Aabra
08-28-2008, 04:40 AM
I had an interesting experience downloading and installing all of the themes today. To help the mods out I thought I'd post all the problem themes.
The themes themselves aren't bad at all. They're actually pretty good and they all work, however there are 3 themes that need a little bit of renaming to get to work and others that have messed up directory structures which makes installing them a bit of a pain.
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polepos1 - This rom doesn't exist. It's called polepos. Renaming all the files fixes this but it's annoying for sure. (Pole Position)
wwfstaa - Same problem, the rom doesn't exist. It should be called wwfstar. (WWF Superstars)
mshu - Once again this rom doesn't exist. It should simply be msh. (Marvel Super Heroes)
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Another frustration I had while installing them was the lack of a standard directory structure. Some themes wanted you to extract them to the Hyperspin directory, others wanted you to extract them to the Hyperspin\Media directory, and still others to the Hyperspin\Media\Mame directory. None of these are really wrong... it was just mildly annoying that I had to keep changing the folder that I was extracting to instead of simply copy/pasting the location every time I extracted.
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The worst however were the ones with a directory structure that is simply wrong. These typically did things like have the artwork/background/wheel directories in the same directory as the theme directory instead of inside the images directory. This meant that instead of quickly extracting it I was forced to manually copy over every file to make sure it went to the correct directory.
The themes guilty of this:
mshu (Marvel Super Heroes) - Incorrectly named *and* a bad directory structure!
outrun (Outrun) - Decided to make its own directory named outrun, making installation a pain.
spf2t (Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo) - bad directory structure
zaxxon (Zaxxon) - Same problem as Outrun.
defender (Defender) - Same problem as Outrun and Zaxxon.
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Finally, the last problem I had during installation wasn't really a problem that anybody can be blamed for - maybe a quick note though on these games might help others out. (Maybe they already have them I just wasn't looking.) The following game themes want the Vertical Videos from emumovies, not the Horizontal versions. They look messed up if you give it the wrong version by accident. (like I did!)
zaxxon
sinistar
rocnrope
gorf
galaxian
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Anyways, there's the lists. Hopefully the mods can quickly modify the problem themes and put the fixed versions back up there. They are good themes, they just need a tiny bit of extra effort to install.
:burnout:
The themes themselves aren't bad at all. They're actually pretty good and they all work, however there are 3 themes that need a little bit of renaming to get to work and others that have messed up directory structures which makes installing them a bit of a pain.
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polepos1 - This rom doesn't exist. It's called polepos. Renaming all the files fixes this but it's annoying for sure. (Pole Position)
wwfstaa - Same problem, the rom doesn't exist. It should be called wwfstar. (WWF Superstars)
mshu - Once again this rom doesn't exist. It should simply be msh. (Marvel Super Heroes)
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Another frustration I had while installing them was the lack of a standard directory structure. Some themes wanted you to extract them to the Hyperspin directory, others wanted you to extract them to the Hyperspin\Media directory, and still others to the Hyperspin\Media\Mame directory. None of these are really wrong... it was just mildly annoying that I had to keep changing the folder that I was extracting to instead of simply copy/pasting the location every time I extracted.
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The worst however were the ones with a directory structure that is simply wrong. These typically did things like have the artwork/background/wheel directories in the same directory as the theme directory instead of inside the images directory. This meant that instead of quickly extracting it I was forced to manually copy over every file to make sure it went to the correct directory.
The themes guilty of this:
mshu (Marvel Super Heroes) - Incorrectly named *and* a bad directory structure!
outrun (Outrun) - Decided to make its own directory named outrun, making installation a pain.
spf2t (Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo) - bad directory structure
zaxxon (Zaxxon) - Same problem as Outrun.
defender (Defender) - Same problem as Outrun and Zaxxon.
---
Finally, the last problem I had during installation wasn't really a problem that anybody can be blamed for - maybe a quick note though on these games might help others out. (Maybe they already have them I just wasn't looking.) The following game themes want the Vertical Videos from emumovies, not the Horizontal versions. They look messed up if you give it the wrong version by accident. (like I did!)
zaxxon
sinistar
rocnrope
gorf
galaxian
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Anyways, there's the lists. Hopefully the mods can quickly modify the problem themes and put the fixed versions back up there. They are good themes, they just need a tiny bit of extra effort to install.
:burnout: