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HyperBackup

HyperBackup is a simple configuration backup and restore utility for HyperSpin.

Simply choose the path to your HyperSpin installation and hit Backup. It will then copy all INI and XML files to a directory called HyperSpin_configBackup. You can then Restore the files back if needed.

More HyperBackup information can be found at http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/topic/25083-hyperbackup

192 downloads

hyperspin
config
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Tagged with:
- hyperspin
- config
- configuration
- backup

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Submitted May 1, 2016

Mame .173 64bit + NoNag + Hi-score + Forced Directinput

By artman999999

64bit MAME 173 patched with no-nag, no white windows, hi-score and forced direct input. Couple of key items with this release:

MAME has once again updated files in the installation package, specifically in the "plugin" directory. As such, just overwriting your old pre-v173 mame64.exe with this new one will cause a lua script error at boot. At the very least, you must install the 173 package from the mamedev site, then overwrite your mame64.exe with the one included here. The mame.ini file has ALSO changed AGAIN, with some mame-induced changes and some from the no-nag patch, so re-create it with a mame64 -cc command and adjust accordingly if you don't like the included one. Remember, too, that the HLSL settings for raster and vector games (which covers just about every arcade game ever made) are in the "presets" folder. Changing them in the mame.ini won't do much, as the presets "raster.ini" and "vector.ini" take priority over any common settings. A "hi" folder must be created for your high-score storage, and a "hiscore.dat" must be placed in the MAME root directory.

To help make this even easier, and based on some requests last time I posted this, I zipped the entire package for you and it's ready to go as-is. NO ROMS INCLUDED, OF COURSE. Unzip it somewhere safe, populate it with the contents of your current artwork, cfg, nvram, diff, roms, and preset folders and you're off and running. MY HLSL settings are here in their full glory if you want them, or trash them and use your own - what ever you prefer. If you've slaved over your current video settings to get them "just right" or like BGFX, then don't use my preset folder, generate a new mame.ini with the 173 mame64.exe and populate manually it as needed with your current mame.ini contents.

2 Last things:

I had some requests after my v172 post to compile versions with raw input, or in 32bit. I'll be honest - I compile this for my system and dinput/64 bit is what I got. 'Nuff said.

Secondly - I'm not a huge fan of this release. I actually had to pull the folder from my recycle bin after reading a post discussing the release earlier. IM(Humble)O, there are few reasons to upgrade from 172, and the speed of 173 seems to be slightly slower (about 1% on average) on the most demanding roms. I use mmpork, ibara, and pinkswts to test the speed of the emulator, and typically come in at 99% with v172. v173 is coming in about 98%, even with autoframeskip enabled, etc. I would COPY your critical folders to this version, then test a few roms with it before fully committing to it. If you've got an older system and you're a classic arcade purist, you won't care because you're not rocking CAVE roms, anyway. And you've got a banging MAME PC, then you won't care, either. My mame setup uses a Core i5 with 8g ram and a GTX 560 Ti graphics card. Not a gaming rig, but no slouch, either. So bear this in mind before you upgrade. And if 173 works great for you, that's great. EDIT - After running this on a similar PC with a slightly faster CPU (Core i5 3.3g vs Core i5 2.5g), I couldn't get any of my three test roms to drop below 100% emulation with the setting included in the DL. So no worries if your PC is decent.

Final parting thought - BACK UP YOUR CURRENT MAME FOLDER AND COPY THE KEY FOLDERS INTO THE ATTACHED VERSION, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. The only folder I DIDN'T do this with was my roms folder, as it's WAY too big. That way, you get a working version AND there's no risk of losing hard work.

1,842 downloads

mame
mame173
(and 4 more)
Tagged with:
- mame
- mame173
- no-nag
- hiscore
- directinput
- mame 173

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Updated April 29, 2016

Daemon Tools Lite

By gigapig

Here you find version 10.2 of Daemon Tools Lite. Currently version 10.3 does not work with RocketLauncher.

Care must be taken when installing this product as the "Free" version as it will install other software onto your PC.

Please see the screen shots for the best way to install.

