Mess and Zinc help

[gatordad]

Anyone have any good tutorials for either one
I wasted at least 3 hours today and did not make any progress
Any help is appreciated

[gatordad]

I have Zinc running with the zinc gui but am having trouble getting it configured in mala anyone have any advise?

[Le Chuck]

I went through this recently.  You need to get yourself Howard_Casto's wrapper cmd-launch7.0 and the winterblast_inp_controller ini.  I'll attach both.  For the launcher config mine looks like this:

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#this is a config file for the launcher wrapper program
#turn on wordwrap for best viewing results


# Leave at 0 to hide the command line while the emulator is launching.

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 or romname 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}
tekken;45 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
tekken2;48 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
tgmj;24 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
rvschool;17 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
sfex2p;10 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
strider2;19 --use-config-file=zinc.cfg
{/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

Short=0

# this will wrap your filepaths in quotes, an alternative to short

Quotes=0

#Set this to how often you want the wrapper to check for the exit key...
#It's in milliseconds.... 1000 = about 1 second

refreshspeed=1


#Choose which way to exit the emulator.
#0=Let emu close itself.
#1=Try all methods
#2=Try Alt-F4 method
#3=Try Posting a Close Message
#4=Try Posting a Exit Message
#5=Terminate Process (sloppy, but always works)
#Use only 0 or 1 unless you run into problems.

ExitType=5


#Current Problem Emus and the Settings your should use:

#Zinc=5
#Nebula=5
#Nebula Model 2=5

# If you discover another problem emu please contact me and I'll add it to the list.

and (Howard would kill me) because I was still having problems getting MALA to run the roms directly I used a daphne style batch set and have MALA calling those.  When you do this there is nothing in the exe line for the emulator setup. Here's an example of the batch I used:

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start/wait %1 c:\arcade\zinc\cmd-launch7.exe strider2

Winterblasts controller configs are just far superior to others out there and when you make changes to it they work across all roms so that's good.  A few roms won't change without this config which can be a giant PITA. 

Hope that gets you on the right track.