Aorin

On 7/25/2023 at 8:03 AM, kneetzstopz said:

i updated to windows 10 21H1, added the dll file and made sure hyperspin is allowed in windows defender and i still cant get it to work. any more suggestions?

These fixes have been rolling for years, mostly when Windows 10 was released with its subsequent updates. The .dll fix doesn't seem to work for everyone and there's the Defender issue, which is probably the main reason why most users have been facing issues starting the frontend. Since HS also relies on flash, which has been discontinued for years, it could be one of the reasons why it's flagged as a potential risk, but I'm not a developer, thus, I'm not sure.

As for suggestions, depending on how you use your PC, if it's dedicated to gaming, you can either install a Windows version that won't update, and will only receive important security updates, or make it offline entirely, deactivating or making sure the anti-virus won't block its functionality.
Is Hyperspin your only option? Have you tried another frontend, which is currently supported? I know there are many free options that have modern features, making it much easier to setup your systems.

Hyperspin's and its community's heyday ended in 2018 at best, many talented people came and went their ways, it's a legacy and in my view, many other frontends owe a great deal to it, thousands of logos, box arts, databases, and Emumovies is a branch of Hyperspin and vice-versa, which feeds even more other frontends media overall.

If, for some reason, you decide to stick to Hyperspin, make sure you understand that its development ceased for many years and these fixes may or may not work forever.
Let's face it, it's old, it runs at 1024x768, closed source and it's not like there aren't modern options.
RocketLauncher development also ceased, few users are keeping modules working.

I see how keeping Hyperspin working makes sense for very old users which has a working HS setup and put a lot of effort on it, however, any newer users are advised that your mileage will be way easier and more comfortable with a current, more modern option, that won't alarm your anti-virus and won't need fixes to work on current OSes.

On 7/12/2023 at 10:48 PM, justintime said:

Guys is HyperSpin development abandoned?

Not entirely sure.

Sounds like controller or something driver related. You'd have to disconnect each USB device and even uninstall drivers to sort this.

I could be wrong, though, so it's only a suggestion.

Is this alive yet?
Been quite some time, though recently I haven't played much, but I'll check here from time to time to see what you guys are up to.

I'll post some games I played in the last years

1 hour ago, hErTz said:

All Done, I hope they don't mind.

Jsinn is a gentleman, and both worked hard on this, always providing at first hand all artwork they worked on. Sad would be if all that effort was lost, so thanks for keeping and sharing those. They'd probably thank you for making it available.

It seems people could use what was done so far, if you collected the artwork throughout this thread, it would be cool.

4 hours ago, goofers said:

Does anyone have this set zipped?

Weren't these ever released in the Downloads section?

Admin rights are not needed.

Can you download the full pack and update, extract it to a separate folder than your current HS, run Hypertheme and let me know if it works.

Before that, have you tried putting a default theme inside the MAME\Themes\here folder and see if HT works?

HyperTheme's blank screen is a known issue and is being worked on, among other stuff.

For now, let's check what causes the blank screen.

Basically, the way HyperTheme works today, it checks if there's a MAME\Themes folder under the Media directory, if that doesn't exists, it will be blank, that's usually because we tend to have Arcade Classics instead of a MAME folder.

By just creating two empty folders under Media, which are MAME and inside it Themes:

It will work as it should:

Your talent and perfectionism are unique, thanks for you and all guys helping out.

Seeing how talented you are, I bet you could easily redraw the SatellaView Wheels. Or actually draw them, since they only exist inside the game press start screen AFAIK.

Congratulations for your hard work, really amazing.

23 hours ago, JSinn said:

Bleach GC - Tasogare Ni Mamieru Shinigami (Japan)

A lot of work went into this one, because of poor quality source images.
Much thanks @Tomkun for translation help. 

Pro work, you've got magic in your hands man.

I'm still looking here in the support forums something similar I haven't faced yet, so far.

Hyperspin doesn't open, it quickly flashes black and then, nothing.

Log file reads "Joysticks not detected", but the xbox controller is there connected and it works in other games.

OS is Windows 8.1

Edit: I solved that, it was some weird config under the settings folder, I cleaned it up and it works now without problems.

I was messing with NDS some time ago, my custom database is tiny compared to the official releases (less than 400 titles) but even so I missed lots of wheels. I noticed that as NDS is somewhat a recent system I managed to find lots of high resolution logos that I could easily use as wheels, Pokemon logos, Ace Attorney logos and lots of other titles that can be used, if you put the NDS game you're looking for in google images and filter it by transparent images, there's a good chance to find them in hi res, though I bet that this will happen with well known titles only.

