hyperspin box

[shwisha]

I'm putting Hyperspin on my AsRock Mini PC and got some Mad Catz FightPads hooked up to it. It's been something I wanted to do for a while. After to collecting various consoles and carts over the years It's become a lot of hassle switching from one system to the next. The idea of this setup is allowing me to play 90% of the retro games I want to play with little effort (once it's setup).

Anyone have a similar setup?

Thinking of putting Steam - Big Picture on there then I'm pretty much set playing anything from Atari to modern times.

[Nyukki]

I have HS on my HTPC and love it, though admit that I spend more time tinkering with the configurations than actually playing games. The tinkering side can be frustrating, but always feels great when you make a breakthrough and finally get something working that's been bugging you for ages.

It's not difficult to set up initially (and the new HyperLaunch 2.25 makes things much simpler), but you can make your set up as complex and customised as you want. My set up will be awesome one day, and then I can finally sit down and remember what it was like to play video games, ha!

[jinx]

Wish I could use HyperSpin, but my HTPC is a Linux box. Really sucks that they don't ever plan on porting it, and I have yet to find something as pretty and functional for *nix.

Right now I am/was running XBMC with a few plug-ins to do something similar, but as of the last update it broke. It took me too long to set it up to bother with it, especially since I'm upgrading in a few months to the Haswell based Core i5.

Now that Steam works on Ubuntu, I'll be installing that as well. (Can't at the moment, because it refuses to work with Slackware64 with multilibs.)

[Anapan]

I'm in the process of building one now to be a bartop MAME cabinet mostly, but I figure I might as well put the rest of the systems on as well. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out since I'm using an Ultimarc ArcadeVGA to output everything to a 1084 Amiga monitor ...as soon as the VGA-SCART cable arrives in the mail . I just finished putting a fresh Windows 7 installation on and installed the drivers. It'll be really fun to tweak and configure everything.
Edit: Success!

[demonseed]

I am thinking of the same..... idea.. want to run Dreamcast down.. but no idea on what i need for hardware!! any advice...

Jim

[Frag Mortuus]

I've been wanting to do this for years. My problem is that if I'm going to setup a HTPC for gaming, I want to play everything including modern games. So, the cost to get a true HTPC is really high for me, lol. But, I will do it one day.

[Nyukki]

Hyperspin is largely about flash, a good processor is necessary. My HTPC is an i5 quad core thingamajig, then nvidia gts 450 and 8 gigs of ram, everything runs pretty flawlessly. Systemwise, most PS2 games seem to run well but not all, only messed with Dolphin briefly but it seemed a bit choppy. All older systems work flawlessly.

You also need a large hard drive. I have a 32gig SSD for the OS, then a 3tb HDD, of which roughly 2tb is my hyperspin folder

[demonseed]

cool thanks.. where is a good place to buy? what do I lookup minitx computer?
Costs?

[fastbilly1]

Do you have any experience building a pc and/or are you comfortable swapping out parts at all?

[demonseed]

I used to build computers back in the day but last one was around 10 years ago! I took computer science in collage some 18 years ago!! So many new technologies but I think I could do it..