it really all comes down to prefrence
I agree...
your statmend about wanting a polished arcade system is a little false allong with having to setup diffrent games to work right
hyperspin is way to fancy looking for an arcade cab rember these games were basic and a bright high res hyperspin with its crazy intro reminds me more of a pc game than gamex's basic intro logo bit nice clean basic menu
Well I'm comparing hyperspin to a polished commercial arcade system like the Global VR Classics multigame machines. I have played them a few times and I feel like they are pretty ideal as far as multigames go.
I don't even use the intro video, there's really no point as all it does is delay the bootup.
i guess if using a command line mame you may have to dick with setting up each game but so far i just open mameui32 and set joystick games to use keyboard(im using a keywiz encoder) and setup trackball/spinner/light gun games to use the mouse (using an optowiz encoder for my trackball) its really a no brainer setup even with my full set
That's not what I mean, the same is true of Hyperspin. What I mean is if you have 6 buttons per player, the default MAME key mappings are not going to match up to the right locations on your 6 buttons. The trackball games have varying amounts of sensitivity, and the volume of the different games vary. This is part of MAME, nothing can fix this except some manual adjustments by the user.
i had hyper spin setup for awile and people complained that the wheel was a little overwelming and that it took to long to load the artwork (and that was on a 2.8 ghz dual core with 2 gigs of ram )with game ex the list and artwork is instant even on a 2.0 p4 with 512 of ram
With a large game set I can see this being a problem...
also editing xml files may work for us that have a understanding of programing and pc use but the average person just wants to install and go even me with my ms certs still find it to much hassle to edit ini files and xml docs what did that old infomercial say "set it and forget it"
I've had to touch the xml files very little. In fact I've done it only as a preference because the config program "HyperQ" will change all those settings for you.
i stated in another thread that gameex vs hyperspin/mala is like xp vs vista
game ex is like xp its basic easy to setup and use and just plain works every time
hyperspin/mala is like vista its flashy and has all the bells and whistles but is a bitch to deal with and setup and can really be a hedache when somthing goes wrong (ever had hyper spin error put on ya it can suck when you have windows shelled with game ex it will automaticly run explorer.exe on crash or exit with hyper spin you would have to plug in a keyboard then cntrl alt del and manually run explorer.exe to try and repair the problems or work up some script to do that )
Since getting a faster machine I have had no crashes at all. No need to worry about explorer or anything else, I just put a shortcut to Hyperspin in the Startup folder.
ps keep in mind hyper spin is also more system hungry so if using an older pc you may need an upgraded graffix card
game ex runs great on a 2.0 p4 with 512 ram and onboard graffix
I agree, don't use Hyperspin if you have something lower than a 2.5ghz or so P4, I know this from experience.
if you want a frontend thaat you can configure to your exact ideas and want all the flash mala is far better than hyperspin for its options for setting up custom lists and its support for vertical themes
Probably so, and another reason why I like HS so much. I don't want to spend hours creating graphics and such. It's one of the things I disliked about all the other frontends - didn't really like their GUI's/skins and don't have the skills or time to do it myself. Mala's skins are "blah" and it still isn't that flashy. It works though, and flashy isn't always necessary.
The big HS drawback for some people is no vertical. Fortunately, my Vertical cabinets are already configured with 400mhz CPU's, DOS, and GameLauncher.
Wade
