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General / Re: Hyperspin main menu

« on: September 08, 2016, 10:24:37 PM »

Thanks for the info Progets, approciate it. I couldn't agree more, hyperspin is beefy. I have around 51 systems almost complete and have been working on it for over six months. I'm currently having the time of my life attempting to run pinballx with hyperspin. I'm running a dual core G3258 with 8gb of ram and at times, my wheel will stutter. For many i'm sure the pi is fine, who can complain when it comes to cost. The only reason i'm interested is because i'm building two cabs, one each for my little brothers. The nice part is, once all my configuration is done, it should be cookie cutter for any future builds using the same versions. My hyperspin cab has two hard drives, boot from ssd and all my roms are on F:\ i don't know what i was thinking. Converting it all to C:\ is a pain for other builds using one drive without creating a partition.

Idealy i want to keep AM fairly simple, i liked the looks of a video i saw with just a cabinet and game video inside it, with marquee and a blue background listing systems. The actual "themes" i don't care for as i feel it's still completely visually appealinfg. Like you stated, by running most things it would bog down anyways. All i want to do is be able to have a wheel for each system that will run well to simplify things. Sounds like i can do this. 

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General / Hyperspin main menu

« on: September 08, 2016, 07:05:34 PM »

Based off information i've read on these forums, it seems you can use Hyperspins media main menu folder within attract mode, which by the way is freakin sweet. However, i haven't seen any videos or screen shots of anyone actually booting to a main menu listing their specific console/systems with the games being inside those wheels as essentially a sub wheel where the games lay within that console. I think i just made that really confusing...I'm sure people get it, the basic hyperspin.

The videos i have seen shows basically all of the games within a giant wheel. The idea using the marquee helps determine which games are for what system, nice touch. Before i adventure down this road and use this application, i'm just trying to verify 100% that you can create wheels specific to the systems you choose. Also, is there any shortcuts such as skipping letters or jumping multiple lines when dealing with thousands of games in one wheel? 

Thanks to everyone for the hard work on this. Coming from Hyperspin, regardless of cost for a pi emulation station was just to plain for me. I can now finally feel ok for my smaller builds using this!