Model 2 and Zinc config problem

[Cisek]

Hi

I just can't get them to work as external emulators. I am using the newest Model 2 emu (0.9) and Zinc with Amazinc frontend. They both start, but selected game is not loading. I assume it is a matter of cmd configuration. Can you help?

[bkenobi]

These are both very simple to use with the builtin GameEx support. To use them as their own emulator, you need to do something a little different.

For Model2, you simply have "emulator.exe [RomPath]/[RomFile]". If you are using the multi-cpu version, you need the other exe. That should be it as long as you have the emu configured correctly outside GameEx.

Zinc is a little different animal. The author decided to use a number rather than a rom name in calling which rom to run. So you don't call "zinc starglad", you call "zinc 1". There are 3 ways to accomplish this call.

1) If there is a command line front end for zinc, you can just use that.

2) You can use a wrapper to do the conversion. There are some available on this site or you can write your own. Brian Hoffman also put together a version that uses a batch file for each rom. You just set up your filter to look for "*.bat". If you use that, then you would probably set it up as an application rather than an emulator though.

3) You can use the mameemumap.ini file to do this conversion for you.

At this point in the game, I would opt for option 3 as it works GREAT and is really easy to implement. Just add the following to the file:

starglad=1
sfexj=2
sfexa=3
sfexp=4
sfexpj=5
sfex2j=6
sfex2j=7
sfex2p=8
sfex2pj=9
sfex2pa=10
plsmaswd=11
stargld2=12
rvschola=13
jgakuen=14
rvschool=15
shiryu2=16
strider2=17
kikaioh=18
techromn=19
ts2=20
ts2j=21
tgmj=22
sncwgltd=23
beastrzb=24
beastrzr=25
bldyror2=26
brvblade=27
psyforcj=28
psyforce=29
psyfrcex=30
mgcldtex=31
raystorj=32
raystorm=33
ftimpcta=34
gdarius=35
gdarius2=36
danceyes=37
xevi3dg=38
starswep=39
myangel3=40
tekkenb=41
tekkena=42
tekken=43
tekken2a=44
tekken2b=45
tekken2=46
souledga=47
souledgb=48
souledge=49
dunkmnia=50
dunkmnic=51
primglex=52
weddingr=53
hyperath=54
pbball96=55
susume=56
fgtlayer=57
ehrgeiz=58
tekken3=59
mrdrillr=60
aquarush=61
pacapp=62
sws99=63
glpracr3=64
shngmtkb=65
cbaj=66
doapp=67
tondemo=68
mfjump=69
hvnsgate=70

You still need to do a couple other things in the ini (primarily setting those files to use your emulator number), but that's about it.