Anyone know if any of the following will happen or is in the works of being completed?-Dons FileRenamer (working with XMLs to rename ROMs and their subsequent child folders)OR-DAT files in the works where I can just use CLRMAMEPro if the DON Renamer Tool never gets done or is too buggyANYONE with NFO about this please let me know. This has to be the most frustrating part of Hyperspin (aside from shit just not working)As far as I know the only reason why my games don't work is due to the naming convention. I know many have had this issue and is the #1 Dilemmaamong Hyperspin Enthusiasts and for the Developers. I don't mind BETA testing, but let's get this ball rolling.If worse comes to worse, we could have certain people working on certain consoles to rename everything by hand and create DATs from that.I don't know exactly what is needed to make a FULL DAT for a system, but If we can work in numbers we can make something happen maybe.In the words of LEROY JENKINS: 'ALRIGHT CHUMPS!!!!!!!!!! LET'S DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY (uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mame can pretty much play any game! Even the more modern hard drive based games and 3D games. Although Mame is not the most user-friendly emulator. It does things differently than what you may be used to with traditional emulation such as with SNES and Genesis. This tutorial is to help you with Windows builds of Mame.
If anyone has a good renaming method for PSX, Dreamcast, or Sega CD.please let me know what you used and or instructions on what you did(other then renaming them all painstaking and manual)Sidenote: I will be compiling manually the names for Sony Playstation;as it has alot of roms that need to be renamed.if someone can do the naming scheme from M-Z that would really helpme and the community out. We can create a DAT once they've beencombined but im getting thru the B's now (holy, lots to do)Toodles. Why reinvent the wheel. All these Database files are being worked on.
You will see Hyperspin ready releases being dumped onto PD. You will see posts on here from people like Nogarth sharing the new XML files for checking. You will see an entire Hyperspin Project section of this forum where people are already joining together to get this stuff done.
I you look at earlier posts you will see a lot of talk about the first quarter of 2014 being a big time for all of this as a lot of things will start coming together. I know it is a lot to take in and not everyone is as nuts as me and reads all this guff but you will be surprised what has already been done. The real problem is all the 'late to the party' people missed out on the popular torrent sites that are now defunct that a lot of the XML's were based on.
So these 'late to the party' people are left scrounging for ROM/image scraps that have to be renamed.I'm grateful Skribe has been dumping HS sets on PD. But unless he or someone else chips in and makes all HS named console stuff available, scrounging and renaming is the future for most people.Dons rom renaming tool worked fine and dandy for my Sega CD and PSX collection. I noticed if there's too many files in the source folder it tends to crap out. It took over a week to rename my entire PSX collection but it did finish and did a wonderful job at that.Sega CD collection took a few hours.And lastly - back your shit up everyone. Some of this stuff is getting damned hard to find.My.02.
Some of the larger sets are getting posted at Pleasuredome with all the naming set according to the HS databases.I've been renaming some of my sets recently and I've found that XYplorer's mass renaming functions can be quite handy. Probably saved hours using search/replace to fix region codes and regex to remove all the TOSEC disc ids.
A little more is needed here and there but that cuts out a lot of the work. I haven't messed with cue files yet, but should be able to fix 'em all once everything is named correctly.
Hey Guys,I'm rather new to Hyperspin but I have been sucessful in adding systems and roms for the most part. I have run into a problem recently in regards to database xml files. So when I'm on the homescreen where the consoles are on the wheel, when I click a certain console it will not load. I click and it goes black for quick second and returns to the homescreen. Thats in indication that the database is present but it will not load the game list for some reason. I have the database xml in the appropriate folder as well as the roms, media and emulators installed.
Still no sucess in loading the Playstation or Dreamcast consoles.On another note there are instances where I'm able to click the colsole and it loads a few games on the list but not all. I have the roms installed in the appropriate folder but hyperspin is only displaying a few on the list. The database xml that is for the console has all the games listed but when I open the colsole in hypersin the list of games is limited to a few.If someone has had a similar issue or could give assistance it would greatly be appreciated.!! Renaming roms!!