Zinc Setup!!!

[kewlkat007]

@Freq - That seemed to have worked very well setting up Zinc separately first with zenith then running the .bat and using that command line in GameEX. Now the game do start but I cannot get and Snaps/Vidoes to show up on the Emulator page?

Am I suppose to use the my MAME vids dir/Snaps? I do have all of them. Of course runnin gZenith I do get to see the Snaps that came built into the Zenith front-end.

I'm gonna tackle Daphne next and I have all the Roms/CHDs/Snaps/Vids any tips? Is it better as seperate Emu or through GameEX?

[fRequEnCy]

  On 8/12/2010 at 11:57 PM, kewlkat007 said:

@Freq - That seemed to have worked very well setting up Zinc separately first with zenith then running the .bat and using that command line in GameEX. Now the game do start but I cannot get and Snaps/Vidoes to show up on the Emulator page?

Am I suppose to use the my MAME vids dir/Snaps? I do have all of them. Of course runnin gZenith I do get to see the Snaps that came built into the Zenith front-end.

I'm gonna tackle Daphne next and I have all the Roms/CHDs/Snaps/Vids any tips? Is it better as seperate Emu or through GameEX?

Glad that worked out for you. As far as your snaps, I would point them to your MAME vids/snaps. This is how I have it. I haven't paid much attention if they all are shown since they may have different rom names. If not then there are sets around that you can download to match them. I would just fill in the blanks or rename as needed as they are pretty much the same.

Now for Daphne, I would use GameEx's integration. It would be much easier to setup that particular emulator than to setup each individual rom. It can be done but that depends on what you want to do.

[kewlkat007]

hmmm Strange I do have it pointing to my MAME Dir for Videos/snaps but nothing is showing...Strange

Iam using the prebuilt MAP file for Zinc, do you think the names are different or something and do not match the videos?

  On 8/13/2010 at 12:04 AM, fRequEnCy said:

Glad that worked out for you. As far as your snaps, I would point them to your MAME vids/snaps. This is how I have it. I haven't paid much attention if they all are shown since they may have different rom names. If not then there are sets around that you can download to match them. I would just fill in the blanks or rename as needed as they are pretty much the same.

Now for Daphne, I would use GameEx's integration. It would be much easier to setup that particular emulator than to setup each individual rom. It can be done but that depends on what you want to do.

[fRequEnCy]

  On 8/13/2010 at 2:29 AM, kewlkat007 said:

hmmm Strange I do have it pointing to my MAME Dir for Videos/snaps but nothing is showing...Strange

Iam using the prebuilt MAP file for Zinc, do you think the names are different or something and do not match the videos?

Ahhhh yes. When using as a standalone emulator then I'm pretty sure the artwork names have to be the name of the rom which are numbers because of the map file.

[bkenobi]

That's one advantage to using the mameemumap.ini file. Since it maps the mame roms to the numbers that zinc wants to see, it will get the artwork correct out of the box.

[fRequEnCy]

Just use the GameEx integration and use the command-line that you used after setting it up. Now your roms will be ran in the MAME section and the snaps will match as well.

[bkenobi]

That's probably the easiest thing to do. If for some reason you need to use a loader or launch something at the same time as zinc, then you will need to look into the mameemumap.ini support. If you are happy with just launching zinc as is, then definitely at least try the built in zinc integration into MAME.

[kewlkat007]

Always something with this Emulator....lol

So I'm thinking the pre-built MAP file list only the games that I wanna play but I need to match up the Rom number(currently in the Map file) to the actual [ROM].zip to match the MAME Videos/Snaps?

This is a perfect example of what I was talking about earlier.

What the best way to create your own MAP file?

I scoured the internet and found the Zinc [Rom number] - [Rom Game] - Rom.zip] name

1 Star Gladiator (US 960627) [starglad, BIOS cpzn1]

2 Street Fighter EX (US 961219) [sfex, BIOS cpzn1]

3 Street Fighter EX (JP 961130) [sfexj, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1]

4 Street Fighter EX (ASIA 961219) [sfexa, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1]

5 Street Fighter EX Plus (US 970407) [sfexp, BIOS cpzn1]

6 Street Fighter EX Plus (US 970311) [sfexpu1, parent sfexp, BIOS cpzn1]

7 Street Fighter EX Plus (JP 970311) [sfexpj, parent sfexp, BIOS cpzn1]

8 Street Fighter EX 2 (US 980526) [sfex2, BIOS cpzn2]

9 Street Fighter EX 2 (JP 980312) [sfex2j, parent sfex2, BIOS cpzn2]

10 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (US 990611) [sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]

