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Zinc and Mamewah
« on: October 11, 2007, 11:14:29 pm »
Afternoon all,

i have Mamewah currently configured with Zinc )yeah it was a ripe pain to get going the first time)

now i'm setting up the big project PC for the cabinet and have set up all my emulators on the C: and all the ROMS are stored on the F:

i'm doing this to keep everything nice and secure and seperated and when i want to upgrade the emulator, i can just copy it over to the C: and know i am managing my collection where it won't accidently be overwritten or damaged (thank god for RAID)


anyway i have all emulators working bar Zinc in this setup,

does anybody have some suggestions on how to make all the files point to F: for the ROMS for Zinc??? or is this just an unatainable dream?

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Re: Zinc and Mamewah
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2007, 08:11:05 am »
Hi there.

Just edit the zinc.cfg file to look something like this:
extension=.zip
path=d:\zinc\
send rom path=1
send exit keys=1
command line options;--use-config-file=zinc.cfg --use-renderer-cfg-file=renderer.cfg --roms-directory=d:\mame\roms\

As you can see, my zinc directory is  d:\zinc, while my rom directory is the same as my mame rom directory.  Just poing   --roms-directory to f:\roms, or something similar.

Hope this helps.

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Re: Zinc and Mamewah
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2007, 02:15:48 am »
You might find this thread on setting up Zinc under Mamewah useful ;)
 http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=102633&page=1&view=expanded&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=#Post102633

It also includes useful downloads such as a zinc.dat file for gamelist purposes,  and some config files to help you map mame default keys over to zinc games as you load them.  This can save you a lot of key-remapping headaches, without the need for a GUI frontend.
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Re: Zinc and Mamewah
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2007, 07:43:23 am »
thanks for the help guys,

no luck at this stage though :(

here is my zinc config file,

extension=.zip
path=C:\Games\Zinc\zinc.exe
send rom path=1
send exit keys=1
command line options;--use-config-file=zinc.cfg --use-renderer-cfg-file=renderer.cfg --roms-directory=F:\Zinc\roms

i cannot even boot a zinc game at this stage through command propmt, it tells me there are missing zip files in the /roms directory..... any ideas??

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Re: Zinc and Mamewah
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2007, 02:17:53 pm »
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« Last Edit: April 29, 2008, 01:08:29 am by Suits00 »

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Re: Zinc and Mamewah
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2007, 03:00:45 pm »
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« Last Edit: April 29, 2008, 01:08:41 am by Suits00 »