Here are some examples

Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies 

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/aceattorney/images/8/8d/Phoenix_Wright_Ace_Attorney_Dual_Destinies_logo.png/revision/latest?cb=20130513231224

Pokémon HeartGold and Soul Silver

http://i.neoseeker.com/gg/uploads/news/12-2009/news_img_27677_0.png

Sonic Colors (Colours in Europe)

http://lastminutecontinue.com/wp-content/gallery/officialart/S/sonic-colours/colourslogo_english.png

Some logos are so clean and with gigantic resolutions that this can surely ease the job, surely most will have to be done by hand, but maybe this could help as it helped me when I was filling gaps.

Hope it helps somehow.

Dark, can you share you fixed clock? It looks way better!

Thanks!

Hi, I'm following this thread for some time now.

Totally inspired by your work I began to add your special arts to my setup, the clock and weather specials are working a treat, thanks for your hard work and all involved.

The themes will need some minor tweaks, some downsizing for the console, boxes and descriptions so they won't get truncated, you are beautifying my setup, that's for sure, and not just that, adding clock and weather info is really useful.

I had already started looking through some big wheel set that was uploaded before, but all the wheels in there that weren't from the DS Project were unusable. They didn't appear pen tool cut (very rough edges/low quality) and also didn't even match the covers. That's the kind of stuff that made us create HS Projects in the first place, to insure they were done correctly.

One thing I noticed, is that, as NDS is a new system, somewhat, when I was trying to complete my wheel set (my filtered romset for NDS has about 330 titles), some were missing, one of those pokemon games and some others, I've found clean logos for those games in HD, so probably, these logos can be found searching, no needing pen cut.

Some examples for that, while writing this reply, I searched for some well known titles, take a look

http://www.gamesfoda.net/wp-content/gallery/pokemonconquest/i_33373.png

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/capcomdatabase/images/e/e6/PWAALogo.png/revision/latest?cb=20110110182821

http://i.imgur.com/AXqwC.png

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/lib/images/e/e7/2513_169_547054lostinblue2_logo_.png/revision/latest?cb=20120904125020

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120813162502/layton/images/1/11/Curious_Village_Logo.png

I've collected over 2000 wheels for DS some months ago digging  FTP and stuff, probably has tons of duplicates with slightly different names, couldn't they be assessed to see if some are useful for the ultimate set?

That would be great if could be automated, wow. There is no official DS database though but the one I posted here can be considered as close as possible, no idea what is in downloads section. Mine should only be missing playable Japan games, I've kept it up to date with the latest rom dumps I could find and Eng translation patches.

I just checked what games were recently translated, I'll be updating my set soon, I cleaned my set, removed all educative stuff, girly, compilations, etc. Otherwise it would end up in an endless list with 80% of unwanted stuff, I think DS will be a system that will have split databases like mame without Majhong and mature stuff, because it's not only a gaming handheld, it really has tons of non-games titles.

If only such a thing existed lol. Sadly the only way we've ever been to get proper metadata info is going to Gamefaqs and doing each game one by one. I had to fill out the entire Super Famicom database like this for example and it took a long time.

It exists, I don't know how but Justice999 managed to, he created a Japanese Sega Saturn database using an automated way, though I'm not sure if he converted a dat from redump or something, but the database is very accurate, except the ratings, all games has CERO A, but the year and manufacturers are all there.

Phulshot, can you do such thing? If so, the official database for NDS is found at downloads section, see if you can do it please.

Hypersync database and the one available in the first post of this thread has no manufacturer, year and other tags, just the title entry, is there a automated way to fill these entries?

Your engagement with this project is really exciting, congrats in advance buddy!

Ok, I don't have these office skills as I didn't understand the skin structure 100%, but I can help with Photoshop and batch processes, I'm assuming I'll need 2D boxes or covers to make them the way it fits the skin.

I see that we won't need to "cut" wheels as this skin uses games boxes for navigation.

PM me or reply here if you need something I can help with.

Thanks for your fast reply and support on this.

I'm used on batch processes with PS, so if I can help with something, let me know.

Can you tell me how much work is done regarding Main+Default themes, boxes? In short, what systems are ready regarding arts?

I'm really considering giving it a try, it's the only global skin/theme that drawn my attention.