Zinc in MameWah

[DAmnb]

Anyone got Zinc setup and working with MAMEWah?
The number instead of filename got me stoked.  

[TalkingOctopus]

Use Batch Files!

Check out this thread for more details:

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=10196

Although that one is for ePSXe, you can do the same thing w/ Zinc.

[Isometric Bacon]

I'm having a bit of trouble getting this to work,

Would someone please be able to post a copy of the commands within their Zinc batch file?

I used a - nogui command with epsxe, but I think Zinc has different commands.

[TalkingOctopus]

-nogui is ePSXe specific.  A zinc batch file would look like this:

e:
cd\download\zinc\zinc\
zinc.exe 8

[Isometric Bacon]

I assume you mean to set the emulator executable to PC, then set the roms folder as the bat files??

I tried this, but i'm greeted with the message "Error! File name extension must be .LNK or .URL"

Now, my roms are zip files, and extracting them comes up with no LNK or URL files... is there something i'm doing wrong? (This is through standard Zinc.exe btw... I can get them working fine through the ZINCFE)

[TalkingOctopus]

Here is the solution Damnb came up with:

Must be something thats been changed in MameWah then, still I fixed it on my own and in the most obvious  way I must say!  
Simple just switch rom extention to lnk instead of bat, link all your batchfiles and refresh the gameslist and voila Mamewah runs the .lnk which runs the .bat which runs zinc  

Overkill? Perhaps, but atleast it works now!  
 

 

[DAmnb]

Yupp what he said I said!  

Just to clarify:
When you link the batchfiles you dont need any of the extra info in the batches so: zinc gamenumber is enough, then just rightclick on the .bat and choose create shortcut.

[Alcohol]

i have zinc running in my cab useing the bat file method in older versions of mamewah.. but now iam trying to set up the new version of mamewah on my pc ready to go into the cab because i want the fancy menu's ..but for the life of me i cant get it to work, i cant get it to work with the (bat or lnk)

i can get epsxe to work using bats and lnk's but zinc refuses too, so i guess my methods must be correct :/.. HELP!!

i treid howards wrapper and all i get is a black screen for a few seconds then back to mamewah.. maybe somebody could give a "dumb asses" lesson in this wrapper for zinc as i seem to be making hard work of it

thanks...

[Minwah]

IMHO Howards Wrapper is the easiest option...

BUT I have just found a slight problem:

Howards latest wrapper is case sensitive, and MAMEWAH always launches romnames in CAPITALS.  So, edit the wrappers lconfig.ini file and make sure all the listed romnames are in capitals...if you have done everything else right it should now work.

Apologies, I had not noticed this before...

[Howard_Casto]

I didn't realize you did that.  I recently changed it because I found a few odd-ball command line apps that are case sensitive.  

[Alcohol]

i must still be doing something wrong.. i still get the the 3 second black screen... heres my set up

all the files in howards wrapper5 are in d:/zinc

;(EMULATOR) LIST GENERATION SETTINGS
DAT Filename = D:\ZINC\ZINC.DAT
NMS Filename =
CatVer Filename = D:\ZINC\ZINCCATVER.INI
ROM Path = D:\ZINC\ROMS
ROM Extension = ZIP
List Generation Method = 2

;(EMULATOR) EXECUTION SETTINGS
Emulator Executable = D:\ZINC\CMD-LAUNCH5.EXE
Send ROM Path = True
Send ROM Extension = False
Use Long Filenames = False
Show DOS Box = 0
Default Options =
Extra Options #1 =
Extra Options #2 =
IPC Filename / Path =

and heres the iconfig.ini ive changed the names to caps like you suggested


LAUNCHSTYLE=0

#each command in an emu is usually followed by a delimeter (in mame it's a "-" for example)  put this deliemter in the following line

delimeter=--


#put the mame command followed by a ";" and the command that does the same thing in the emu your launching (like in zinc to launch a game you type it's number so sfex;1 would launch sfex for you)
{cmdlist}
SFEX;1
SFEXA;2
SFEXP;3
SFEXPJ;4
SFEX2;5
SFEX2P;6
SG2J;7
RVSCHOOL;8
JGAKUEN;9
SR2J;10
SR2;11
KIKAIOH;12
TS2J;13
TGMJ;14
SNCWGLTD;15
BEASTORIZER;16
PSYFORCE;17
MGCLDATE;18
SOULEDGE;19
SOULEDGEC;20
TEKKEN;21
TK2B;22
DANCEYES;23
XEVI3DG;24
STARSWEP;25
MYANGEL3;26
{/cmdlist}
#put the name of the emulator you wish to launch immediately following this comment
exe=ZINC.EXE


#Some emus don't like spaces in the filenames or paths....
#Turn this on to send a short filename to the emu.
#Note you MUST send the path of the rom for this to work.
Short=1

#Turn this on to place the rom path and romname in quotes.
Quotes=0

#Set this to how often you want the wrapper to check for the exit key... The bigger the wait, the longer you will (potentially) have to hold down the exit key.  

#It's in milliseconds.... 100 = about 1 second
refreshspeed=35

any help here would be apreciated cus i really havnt got a clue with these wrappers..

thanks

[Howard_Casto]

turn short off

if you turn on short and don't send the path then badness ensues

[Minwah]

turn short off

Agreed, and also change 'Send ROM Path = True' to 'False'.  This is how it is setup on mine, so should work...

[Alcohol]

nice one guys... thats fixed it .. i set short to "0" and set send path to false and it works like a charm

it may be an idea for sombody to put this info on a site(like stuzza's) or anywhere really , for a newbie to wrappers like myself it can be messy..

building the cabinet and computer was the easy bit

thanks agian