It's been nine months since it was announced and now, finally, HyperLaunch 3 is here. Congradulations to djvj, brolly and the whole team that worked on this. We are especially excited about this as the new Hyperpause feature finally gives HyperSpin users a use for all that other content we have here at EmuMovies.

Here is the feature list (Beware as it's a LONG list) contine to the end for a link to the original announcement over at HyperSpin.

Major Features:

HyperLaunch HQ

• Gone are the days of you editing ini files and modules settings manually. We now have a full-featured HQ for editing every option in HL and all its modules.
  
• Easily maneuver all your systems and features for fast editing of any option. Everything gets saved on the fly. Keep it open while customizing!
  
• Launch games directly from HQ, no need to enter your front end to test changes.
  
• Launch your emulator without a game directly from HQ, even those pesky ones that use an 3rd-party GUI. No longer have to search down your folders looking to change an internal emu option.
  
• Create AHK remaps for keymapper support. No need to manually create ahk files anymore!
  
• Launch xpadder profiles for quick editing in xpadder.
  
• Direct editing of JoyToKey profiles.
  
• Read all those module notes - No need to ever open a module again! Also see the module's version, emu version, and author info easily.
  
• Profile Support - Easily save and restore profiles to test different sets of settings and sharing with your friends for many of the features!
  
• Default when needed - With the click of a button, set your settings back to default if you make a mistake or just want a system to use global settings instead of the custom ones you set.
  
• Copy Global Settings to System - You can easily copy all your global settings over to your system ones, removing the "use_global" values for fast customizations
  
• Paths - Use windows dialog boxes to set all your paths.
  
• Module Filtering - Filter what modules and emulators can be used per system! No more guessing what emu can be used for what system.
  
• Module Edits - Set a default editor to open modules in if you need to make edits.
  
• Alternate Emulators - With a few clicks, set any game to use another emulator or system.
  
• Auditing - Audit your roms to see if you miss any from your HyperSpin XML.
  
• Log Viewer - Now you can view and filter your HyperLaunch.log directly from HQ! You can also export it to HTML.
  

HyperPause

• You can now pause any supported emulator, freezing time in your game, and show a smorgasbord of media and artwork.
  
• Videos - Great place to view game-related commercials and video tutorials.
  
• Music - Whle paused, you can play music in the background. Excellent for Game OSTs, themes, remixes, etc. Supports m3u playlists too.
  
• Manuals - Start collecting all your manuals so you can reference them in game.
  
• Guides - Throw in your GameFAQs guides, or walkthroughs. No pdf conversion needed, we can read those too!
  
• Artwork - Look through as much artwork as you want related to the game or system you are playing. Throw in character images, backgrounds, fan-made art and more!
  
• Moves Lists - Forget how to do a Hadouken? No problem, just pause the game and reference the moves lists. Fullicon support instead of showing text as moves (thanks THK)
  
• Statistics - View how often you play this game, system, or total play time, along with most played games and more.
  
• Game Information - View detailed info for the game you are playing, like players, year, scrolling outline, and lots more!
  
• Change Discs - MultiGame support while paused so you can swap discs from within HP.
  
• Save/Load States - Keep track of save and load states and launch them from within HP for supported emus.
  
• High Scores - See your high scores from your game for supported emulators.
  
• Controllers - Move your player 1, 2, 3, etc controllers around to swap positions within HP. This will also reload profiles in xpadder.
  
• Screenshots - Take screenshots of your game and have them automatically accessable in HP.
  
• Control HP with your mouse, shutdown your system while paused, control system volume, and complete customization over how every little detail looks (via HQ).
  

Bezels

• Handheld systems were just not meant to be played fullscreen. So why not throw a bezel around them and simulate like you are holding the system itself! Artists can feel free to create even more bezels and throw them all in your folder and HL will randomize which gets shown on launch.
  

Statistics

• Keep track of information like how long you play each game or how many times you played it. How often you play a system, or game played most often. Average play times or global amount of time playing all games.
  
• You can show this on the fade screen and even more detailed information while in HyperPause.
  

Fade

• Our favorite fade screens have been completely revamped from the ground up.
  
• Transparency on all layers
  
• Over 90+ customization options - Just so you can tweak Fade till your head explodes! We are not to be held accountable if such an event occurs. You have been warned.
  
• And if that's not enough, gdip experts who want to make their own animations are greatly encouraged and you have been given space at the bottom of Fade Animations.ahk to do so. Your animations will appear in HQ as a selection!
  
• Amazing new "fading" animation that gradually fades away your front end! Oh wait, you had that already...damn! *Whistles* Moving along...
  
