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I will try to keep this guide up to date with the latest versions of HyperSpin and RocketLauncher. Also I'm adverse to making videos, because I don't want to make a new video every time something is updated, I find it easier just to edit a pic and text guide then recording a new video and editing links. All guides will assume you know how to navigate files and folders in windows. Translations Español - Admoroux This is for a new install. I'm assuming you know your way around folders and files in windows To download HyperSpin first you need to get the necessary support files from version 1.3.3 http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/5599-hyperspin-133-full-install/ and then overwrite with the contents from the beta http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/files/file/7500-hyperspin-14/ I'm gonna use the C drive in the examples. Any drive letter is ok Now extract the contents of the download to a HyperSpin folder on the root of your drive. Example: C:\HyperSpin The path to your HyperSpin.exe should now be C:\HyperSpin\HyperSpin.exe Now you need to get RocketLauncher which is a fork of HyperLaunch, but with more active development. Download it here. http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=1. The archive (zip) password is www.rlauncher.com Extract Rocketlauncher into a RocketLauncher folder on the root of your drive (C:\RocketLauncher) and make sure the path to RocketLauncher.exe is C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe and NOT C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe Get back in your HyperSpin folder. This time we are gonna do some manual ini editing . Open your Settings folder in your HyperSpin folder C:\HyperSpin\Settings. Find the file named Settings.ini, open it in notepad. You should see at the top a line that reads [Main]. Right up under the [Main] line add Hyperlaunch_Path= C:\RocketLauncher\RocketLauncher.exe Open your RocketLauncher folder (C:\RocketLauncher), now look for the RocketLauncherUI folder open it and then open RocketLauncherUI.exe. If you are having trouble opening RocketLauncherUI and you get some message about failing to initialize, you will need to download Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to get RocketLauncherUI to work. You will be greeted with a prompt asking you to update. Choose yes. Choose 'Latest' in the dropdown. Click on Check Updates at the bottom of the window. Wait for it to finish and then click Apply Updates. Close the update window. You can update in the future using the update button in the RocketLauncherUI tab (the update button looks like a globe with arrows.) You're thinking wow, so many settings this is too complicated. Well that's your fault for wanting lots of customization . RocketLauncherUI will probably restart wait for RocketLauncherUI to restart and then close RocketLauncherUI. Open your RocketLauncher folder (C:\RocketLauncher), now look for the Settings folder, open it and then rename Global Emulators (example).ini to Global Emulators.ini (Make sure you can see the extension: Known Extensions Are Set to Show) If there is already a file called Global Emulators.ini replace it with the example one. Open your RocketLauncher folder (C:\RocketLauncher), now look for the RocketLauncherUI folder open it and then open RocketLauncherUI.exe Look for the big tab on the right with the RocketLauncherUI image and click on it. Now look for a smaller tab called "Frontends" beneath the row of big tabs and click on it Click the green + under the small tabs and add a new frontend (here you can add different frontends like gamex or kodi). In the popup window titled Add Frontend: for the first blank, set the name to HyperSpin for the second blank, Click the Magnifying glass to the right and locate your HyperSpin.exe application. (C:\HyperSpin\Hyperspin.exe which should look like ..\..