The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: ahofle on January 13, 2007, 04:32:54 pm
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Greetings. I seem to be having some issues with the Zinc emulator. Most games work perfectly (like Strider 2), but a few games have problems with input. For example, in GDarius none of the buttons fire no matter what I map. I can't even insert a credit in Mr Driller and none of the action buttons work in Tandemo Crisis. The strange thing is the same controller config works in other games. I'm using Aldo's ZincFE which uses the winterblast controller plugin. Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Short answer: The frontend is broken, not the emulator
I had the same problem with Aldo's version 2005 and Mr. Driller (and other Titles). IIRC, ZincFe2003 (vesion 2.03) works. dafreak's Zincgui (http://dafreak.ngemu.com) version 1.9.5 works for sure. I had googled around for a few days last summer before I found this problem listed on a few other forums and finally found answers. On one of them there was someone who really dug into it and decided to give up on using a frontend for running the games. He or She wrote a guide on building the cfg files and writing your own Windows shortcuts. I followed the guide and I can't remember where it is, but here is an example; the text below is what I have entered as the target of the desktop shortcut, the cfg files were built using ZincFE2003:
D:\Utilities\ZincFE203\ZiNc.exe 62 --use-config-file="D:\Utilities\ZincFE203\zinc.cfg" --use-renderer-cfg-file="D:\Utilities\ZincFE203\renderer.cfg" >output.txt
Basically it is the same syntax you would enter at a command line or the Run... box. The cfg files in the example were built using ZincFE2003. It may be possible to build or edit the ones you already have, but you might need a table of scancodes to set keyboard inputs The fun part is that when you are done building the shortcut you can use a little icon image of your game for one-click access.
In case you haven't heard, recently MAME accepted drivers which emulate Mr.driller and Tondemo Crisis at a playable 60 FPS. BTW, the PC version of Mr. Driller is abandonware currently, but it has more modes of play, and it's tempo is a bit faster, like the Dreamcast version.
Just an anecdote: I had so much trouble trying to get Zinc to work before I finally found out that it was just the frontend. IIRC the frontend does not tell Zinc to use the .cfg file for some of the games, so Zinc used it's default keys. I went so far as to remapping the keyboard with a keyboard remapping program which could be toggled on and off, just to use the keys I preferred. Too much fiddling around...
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Wow thanks for the info. I'm going to look into the MAME drivers for those two you mentioned and try the shortcut method for the rest. :cheers: