setting a game to boot in zinc instad of mame

[opm881]

so i am guessing this would mean that i woudlnt simply be able to scroll through mame and select the game i want but to play any zinc game i would need to select it in a different section? thats dissapointing seeing as some mame games work and some dont Oh well, guess it will have to do

[Brian Hoffman]

  opm881 said:

so i am guessing this would mean that i woudlnt simply be able to scroll through mame and select the game i want but to play any zinc game i would need to select it in a different section? thats dissapointing seeing as some mame games work and some dont Oh well, guess it will have to do

No....

Im saying download the package ive included in the thread and up it in your mame directory.

Then enable the feature to have gameex use zinc for mame games and point to the location for the zinc.exe

Then update your mame list and it will just work.

I also included bat for someone to set it up outside the mame list.

Does this make things more clear?

[opm881]

AHHHHHH awesome. THanks. So its a fix for game ex. thanks heaps man. I was wondering why something like that hadnt been done before. I was reading through and i thought it was a set up so that it was running as a seperate emulator like the n64 emulator and such

[Tempest]

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Ok, i have my game ex all set up so that it boots games in zinc instead of mame where appropriate, but for some reason it is still booting ehrgiez in mame instead of zinc. I know it works in zinc, i checked out the game list for zinc and its in there. Any ideas? Just that it runs crazy slow in mame and should run faster in zinc(had this issue with tekken, the running slow, and in zinc it runs 100% speed)

@Brian - Did you read the whole thread?

@Opm881 - Have you actually run ehrgiez in Zinc? Do other Zinc Games run using the Zinc_loader?

Remember I said the code was untested... I'm not using Zinc, so you need to stick with me.

@BKHere's the loop for Zinc:

Zinc_Path := "C:\Emulators\ZiNc\ZiNc.exe"
Zinc_Options := "--roms-directory=C:\Emulators\Mame32\roms --renderer=.\renderer.znc"

Loop, read, C:\Emulators\Mame32\zinc.txt
  {
	IfInString, A_LoopReadLine, %RomName%
	  {
		RomName := A_Index
		Break
		Run %Zinc_Path% %RomName% %Zinc_Options%,,,Zinc_PID
		WinWait, ahk_pid %Zinc_PID%
		WinWaitClose;Wait until Zinc is exited
		ExitApp
	  }
  }

If none of the Zinc games are working, then I should get rid of the "Break" in the loop. (I should get rid of it anyway, it's uneeded!)

Do you see anything else? I don't want to keep guessing, I need input from Opm881...

Part of the Zinc.txt file:

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43 Tekken (JP) Ver. B [tekkenb, parent tekken]

44 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. B [tekkena, parent tekken]

45 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. C [tekken]

46 Tekken 2 (JP) Ver. B [tekken2a, parent tekken2]

47 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. A [tekken2b, parent tekken2]

48 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. B [tekken2]

49 Soul Edge (JP) SO3 Ver. A [souledga, parent souledge]

50 Soul Edge (JP) SO1 Ver. A [souledgb, parent souledge]

51 Soul Edge Ver. II (JP) SO4 Ver. C [souledge]

52 Dunk Mania (US) DM2 Ver. C [dunkmnia]

53 Dunk Mania (JP) DM1 Ver. C [dunkmnic, parent dunkmnia]

54 Prime Goal EX (JP) Ver. A [primglex]

55 Wedding Rhapsody (JP) Ver. JAA [weddingr, BIOS konamigv]

56 Hyper Athlete (JP) Ver. 1.00 [hyperath, BIOS konamigv]

57 Powerful Baseball 96 (JP) Ver. 1.03 [pbball96, BIOS konamigv]

58 Susume! Taisen Puzzle-Dama (JP) Ver. 1.20 [susume, BIOS konamigv]

59 Fighting Layer (JP) Ver. B [fgtlayer]

60 Ehrgeiz (US) Ver. A [ehrgeiz]

61 Tekken 3 (JP) Ver. A [tekken3]

The only issue I see is with Tekken. If searching for the rom "tekken", it will get a match on "tekkenb", because of its position in the list. As far as I can tell, all of the rest of the games are ordered properly to get the correct match. If tekken was above tekkenb in the list, it wouldn't be an issue... So yeah, I can make some changes to this... Let's see whose horse Opm881 is going to ride first! Ehrgeiz shouldn't be a problem at all... it's the only one in the list.

The only other potential problem is that the list from zinc1.0 doesn't match the one from zinc1.1, some of the games don't even use the same number...

[Tempest]

Shit, maybe I don't understand the original post. I have seen people post in the past that a certain game that should run in Zinc, doesn't. I was assuming that it was an issue of GameEx not having the correct roms listed for what games should be run in Zinc.

I was thinking of this thread:

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?showtopic=6008

If that's not the case, then I'm barking up the wrong tree...

[bkenobi]

That's what I thought was going on too. I think I'm lost...what else is new

[fRequEnCy]

If a game does not load in Zinc using the integration feature of GameEx then it's something that Tom needs to change in code. It has been brought to his attention. So Tekken 3 and Ehrgiez are the 2 games that need to be fixed correct? No need to go through all this.

[Tom Speirs]

The "original" issue, is fixed in 9.73. Available in about 10 minutes.

[fRequEnCy]

  TSpeirs said:

The "original" issue, is fixed in 9.73. Available in about 10 minutes.

Thanks Tom for the quick fix! In the future if a game does not load up in ZiNc using the integration then please post for Tom to see so he can update GameEx.

[opm881]

9.73 is the latest? i will have a go at that and then try brians solution. And yes tempest, i think you finally understand whats going on thanks for all the help anyway.

[fRequEnCy]

  opm881 said:

9.73 is the latest? i will have a go at that and then try brians solution. And yes tempest, i think you finally understand whats going on thanks for all the help anyway.

Yes 9.73 is the latest and both Tekken 3 and Ehrgiez are confirmed to be working and loaded by ZiNc.

[opm881]

awesome. Thanks. havnt updated since the begining of the year cause my cab doesnt have net access. Will update today after exams. thanks heaps

[Tempest]

  opm881 said:

9.73 is the latest? i will have a go at that and then try brians solution. And yes tempest, i think you finally understand whats going on thanks for all the help anyway.

It seems to me like I had it right from the beginning.....

[opm881]

I was talking about how zinc references You did have the right idea about what i was trying to do from the begining