zinc

[simbamame]

Having a few problems with zinc its installed in d:emulators/zinc, ive put the roms in zip form in the ROM directory and configured zinc to look in d:emulators/zinc/roms not only have ive configured the default but also the game itself points to the roms directory but not mater what it still says no roms round, ive tried unpacking the ROM in and out of the dir and still no joy, ive not tried in gameex yet as I wanna get it running OK outside of gameex first. Any help greatly received.

SM

[fRequEnCy]

Having a few problems with zinc its installed in d:emulators/zinc, ive put the roms in zip form in the ROM directory and configured zinc to look in d:emulators/zinc/roms not only have ive configured the default but also the game itself points to the roms directory but not mater what it still says no roms round, ive tried unpacking the ROM in and out of the dir and still no joy, ive not tried in gameex yet as I wanna get it running OK outside of gameex first. Any help greatly received.

SM

Running outside of GameEx would require some type of loader unless you're running from command-line. There are many available at emulation sites. The reason being is that the rom name can not be used in the command-line. The rom number is passed instead. So these loaders take care of that. So try with a number instead of the rom name if you're running from command-line or download one of the many loaders.

[simbamame]

Running outside of GameEx would require some type of loader unless you're running from command-line. There are many available at emulation sites. The reason being is that the rom name can not be used in the command-line. The rom number is passed instead. So these loaders take care of that. So try with a number instead of the rom name if you're running from command-line or download one of the many loaders.

Thanks, yes i have already got a loader its the zincgui the problem i have is that i have 86 roms and only 2 work, so maybe zincgui is not very compatible with the ROMS? so maybe use a diff emulator but would it be comp with Gameex?

I read threw the forums that sujjested deleting the config in zinc i did that and that's how i got 2 too work. lol .

Your thoughts?.

SM

[fRequEnCy]

Thanks, yes i have already got a loader its the zincgui the problem i have is that i have 86 roms and only 2 work, so maybe zincgui is not very compatible with the ROMS? so maybe use a diff emulator but would it be comp with Gameex?

I read threw the forums that sujjested deleting the config in zinc i did that and that's how i got 2 too work. lol .

Your thoughts?.

SM

Hmmmm those numbers aren't correct. The ZiNc set has 78 sets and 4 CHD's. I'm not sure where the 86 is coming from. I would suggest verifying your set in a rom manager like clrmamepro or RomCenter. Perhaps that's where you troubles lie. Because I've had success with ZiNcGUI in the past. I just have no call for it now since I run my ZiNc roms through GameEx natively.

[simbamame]

Hmmmm those numbers aren't correct. The ZiNc set has 78 sets and 4 CHD's. I'm not sure where the 86 is coming from. I would suggest verifying your set in a rom manager like clrmamepro or RomCenter. Perhaps that's where you troubles lie. Because I've had success with ZiNcGUI in the past. I just have no call for it now since I run my ZiNc roms through GameEx natively.

Thanks,

Ive checked at its deffo 86 roms i have.

maybe i have a duplicate or summit or maybe miss read a rom name or clicked an extra rom file when coping over from mame, id better check it, then i may just try and set it up via gameex and tinker with that, will give you a shout when i get stuck. pmsl !

SM

[Adultery]

It's pretty simple actually. Look under Advanced MAME settings and hook in your zinc.exe - GameEx will sub ZiNc for MAME while using your current ROM set. It's 1000x easier that way, but it still may require you to do some tinkering to get it just right.

[simbamame]

It's pretty simple actually. Look under Advanced MAME settings and hook in your zinc.exe - GameEx will sub ZiNc for MAME while using your current ROM set. It's 1000x easier that way, but it still may require you to do some tinkering to get it just right.

Nice 1, thanks mate, will try later on, got to take the kids shopping 1st, lol. .

[8BitMonk]

There are actually 71 Zinc games, not 78. From a commandline navigate to your zinc folder and type 'zinc --list-games' and you will see them and their corresponding numbers. You can also type zinc and you will see the other available commandline switches, they're a little different as they start with double-dashes. ie. --help, --version.

The easiest way to test zinc outside of GameEx is to do it straight from a commandline. All you need to to launch from a commandline is navigate to your zinc folder and then type zinc plus the game number (ie. zinc 28). Your roms should be zipped and in the roms folder with their original name NOT number. Ie. Bloody Roar 2 is bldyror2.zip. Even though you use a number to launch, the romname remains a name and not a number. Also important to note is that you also need the bios for each rom, ie. Plasma Sword needs the cpzn2 bios. Look on MAWs for the bios you'll need for each game.

There are a couple other things you're going to want, the winterblast plugin for configuring your controls and the D3D and OGL renderers. I've found that D3D works better for me. These will be in the form of a file named renderer.znc that you will put in the root of the zinc folder.

[fRequEnCy]

There are actually 71 Zinc games, not 78.

There's 78 sets. 71 games and 7 bioses so 78 sets is correct. I would want the full set as without the bioses, then some of the roms won't run correctly.

[8BitMonk]

oh yeah, if you're talking sets count the bioses for the total. Without those you aren't getting far.

[simbamame]

There are actually 71 Zinc games, not 78. From a commandline navigate to your zinc folder and type 'zinc --list-games' and you will see them and their corresponding numbers. You can also type zinc and you will see the other available commandline switches, they're a little different as they start with double-dashes. ie. --help, --version.

The easiest way to test zinc outside of GameEx is to do it straight from a commandline. All you need to to launch from a commandline is navigate to your zinc folder and then type zinc plus the game number (ie. zinc 28). Your roms should be zipped and in the roms folder with their original name NOT number. Ie. Bloody Roar 2 is bldyror2.zip. Even though you use a number to launch, the romname remains a name and not a number. Also important to note is that you also need the bios for each rom, ie. Plasma Sword needs the cpzn2 bios. Look on MAWs for the bios you'll need for each game.

There are a couple other things you're going to want, the winterblast plugin for configuring your controls and the D3D and OGL renderers. I've found that D3D works better for me. These will be in the form of a file named renderer.znc that you will put in the root of the zinc folder.

Thanks that has helped a lot i just need to get the bios's winterblast and the renderers.. know any good places to try wink wink i didnt ask that btw.

SM