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Title: Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 24, 2004, 02:21:05 am: 70 games total (including clones)

Various fixes including sound in the namco games and the fixed p2 button.

Now everyone go crash their server. ;)

http://www.emuhype.com/ (http://www.emuhype.com/)
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Silver on October 24, 2004, 08:33:09 am: looking good although the roms have all been renamed to match mame .87u5 (unreleased?). And its looking for different bios'....
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: KHAN on October 24, 2004, 11:33:49 am: Breaking news ! WOW.

This will be a good enteretainment for 3D game players.
i will also look for it .
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: JoyMonkey on October 24, 2004, 12:45:20 pm: Is there someway to make a ClrMame DAT file for Zinc?
All my Zinc roms are ancient and need some renaming/updating.
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 24, 2004, 01:09:40 pm: unfortunately, not yet

Note: zinc might have maybe a few bug fix releases in it and that's it, so I'd reccomend copying zinc related roms from your mame folder to a dedicated folder as at one point mame will obviously keep renaming/updating the roms and zinc wont.
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 24, 2004, 02:41:05 pm: Soooo... if I have a set of "ZINc" ROMs, are they the same or different than the MAME versions?

Can I just drop MAME ROMS right into my ZINc directory now? Man that would be convienient. And any existing working ZINc ROMS need renaming, right?

Must... download... now!!! :o
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 24, 2004, 03:41:41 pm: Wow, I'm having issues.

I assumed that I could just drop ZINc 1.0 into my old directory and go, but now it's not running. It's giving me a missing ROM file message, although I do have them and they're named correctly...

What the..?
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 24, 2004, 03:59:40 pm: Okay... so the new ZINc works more like MAME, but my understanding is that you need a complete up to date MAME ROMS set (0.87u1) to use it, and it no longer uses the old ZINc file firmware.zip. WTF? It was so easy before, and now I am so lost. ???

I understand nothing. :P
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Silver on October 24, 2004, 04:39:00 pm: Yes in the readme it states that the roms are matching Mame 0.87u5 (currently unreleased). It also appears that it is using a different bios rom for some games.

I copied my strider2 zip from mame to zinc, and it moaned about the bios rom - got a newer one of those and it works perfectly. It plays absolutely *perfectly* and looks stunning (but hey - I'm a strider fan...)

Superb release!
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: JoyMonkey on October 24, 2004, 04:48:57 pm: I got hold of a RomCenter DAT (posted on the Zinc forum) for Zinc 1.0 and converted it to ClrMame. Here's both of them (http://uploader.clausercorp.com/uploaded/Zinc1.0-dats.zip)

Whuhohaha! Tekken2 with perfect graphics and sound!
This might finally give me an excuse to build a Windows based cabinet!
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: walls83 on October 24, 2004, 05:37:34 pm: Thanks for the release Howard.... Very nice work... I have a couple questions if someone could answer for me..

1. Do the old Roms for Zinc work with new Zinc..?

A. If they dont work do I need to use my Mame Roms and Bios for it?

2. Does player two button 6 work now..?

3. Do the old frontends work with it?(I would think not but just asking)

4. Does anybody have a list of the NEW/Complete Rom list that can play on Zinc now?(I didnt see any at EMUHYPE.COM

Thanks
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: JoyMonkey on October 24, 2004, 06:02:07 pm: Quote from: walls83 on October 24, 2004, 05:37:34 pm
1. Do the old Roms for Zinc work with new Zinc..? A. If they dont work do I need to use my Mame Roms and Bios for it?
No, I tried using the Zinc 0.90 roms and couldn't get anything working.
Yes, you can use the current Mame roms- if you want you can use the ClrMame dat file that I posted above to verify your Zinc roms.

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2. Does player two button 6 work now..?
Yes.

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3. Do the old frontends work with it?(I would think not but just asking)
Don't know, but I also assume not.

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4. Does anybody have a list of the NEW/Complete Rom list that can play on Zinc now?(I didnt see any at EMUHYPE.COM
Yes, I've attached the list-games output to this post (you can get this by tying zinc --game-list at the command line.
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: walls83 on October 24, 2004, 06:07:02 pm: thanks JoyMonkey..
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: Gunstar Hero on October 24, 2004, 07:37:38 pm: Awesome Joymonkey. You da man!
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: tshizzle.com on October 25, 2004, 12:19:33 am: I got a question... How will Zinc know to use my xarcade? Can I specify like zinc 47 --controller=xarcade ?
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: tshizzle.com on October 25, 2004, 07:28:38 pm: woah Tekken 2 at 60FPS...

/me needs more zinc roms now
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: DanteBK on October 30, 2004, 01:59:47 pm: I used Joymonkey's ClrMAME Zinc.dat and renamed a bunch of my ROMs, but some games --notably Rival Schools and Street Fighter EX 2 Plus-- still don't work. If they worked before with v0.9, and they've been re-named properly, what might the problem be?
Title: Re:Zinc 1.0 released.
Post by: DYNAGOD on October 30, 2004, 03:31:31 pm: i havent been able to get my keybinds to work with the latest zinc and aldo combination.
i can use the arrow keys to achieve character and menu movement,but none of the other buttons work,no matter what i bind them to..
its very frustrating