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Title: Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: railz on July 26, 2003, 12:02:12 pm

I discovered Zinc last night and was wondering if anyone was running it.

So far I have plans for:

MAME .71
Daphne

but was wondering how I could intergrate Zinc into the cabinet as well?

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Unkis17 on July 26, 2003, 05:34:13 pm

I run Zinc as well as many other emulators through the MameWah FE.  All of the controls can be programmed so you don't need a keyboard (for both Zinc and MW)

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 27, 2003, 08:17:24 pm

Well, not ALL of the zinc controls can be reprogrammed.  Things like the start buttons and quit are set in stone :)

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: AlanS17 on July 27, 2003, 08:50:46 pm

As long as they match the MAME controls I don't care.

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: SirPoonga on July 27, 2003, 11:43:55 pm

They don't match mame defaults

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: IceCold on July 27, 2003, 11:50:46 pm

What games does Zinc run?

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Syxx on July 28, 2003, 02:28:15 am

use ZincFE to setup zinc, and cofig it all, then after run it through Mamewah and you'll be set.

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Aceldamor on July 28, 2003, 01:36:41 pm

Quote from: IceCold on July 27, 2003, 11:50:46 pm

What games does Zinc run?

The SFEX series, Strider 2, and other 3d games. Tekken, ect.

Zinc Gui is good, the only problem is there is a bug where I believe p2 button 6 does not work....

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: crashdmj on July 28, 2003, 05:53:20 pm

Isn't the bug suppose to be fixed in the new release.
Derek

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: vusteveii on July 28, 2003, 06:04:04 pm

what kind of computer system specs does it take to run these zinc games smoothly?

steve

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 28, 2003, 08:16:14 pm

that's a bug in zinc itself, not the gui program

it will be fixed the next release of zinc

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: railz on July 29, 2003, 01:34:44 pm

Since the boards being emulated are running versions of the PS1 hardware, I was a little dissapointed with the framerates on some of the games (noticably Rival Schools and that gigantic robot fighting one).

Running it on a P4 2.2 Ghz with 1Gb ram and a Geforce3 Ti 200 and those games slow to a 20 fps crawl.

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 29, 2003, 01:39:09 pm

your settings are screwed up then.....

i get around 50 fps on my puny 900 mhz

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Aceldamor on July 29, 2003, 03:48:27 pm

I get 60 on my Athelon 1.2 with an ATI 7000

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Syxx on July 29, 2003, 06:17:20 pm

i find the games run better on OpenGl for me also, but that will change dependent on your video card.
i use a 128meg Geforce 3 Ti200

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Malachai on July 30, 2003, 10:00:50 am

The "rule" is: OpenGL for Nvidia cards and D3D for ATI cards.  Seems to work.  When I set the render to D3D with my RADEON 7000 I saw a good increase in speed.  50-60fps on a Duron 900 with 256MB.  Not too shabby.

Title: Re:Anyone running Zinc in their cab?
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 30, 2003, 05:52:18 pm

Quote from: Malachai on July 30, 2003, 10:00:50 am

The "rule" is: OpenGL for Nvidia cards and D3D for ATI cards.  Seems to work.  When I set the render to D3D with my RADEON 7000 I saw a good increase in speed.  50-60fps on a Duron 900 with 256MB.  Not too shabby.

That's not entirely true.  Older versions of ati cards do better in d3d, but anything newer than a radeon 7000 will do better in ogl.