Clarrification on the whole MAME, emulator, ROM hyperspin situation

[Penfold8]

Hello,

I am a noob in the MAME world, but have seen some really interesting MAMEs that people have made on Youtube (ellhawkes78 just to name one). How does this hyperspin work? Do you need to download the MAME emulator then hyperspin, the title of the rom, and the rom that you want to put into the hyperspin software? Does hyperspin bring the emulator and the rom together in a nice neat package? Does hyperspin get configured to "know what emulator you have to use with what ROM you want to play?

Sorry for all the questions. If you can point me in the direction on where to learn more info on the whole hyperspin aspect I would very much appreciate it.

Thanks

[WitchHunter]

Hyperspin is emulators frontend, you can download packages of games pictures, but it doesen't contain the emulator or the roms.

You'll need:
Hyperspin
Mame binaries
Game roms

Tutorial:
http://hyperspin-fe.com/oldsite/inde...=99&Itemid=111

[Penfold8]

Hyperspin is emulators frontend, you can download packages of games pictures, but it doesen't contain the emulator or the roms.

You'll need:
Hyperspin
Mame binaries
Game roms

Tutorial:
http://hyperspin-fe.com/oldsite/inde...=99&Itemid=111

Thank you very much. I will look into this asap

[Zorlon]

Best way for anyone new to mame is via mameui that is a gui version of mame that can check roms using audit to tell you if you are missing any roms and exactly what it is that is missing, normally mame would just say a rom or chd is missing but no info on exactly what that is (Hyperspin would be of no help there).

mameui also has a filter option (has lots of filters already set out) including a working list that you can filter again to show only what you have

http://www.mameui.info/

there are other gui based versions of mame as well with various hacks, but Mameui is a good solid stable engine to start with