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First off, a huge thank you to everyone who’s been testing, reporting bugs, and sharing feedback. Your input has been invaluable, and I really appreciate the patience as we work through everything. I know we didn’t have a launch last week, and I wanted to address that. Some core systems—especially the cache system and UI updates—needed more work before they were ready. Rather than pushing out something unfinished, we took the extra time to make sure things were in a better state before releasing. It’s still a beta, so expect some rough edges, but we feel this build is in a much better place than it would have been last week. Over the past two weeks, we’ve overhauled the UI in all settings pages, made system setup smoother, optimized downloads, and added MUGEN support. You can now add multiple systems at once, pick multiple folders when selecting game directories, and we’ve made major improvements to cache handling, controller support, and error logging. Here’s what’s new: HyperHQ RetroArch Core Selector – No more manual typing! Select the core from a dropdown, and we’ll handle the command. For customization, click Advanced. System Setup Improvements – Automatically creates all override folders when adding new systems. New System Support – Added support for systems without a complete game list. Media Sounds Bug Fixed – Prevented duplicate downloads. Download Improvements EmuMovies video downloads are now optimized. Fixed issue where new downloads were not set as active. ROM Management Fix – Deleted games will no longer reappear. New Refresh Option – Added the ability to refresh overrides. MUGEN Support Added – Clear your system cache in the cache menu for the best experience. Updated System Add Component – Now supports adding multiple systems at the same time. Updated LED Blinky Support. Fixed Launching Error Logs. Multiple Folder Selection – Now possible when selecting game folders. Cache & Log System Improvements Updated Cache Service – Dozens of tweaks to fix corruption and errors. Updated Log System – More logs added for cache tracking. Updated UI for Cache Page – Improved settings menu for better navigation. UI Updates Updated UI for All Settings Pages – Improved design, layout, and usability across all settings menus. Updated UI for Intro & Outro Videos – Enhanced layout and functionality. Updated Plugin Page UI – Improved design and usability. HyperSpin Controller Fixes – Resolved issues where the main menu wasn’t responding to controllers. HyperTheme ThemeBuilder Fix – Fixed a double-select error. Profile Management Fix – Resolved errors when deleting a client. Collection Theme Errors Fixed – Various improvements for a smoother experience. In the Works: Revamped Controller Support One of the biggest things we’re working on right now is revamped controller support with direct HID input control. The goal is to eliminate the remaining controller issues and provide a more seamless, native experience. This is still in development, but early testing looks promising. More details soon! Thanks again for all your support, testing, and feedback. I know waiting an extra week for this one wasn’t ideal, but we wanted to make sure things were in a better place before pushing it out. As always, let me know if you run into anything, and we’ll keep making it better. Happy gaming!

We're probably going to be keeping this on the forums for the foreseeable future. One less place to manage those changes. In app could be cool when we have a slower release cadence though!

Emulator override is available in the rom edit view

Better 4:3 support is in the works. I'll leave this updated as a place where I can post updates as we go. We're targeting Widescreen and higher res for the first round of testing, but its coming!

Changed Severity to 1 - Highest Priority Changed Current Status to In Work

This should be fixed in the version coming out in a day or so

So a few things here. First, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes to build and write the cache file. It first builds it in memory and then tries to write it to the intended directory. The users folder is pretty light on permissions, which is why we chose to write the databases there. I'm looking into your specific case now. I think I need to add more logging to figure out precisely what the issue is. We're wrapping up this weeks build, and then I will get logging into the end of week build for you if possible.

We're rebuilding the controller interfaces to cover these scenarios. We're adding HID support directly.

Changed Severity to 3 - Medium Priority Changed Current Status to In Work

Thanks! I'll look into this and report back here

Can you give me a little bit more of a description here

This error is removed in the next version. It's a process that cleans up any open AHK instances after the close of the emulator. So not a "real" bug as its just saying there was nothing to clean up.

Thanks! we're looking into it now.

This is referring to game music. So if you have an mp3 of music from the game, it will mute the emumovies audio and play that file instead. This is in the overrides if you want to update it yourself.

These are in hyperspin. Its talking about the transitions between themes. For instance, the new theme elements would come on to the screen but the old background is there for a few moments while it transitions away

Changed Development Feedback to I'll make a guide for this soon. It basically watches whatever folder you selected when you added your rom directory. If you add a rom there, it should auto import. Currently this is an early alpha feature. I plan on giving lots of tools around this in settings in the future.

This will be on hypertheme. We're finishing up the design work on it now. ETA is about a month or so depending on testing.

Main menu [install location]\media\Systems\_overrides\MainMenu\MainMenuMarquee Game Marquees [install location]\media\Systems\_overrides\[system name]\GameMarquee

So it looks like these are all systems that we don't have up to date databases for. We're working down the list, but the next build of HQ will handle this event more gracefully. I'll update this post when the next version is released

Also, please make sure hyperspin is not running when you try to create the cache file

1) no they should not be in the same folder. HyperHQ is a subfolder of hyperspin 2) perfect 3) this shouldnt be the issue. do you have a cache.hsdata file in the users folder?

That is a permissions issue. "Access denied" while trying to write to a user folder. Please delete the cache.hsdata file in the folder @jesfknkrys mentioned. If its still an issue - its likely because you need to elevated the permissions for hyperhq

Changed Development Feedback to What happens when you revalidate override cache? Same issue?

Changed Severity to 2 - High Priority Changed Current Status to In Work

Thank you so much for posting videos so I can see the issue! Yes we're aware that the dynamic image calculation needs fixed for themes. This is one of the changes we're going to be making in the coming weeks. I'll leave this bug open to track it.