Remember to set your DT Lite path in RocketLauncher UI to "C:\Program Files\DAEMON Tools Lite\DTAgent.exe" or wherever you installed it.

2,120 downloads

2 comments

Updated April 16, 2016

MameUIFX 64bit + NoNag - Raw-input 0.172.1

By sevenseal

patched with no nag and updated to 0.172.1

472 downloads

mameuifx

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Updated April 9, 2016

Mame 64bit + NoNag - Raw-input 0.172

By sevenseal

no nag patch

98 downloads

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Submitted April 8, 2016

Mame 172 64bit + NoNag + Hi-score + Forced Directinput

By artman999999

64bit MAME 172 Patched with no-nag, no white windows, hi-score and forced direct input. While hi-score support has been enabled in 172 via lua script, there is still some skepticism over at ArcadeControls whether it's fully functional or not, so hi-score was left in the compile. Install MAME 172 via DL from the MAME Dev webpage, then overswrite the .exe with this version. ***IF YOU HAVE AN OLDER VERSION OF MAME, THERE ARE NEW FOLDERS FOR 172 TO WORK, SO DO THE FULL INSTALL FIRST, THEN THE OVERWRITE***. And if you've never used a patched mame before, don't forget to generate a new .ini file (command line: mame64 -cc), so you have the control lines for the hi-score, etc. It will over-write your current mame.ini, so back that up first if you need to copy over your settings. Lastly, 172 now keeps (most of) it's hlsl settings in the .ini/presets folder, so changing them in the mame.ini (like we've done in every version since hlsl was introduced) USUALLY WON'T WORK - you need to update the raster.ini and vector.ini folders, as well as mame.ini. Since the global hlsl settings are still in mame.ini, I make sure my mame.ini hlsl settings mirror my raster.ini and vector.ini settings to be safe, but that's just me. And there is no more hlsl pre-scaling - that's not the patch, that's MAME 172. It's now a calculated value.

Great update to a great emulator, btw. First update in a long time that provides CONSIDERABLE performance gains on the graphical level. I realize that every update requires incredible amounts of time and energy from the programmers, but not since Raiden was properly emulated have I been this amped about a new version. -A

996 downloads

mame
mame 172
(and 3 more)
Tagged with:
- mame
- mame 172
- nonag
- hiscore
- directinput

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Updated April 5, 2016

Killer Instinct Windows 10 bat to exe launcher

By Pyramid_Head

This isn't anything special but I took the liberty of creating a bat file that will launch Killer Instinct and converted it to an exe which will work for the PC Launcher in RL. Or at least it should. I've tested the exe many times and it launches as expected. I REALLY hate metro/modern apps.

299 downloads

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Submitted April 4, 2016

Tur-Game Controller Order

By Turranius

--[ Purpose ]-------------------------------------------------
Controls the order the controllers appear in the "Game Controllers" list in Windows.

--[ Reason ]--------------------------------------------------

The order they appear in are used in some emulators and games to define the order they should be used.
For example, the top one in the list is Joy1. Second one Joy2 etc.

Problem here is threefold.
1: The list is not always the same after a restart so you have to remap all your controllers in the emulators
that use this setup.
2: If you plug in another controller, it will (most of the time) not go to the end of the list but in the
middle somewhere, messing up the order of the other controllers.
3: Even if everything is as you think it should be, your first joystick might be called Joy3 in the
games/emulators and it just looks ugly =)

--[ Usage ]---------------------------------------------------

Connect all the controllers that you want to have a permanent location in the list.
Run "Tur-Game_Controller_Order.exe" as administrator and it will list all the controllers and ask
you, one by one which location it should have in the list (basically, where you want it to appear. 1 = top)

That will create a Settings.ini file. If that file exists the next time you run it, it will simply
go through the controllers and reorder them, silently. Remove or rename Settings.ini to get it to run
again.

You can also create more then one Settings.ini file if you have different setups. Simply specify which
.ini file it should work with when running it, for example "Tur-Game_Controller_Order.exe Settings2.ini"

By default, when you run it with a Settings.ini present, it will just run once and exit, but you can have
it running all the time, checking the order every few seconds or so. This is good if you have some controllers
plugged in some of the time but want to be able to plug in others without them appearing in the middle of the
list. Edit Settings.ini and change DaemonMode=False to True.
DaemonModeDelay= is how many seconds to wait between each check. 5-10 seconds is a good value IMO.

