Has anyone tried HyperSpin on a netbook?

[swaffar]

so i'm thinking about putting a netbook inside an old NES case and running HS on it. has anyone tried running it on one of these?

[Lashek]

Considering the netbooks are only an intel atom processor (usually), and only about 1.5ghz or less, with a single core... I can't imagine it running well unless you turn every special effect off.

If you want to stuff an HS machine into an NES case, I would recommend a Micro-ATX Motherboard with on-board graphics (or use a small graphics card) and a small power supply (or having the power supply seperate). If you were to go this route, I would also recommend a slim optical drive so that you could use the front flip of the nes to allow you to change cd's. For the HDD, of course, a laptop HDD :)

This has been done many many times and discussed all over the internet, but as for being on topic, I don't think you'll get the best performance with HS and a netbook (not too mention, netbooks aren't generally 4:3 aspect ratio like HS was designed for as well, so down/up-scaling could hurt performance as well)

[Falcon Punch]

My brother has hyperspin running on his Eee PC netbook. Make sure you download and replace the intro video with the low-bit rate video that is available. This will keep the program from chopping real bad while it is loading.

I can attest that it is a possible task. We brought his netbook along with some USB controllers and played MUGEN & SNES using hyperspin on our 4 hour flight to San Francisco.

[swaffar]

thanks for the info... i was thinking about using it only for a nintendo only console emulator... snes, snes, gb, gbc, gba.
not n64 cause i dont like the emulation. i have a doctor v64 that i modded with a CF card reader for that...

my concern isnt the emulation, it's how smooth the menus will run. i probably wouldnt use videos, just title screen shots, box or cart art and the wheel images. which is still a lot of images to be running through RAM.

but thanks for the info again.

[Falcon Punch]

Np, I can attest that it might run with a few hiccups, but overall will run smooth. I hope whatever project you might work on with this goes well. :)

[bitterbug]

I'm installing on the MSI Wind U100.
I'm running the latest BIOS, which has support for Dynamic Overclocking.

At default speed the UI is very choppy, but when I active DOC in the BIOS and set it to 24% the UI becomes much smoother.

I have extra animations and the loading video turned off.

[Secret80'sMan]

Am running it on a fairly new HP laptop with dual processor and runs flawlessly.

[EmulationKurt]

I have a new HP Mini 1.6Ghz Atom Processor, on board Video, and 1 GB Ram that I bought 3 weeks ago running XP Home, HS does not run that well.

I don't know how to tweak HS that well at all as I am still new at this, heck it took me a few weeks of reading to figure out what the heck "no-intro" was, and why my videos, carts, artwork, and just about everything else would not match my roms (I'm still having problems).

Although I do know that the "out of the box" setup of HS will not run that great on a Netbook.

I agree with Lashek. The best way to get this done is to get yourself a Mini ITX Mother Board with maxed out RAM. I personally would purchase an Asus AT3N7A-I Motherboard. It's a 1.6Ghz DUAL core, with a Nvidia ION Chipset. This board might be a better bet for you seeing that it's a DUAL core, and that you can max your ram out at 4GB. Also seeing that it has HDMI out on it, a good solution for hooking it up to any newer TV. The board goes for roughly $140.00 (not too bad IMO).

[mr_tap]

from messing with a few systems it seems dual core is the key

[tehpopa]

You can get Atom's with the Dual core, they're just a tad more pricey. Do what I did and get a Zotac IONITX-A-E. You just throw 4gb of Ram and a 1tb hard drive at it. Works great, and it has the NVidia ION in it which handles 1080p video without a hickup as well as acting as a co-processor. Make sure, either way, that you get an Atom that is Dual Core. Those are the 330, and the D510.

[djvj]

You can get Atom's with the Dual core, they're just a tad more pricey. Do what I did and get a Zotac IONITX-A-E. You just throw 4gb of Ram and a 1tb hard drive at it. Works great, and it has the NVidia ION in it which handles 1080p video without a hickup as well as acting as a co-processor. Make sure, either way, that you get an Atom that is Dual Core. Those are the 330, and the D510.

I am contemplating on if I should wait for ION2 chipsets or just go with ION1. My gripe is I don't want to invest the money on tech that is over a year old when ION2 is "supposed" to be out any day now. Also ION1 uses now-expensive DDR2, while ION2 will use cheap DDR3.

Have you experienced any hiccups in 1080p video during busy scenes with your ION build? That was a worry of mine.

[tehpopa]

No hiccups with video. The only real issue I had was playing Bioshock 2 on it. It would play, just poorly. That's to be expected though.

[Nucklez]

I would go the MiniATX board with external PSU, built in Audio and Video for an NES case. If you already have a spare Netbook laying around though, I feel your need to use it instead. I would do the same thing if that was the case. Just an FYI though, my bartop arcade cabinet has an old single core Pentium 4, 3.0Ghz. It still struggles with the background animations and I also had to use the lower quality intro video as well. With all of that, I still get choppy videos and slight hangs every now and again while browsing the wheels, espicially in MAME when it changes the themes with each game. It's very playable though, and the NES section works flawlessly. If you only want it for NES, then it may work out great for you. Definately set it up and run it for a while before you rip the netbook apart.

[JoeyLYCAN]

You'll experience some minor lag, but it should be very playable!

After all I am running it on a 1.6 Ghz Atom, 1 Gb of DDR2 800, with a Geforce 8200 I believe?

No problems whatsoever, I even emulate N64 and Playstation with very minor lag!

[lion2]

My brother has hyperspin running on his Eee PC netbook. Make sure you download and replace the intro video with the low-bit rate video that is available. This will keep the program from chopping real bad while it is loading.

