Overview

Hypseus Singe is a fork of Matt Ownby's Daphne emulator, a multi-arcade LaserDisc emulator. I prefer this instead of original Daphne emulator for a lot of enhancements.

Supported Platforms:

• American Laser Games
• WoW Action Max
• Daphne
• Singe
• Singe 2

Notes:

• Daphne requires roms because it emulates the whole arcade cabinet
• Singe simulates arcade cabinet, so it doesn’t need actual game roms.
• Need to convert Singe 2 game, e.g. .mp4 to .m2v

Downloads

https://github.com/DirtBagXon/hypseus-singe

Command Lines

The following additional, and reimplemented, arguments have been added to Hypseus Singe:

-bezel <lair.png>          [ Specify a png bezel in 'bezels' sub-folder    ]
-blank_blue                [ VLDP blank using YUV#1DEB6B                   ]
-blank_searches            [ VLDP blanking [adjust: -min_seek_delay]       ]
-blank_skips               [ VLDP blanking [adjust: -min_seek_delay]       ]
-force_aspect_ratio        [ Force 4:3 aspect ratio                        ]
-gamepad                   [ Enable SDL_GameController configuration       ]
-grabmouse                 [ Capture mouse in SDL window                   ]
-ignore_aspect_ratio       [ Ignore MPEG aspect ratio header [01B3]        ]
-keymapfile <flight.ini>   [ Specify an alternate hypinput.ini file        ]
-linear_scale              [ Enable linear filtering when scaling          ]
-novsync                   [ Disable VSYNC presentation on Renderer [crt]  ]
-original_overlay          [ Enable daphne style overlays (lair,ace,lair2) ]
-scalefactor <50-100>      [ Scale video display area [50-100]%            ]
-scanlines                 [ Simulate scanlines [adjust: -scanline_shunt]  ]
-scanline_alpha <1-255>    [ Adjust scanline alpha blending                ]
-scanline_shunt <2-10>     [ Shunt scanline spacing [adjust: -x -y]        ]
-scorebezel                [ Bezel layer software scoreboard               ]
-scorepanel                [ Enable software scoreboard in lair/ace/tq     ]
-scorepanel_position <x y> [ Adjust position of software_scorepanel        ]
-shiftx <-100 to 100>      [ Shift x-axis on video window [%]              ]
-shifty <-100 to 100>      [ Shift y-axis on video window [%]              ]
-tiphat                    [ Invert joystick SDL_HAT_UP and SDL_HAT_DOWN   ]
-usbscoreboard <args>      [ Enable USB serial support for scoreboard:     ]
                           [ Arguments: (i)mplementation, (p)ort, (b)aud   ]
-vertical_screen           [ Reorient calculations in logical fullscreen   ]
-vertical_stretch <1-24>   [ Overlay stretch (cliff/gtg only)              ]

-8bit_overlay              [ Restore original 8bit Singe overlays          ]
-blend_sprites             [ Restore BLENDMODE outline on Singe sprites    ]
-bootsilent                [ Mute sound during initVLDP() - if possible    ]
-js_range <1-20>           [ Adjust Singe joystick sensitivity: [def:5]    ]
-manymouse                 [ Enable ABS mouse input [lightguns] [gungames] ]
-nocrosshair               [ Request game does not display crosshairs      ]
-retropath                 [ Singe data path rewrites [.daphne]            ]
-sinden <1-10> <color>     [ Enable software border for lightguns          ]
                           [ Color: (w)hite, (r)ed, (g)reen, (b)lue or (x) ]

Alt-Enter                  [ Toggle fullscreen                             ]
Alt-Backspace              [ Toggle scanlines                              ]
[KEY_BUTTON3]              [ Toggle scoreboard display in lair/ace         ]
[KEY_COIN1]=|[KEY_START1]  [ Joystick hotkey combination for [KEY_QUIT]    ]
[KEY_TILT]                 [ Switch scorepanel display screen lair/ace/tq  ]

Enforce SDL Window context when Renderer auto-detection fails (no further extensions enabled):

-opengl                    [ Enable OpenGL SDL Window context              ]
-vulkan                    [ Enable Vulkan SDL Window instance             ]

Switch SDL_TEXTUREACCESS *

• texturestream [ Enable SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_STREAMING ] -texturetarget [ Enable SDL_TEXTUREACCESS_TARGET (Default) ]

My Changes

• Use reshade CRT effect
• Use reshade to setup bezel instead of using hypseus -bezel commands
• Cleaner batch scripting, e.g.

set "GAME_NAME=maddog"

:: Reshade Bezels
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

COPY .\bezels\singe\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
COPY .\bezels\singe\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

:: Launch Game
hypseus.exe singe vldp -framefile singe\%GAME_NAME%\%GAME_NAME%.txt -script singe\%GAME_NAME%\%GAME_NAME%.singe -fullscreen -blend_sprites -volume_nonvldp 5 -volume_vldp 20 -js_range 7

ROM Folder

Emulator root folder.

Daphne ROMS roms folder. The rom size should be very small here, usually in KB size.

Daphne vldp folder.

Game folder here should be very large, usually in GB size.

Singe 1 singe folder.

Singe 2 singe2 folder.

Game Launcher Batch Scripts

Windows batch script examples.

Action Max Games

set "GAME_NAME=38ambushalley"

:: Reshade Bezels
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

COPY .\bezels\actionmax\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
COPY .\bezels\actionmax\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

:: Launch Game
hypseus.exe singe vldp -framefile singe\actionmax\%GAME_NAME%.txt -script singe\actionmax\%GAME_NAME%.singe -fullscreen -volume_nonvldp 20 -volume_vldp 80 -nolinear_scale -manymouse

Singe games

set "GAME_NAME=pussinboots"

:: Reshade Bezels
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

COPY .\bezels\singe\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
COPY .\bezels\singe\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

:: Launch Game
hypseus.exe singe vldp -framefile singe\%GAME_NAME%\%GAME_NAME%.txt -script singe\%GAME_NAME%\%GAME_NAME%.singe -fullscreen -blend_sprites -volume_nonvldp 5 -volume_vldp 20 -js_range 7 -scalefactor 80

Singe 2 games

set "GAME_NAME=Astroboy"
set "GAME_DIR=Astroboy"
set "SINGE_DIR=singe2"

:: Reshade Bezels
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
DEL .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

COPY .\bezels\singe2\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel.png
COPY .\bezels\singe2\%GAME_NAME%.png .\reshade-shaders\Textures\Bezel_off.png

:: Launch Game
hypseus.exe singe vldp -framefile %SINGE_DIR%\%GAME_DIR%\%GAME_NAME%.txt -script %SINGE_DIR%\%GAME_DIR%\%GAME_NAME%.singe -fullscreen -blend_sprites -volume_nonvldp 20 -volume_vldp 80 -js_range 7 -scalefactor 80

RocketLauncher Setup

Daphne

Singe

Singe 2

Launchbox Setup