I have setup the frontend as hyperspin.

 

I have setup the MAME Global system - Set path for EMU and ROMS.

Went to MAME on left panel/Games, this has been setup - When I scan I get a bunch of green lines showing what is found.

I can click on a line, press the cool red rocket (hahahah) and the rom will load.

 

From here I cannot get anything into HS

 

I have checked countless videos (nothing is countless, probably 8+ vids) and they do the same, but in HS they have the roms populated.

 

So, I found another video showing to load up HyperHQ - Wheel/MAME and set the ROM Path here, check a few boxes (Parent roms etc).

I did this, nothing again. I also did this with no HyperLaunch interaction on a fresh install.

 

So... where have I gone wrong?

 

Fresh downloads of all files (HS/HL and EMU's) have not helped.

I'm sure it's something simple?

 

ANY help would be great!

 

I feel like the scanning and working from HyperLaunchHQ is a good start... But nothing after this.

 

Thanks again! 

 

Jason.

[JayC]

You have a xml database file for the games right? Otherwise download the latest databases and check that your roms are named correctly

[kingoddball]

Honestly, I have no idea about databases for this.

Just DL'd the files from here (400MB'ish) and that was it.

Do I need a DB file?

 

Sorry, would you know where I can get one? Kind of thought MAME had it built it?

 

I have also tried NES/N64 and the same issue. But! This is a start!!

[JayC]

Yes you need databases...try the download section and then hyperbase...there you'll find them

[JayC]

So you need a different database for easch system and they go into the Hyperspin/Databases/"system name" folder.

And your roms have to be named like the database for them to work!

[kingoddball]

I have downloaded a full DB, but how do I set this into HS?

I have tried to just replace the MAME.xml in hyperspin/databases/MAME.

 

I have also just tried to use Dons Hyperspin generator but a fun new problem...

For the Dons section Im using this as a guide:

 

http://gameroomsolutions.com/setup-hyperspin-mame-hyperlaunch-full-guide/

 

I have managed to get Don's to find the 6 roms I have, I exported as MAIN.xml to databases/MAIN.

But again, nothing is populated in HS.

 

In hyperloader any of the 6 roms will load fine.

 

Is there something wrong with a setting or?

 

This is getting painful.

 

HL-HQ seems to display everything correctly, HL loads games correctly.

 

Hyperspin just seems to crap out.

I have a new XML created for 6 games only, file is 3KB in size

 

But nothing

 

Does anyone have a guide on how this is to be done?

Using the attached guide above I got all the way to where you save the XML into /DB's/MAME and his one shows games, mine doesnt.

 

Theme of the day - not working.

 

At least its a fresh DB with all current games?

[JayC]

The database need to be named exactly like the system, so for MAME for example the database should be named MAME.xml and be in Hyperspin/Databases/MAME

 

Also check in HyperHQ (not hyperlaunchHQ) that you don't have any filters applied

 

this might be about the same problem: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/8768-hyper-launch-will-not-pickup-my-roms/#entry147756

[guyverjay]

if the games are showing up in hyperlaunch hq and he can launch them then the databases cannot be the issue

 

post a log file