Help Required Using Hyperspin Theme

[droogie]

Hi All,

I have been using Attract-Mode for a couple of weeks now and am very impressed.

One thing I am very stuck on though is trying to use a hyperspin theme

I have followed instructions on some threads and have created a folder in layouts called Media>MAME>Themes and placed some themes in there but that doesnt seem to work.  Am i missing something very obvious??  A few people mentioned hyperspin.nut - what is this and do i need to be placing it somewhere or running it to get the hyperspin themes to be recognized???

Any help much appreciated
Droogie

[Omamez]

I haven't tried it my self but the hyperspin nut is file you put into the hyperspin theme folder

[progets]

- There is no need to move the hyperspin.nut file. It's in the correct place by default.
- Your Attract-Mode "Display Name" must match your HyperSpin system folder names.
- You need to set your "Layout" for the desired system to be "Media"

There are details about this in the ReadMe.txt.
"For Hyperspin, copy the Hyperspin "Media" directory into its own directory
in the Attract-Mode layouts directory.  Create a Display in Attract-Mode
and configure the layout to be the directory you copied "Media" into.  The
Display's name needs to match the name of one of the system subdirectories
in the Hyperspin "Media" directory.  This will allow Attract-Mode to find the
Hyperspin themes and graphics to use.  So for example, naming the Display
"MAME" will cause it to match Hyperspin's MAME/Themes/* for themes,
MAME/Images/Artwork1/* for artwork1, etc.  Note that the wheel images are
located using Attract-Mode's built-in wheel artwork.  Wheel images located in
the Hyperspin directories are ignored."

Follow these steps to setup MAME with HyperSpin Themes in Attract-Mode:
1) Create a "Media" folder under \Attract-Mode\layouts\
2) Copy your MAME HyperSpin media folder from \HyperSpin\Media\MAME to \Attract-Mode\layouts\Media\MAME
3) edit your MAME display name to be "MAME" (in Attract-Mode press Tab to enter the "Configure" menu and then go to "Displays"--><your Attract-Mode mame emulator name>-->Name = "MAME")
4) edit your MAME display to be "Media" (in Attract-Mode press Tab to enter the "Configure" menu and then go to "Displays"-->MAME-->Layout = "Media")

If you don't have a HyperSpin install or you're not familiar with HyperSpin you need to understand that a general system theme would be called default.zip and a game specific theme would be called the exact name as the specific game rom (pacman.zip for example). So you should have \Attract-Mode\layouts\Media\MAME\Themes\default.zip and/or \Attract-Mode\layouts\Media\MAME\Themes\pacman.zip.

You can also use HyperSpin themes for the Attract-Mode "Display Menu" by making sure you have the HyperSpin "Main Menu" folder in \Attract-Mode\layouts\Media\Main Menu.

[droogie]

Hi progets

I have followed everything you listed  step by step and import my Hyperspin folder and used the techniques you described but still no joy.

Perhaps i am missing something very obvious.

I am running attract mode version 2.0.0 on raspberry pi 

Any other ideas???

Many Thanks
Steve

[progets]

It's hard to help when you don't provide any details. Which part are you stuck on? Which Pi are you using? What OS are you using (RetroPie, DietPi, Debian, etc.). Which Attract-Mode are you using (with x windows or without)?

Posting your attract.cfg or an image of what you see would help. You should also understand that not every HyperSpin theme works properly in Attract-Mode.

You should be able to place a HyperSpin MAME system theme in /home/pi/.attract/layouts/Media/MAME/Themes/default.zip.
Then edit /home/pi/.attract/attract.cfg so the MAME entry looks like this:

display   MAME
   layout               Media
   romlist              MAME
   in_cycle             yes
   in_menu              yes