Creezz67

Hopefully they are scrapping it completely and looking at upgrading Hyperspin 1.5 instead. This is what we all want

Try adding 20-30 systems …. it takes 10+ minutes to load. I have 600+ on HS 1.5 … I wonder how long that would take to load ?

The more you add the slower it gets …. EXACTLY the same as Launchbox. Hyperspin 2 is just a copy & paste of Launchbox which even 7 years after release is like a Ferrari with a Ford Fiesta engine. But what do I know.

Hyperspin 2.0 is not Hyperspin anymore. By tying it all up behind encryption, no xmls , all having to use the same themes, can’t backup your files , it’s not portable and on and on is the reason why I want Hyperspin 1.5 updated instead. At best it will just be another Launchbox and that has a 7 year head start on Hyperspin 2. I bet if you had asked all your members what they wanted before you started Hyperspin 2 as it is , 90% would have said to rewrite Hyperspin 1.5 and keep it all as it was with improved resolution etc To not just upgrade Hyperspin 1.5 (which still to this day is THE GOAT of front ends) and go in another direction instead is just unbelievable. I have been a member for over a decade and have all fronts including Launchbox. None come close to Hyperspin. I hope I am proved wrong and Hyperspin 2 surpasses 1.5 , but I can already see it won’t. ps, Thanks for the reply

Seeing as Hyperspin has decided to discontinue Hyperspin 1.5 and therefore it’s just going to sit on a computer alone for all eternity , why can’t you now make it Opensource ? The new Hyperspin 2.0 has no similarities to it either. At least then the people who still love to use it can see it improved to run at high resolutions etc. if not, can someone just take a look at it to see if it can be upgraded to 1920x1080 while we wait for Hyperspin 2.0 to get to any kind of working level. IMO it will be years before it’s running anywhere close to 1.5 (if ever)

Here is my log HyperHQ-2025-02-22-10-28-49.log

Unless he changes Hyperspin 2 completely and reverts back to using xml’s and making a portable system like Hyperspin 1.5 this is doomed from the start. There is NO way anyone is building a system with 100’s of wheels with it all being encrypted and no way to back it up or change it at will. Even Launchbox still uses xml and it’s portable so there is no excuse. I just can’t understand why Hyperspin 1.5 can’t just be updated from 1024x768 to 1920x1080 at least. Like the saying goes …. If it ain’t broke DON’T fix it.

i have re-installed it about 20 times now and have set exclusions in Windows defender, deleted everything from my computer to ensure a clean install each time and each time the same results. I am using Windows 11 64bit version 23H2 just in case that's relevant. One thing I did notice when I was looking at HyperTheme a few weeks ago was that it was coming up with multiple logins for me (maybe this is the issue) ? Maybe every time I am wiping it clean my end then starting again it's not clearing some data your end, because I know 100% it's not on my computer. Maybe if it was portable and didn't have files literally scattered all over Windows it would be much easier to fix ? Also, there is no doubt that it will LOOK awesome, all I am saying is no matter what you do with it, the way it's all setup you will have exactly the same speed issues as Launchbox using a cache system and encrypting the hell out of everything. That's why even to this day, even though I have a huge Launchbox setup with 300,000 games which looks amazing .... it's totally unusable due to it's speed and they have been updating it for 7+ years. On the other hand, the same setup on Hyperspin 1.5 couldn't care less about what you throw at it and just keeps flying along at it's usual speedy self, meaning it will always be my No1 go to Frontend. Surely there is a better way of stopping people selling Hyperspin. That shouldn't be an issue I would have thought (people selling it) but obviously you want them to HAVE to purchase a different setup every time they do. If you asked people what their top priority was I am guessing they would say speed. HyperHQ media looks great but in the end is irrelevant because all that's important looks wise in the end is the Hyperspin wheel and media, which to be fair (once the 15 minute load time has finished) scrolls very quickly.

What i mean by unusable is that it does not use the default Hyperspin theme when one does not exist and simply puts the wheelart over the Main Menu theme instead (see attached) This on top of taking 15+ minutes just to load Hyperspin up to me makes it currently unusable. Sadly I think you are heading exactly the same way Launchbox did .... even after 7+ years it's like a Ferrari with a moped engine as it runs at a snails pace, be it loading times, exiting times or just generally scrolling through your setup. It's the cache system/encryption that will doom it in the end (IMO), but at least I still have Hyperspin 1.5 which looks like it will NEVER be equalled Apologies if I sound negative, but after hoping to see Hyperspin 2 for 10 years+ this isn't what I thought it would be (for me anyway) Just a simple HD version of Hyperspin 1.5 would have been awesome.

Can we use the overrides for default themes ? If so how ? Without default themes Hyperspin just shows the wheels over the Main Menu, making it currently unusable. Is Hyperspin supposed to use the default Hyperspin theme whenever the default theme is not present ? If so, it doesn't (for me anyway)