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You will see some systems load on the left. Then press the folder icon with the pin to set HyperSpin as the default system.

We need to set some general setting so RocketLauncher uses the correct hyperspin locations and default settings. You have linked RocketLauncher with HyperSpin.

Now click on the MAME system on the far left, then emulators tab. It was created when you extracted HyperSpin. The green are games found against the master list and the red are ones in which you do not have roms. In most cases you will have the correct version and the red will hopefully be all the clones available for the games that junk up your HyperSpin wheel in my opinion.

I like having the original game only. Success I hope! It should have launched the game. Press the left then right keys on your keyboard to accept and go into the game.

Also check out our guide on configuring your controls in HyperSpin using joytokey! We will use this info later so HyperSpin does not have games visible that you do not have rom files which will junk up your wheel.

You need to generate a MAME. You can put the path to your roms for now and save the file back. Again, this is the file you can use later to make changes to your MAME setup if needs be.

We need to let HyperSpin know we are going to use RocketLauncher to launch games. For the upgraded 1. We need to make a couple configuration changes in HyperHQ which is the program designed to control HyperSpin. By default HyperSpin will not launch in full screen. Go to Main Settings — Screen tab and select full screen. Otherwise you will see the entire list of games including ones you do not have.

You now have everything to play HyperSpin. It will not be pretty, but it will play. Go ahead and test HyperSpin by launching it. The executable is in the HyperSpin folder red icon. Go into your MAME wheel and launch a game. You will notice you do not have any artwork, but everything should work as expected. So now you will want artwork to get the full benefit of HyperSpin.

Getting the artwork is huge pain in the ass for free. Automated way — There is a program called HyperSync that will automatically add higher quality videos and all the game themes etc.

Also, contributing to both companies for all they provide I believe is reasonable. When you pressed update database you should see the games listed. Make sure and turn on box artwork etc. I am going to show you how to clean it up if you wish. Keep in mind you can follow this guide over and over with other emulators and systems to add everything to your HyperSpin install. So this probably took you a few hours, much less than it did my first time, and much less than it did for me to write this up.

It is somewhat involved and I have not seen a seamless guide putting together all of the pieces so hence this one. You should be able to use the same principals above for each emulator as you setup all the systems. Click To Tweet. Here is our comprehensive guide on configuring you controls in HyperSpin using joytokey.

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Thank you for the kind feedback. I felt the same way that there are tons of guides, but they assume you already know how it all fits together. Glad it helped you! Thanks for the tutorial, really helped me out big time. What could be causing that to happen?? I have an i5, 4gb, and gt Does task manager tell you anything? See if something is hijacking your memory or cpu when HyperSpin is running. Thanks for this tut. Hyperspin is now my front-end Thanks a lot from Belgium.

Thank you Ryan for posting this. My 2 player joystick sets came in yesterday and they look great! Thanks again. I use joy2key to emulate keyboard strokes across all emulators. That is the next guide I plan to do in the next week or so.

Glad you were satisfied with our products. Good luck with your project! Thanks for this guide btw. Is your issue just when you are in HyperSpin? Do the logs in the HyperLaunch give you any clue? Are you speakers connected sounds weird , but I have seen that cause issues as well. Speakers are connected. Will MAME launch on it own if you simply double click the exe file? Hopefully we get this figured out! Great article! At least in my experience, it wiped out my custom database, and added in the entire database for the selected system.

I was able to fix this by completely deleted all those files, recreating my database for just the handful I had, then re-syncing. This then only grabbed the images, videos, etc for the games I had.

It was a bit of a pain, so i wanted to give others a heads up. Other than that, this process was silky smooth. I would recommend looking at this YouTube video for those wanting to add PC games. OK… I broke my structure last night during a list refresh. Hyper-spin can be frustrating, as it gives you the ultimate power of change without a default.

This guide is great, because I went back and followed each step until I restored my problem Which I caused by not following directions. Hyper-spin will make you struggle for the first few weeks. If you are successful, you will be rewarded with the best front end out there. Thanks very much for this tutorial. I have been intimidated by the HyperSpin setup in the past, and as a pretty technical and mame familiar individual, that says a lot. As an adult learning and training professional, I must say your guide is very well written and easy to follow.

