[dark13]

RCB is surely a wonderful add-on to kodi but it seems to have some problems managing HUGE list of files (MAME), and with advanced launcher shelling kodi and using another frontend for emulation can makes sense. HyperSpin is probably the easiest frontend to use, and the frontend that gives more freedom in terms of skinning. Indeed original HS themes are too much arcade-oriented and would not fit and HTPC, so I'm making an HyperSpin skin that will fit an HTPC or an emulation-box.

Sadly HS is not 16:9 native (1024*768 max) but ratio correction and flash smooth give decent result even on 1080p.
HS is said to be cpu-intensive BUT if you don't go too fancy with flash animation it runs decently even on low-end hardware: this skin, without dialog flash animation in system's menus, runs flawlessy even on a pentium4 3ghz.

[Piers]

Looks great

[Ned Scott]

Nice!

[dark13]

Download links for main menu is on youtube if someone wants to try it, It's quite a big file (1.6gb) as videos for main menu are .flv with alpha channel and an encoding without artifacts (and alpha channel) was needed as game's name is embedd into the video.

Hyperspin 1 is going trought an update, for native 16:9 we'll have to wait for HS2 but in 1.4beta some flaws are being corrected, no more input bug (you can now mix vertical and hotisontal wheel without awkward input) and a new wheel style dedicated to 16:9 boxarts wheel



Still working on system's menus, infos you see are batched .pngs from openoffice files (.csv) using photoshop's variables. The good thing about this method is you can change layout and batch a new set.

[djtatomza]

nice

[DarrenHill]

Thread moved to Aeon Nox section, although quite why a 8-year sleeping thread needed to be woken I don't know...