\HyperSpin.exe if you are following the guide) for the RocketLauncherUI plugin, choose Hyperspin in the dropdown box. for the RocketLauncher plugin, choose Hyperspin in the dropdown box. click on the button that looks like a blue floppy disk to save, if the button is not available just click the red x button to close and save the window. Highlight the HyperSpin frontend item in the list you just added and: click on the button that looks like a folder with a thumbtack (bulletin board pin) to set HyperSpin as your default frontend. (default frontend means RocketLauncherUI will always start up with this frontend) click on the button that looks like a robot terminator red eye to set HyperSpin as the active frontend. (active frontend means the frontend that you are currently working on in RocketLauncherUI) Look in the left near the top of the RocketLauncherUI main window for the words "Select a System" under it you should see a button that looks like two green arrows making a circle. Click on the circular green arrows button to refresh the systems list to match the active frontend. You can now close RocketLauncherUI or leave it open (you will need to open it later in this guide). Now to make full use of RocketLauncher we want to download the media pack. http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/downloads.php?do=file&id=2 Extract the contents of the media pack into your RocketLauncher folder (C:\RocketLauncher). Congrats you have now installed HyperSpin + RocketLauncher! You think you're done don't you, but you're wrong. There is still more to go. Gasp. We don't have any emulators yet. Ok then let's try to set one up, how about we do the most popular one. MAME Download the binary unless you plan on compiling your own version. (there are some benefits to compiling, hiscores and nonag being the most popular) Now let's create a new folder on your root drive called Emulators. C:\Emulators -this is not required but it is recommended Now inside this folder create a new folder named after the emulator called MAME. C:\Emulators\MAME Now inside your emulator folder install MAME. So the path to your mame.exe or mame64.exe should be C:\Emulators\MAME\mame.exe Congrats you have installed an emulator. Now to get it working with RocketLauncher and ultimately HyperSpin. Open your RocketLauncher folder (C:\RocketLauncher), now look for the RocketLauncherUI folder open it and then open RocketLauncherUI.exe On the left hand side in RocketLauncherUI you will see a list of all our systems and at the top is a system called Global (not actually a system in HyperSpin). Changing settings in Global affects all of your settings in every system. Consider this the default settings. Ok now highlight the Global System and click on the big tab Emulators. If you installed correctly (didn't skip steps like step 9) you will be greeted with a long list of emulator names. Scroll down this list until you find MAME. Double click on it. A new window will appear. Fill in the path value by clicking on the magnifying glass to the right of the path entry and find your MAME emulator. Close this window if the values for module and rom extensions are already filled. Now highlight the MAME system in the systems list. and click on the big tab Emulators. Add the path to your MAME roms in the rom paths field by clicking on the green plus button. For most mame installations it's in the same folder as mame.exe in a folder called roms. C:\Emulators\MAME\roms For other systems, I personally put roms in a folder separate from hyperspin and the emulator folder, something like C:\Games\systemName\gameName.extension ROMS are not included with MAME or HyperSpin or RocketLauncher. Do not ask for roms on this forum, it will get you banned. Google is your friend for this. Now back in RocketLauncherUI choose your default emulator by clicking on the Magnifying glass. Choose MAME [global] from the list that appears. Congrats! you have now setup MAME within RocketLauncher. Now to setup MAME for use with HyperSpin. First get the latest MAME xml from HyperList http://hyperlist.hyperspin-fe.com/ Drop the xml you downloaded into C:\HyperSpin\Databases\MAME\ and rename it to MAME.xml. If it asks you to overwrite, choose yes. XML management can be a pain and so can renaming all those roms that you legally copied from your personal collection of actual games that you legally acquired through legal purchases. For emulators other than MAME or MESS you will need to make sure that the file names for your roms match the names for the games found in your xml. For the best hyperspin xml management and renaming applications use Don's HyperSpin Tools or check out the beta version of HyperTools.zip (thanks, emb). I think that's it for a basic installation. It will be hard and time consuming to get artwork and videos until you subscribe to emumovies and receive platinum status here by donating. Oh wait I almost forgot, whenever any one says edit your module settings they usually mean open RocketLauncherUI click on your system, click on the big modules tab, highlight the module you are using, and then click on the Edit Global Settings button. A little bit more info can be found here & here. If you liked this guide and want to say thank you, hit the like button at the bottom of this post. Hyperspin and RocketLauncher Compatibility Fix.zip

