HyperMarquee

[Antos]

3 hours ago, gigapig said:

Had a corrupted Hypermarquee xml today which caused Hyperspin to run very badly. Luckily I had a backup.

Thanks for sharing. It heard about corrupted EDS in the past (seems to be fixed now), but it is the first time I heard about corrupted HyperMarquee. Make it read only to prevent such thing as an easy solution. Let us know. 

[gigapig]

So I have mame marquees working and an alternative path which points to the mame wheels. What I would like to do now is add unique marquees for another system as well.

What is the simplest way to do that? Thank you.

[Antos]

I will be happy to help. Not sure I understand.. my English is not strong.

You want alternative arts for mame but unique for another system? Can I have a specific example?

 

[gigapig]

1 hour ago, Antos said:

I will be happy to help. Not sure I understand.. my English is not strong.

You want alternative arts for mame but unique for another system? Can I have a specific example?

 

Yes sure. So mame is working fine but I would like to add the NES marquees that are being done. The only way I could think to do it would be add another instance of Hypermaquee in EDS.

Thanks Antos

Ps. Currently all other systems arr using the alternate artwork which is the wheel images.

[Antos]

Please show me a screenshot of your HyperMarquee Artwork tab.

[sevenseal]

Please show me a screenshot of your HyperMarquee Artwork tab.

in the directory setup, use a wildcard for system 

for mame in the directory use should use [system]

 

so that it look similar to this

 

c:\hyperspin\media\[system]\artwork \

 

how you select your alternative directory first has more prior than the bottem directory below it in HM

 

so you will need to rearrange what folder you want hm to see first to be first top one of all of your multiple sources

 

the way hm work, it will stop when it finds first file it is looking for, so if it is in the very first folder in your listing, hm will display that .

 

 

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[gigapig]

Thank you gentlemen, with the information you supplied and a bit of thought I have it working. I added the System wild card and named my folders correctly.

The line in the xml now looks like this.

<ArtworkPathLocation>C:\HyperSpin\RocketLauncher\Media\Marquees\[System]\[FileName].jpg</ArtworkPathLocation>

Does the extension do anything because all the media is png?

[sevenseal]

Thank you gentlemen, with the information you supplied and a bit of thought I have it working. I added the System wild card and named my folders correctly.

The line in the xml now looks like this.

C:\HyperSpin\RocketLauncher\Media\Marquees\[system]\[FileName].jpg

Does the extension do anything because all the media is png?

yes the extension does matter,

 

you can either change it to match .png so it selective of what type of file to use or remove the extension all together so it finds whatever image is there with that name

 

example

C:\HyperSpin\RocketLauncher\Media\Marquees\[system]\[FileName]

 

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[vincefaro]

I am having trouble with EDS , and HM . My Setup is this, Im trying to get HM to work , I have EDS working and it seems to be running while HS is running , however, HM is not running while HS is running and I have no Marquees working.  I  Don't think LEDblinky is running either . I am pretty sure I have all DIR pointing to the right places. Any Ideas? 

Windows 7 

ATI HD 4330

16 gb RAM

HS 1.4

HM 4.1.6

EDS  Version  .81

 

[Antos]

Ok, do you have ledblinky? If so disable it for testing. You should check one thing at the time.

Lets also forget HS for now.

- In EDS, what it's happening when you click test? Do you see burger time marquee?

 

Also

- in EDS thick the Log output checkbox in the global settings button

- put the first EDS param to true instead of false in your parameter text list.

tel me what you can observe. 

[vincefaro]

I do have LEDBLinky, I will disable it  .

 

When I click try , Nothing happens ., Here is the log.

 

 

 

Event Log - EDS.txt

[Antos]

Please send your HM log too.

Does HM opens empty? Not opening at all?

[Antos]

42 minutes ago, vincefaro said:

I do have LEDBLinky, I will disable it  .

 

When I click try , Nothing happens ., Here is the log.

 

 

 

Event Log - EDS.txt

I can see something wrong, your file name in your parameter has to be the same in the PipeID. Digital_text is not the file you are looking for.

[vincefaro]

4 minutes ago, Antos said:

I can see something wrong, your file name in your parameter has to be the same in the PipeID. Digital_text is not the file you are looking for.

Ok, That helped a bit. Now, In EDS when i click try, It opens up HM. But I do not see any Marquee it is blank. 

Static Event Log - mame-marquee_artwork.txt

[Antos]

Log is empty, put true as the 1st param.

Did you read the manual first?

In EDS, HM, first try to point to an image without wild cards. If the image shows, then add one wild card at the time.

[vincefaro]

Ok, yes I did that . It does see a single image . I added one wildcard and the image is blank . 

[Antos]

What is your wild card? try it lower case

[Antos]

If it's FileName, work around the link, make sure it is perfect and thy it with several games rom name. It has to work.

[Antos]

Also, make sure that yor image is png and your marquee type is artwork. I found fishy that you had digital-text initially. You can't simply rename your config file and expecting it will work for anther type.

[vincefaro]

Hi, Thanks for your help. I had this working with the previous version EDS, And Hypermarquee . I did change my Computer and had to reinstall both items , I upgraded both, And I am trying to get them to work again. I do have .png's in my Marquee folder, and  they do work as a single image in HM . Also, in EDS they work when I try different Marquees 

[vincefaro]

 It works now! Thank you for the help. Now That's fixed , how abput LEDBlinky? Are my settings in EDS ok ?  

[aarikg]

Wondering if I could get a little help I am struggling a little, the first issue is I am having is that I can't get my Alt art to work. I know it may sound strange but I am also pretty sure I pulled the main Marquee location out of the path entirely and it still showed marquees but no wheel art when it needed too. Along the same lines I would love to show cabinet art ect. on another screen or panel on the same one. but all I get is the black hyper panel window. I included a pic of the HiToText also because I can't get that either but I am more concerned with the Art right now.

[mamefan]

4 minutes ago, aarikg said:

Wondering if I could get a little help I am struggling a little, the first issue is I am having is that I can't get my Alt art to work. I know it may sound strange but I am also pretty sure I pulled the main Marquee location out of the path entirely and it still showed marquees but no wheel art when it needed too. Along the same lines I would love to show cabinet art ect. on another screen or panel on the same one. but all I get is the black hyper panel window. I included a pic of the HiToText also because I can't get that either but I am more concerned with the Art right now.

The system image folder (pic 3) should be where you keep your system wheel images (MAME, NES, Genesis, etc.), not game wheel images. That 2nd line in pic 2 doesn't seem like it should be there. If it is, your game wheel images will never show. Also, your "[game]" "[system]" "event" text is wrong. Make it match mine exactly in my video on youtube (videoserver3000).

[aarikg]

Yeah I threw that in there to see if I could get anything else to show up, sorry it is gone now. I also had it matched exactly like yours in the video and that didn't work(it worked but would not show wheel when needed). Someone else's video said you need it this way so i tried it I will switch it back.

[mamefan]

41 minutes ago, aarikg said:

Yeah I threw that in there to see if I could get anything else to show up, sorry it is gone now. I also had it matched exactly like yours in the video and that didn't work(it worked but would not show wheel when needed). Someone else's video said you need it this way so i tried it I will switch it back.

Here are my current EDS settings. I talked to the dev, and he said it should be "[game]" "[system]" "" [event] . That's three quote marks in between [system] and [event]. I don't remember why. The true or false in the beginning of that line is whether it outputs to a log (false is no, true is yes). I couldn't get the latest version to output to a log though. I reduced my close filters because I was having an issue where marquees would stop showing during the attract mode, and doing that seemed to help. That launch applications on FE start checkbox must not matter since I don't have it checked.