• Legacy Fade Support - For those blockheads who resist change and just cannot fathom using the awesome new system (or for those pesky emus that do not like fade using gdip)!
  
• 7z Progress - You can finally show progress of your compressed games and how long they take to extract. No more "WTF is taking this thing so long."
  
• Progress Styles - Use an image or a highly customizable progress bar, or both!
  
• Fade Out Image - You can now define an image to be shown on fade out back to your front end.
  
• Extraction Music - Play sounds or music to inform you an extration is occuring or and when it is complete. Ya know, cause you HAD to compress that 8GB game but don't want to stand there while it extracts. Go get some coffee and enjoy the tunes and be informed when that puppy is done!
  
• GIF animation Support - Want to use an animated GIF on fade, go for it and bask in all the glory that GIF animation can bring you.
  
• Image Frame Animations - Or want to create seperate images that stitch together to create an animation, whatever floats your boat.
  
• Full Alpha RGB - All layers and text support Alpha RGB so you can blend colors and text.
  
• Show Rom Info on Fade - You can show a game's description, year, system name, manufacturer, genre and rating as text or images.
  
• Show Rom Statistics on Fade - Yep, another thing you can show on fade...
  

xHotkey

• Need support for more then 1 gamepad key to exit your emulator? No problem! Need a hotkey that uses 3 or more keyboard keys? No problem! Want to hold down those keys for 3 seconds or double/triple tap them to perform a function? Fuck yea, you can do that too! You can now set any emulator to exit by holding down a key for any amount of time!
  

Keymapper

• Completely redone to add much greater support for xpadder profiles.
  
• Supports controller profiles - Define controller profiles that only get loaded for that specific controller
  
• Preferred Controllers - Define the order controllers get loaded. Great for always wanting a specific controller designated as Player 1, 2, 3, etc (Controllers must be plugged in before launch for this to work correctly)
  
• Custom Joystick names - Rename your joysticks for easy reference and configuration within HyperLaunch. This helps distinguish identical controller types.
  
• New HyperLaunch Profile - Can create a profile that will be loaded for use when you bring up any HyperLaunch feature that you need your navigation keys remapped (HP, MG, Rom Map Launch Menu)
  
• Choose different keymappers for each system or set one global for all systems!
  

Rom Mapping and Launch Menu

• Who likes to rename roms? Not me! Ever hate downloading a terabyte of cd games and having to rename them forcing you to no longer share those files with the torrent? Who has that kind of space? Well I do, but I want to save it for pr0n damnit! With this feature you can map your HyperSpin xml name to an entirely different one and not need to rename all those large cd sets. Want to use different archive names versus what's inside the archive, you can do that too. Want to use your "Good Sets" too? Throw all those translations and hacks inside an archive and show a menu on launch to choose between what version you want to play!
  
• Fully customizable launch menu!
  
• Show flags as region types for easy identification on different region roms.
  

Module and Emulator Restructuring

• Throw out all your old modules...are they in the garbage yet? Good, cause you no longer need one module for every system. From now on, your emulators are tied to a module, no matter what system or game you need to use it on. Yes I know it sucked having to update 10 MESS modules when an update came out, think of how I felt having to update them all! From now on you assign default emulators to your system and can further customize each game to use a different emulator if you so choose. Fear not about updating your HyperSpin xml anymore as exe tags are useless, all this gets stored in our ini files and managed via HLHQ!
  

Logging

• Logging has seen a huge change and we now can track very little or almost everything!
  
• Define the amount of logging and even if you want to include your module and file properties. Remember to set your log level to troubleshooting when posting logs for help with your issues!
  
• Logs now tell you the amount of time from one log entry to the next, so you can judge where slowdowns may be on your system.
  

User Functions

• For you code jockies, create your own features and have them accessable to all modules and systems or just create a custom function that you need to call in only a handful of them. You are only limited by your imagination and your skills.
  

Please be aware this is a new release and there may be some items to address which they are happy to do.

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This update includes HS and HQ 1.3, these are just 2 exe's you can overwrite your current exe's with. This won't effect your current setups.

Changes:

• Added mp4 support
  
• Added wheel smoothing for crisper wheel graphics and text.
  
• Updated flash player to 11.
  
• Added last system support when restarting HyperSpin.
  
• Tried to fix sound issue (untested)
  
• Added PCLauncher support for HyperLaunch.
  

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Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn concludes a forty-year galactic struggle between the Terran Confederation and the Kilrathi Empire, an imperialistic, xenophobic alien race.

