- Hyperspin drives that make the retro-arca experience nostalgic again.
- I tried downloading a hyperspin torrent of an allegedly. With Hyperspin was full of errors. This Hyperspin setup. See the Computer Space 2-Player.
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Yup, it's true. My Emulator Machine is bigger than yours.
The Ultimate Emulator System Using HyperSpin. Okay for the build of the arcade's body, I recommend using the link below for this part.
Mine may only be a two player machine, but it has four terabytes of games, arcade related videos, cheats, and more. No movie filler or non-arcade junk polluting my drives either. Everything is setup for easy play too. I have seen some fancy games packed with movies, but who watches a movie standing in front of an arcade game? This one is pure arcade and console games baby!
Below is how I setup my 2-Player Computer Space to play almost 22,000 games. I had to split this page into a second page which explains how I actually built the control panel and setup the box. Computer Space 2-Player Restoration.
What would Nolan Bushnell have said in 1971 if he knew this would be possible someday?: 'Huh?'
This is my rough control panel layout. I scanned the original panel for sizing and used it as a guide to layout my buttons and make sure everything would fit.
This project finally gave me a chance to use all the starcade and other videos I have collected over the years.
I tried downloading a hyperspin torrent of an allegedly setup system only to find it was 99.4% complete and it was a rar file set so it would not extract even 10% of the files. I found another torrent and tried it. It was supposed to be complete and setup. It had the video files but was completely setup wrong. Some games were displayed with the incorrect aspect ratio, paths were wrong, files were missing, it was a mess. I had to rebuild it myself and fix every single emulator and figure out the settings which is not easy because many of the emulators have zero documentation. You just have to go through ini files and try changes until you find the right line.
For example, AAE was set to force 4:3 aspect ratio which crushed even horizontal games into a narrow rectangle in the middle of the screen, Actionmax had the wrong key setup so it was unplayable and there was no config utility to set the correct keys. Every MESS emulated game failed to load because the hyperloader script had an invalid line in the command line so I had to fix all of those instances. Galaxy Ranger and Roadblaster had the wrong rom names in their setup so they did not even work.
I added the dragon's lair prototype rom and video set which plays differently from the final release.
I used mess where ever possible because it has the easiest to configure interface using TAB. I also combined Mess into one installation. The previous setup had a different mess for every game which took up more disk space and made it harder to update.
So what is installed? Lets take a look.
Mame (complete, those people offering Mame on DVD do not include all CHD files(137gigs worth which would be more than 32 disks just for the CHD's) but my set does include all of them) Approx 3000 working games not including clones(which is then 7000)
But wait, there's more. My cabinet also includes Plus includes special category sections for Mature games, Gun Games, classic arcade and others. |
This was quite a project and it took me about 200 hours to put together just the front end and make it work. That does not include the cabinet restoration and control panel build or obtaining the roms.
DOWNLOAD MY AHK AND SOURCES
The .ahk hyperloader file that came with Hyperspin was full of errors and many games were setup incorrectly so they would never work(like mame which terminated in an unclean way which prevented you from saving any changes) and many games were missing routines. I wanted to save you hours of programming headaches so I saved my sources where I got roms and files so if you want to build your own version get it in a text file by download HERE. This file also includes my Hyperspin.ahk (for version 1.0 of HS). You can use it to find out how to fix problems with the HS default ahk(like the programming problem that prevents it from saving mess settings when you change anything during a game and exit). It also includes a layout of my control panel with my button choices identified.
Update:
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I went back and reworked my drive. This added another 50 hours to my invested time. It has grown two three 3-Terrabyte drives which are all full. The main drive is as described above and I moved Dreamcast to it. The other two drives contain PS2 and Gamecube along with misc files for future updates, manuals etc.
I added games which change the following totals
- PS2 updated to now include 1567 games
- TurboGrafixCD now has 507 games
- Naomi now works with 68 games
- Updated Mame to 149 with all roms/chds updated.
- Updated Mess to 149 with full known software collection included(not all accessable by hyperspin but available by the mess front end.
- Updated Gamecube to 980 games
- Added more documentary videos about arcade games.
- ScummVM updated to latest as of my update with all available images.
- Dreamcast(completely reworked this collection to use cdi files) 328 games.
- Fixed a few games that were not working.
- Added a few extra games including the fixed atart2600 ET.
- Made many updates to the ahk file.
Other notes:
How to setup hyperspin with scummvm
http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?3926-How-to-set-up-ScummVM-in-HS/page9
To add multiple games to scummvm:
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/User_Manual/Adding_a_game_to_ScummVM
See the Night Driver Restoration which uses this Hyperspin setup.
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See the Computer Space 2-Player Restoration which uses this Hyperspin setup.
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