zinc + cab

[spectre]

i'm setting up a dual boot system
for mame and zinc on my cab
anyone know a front end that will run zinc and how to configure it properly?

[SirPoonga]

lazarus/dragon king do, I have zinc on my larazus setup.

I think emutron, mamewah, and a coupleof others will work.

[spectre]

thanks! I'll try those out tomorrow
one problem tho
zinc uses the esc key to exit, not 1 + 2 at the same time. Since esc isn't on my arcade control panel and i usually exit a game in mame like that... can i bind a key on zinc to exit the game somehow other than esc? also is there anything special i need to do to configure zinc to work on one of those?  I can't even find the command line options for zinc...ahhhhh i'm so lost, lol

[Aceldamor]

the 1,2 p start button exit thing does work, I use it to exit all my emulators when i'm testing various things.  Until I configure DK to run with Zinc, I'm currently using Zinc Gui and I can exit using the 1,2, p start button thing.

Unless you don't have your I-pac set for mame....it should work as escape on anything, because that's what the encoder sends to the pc when those 2 buttons are hit.

[spectre]

x-arcade...
not ipac...

[SirPoonga]

But mame exits on esc too...by default.

[spectre]

yea but all u do is edit uiexit to 1+2 and it fixes that... can't do that with zinc
but anyway... anyone know how to configure zinc to run well on a geforce 2 866

[rampy]

yea but all u do is edit uiexit to 1+2 and it fixes that... can't do that with zinc
but anyway... anyone know how to configure zinc to run well on a geforce 2 866

Use the d3d plugin... you should probably look at some of the configuration programs out there for zinc.  ZincGui is what I use... also I guess aldotools has one.

You can change what stuff maps to that way (but probably not the "escape" key persay.  )... Does howards wrappers do something in usage to help in this arena, or am I confused?

*shrug*

Rampy

[spectre]

i do use the d3d plugin...
seems liek I can't push it over 30fps
seems like i should gert more on an 866
32 meg geforce 2 370 something megs of ram...
i dunno

[Homebrew]

Hey SirPoonga, would you mind sharing some of your lazarus config files with me?  I've been trying to get zinc setup and the best i can do is to get lazarus to list the games, but when i try to launch, it gives me the launch sound, the screen goes black, then crashes back to Lazarus.  I'm sure its just some typo in one of the .config files.  Most likely the wrapper file.

-Kevin

[SirPoonga]

zinc.cfg

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extension=.zip
path=c:\zinc\
exe=cmd-launch.exe
send rom path=0
send exit keys=1
command line options;--use-controller-cfg-file=controller.cfg --use-renderer-cfg-file=renderer.cfg --renderer=d3d_renderer.znc --sound-surround-lite-enable=yes
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wrapper's config.

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

# set to 0 to hide the command line and 1 to show it

launchstyle=1

#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
Short=0

#Set this to how often you want the wrapper to check for the exit key...
#It's in milliseconds.... 100 = about 1 second
refreshspeed=500

#that's it! enjoy!  if you are using this wrapper in conjunction with Raging Dragon, please be sure to setup your emulator.cfg file.  Oh and don't forget to make/download a catver.ini file and a clrmamepro file for your emulator and regenerate your gamelist.  
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