Hyperspin Switcheroo

[wayside]

So i'm a firm believer in the old "Try it yourself for aboot 6 hours and if you still can't get either smash yer monitor, or ask for help" method.

I've spent about 2 hours trying to find a walkthrough on this site, but since I'm Canadian, maybe I can't seem to find it.

So here's my most time saving-detailed explanation that I can give a pro:

I want to make a bartop arcade.
I need the software, got the hardware.
Found, downloaded, installed ALL the updated MAME-ware that's out there.
Can't find a single ROM that works with new updated MAMEUI32 / NEOGEO BIOS.
(I started with street fighter games, so I could at least figure the system out)
Had about 5 smokes.
Finally found a bundled Torrent with 18 fighting genre games, BUT is bundled with MAME32 0.81 (which is severely outdated I know, BUT it works fully with all bundled games)

Now I would like a spiffy Front-end, and hyperspin is by far the sweetest one out there.

Downloaded/installed the Hyperspin bundle torrent.

SO now i place all the appropraite files where they should be in the proper Hyperspin folders.
I go to the "MAME" setting file, and edit the appropriate strings:

[exe info]
path = F:\HyperSpin\Emulators\Mame32\
rompath = F:\HyperSpin\Emulators\Mame32\roms\
userompath = false
exe = Mame32.exe
romextension = zip
parameters =
searchsubfolders =
pcgame = false
winstate = HIDDEN
hyperlaunch = true

I test the MAME32.exe -without- hyperspin first to make absolute sure the game works. For example Ninja Turtles (4 player), and it works perfectly.

So I exit Mame32, and run Hyperspin.
I choose MAME
I choose Ninja Turtle form the list
The screen flickers, and I get a nice window that says files are now missing, which i list below this post if it matters.

So I have to ALT-F4 to close the window that keeps popping up to torment me, I tun Mame32 again and try to play Ninja Turtles again only to find now that it won't work in Mame32 either. Even though it just worked 5 mins ago.

5 more smokes and a beer.

That's pretty much as detailed as I can get. If I need to post some sort of string text to help resolve this please let me know.

Thank you for your time
James

[brian_hoffman]

I can fix you up in about 5 minutes. Pm me and we will setup a time to meet here in the chat and Ill get you going.

At this point I know your missing roms. To have any neogeo game work you need the neogeo bios. Which you probably dont as you dont have a full mame set.

Id also guess your paths are incorrect. HS will generate a log and you will probably see cannot find file etc... but the good new is at keast mame is trying to load a game.. You are just missing needed files.
A FULL mame set will cost you about 80 gig of rom and CHD. about 16 gig for only roms.
But hey you do want to play games like SFIII and Killer instinct right.. Grab the CHD's.

As we are a forum that doesnt condone piracy we cannot tell you where to obtain these sets.