11 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (JP 990611) [sfex2pj, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]

12 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (ASIA 990611) [sfex2pa, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2]

13 Plasma Sword (US 980316) [plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2]

14 Star Gladiator 2 (JP 980316) [stargld2, parent plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2]

15 Rival Schools (ASIA 971117) [rvschola, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]

16 Justice Gakuen (JP 991117) [jgakuen, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]

17 Rival Schools (US 971117) [rvschool, BIOS cpzn2]

18 Strider Hiryu 2 (JP 991213) [shiryu2, parent strider2, BIOS cpzn2]

19 Strider 2 (ASIA 991213) [strider2, BIOS cpzn2]

20 Kikaioh (JP 980914) [kikaioh, parent techromn, BIOS cpzn2]

21 Tech Romancer (US 980914) [techromn, BIOS cpzn2]

22 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (US 951124) [ts2, BIOS cpzn1]

23 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (JP 951124) [ts2j, parent ts2, BIOS cpzn1]

24 Tetris The Grand Master (JP 980710) [tgmj, BIOS cpzn2]

25 Sonic Wings Limited (JP) [sncwgltd]

26 Beastorizer (US) *bootleg* [beastrzb, BIOS psarc95]

27 Beastorizer (US) [beastrzr, BIOS psarc95]

28 Bloody Roar 2 (JP) [bldyror2, BIOS psarc95]

29 Brave Blade (JP) [brvblade, BIOS tps]

30 Psychic Force (JP 2.4J) [psyforcj, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]

31 Psychic Force (World 2.4O) [psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]

32 Psychic Force EX (JP 2.0J) [psyfrcex, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1]

33 Magical Date EX - sotsugyou kokuhaku daisakusen (JP 2.01J) [mgcldtex, BIOS t

aitofx1]

34 Raystorm (JP 2.05J) [raystorj, parent raystorm, BIOS taitofx1]

35 Raystorm (US 2.06A) [raystorm, BIOS taitofx1]

36 Fighters Impact A (JP 2.00J) [ftimpcta, BIOS taitofx1]

37 G-Darius (JP 2.01J) [gdarius, BIOS taitofx1]

38 G-Darius Ver.2 (JP 2.03J) [gdarius2, parent gdarius, BIOS taitofx1]

39 Dancing Eyes (JP) Ver. A [danceyes]

40 Xevious 3D/G (JP) Ver. A [xevi3dg]

41 Star Sweep (JP) Ver. A [starswep]

42 Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (JP) Ver. A [myangel3]

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]

62 Mr Driller (JP) Ver. A [mrdrillr]

63 Aqua Rush (JP) Ver. A [aquarush]

64 Paca Paca Passion (JP) Ver. A [pacapp]

65 Gallop Racer 3 (JP) [glpracr3, BIOS tps]

66 Shanghai Matekibuyuu (JP) [shngmtkb, BIOS tps]

67 Cool Boarders Arcade Jam (US) [cbaj, BIOS tps]

68 Dead or Alive++ [doapp, BIOS tps]

69 Tondemo Crisis [tondemo, BIOS tps]

70 Monster Farm Jump (JP) [mfjump, BIOS tps]

71 Heaven's Gate [hvnsgate, BIOS atluspsx]

  On 8/13/2010 at 3:56 AM, fRequEnCy said:

Ahhhh yes. When using as a standalone emulator then I'm pretty sure the artwork names have to be the name of the rom which are numbers because of the map file.

[fRequEnCy]

LOL. Yeah! This emulator is a pain in the way it was made. But Tom did a great job of integrating it into GameEx.

Well if you use the GameEx integration then the map file will not be needed. Tom takes care of this in code and your snaps will match since it won't depend on them being named after the rom number. It would be the best and easiest way.

That list can be generated by ZiNc itself. It is how I generate the names for the map file that I created. I generate my own map files using an app I wrote just for this. I got tired of making them by hand. There are other tools out there that can be used to make them but not as easy. Again just use integration and there won't be so much work. Zenith (frontend) and GameEx would have taken care of all the work needed to make it easy to run.

[bkenobi]

I used Excel to do it at one point (prior to using mameemumap.ini). You can probably use Python or another language more quickly if you are good with something supporting RegEx. I just have become used to bruit forcing Excel into doing the job for me.