HyperSpin 1.5.1 Public Release DOWNLOAD HERE UPGRADE ONLY DOWNLOAD With this new release, we're fixing a bug that was reported on the forums. While we were at it, we added a new feature: Animated Wheels. SWF wheels are animated wheels using the SWF format which can be created using Adobe Flash or Adobe Animate. The output SWF file can be placed in the wheel image directory just like other PNG images. Wherever there exists a PNG wheel image and a SWF wheel image with the same name, the SWF will take priority when showing on the wheel. SWF wheel items will load and be initially paused on the first frame while spinning the wheel. When you land on a menu item there will be a brief delay, then the SWF will begin playback. Further instructions and the demo swf are attached below. Demo 1942 SWF Wheel: HyperSpin 1.5.1 from EmuMovies on Vimeo. INSTRUCTIONS: If you already have an install of HyperSpin, all you need is the .exe files for HyperSpin, HyperTheme, and HyperHQ. Otherwise, unpack to the desired location as usual. Changelog: Animated Wheels Windows 10 (1803) Support From the whole team, I want to give a huge thank you to everyone that reported the recent Windows 1803 issue and worked with us to debug the problem. SWF_Wheel_Support_Instructions_for_HS_1.5.1.pdf 1942.swf

Hi Hyperspinners, Its been far too long since we had an active Content Authority (Media Approver) please take a minute to smash the mushroom button on any of @JSinn 's posts. He has been busy in our Uploads section this week picking through the chaos. There have been some recent changes to Uploading as we will be slimming down the categories over time, it's a work in progress so any comments or issues please post HERE Now for the updates... Update #1 Letter Packs approved and moved to HyperMedia (sorry if we miss anyone we are doing our best to keep track) Update #2 Main Menu Wheels Update #3 Sound Packs And Jsinn even added a little Sounds icon to improve the screenshots! (See bottom of post) Update #4 Cart/Disc/Hucard/UMD/Cassette/Floppy Disk Packs Update #5 Box/Case/Flyer Packs Update #6 Databases/Bezels/Fades/Random Media/Templates/Frontend Media Update #7 Wheels 91 Wheel and Misc Files Game and Main Menu Wheels - Microsoft MS-DOS - [Hi Quality] - relic Game Wheel - Chicken Draw! (chkndraw) - MAME - [Lo Quality] - Publio Game Wheels + Template - Cell Phone - Android - [HQ Mid Res] - mpillings Game Wheels - Aamber Pegasus - [Hi Quality] - Complete - haimbilia Game Wheels - Additions Vol.1 - MAME - [Hi Quality] - harleyguy Game Wheels - Amstrad CPC - [Lo Quality] - relic Game Wheels - Android - [Mid Quality] - kllngtme Game Wheels - Apple II - [Mid Quality] - brizalti Game Wheels - ArcadePC - [Hi Quality] - Complete - Styphelus Game Wheels - Atari 7800 - [Hi Quality] - Complete - Styphelus Game Wheels - Atari Lynx - [Mid Quality] - Complete - Flubbacrud Game Wheels - Blue Bordered - Sony PSP - Fzyfam Game Wheels - Blue Text - Luxor ABC 80 - relic Game Wheels - Casio PV-2000 - Anpanman Game Wheels - Cell Phone Framed - Android - [Mid Quality] - aloner187 Game Wheels - Chrome Border - Fujitsu FM Towns - [Lo Quality] - relic Game Wheels - ColecoVision - [Hi Quality] - Complete - iNTiGOD Game Wheels - Commodore 64 - [Hi Quality] - dougan78 Game Wheels - Commodore 64 Games System - [Mid Quality] - Prial Game Wheels - Commodore MAX Machine - [Mid Quality] - Complete - danielbicio Game Wheels - Custom Bordered - Bandai Sufami Turbo - [Hi Quality] - Complete - ninja2bceen Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Future Pinball - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Hikaru (5) - Gaelco (2) - Cave (17) - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Konami Classic (250 Wheels) - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Magnavox Odyssey 2 - [Mid