• Dogfight against several dozen types of enemy fighters, bombers, and capital ships
  
• Participate in a diverse range of missions ranging from routine patrols to major fleet operations.
  
• Immerse yourself in the Wing Commander universe that has been a staple in science fiction since 1990
  
• Take the fight to the Kilrathi homeworlds and conclude the Galactic War once and for all
  

Trailer:

Features:

The flagship campaign of Wing Commander Saga, "The Darkest Dawn" * begins right before Wing Commander 3 and concludes with the ending of the Terran-Kilrathi War (whether or not the Terrans win depends on you).

It has been six months since the Battle of Earth, and inspite of new fighters, carriers, and technology joining the Fleet, the war effort is not going well. Everyday, more news of fresh defeats and losses make their way around the Confederation Forward Fleet, who have to face the possibility that they will not be the ultimate victors.

You are based on the TCS Hermes, one of the handful of large carriers left on the front line. You play the role of Second Lieutenant David Markham, a pilot recently transferred to the Hermes.

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But all hopes and dreams are squashed by the burden of reality. In every system, the Confederation forces are badly outnumbered and outgunned. For every Kilrathi fighter and warship destroyed, 10 others takes their place. Comms from HQ order the abandonment of civilian colonies which the Confederation no longer has any strength to defend. The retreat is downward spiral leading to the final stand at Earth. It won't be very long till Markham experiences what the true nature War really is ...

• Epic Storyline that complements, not contradict, the events portrayed by the Wing Commander 3 game and novel.
  
• Presence of other Confederation carrier battle groups and fighter squadrons gives large-scale “teamwork” environment – the Hermes does not fight the war alone
  
• Over nine hours of voice dialogue.
  
• Approximately 70 cut scenes for a total of about 90 minutes of pre-rendered footage (not counting in-flight communications and command briefings).
  
• Over 60 voice actors, some of whom are actual professionals.
  
• 221 voice acting roles.
  
• 55 missions.
  
• Achievements (mission performance is evaluated and rewarded)
  
• 90 models created for Saga.
  
• Download size of 3-4GB with an installation size of 8-9 GB
  

The computer game which supplies the background world in which Wing Commander Saga is set is the all-time bestseller. We believe that familiarity with either one of the games (Wing Commander 1-4) or one of the novels (preferably End Run, Fleet Action, The Heart of the Tiger) will intensify enjoyment of the Wing Commander Saga.

System Requirements:

The Wing Commander Saga utilizes an enhanced version of the Freespace 2 engine. The game is stand-alone and does not require Freespace 2 to work.

Windows

Minimum Specifications:

• Windows® XP
  
• 1 GHz processor
  
• 2 GB RAM
  
• 128 MB 100% DirectX 9.0 compatible card
  
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• Windows® compatible mouse and keyboard
  
• OpenAL
  
• 6 GB free HD space
  

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• 6GB free HD space
  
• Keyboard and Mouse
  

Recommended Specifications:

• 4 GB of memory
  
• Video card with 512 MB for all effects enabled and detail levels set at maximum
  
• Joystick
  

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This year, some of the GameEx staff decided that it would be cool to put together a theme competition to spark some interest in theme creation. It's still in it's infancy, but it would be good to get the ball rolling in case anyone here would like to enter.

1st prize:

• $100 from EmuMovies
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• 1 X-Arcade Dual Joystick from X-Gaming
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• 1 LED-Wiz USB Lighting and Output Controller courtesy of Groovy Game Gear
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• 1 Full Version of Xpadder with Lifetime Updates
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More prizes may be added, it really depends on the number of entries we get.

• You can submit as many themes as you like, but only one prize per author will be awarded.
• The entries will be judged by the GameEx staff on accessibility, overall design, and integrated features/placement.
  Judging will be done by myself, Tom Spiers, Headkaze, Frequency, and Circo.
• Theme user feedback will also be taken into consideration by the judges.
• Your theme must be a new theme, not a rehash of an existing theme.
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Please submit your themes to the submission thread located here. This topic will be updated with all theme submissions, and the previously mentioned thread will be the place for users to comment on the entry or offer suggestions. If you make any changes to your theme, please PM me so I can make the adjustments in the contest thread. All submissions will be considered final on June 30th, 2012, so you may make as many changes and/or updates to your submission before then.

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Easy right?

If you have questions, feel free to post them here. I will be updating this topic as need arises. Of course, the rules and prizes may be changed periodically without notice. Any changes will be made in writing, and an update will be posted in the submissions thread.

Happy themeing everyone!

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