Tag Archives: HyperSpin

My Arcade: Sneak Peak

I plan on building an arcade cabinet this fall. Here is a sneak preview of some of the artwork. I plan on creating a tutorial as well as review of the project when complete. Its going to be using the hyperspin front end. I cant wait to start work on it. If anyone is interested I can send the pdf files for others to use.

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Making a Hyperspin theme for unsupported systems

I have recently been inspired by the video I placed below.  So to be very clear, my theme will NOT be as nice as this theme.  I do not have the time nor attention span to make such a nice theme.  The theme that I do end up creating will be will fit the theme of the other themes already available. I also hope to create other art sets that …

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How to Make Hyperspin Lists: The quick and easy way

So I spent months trying to figure out how to make lists for Hyperspin. I tried using dir2xml like everyone kept suggesting. It never worked. I grew frustrated and left Hypersin for a while. I went back and thanks to Lashek and Badboybill now know that I was using the wrong dir2xml file. I’m posting this just to make this resource more accessible. I didn’t know that you could do …

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HyperSpin Review

HyperSpin, making retro gaming pretty again. Don’t forget to check out the interview we had with BadBoyBill here. So what is HyperSpin? HyperSpin is a front end for video games! What the hell is a front end? A front end is a nice graphical interface for an emulator. What is a emulator? Its the program that plays video games for specific consoles. Edit: and obviously Arcade machines! Thats always a …

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HyperSpin interview with BadBoyBill

Its safe to say HyperSpin is the best looking front end there is. We had a little chat (question and answer) with one of the hyperSpin authors BadBoyBill. You can also read our HyperSpin review here. 1. What are some of your first video game experiences? The first games I played were on the TI-99, we had a few in the house with a lot of cartridges. I remember games …

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