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  1. 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.

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

     

    Some of the latest games I played were Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Origins, the second AC game I played so far.
    It felt like I was really in Ancient Greece and Egypt, the amount of care and detail in these games is something else.

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    I wish Just Cause 4 was as good as 3, it's still fun and has its moments, 

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    and while explosions look great, the water was never fixed, and other changes on how the game plays weren't good

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    I've lost my external HDD in 2017, Call of Duty WWII was installed there, I installed it again recently and that's the game I'm currently playing.

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    First time playing Shadow Warrior (1997), I'm now playing the Twin Dragons expansion

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    I've beaten Lara Croft Go on Android a few years ago, I tried the new chapters now on PC, great low poly visuals and immersive soundtrack, for those who like a bit of puzzle, it's not a hard game by any means, it only needs that "one more try" attitude.

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    Mafia III was just amazing, great story and character development, amazing visuals, combat system and immersion to the late 60's.

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    I also replayed Mafia II, the definitive edition is not that great of an improvement over the original 2010 release, but it's nice revisiting the 40's and 50's, 

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    Ancestors: Humankind Odyssey is one of those games no one in the mainstream will ever play, but this game isn't for everyone, though, first time I tried it, I led humankind to extinction, after I understood what and how things should work, I managed to grow the family and lead them to evolution, I'll never forget this game, it's really immersive, it won't hold your hand, you have to figure out what to do next by yourself.

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    From the latest 3 mainstream Tomb Raider entries, Shadow was the one that appealed to me the most, at times, it almost felt like Tomb Raider III, in the middle of nowhere, by yourself in the wild, great visuals and gameplay, but it can hardly replace the classic titles for me, a humanized Lara Croft is more realistic, but it wasn't what the originals were all about.

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    People that are into RPGs, specially tactical RPGs can't miss Shining Force III, I played it back in the 90's, all games in Japanese, replaying it in the hardest difficulty (it isn't that hard) and in English is great, I can never get tired of this game.
    Saturn is receiving a lot of love lately, other games were translated and others are coming as well.

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    I never played the original Mafia, but the definitive edition, although totally linear compared to part II and III, is a great classic mob game, again, great visuals, characters and gameplay, this one is in the 30's.

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    Since the day, I never finished Legaia and have tried a few times after, but I decided this year I would finish it for once, its combat system is unique and the battle visuals are amazing.

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    I liked Sniper Elite III but the forth game is even better, great gameplay and visuals, using all weapons is satisfying and some traps you deploy are triggered at anytime, even if you're miles away from it, sometimes an enemy will trigger it, displaying it in slow motion for your satisfaction.
    There are some extra missions (DLC) and in one of them, I killed dozens of soldiers leaving only Hitler alive, the guy ran from me like hell, that was funny, I made him run a few miles.

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    And here's a few more, not all, classic games I finished this year, I mastered Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III, but Shadow Dancer is tough, I managed to finish it on normal, the Japanese version gives 10 continues even on hardest, I'll try that someday.

    Tenchu
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    Shininf Force II

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    Shining Force Gaiden

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    Shining Force CD

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    Shining Force: Ressurection of the Dark Dragon

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    Shadow Dancer

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    Road Rash 3

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    Road Rash (Sega CD)

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    Revenge of Shinobi

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    Raiden, this coin eater wants you to play two players, in single player, it will absolutely destroy you, in 2 players mode, no matter if you die 1000 times, the game will keep on, in single player, you respawn in specific checkpoints which will prevent your progress unless you use save state (which I don't) or you're specially skilled with shooters, which I'm not.

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    The Master System version of Ninja Gaiden is the best I ever played, this isn't cheaply made or unbalanced, it's accessible and has visuals and colors the NES couldn't do in its wettest dreams.

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    Great version of King of Dragons for SNES, after a few tries, I managed to finish in on the hardest difficulty with the mage.
    The arcade isn't that difficult, since you can always drop more coins to keep playing

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    Golden Axe III

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    Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder

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    Final Fight 3, one of the best SNES beat-em-ups

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    Streets of Rage 2: The new Challengers, one of the best rom hacks I played, you can even chain air combos in this one.

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    Super Mario 64 DS with widescreen code

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    I never tried Duke Nukem 64 and I gotta say it's a nice surprise, the custom weapons for this version are more fun to use, the new areas and some visuals are better or at least interesting and the censure isn't ridiculous, in some secret areas you still can see some hot stuff going on. Duke's new lines are nice and others were re-recorded, sounding different.

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    Asterix

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    Alex Kidd in Shinobi World

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    Shinobi and Shinobi II for the Game Gear are great games, anyone that likes Shinobi should try these.

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    Shinobi III

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    No Cyberpunk for now, unless they fix it, yeah, even on PC, it's not optimized, though as far as I tried, I can't see why that much attention it got so far, it may be a nice game, but it's kinda not up there.

     

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  3. 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?

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  4. 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.

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

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    It will work as it should:

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  5. 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.

  6. 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 

     

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    Pokémon HeartGold and Soul Silver

     

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    Sonic Colors (Colours in Europe)

     

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    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.

  7. 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.

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  8. 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

     

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    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

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  9. 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?

  10. 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.

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  11. 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.

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  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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