I can attest that it is a possible task. We brought his netbook along with some USB controllers and played MUGEN & SNES using hyperspin on our 4 hour flight to San Francisco.

Where are the low bitrate versions of the videos. The official download page for the videos is empty.

[djvj]

I ended up building my dual-core ION with 4gb ram in win7 and have HS installed with only gun games. The UI is still not even close to as smooth as my gaming PC, even with all the graphic options turned off, it's stutters quite a bit. My specs can be seen here (http://www.divinusguild.org/htpc)

When loading each video while browsing games, it stutters for 5 or so seconds.

[FED250]

Hey anyone who knows for about shelling than me check this out. If you go to Appearance and Personalization in the control panel there is a folder options icon. One of the choices next to the folder options is to show hidden files and folders. Turn that all on and then follow this link

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Accessories\Windows PowerShell

I think you can use this to shell. Also if you go to the the system and security and then the system tab there is an option to change settings in the middle right hand side of the page near your computer name. If you click on this and go to the advanced tab there is a performance option. click the settings button there and change it to the adjust for best performance option then apply and click ok. It makes things look kinda ugly and old school in windows but makes a massive difference running hyperspin and emus. Great if you have a lower end machine or dedicated mame machine!!!

[mwong168]

Hyperspin won't even load on my bartop which has an Intel® Desktop Board D945GCLF with Integrated Intel® Atom™ Processor and 2gb of RAM. I just run Maximus Arcade on it (oops am I allowed to say that on here :) ). On my other machines I have both loaded in case I feel like switching from one to the other. I have Maximus setup with dynamic marqees, screen snaps and videos so my friends are impressed at first and then when I load up Hyperspin they just **** their pants.

[streeker]

Has anyone tried to emulate the following (newer) systems on something comparable to a 2x1,66GHz Atom Dual Core (D510) with 2GB DDR2?

- Saturn
- PSOne
- N64
- Dreamcast
- Gamecube

I'm tending to buy a nettop for Hyperspin but have no clue, if this specification would allow full speed on any emulators for the systems above...

Any help/info appreciated!

[cooldreng13]

hmm maybe i should give my ASUS Eee PC 1215N a try
it uses nvidia ion2, 2gb ram right now max 4 gb, nvidia optimus, 1.8GHz DualCore processor, can overclock it to 2.2GHz stable

i think i will test it tomorrow maybe
what emulators should i try?

i think i will go with these for a start
- Saturn
- PSOne
- N64
- Dreamcast
- Gamecube


edit:

ok now i have tested project 64 emulator (n64)
the SSF emulator (saturn) and the nulldc - Chankast emulator (Dreamcast)
the project64 is running perfect full ftp all the time. i have tried mega man 8 on the ssf emulator
and there was some delay when you play in window, but if you alt-enter (fullscreen) and set Ez Setting on "Low compability" then it run nice.
the nulldc emulator is a cpu killer for this pc.. so i tried chankast instead and it did very well..
i have so far tried Crazy Taxi and it played nice but will get choppy when you drive too much around
im going to try with Street Fighter lll now...

edit:
ok with this conclusion can i say that
N64 is playable
Saturn is playable
Dreamcast isnt playable at full speed, maybe if you overclock but at standard i would not use non of the dreamcast emulators and then i can also say that a playstation one and a gamecube emulation will not be possible..

[SoaringWind]

Not yet

[Trnzaddict]

hmm maybe i should give my ASUS Eee PC 1215N a try
it uses nvidia ion2, 2gb ram right now max 4 gb, nvidia optimus, 1.8GHz DualCore processor, can overclock it to 2.2GHz stable

i think i will test it tomorrow maybe
what emulators should i try?

i think i will go with these for a start
- Saturn
- PSOne
- N64
- Dreamcast
- Gamecube


edit:

ok now i have tested project 64 emulator (n64)
the SSF emulator (saturn) and the nulldc - Chankast emulator (Dreamcast)
the project64 is running perfect full ftp all the time. i have tried mega man 8 on the ssf emulator
and there was some delay when you play in window, but if you alt-enter (fullscreen) and set Ez Setting on "Low compability" then it run nice.
the nulldc emulator is a cpu killer for this pc.. so i tried chankast instead and it did very well..
i have so far tried Crazy Taxi and it played nice but will get choppy when you drive too much around
im going to try with Street Fighter lll now...

edit:
ok with this conclusion can i say that
N64 is playable
Saturn is playable
Dreamcast isnt playable at full speed, maybe if you overclock but at standard i would not use non of the dreamcast emulators and then i can also say that a playstation one and a gamecube emulation will not be possible..

Dude I would try ps1 on that thing. Try epsxe over psxfin though, as psxfin requires more processing power I believe.

If your running n64 on those specs nicely then ps1 should be possible. I thought the N64 was a more powerfull console.

Somone correct me if I'm wrong though.

[cooldreng13]

Dude I would try ps1 on that thing. Try epsxe over psxfin though, as psxfin requires more processing power I believe.

If your running n64 on those specs nicely then ps1 should be possible. I thought the N64 was a more powerfull console.

Somone correct me if I'm wrong though.


Project64:
Intel Pentium 3 700Mhz or AMD Athlon 800Mhz CPU*
256MB system RAM
200MB free hard drive space + additional 20MB-100MB free hard drive space per game, depending on game and number of saves you make
100% Microsoft DirectX 7 compatible video, sound and input devices**.
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft DirectX 8


ePSXe:
* Processor: Pentium 200 MHz, recommended Pentium 3 at 1 GHz
* RAM: 256 MB RAM, recommended 512 MB RAM
* Video card: 3D capable video card with support for OpenGL, DirectX, or Glide
* Operating system: Windows or Linux
* CD-ROM: 16x or faster (optional)


ok i will try later ;)