Now I know for sure that this is the FE I want in my upcoming xtension arcade cabinet. My first upright. I believe I have set the options correctly in HyperHQ, but still no luck. Any thoughts? Your kudos is exactly why I put this guide together. I have been using HyperSpin for a few years now, but well remember the painful several month learning curve. The goal here is to shorten that for others. The joypad setup is the next post I plan to do in the next week or so as the control bundles we sell show up as gamepads so it fits well with this theme.

Good thing is you can use programs like joytokey or xpadder to solve your issues and emulate keyboard presses. Both programs integrate nicely with Hyperlaunch. Again, setting it up is not to straight forward, but not too difficult if you have done it before. Expect a guide like this for that issue really soon. Good luck with your arcade and remember the stage your at is the 2nd best part anticipating and building. Playing and showing it off is the 1st best. This guide has been the only one I followed almost without any problems.

When do you have the setup guide for gamepad in Hyperspin? Glad the guide helped you… I have been traveling extensively, but plan to get the gamepad controls setup for this soon. Essentially you need to setup joytokey in hyperlaunch for HyperSpin, Hyperlaunch, and your emulators. In the global settings you will see something like 3rd party for controls. You select joytokey and put the path to the exe. I will get a simple to follow guide up soon, but hopefully you get it done before then.

After a while HyperSpin can become overwhelming because you are spending all your time fighting setup issues instead of playing and showing off your cab. Hence this guide. Turn off the joysticks in hyperspin. That just causes issues. You need to get joytokey or xpadder setup to emulate keyboard presses. This will resolve your issue. Hi, and thanks for the great guide. Followed all step to the point where i fired up Hyperspin just to test.

Tried various games but nothing happens. What could be the problem? Weird thing is that i managed to start one game. Exit the program. Started up again and then none of the games worked.

Not even the one started before. Narrowed down the problem to HyperLaunch not exiting when hitting Esc. How do i fix that? Double check in HyperHQ under global on the left then the controls tab. Fire up a game in MAME and press tab on your keyboard. Ensure esc is set for the exit function. This guide is amazing. I am in the process of switching from GameEx to Hyperspin. My question to you Ryan is something I have run into recently.

I am using pinnacle profiler currently use to use Xpadder but again I decided to switch recently. Thank you. I would see if joytokey or go back to xpadder and see if they handle the 4 players more gracefully.

Still much to do but we have the site updated, secure and back online. Expect more changes. By jhabers. Please roll back or do not update to this version to use HyperSpin. HyperSpin 1. Whats different about having a default theme as some may now is that they don't get reloaded when going from one item to next that don't have themes. This allows for a cleaner experience vs reloading individual copies of default themes. Added if a theme doesn't have a background in the zip file then it was only attempting to load a png background, from the backgrounds folder of the item name.

Now it can load swf and also default. Added Shortcut key F6 to toggle fullscreen and windowed. For windowed to work resolution must be set to resolution lower than fullscreen. Added Ledblinky 9 for main menu and Ledblinky 8 for switching menus not sure if this one is even needed Fixed - HyperSpin not shutting down sometimes. It's name will be the same name as this program and will have the extension "ini". Absolute paths are still accepted. Examples and a color picker can be found here.

Set this to true to use a joystick or gamepad with hyperspin. May work for controllers other than the controller. Joystick control options in the settings are separated by a vertical bar delimiter. The joystick control options available are as follows. Set this to true to minimize windows when this script starts.

To get the window class you can use this tool AU3 Window Spy. To add more processes to close, just change the 1 to a 2 for the second process, the 2 to a 3 for a third process, etc.

If Target is a local file and no path was specified with it, The script's directory will be searched first. If no matching file is found there, the system will search for and launch the file if it is integrated "known" , e.

To pass parameters, add them immediately after the program or document name. If a parameter contains spaces, it is safest to enclose it in double quotes even though it may work without them in some cases. Paths relative to the startup script are allowed. Do not enclose the name in double quotes even if it contains spaces.

If omitted, the script's own working directory will be used. Relative Paths are not allowed.