Quality] - relic Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Microsoft MS-DOS - [Lo Res] - relic Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Nintendo DS - [Mid Quality] - steelseth Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Nintendo Famicom Disk System - [Lo Quality] - darkstar1 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - PopCap - [Hi Quality] - skeo Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Sammy Atomiswave - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - ScummVM - [Hi Quality] - danielbicio Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Sega Naomi - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Sony PlayStation Minis - [Hi Quality] - dougan78 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Sony PSP - [Hi Quality] - predator2029 Game Wheels - Custom Framed - Touhou Project - [Hi Quality] - danielbicio Game Wheels - Custom Metallic - Sega Genesis/Mega Drive - [Complete] - ruckage Game Wheels - Custom Text - Apple IIGS - [Complete] - Tribe Fan Game Wheels - DICE - [Hi Quality] - Complete - dougan78 Game Wheels - Docklet Style - Pinball Arcade - [HQ Hi Res] - andyco40 Game Wheels - Docklet Style - Pinball FX2 - [HQ Hi Res] - andyco40 Game Wheels - Electronic Handheld Games - [Lo Quality] - cybernoid Game Wheels - Floppy Disk - Apple II - [Lo Quality] - Ernisius Game Wheels - Framed Rainbow Text - Nintendo Game Boy Color - relic Game Wheels - GamePark 32 - [Mid Quality] - Complete - ninja2bceen Game Wheels - Gray - EvilDindon's Default MAME Theme w/Mamu's Icons - zorg2000k Game Wheels - Hyperspin' s Ultimate DooM Single player Collection - [Hi Quality] - KlopjerO Game Wheels - Microsoft MSX2 - [Mid Quality] - Complete - danielbicio Game Wheels - Microsoft MSX2 - [Mid Quality] - danielbicio Game Wheels - NEC PC Engine - [Lo Quality] - Rick74 Game Wheels - NEC PC Engine - [Lo Quality] - rikoos Game Wheels - NEC SuperGrafx - [Hi Quality] - Complete - danielbicio Game Wheels - NEC Turbografx-16 - [Mid Quality] - Styphelus Game Wheels - Neo Geo Pack for HyperSpin Redesign - scoob95 Game Wheels - NES Classic - [Lo Quality] - lwr0722003 Game Wheels - Nintendo 64DD - [Hi Quality] - Complete - jd83jd83 Game Wheels - Nintendo Classics - [Hi Quality] - iNTiGOD Game Wheels - Nintendo Super Game Boy - [Lo Quality] - Complete - ninja2bceen Game Wheels - Orange Bordered - Magnavox Odyssey - [Lo Quality] - relic Game Wheels - PC Games - [Mid Quality] - Womble Game Wheels - PC-Games - Some are in German - [Mid Quality] - Womble Game Wheels - Pinball Arcade - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Pinball FX2 - [Hi Quality] - FRANKY2056 Game Wheels - Red - EvilDindon's Default MAME Theme w/Mamu's Icons - zorg2000k Game Wheels - ScummVM - [Mid Quality] - danielbicio Game Wheels - Sega Classics - [Hi Quality] - iNTiGOD Game Wheels - Sega Mark III - [Mid Quality] - relic Game Wheels - Sega Saturn (Japan) - [HQ Hi Res] - Complete - Black Hazor Game Wheels - Sega SG-1000 - [Hi Quality] - Complete - JayC Game Wheels - Sharp X68000 - [Lo Quality] - relic Game Wheels - Sinclair ZX Spectrum - [Mid Quality] - dougan78 Game Wheels - Sinclair ZX Spectrum - [Mid Quality] - relic Game Wheels - SNK Neo Geo CD - [Mid Quality] - Blitzkrieg Game Wheels - Sony PSP - [Mid Quality] - danielbicio Game Wheels - Super Mario Collection - [Mid Quality] - Dubbloseven Game Wheels - Text White Border - Nintendo Game & Watch - cybernoid Game Wheels - Top 100 Games XML - Nintendo DS - [Lo Quality] - vaderag Game Wheels - Touhou Project - [Mid Quality] - Complete - danielbicio Game Wheels - VM Labs NUON - [Lo Quality] - jd83jd83 Game Wheels - White Framed - ScummVM (set 1) - THK (PDAisAok additions) Game Wheels - WoW Action Max - [Hi Quality] - Complete - kylecp1979 Genre Wheel - Lightgun - TITCHGAMER Genre Wheel - Trackball Games - TITCHGAMER Genre Wheels - Custom - Nintendo 64 - [Hi Quality] - ScoobaSteveo Genre Wheels - Custom - PcTeknic Genre Wheels - Custom - Sega Genesis - [Hi Quality] - ScoobaSteveo Genre Wheels - Custom Oval Framed - relic Letter Pack - Hyperspin's Ultimate DooM Single player Collection - KlopjerO Main Menu and Game Wheels - Hyper Neo Geo 64 - [Hi Quality] - malfacine Main Menu and Genre Wheels - Fighting Games - MAME - Dubbloseven Main Menu Wheels - Chicuelo's Wheel Design for HyperSpin Redesign - deejus679 Nintendo Power Covers - [Mid Quality] - Complete - style214