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Title: ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: MameMaster! on July 30, 2003, 01:30:29 pm
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GREETS ALL.

I just installed ZiNc and ROMs.....(I own all of the original boards of course)....and it ain't working with my X-Arcade.

Specifically when I reconfigure ZiNc through a GUI I'm using (http://dafreak.emuhq.com/)....when I press what should be a light punch (Street Figher EX).....it goes into a wierd slow motion redraw kind of a state.

Any suggestions on what I may be doing wrong?

The MameMaster (obviously not the ZiNc Master!).
Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: Lilwolf on July 30, 2003, 01:33:46 pm
Does it work normal if you press the keyboard?
Does the xarcade work normal in a dos shell?

I thought xarcades is just a keyboard encoder... I don't have one so I don't know if it has any auto-repeat anything with it..

Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: MameMaster! on July 30, 2003, 01:36:06 pm
Does it work normal if you press the keyboard?
Does the xarcade work normal in a dos shell?

I thought xarcades is just a keyboard encoder... I don't have one so I don't know if it has any auto-repeat anything with it..


You know, to be honest I didn't even try the keyboard to check that out.

Since it works 100% in mame....I figured it would with ZiNc since it just mimics the keyboard. But, that's a good suggestion...I'll have to see if it does work or not with the default keys.

Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: gndprx on July 30, 2003, 02:03:16 pm
You have one of two choices...

Provided that Zinc (never used it myself) allows you to map keys, then you can re-map the keys to match the X-Arcade's default.

Or second option (one of the big benifits of the X-Arcade encoder by the way)

Program one of the 4 custom key maps on the X-Arcade to match what Zinc is expecting for default input.

Programming the X-Arcade is very easy and works great.

Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: MameMaster! on July 30, 2003, 02:14:14 pm
hmmmm....I forgot about the custom function. I'll give that a try!

I've already tried remapping ZiNc in the GUI but that didn't work......

But, the custom idea has promise!  ;D
Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: Popcorrin on July 31, 2003, 08:02:25 am
I just got done doing remapping my Zinc keys to match the default mame keys.  I was able to remap them using the dafreaks zinc gui which worked fine when I loaded the games from gui, but I wanted to be able to load the games from mamewah and still have the key remappings in place which I wasn't able to do with the dafreaks gui.  I instead used ZINCFE to remap the keys and after doing so the key remappings stayed active when I used Mamewah.  
     To be honest I can't remember where I downloaded it from but you could do a google search to easily find it or I could email it to you if you want. Let me know.
Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: MameMaster! on July 31, 2003, 09:56:25 am
 ;D SUCCESS!  ;D

I remapped the X-Arcade and that worked perfectly.

I checked to see if the default GUI keys worked and they did....so I just changed the X-Arcade to match the defaults and that solved the problem. I totally forgot about that function...that was a great idea to try that!

I found that the self configure for X-Arcade in the GUI did (on screen) match the X-Arcade default.....but when you actually used the X-Arcade the buttons didn't work properly. For those of you not familiar w/Zinc the GUI is pretty similar to MAME and has a button to click on that configures it to work with Hot Rod and X-Arcade.

In case anyone is interested in trying Zinc out , here are the links to the pieces you need:

GUI:
http://dafreak.emuhq.com/

ZINC HOW TO GUIDE:
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/zincguide.htm

ZINC ROMS:
link deleted...don't link to ROM sites.

Thanks for all of the advice guys!

One last question.....if anyone knows of a more up to date GUI that supports the more recent games like Mr. Driller....could you post the link? Thanks!!!

The MameMaster
(and now the Zinc apprentice)
 ::)
Title: Re:ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: gfunk2k on September 23, 2008, 01:09:15 pm
;D SUCCESS!  ;D

I remapped the X-Arcade and that worked perfectly.

I checked to see if the default GUI keys worked and they did....so I just changed the X-Arcade to match the defaults and that solved the problem. I totally forgot about that function...that was a great idea to try that!

I found that the self configure for X-Arcade in the GUI did (on screen) match the X-Arcade default.....but when you actually used the X-Arcade the buttons didn't work properly. For those of you not familiar w/Zinc the GUI is pretty similar to MAME and has a button to click on that configures it to work with Hot Rod and X-Arcade.

In case anyone is interested in trying Zinc out , here are the links to the pieces you need:

GUI:
http://dafreak.emuhq.com/

ZINC HOW TO GUIDE:
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/zincguide.htm

ZINC ROMS:


Thanks for all of the advice guys!

One last question.....if anyone knows of a more up to date GUI that supports the more recent games like Mr. Driller....could you post the link? Thanks!!!

The MameMaster
(and now the Zinc apprentice)
 ::)

how did you remap the xarcade buttons?
Title: Re: ZiNc Question/X-Arcade
Post by: MameMaster! on September 24, 2008, 09:21:07 am
Go to the XArcade site (if you don't have the instructions that came w/the XArcade). You can remap the buttons via a program switch on the back of the XArcade.

(wow, you resurrected my thread from 5 years ago!!---  :applaud:)