--[ Notes for BlissBox users ]--------------------------------

If you own a BlissBox you must update the firmware first so the ports get unique HIDs and names.
See here: http://atarigalore.wix.com/4play
They should appear as 4-Play_port1 to port4 (at least at the time of writing. As long as they are unique
its OK.)

--[ Limitations ]---------------------------------------------

One big limitation is this. Say you have 3 controllers connected that are Joy1, Joy2 and Joy3 in the
emulators/games. If you unplug the first controller in the list (Joy1), the others will shift up and Joy2
will become Joy1 etc. There is no way around that at the moment, except for creating a dummy Joy1 controller
to put at the top of the list. I have yet to figure that one out easely.
Always keep your permanetly connected controllers at the top of the list to overcome this.

--[ Other hints ]---------------------------------------------

You must set UAC to "Never Notify" if you want this program to run on startup automatically as its
running as a local administrator. You also can not just make a shortcut to your Startup folder for it
as windows will not allow it. In the "Extras" folder you'll find a small VBS script that just runs it
from the same location as the exe, so copy the VBS to where you have Tur-Game_Controller_Order.exe
and make a shortcut to the VBS file to your Startup folder in Windows.

Any controllers connected that are NOT in the Settings.ini file when you run it will automatically go
to the end of the list.

I include a program called "List_Controllers.exe" as well. This only lists all the connected controllers
and the HID for it. You can use this if you want to add a controller to an already existing Settings.ini
file. Just copy the HID shown into Settings.ini.

When manually editing Settings.ini, make sure the ports start with Port1, Port2 and there are no gaps in the
numbering.

1,252 downloads

Controller
Joystick
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5 comments

Updated March 2, 2016

Mame 64bit + NoNag - Hi-score - Directinput

By sevenseal

patched with no-nag and no white windows, Hi-score support, forced Directinput

556 downloads

Mame

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Submitted February 28, 2016

MameUIFX 64bit + NoNag - Raw-input

By sevenseal

patched no-nag with removed white windows

151 downloads

MameUIFX

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Updated February 28, 2016

MameUIFX 64bit + NoNag - Directinput

By sevenseal

Patched with forced Directinput and no nag screen with removed white windows

1,702 downloads

MameuiFX

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Submitted February 28, 2016

Mame 64bit + NoNag - Hi-score - Raw-input

By sevenseal

Patched Raw-input with No-Nag and hiscore support

211 downloads

Mame

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Updated February 28, 2016

mameuifx64 w/No Nag

By oldhag270

Here is mameuifx64 0.170.1

531 downloads

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Updated February 6, 2016

mameuifx64 0.170 w/No Nag

By oldhag270

Here is mameuifx64 0.170 w/No Nag

226 downloads

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Submitted January 28, 2016

MAME x64 0.170 w/No Nag+Hi Score+Direct Input

By oldhag270

Here is MAME x64 0.170 w/No Nag+Hi Score+Direct Input

806 downloads

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Submitted January 28, 2016

HyperSpin FullScreen Launcher

By Turranius

This package contains two files to be placed with HyperSpin.exe

You can select to start them instead of HyperSpin.exe.
HyperSpinFullScreen.exe = Starts HyperSpin in fullscreen mode.
HyperSpinNotFullScreen.exe = Starts HyperSpin in windowed mode.

I do not expect a lot of people to use this, but I have my HyperSpin setup on the network for multiple machines.
On my work computer, where I set everything up, I do not want to start HS in fullscreen.
On my arcade machines, I do want to start it fullscreen.

I always forgot to change manually so it always opens the "wrong" way.

Running HyperSpinNotFullScreen.exe on my work computer and HyperSpinFullScreen.exe on my arcade machines makes sure they always start HS in the correct way.

All it really does it change the FullScreen value in Settings.ini to either true or false before launching "HyperSpin.exe".

Sources are included...

471 downloads