RocketLauncher 1.0 Release!

[djvj]

Full release thread: http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/content.php?130-RocketLauncher-v1-0-Release!

 

We are proud to announce the release of RocketLauncher v1.0!

 

In this release, all instances of HyperLaunch have been replaced with RocketLauncher. Also what was once HyperLaunchHQ is now known as RocketLauncherUI and HyperPause is now known as Pause. As you can imagine, this was a very intensive change. Changing all references from one name to another takes a very long time to do it right. Certainly never want to do that again.

 

In case you haven't realized, the url is now www.rlauncher.com. The old domain will still bring you to the RL site for awhile until I decide to expire it. So update your bookmarks.

 

With this release, most of you will be happy that GIT is no more. You no longer need to be bothered installing another application to use RocketLauncher. I thank you all for putting up with it for the time until we could develop a proper method to get you updates. RocketLauncherUI now has a built-in updater that brolly did an excellent job with. Each time you launch RocketLauncherUI, and you are online, RocketLauncherUI will inform you if there are any new changes you need to download. All updates are handled internal to RocketLauncherUI. GIT will be taken down very shortly.

 

So going forward, please use RL when talking about RocketLauncher and RLUI when talking about RocketLauncherUI. If you use HL, we will assume you are talking about an older version, HyperLaunch 2.

 

To ease the transition from HyperLaunch v3.x to RocketLauncher, I created a Transition tool to do all the work for you. You will also find the links to the initial upgrade pack there as well. Please see this guide on how to use them. It's only a few clicks and you will be all set to use RocketLauncher:

http://www.rlauncher.com/wiki/index.php?title=Transition_From_HyperLaunch3

 

I'd also like to thank Warham and Marxkemp from IRC that helped me test this new release.

[Metalzoic]

Sounds great.

EDIT: Nevermind somehow I missed that you answered this right in the initial post. Thanks!

[Fromlostdays]

Awesome. 

[dougan78]

Congrats!

[potts43]

Good explanation [emoji120]

[AshuraX]

Congrats! and thanks

[macaco]

Great work, impressive as always.

[tom5151]

Hi, thanks for this new version. 

But I've got a pb with RocketLauncher.

My mame is well configured with a mame.ini, vertical.ini and horizontal.ini (for HLSL), plus a neogeo.ini (for setting unibios).

Everything is working fine if I use the command line.

If I launch a game with RocketLauncher, it looks like only my mame.ini is read but not the others ini files ?

Am I doing something wrong ?

[djvj]

Thanks everyone.

 

Tom, if you have an issue, this thread is not the place for it. Nothing in the mame module or how it loads inis was changed in this update. So there might be something not configured right or you may be doing something customized that is not yet supported in the module. Please create a thread over on the RL forum if you need help. I can tell you though, the other inis are not read by the module. You would need to go over how the module works and adjust your setup to match or maybe we can figure out something to make your unique setup work.

[gigapig]

Thank you DJ & brolly

[tom5151]

Tom, if you have an issue, this thread is not the place for it. Nothing in the mame module or how it loads inis was changed in this update. So there might be something not configured right or you may be doing something customized that is not yet supported in the module. Please create a thread over on the RL forum if you need help. I can tell you though, the other inis are not read by the module. You would need to go over how the module works and adjust your setup to match or maybe we can figure out something to make your unique setup work.

 

Thanks djvj and sorry for posting at the wrong place.

[dnbcyan]

Works great, thanks for the easy transition!

[Metalzoic]

Works great, thanks for the easy transition!

Does it? I read through those update instructions and thought "no way am I messing with that".

Maybe once the new Hyperspin is actually final and I have no choice.

[ninja2bceen]

One thing to keep in mind is before transitioning and if you want to still enjoy a number of third party apps, the developers of hypersearch (pietie), hyperxml spin,(Romano) multi script for startups(ghutch), likely hyperspeech (boogie man) too, maybe even the randomized (tempest) intro tool won't work. I know 3/4 of these have been confirmed not working so the developers will have to decode for those to work. I'm personally going to sit tight until then

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[dark13]

This may seems crazy but... is there any problem if you duplicate RocketLauncher.exe and reverts its name to HyperLaunch.exe, so in the RL folder there will be "RocketLauncher.exe" and "HypetLaunch.exe"? I mean, will HyperLaunch.exe work?

