Zinc Question & Idea

[Michael]

I have just setup Zinc in gameex under advanced MAME settings i made sure Use Zinc option was set to yes and then wondered why Zinc wasnt showing up under MAME... I then remebered an option in enable/disable features called Show/Hide Zinc. so i set this to show Zinc and then it works.

Basicly i was thinking Couldnt these to options be made into one option (Use Zinc) or is there a reason for the two options i havnt picked up on

[Tempest]

I have just setup Zinc in gameex under advanced MAME settings i made sure Use Zinc option was set to yes and then wondered why Zinc wasnt showing up under MAME... I then remebered an option in enable/disable features called Show/Hide Zinc. so i set this to show Zinc and then it works.

Basicly i was thinking Couldnt these to options be made into one option (Use Zinc) or is there a reason for the two options i havnt picked up on

I believe that they are two different things.

With the first "use zinc" option, you are saying it's ok. to use Zinc instead of Mame for the games that Zinc supports.

The second option gives you the choice of displaying Zinc games under a different page in Gameex, (mine says "Playstation) under the Mame games section. If you do not enable this, these games will remain in the Mame list of games, but still use Zinc to run them when selected, so the user wouldn't know if the game was being run by Mame, or Zinc.

To test this, change the setting to "Hide Zinc", start Gameex, and select a game that you have running in Zinc (Aquarush comes to mind) from the Mame list. While the game is running press "tab" or whatever key brings up the mame menu in your system. The menu should not appear, because Mame isn't running!

[Michael]

I believe that they are two different things.

With the first "use zinc" option, you are saying it's ok. to use Zinc instead of Mame for the games that Zinc supports.

The second option gives you the choice of displaying Zinc games under a different page in Gameex, (mine says "Playstation) under the Mame games section. If you do not enable this, these games will remain in the Mame list of games, but still use Zinc to run them when selected, so the user wouldn't know if the game was being run by Mame, or Zinc.

To test this, change the setting to "Hide Zinc", start Gameex, and select a game that you have running in Zinc (Aquarush comes to mind) from the Mame list. While the game is running press "tab" or whatever key brings up the mame menu in your system. The menu should not appear, because Mame isn't running!

ahh i see thanks tempest69. i was thinking it was kinda the same thing