 

Again, this may seems foolish but changing the name of the launcher will definitely break HyperSearch as path and launcher's name is hardcoded in the app.

[cowbells]

Excited to try this out! Thanks for all your work djvj, brolly and anyone else involved in this project. You guys are truly legends in the emulation scene.

[djvj]

Thank you everyone.

 

dark13, that's a bad idea only because the old exe will probably error out if ran but also start writing old settings into your ini files and make it all confusing if you ever open them up. Once instance is the daemon tools settings that changed to virtualdrive. Thats the reason the transition tool deletes the old exes automatically, to prevent this.

 

Metal, it's actually very fast to update, I had it down to about 20 seconds here. I tried to cover a lot in the guide to eliminate confusion on steps.

[ninja2bceen]

If you like you system intro video to be different everytime at start up I guess or if you don't want a search feature and no ability to open multiple programs behind the scenes and auto close with hyperspin, those are core features that I'll miss. I can't wait to try the new rl though. Sounds super easy to maintain for future updates. Can we just bake these features in somehow

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[Metalzoic]

Thank you everyone.

 

dark13, that's a bad idea only because the old exe will probably error out if ran but also start writing old settings into your ini files and make it all confusing if you ever open them up. Once instance is the daemon tools settings that changed to virtualdrive. Thats the reason the transition tool deletes the old exes automatically, to prevent this.

 

Metal, it's actually very fast to update, I had it down to about 20 seconds here. I tried to cover a lot in the guide to eliminate confusion on steps.

The instructions look really good, but it also looks like it may break names/paths and a lot of time re-setting things up. That's not the case?

[djvj]

It's not breaking paths for anything that takes time to setup, they all stay the same. Nothing regarding emulators is changing. We've always supported relative paths for that exact reason. The base folder name doesn't change anything.

[dark13]

dark13, that's a bad idea only because the old exe will probably error out if ran but also start writing old settings into your ini files and make it all confusing if you ever open them up. Once instance is the daemon tools settings that changed to virtualdrive. Thats the reason the transition tool deletes the old exes automatically, to prevent this.

 

 

Thank you very much, I'll run some tests and see it by myself. I know this is a freaking mess but I really want to use latest builds of RL/HS and maintaining HSearch functionality so unless petie will pop up with a fix I need to find and usable "porkaround"

[ninja2bceen]

Agreed. Ghutch is fixing the multi script;

Can someone send Romano the changed ini files so he can fixed hyperxml spin?

Can someone confirm that the randomized for intro videos work? Can someone confirm that hyperspeech v9 works?

I've been talking Romano into cloning hypersearch btw

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[justice999]

Thanks Djvj, very nice work.

 

I will be waiting for a new stable version of HS before using RL. I cant wait to!

 

Thanks again!

[ninja2bceen]

I'm going to keep this alive...things keeping me from updating

hypersearch (pietie) app doesn't work but hyperxml has a hotkey search. Someone want to test that?

hyperxml spin,(Romano) he needs someone to test compatibility of the new version

multi script for startups(ghutch), is in progress of updating

hyperspeech (boogie man) can someone confirm this doesn't work and if doesn't I have the ahk file but don't know what to do with it. Is this an active member that can update the app?

The intro video randomizer (tempest) Does this work in the new versions?

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[potts43]

I'm going to keep this alive...things keeping me from updating

hypersearch (pietie) app doesn't work but hyperxml has a hotkey search. Someone want to test that?

hyperxml spin,(Romano) he needs someone to test compatibility of the new version

multi script for startups(ghutch), is in progress of updating

hyperspeech (boogie man) can someone confirm this doesn't work and if doesn't I have the ahk file but don't know what to do with it. Is this an active member that can update the app?

The intro video randomizer (tempest) Does this work in the new versions?

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Is it the new Hyperspin beta or Rocketlaunch that has issues with these third party apps?

[ninja2bceen]

Both yes. I can test the hyperspin beta cuz I'm basic

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