zinc help

[craiganderson]

OK....finally got a few zinc games to load via hyperlaunch

but i get a "no disk in drive h" type error when exiting the game to get back to the wheel

see pic of error below

any ideas?

lets take "tekken" as my example

here is my database file for tekken

</game>

<game name="45" index="" image="">

<description>Tekken</description>

<cloneof></cloneof>

<crc></crc>

<manufacturer>Namco</manufacturer>

<year>1994</year>

<genre>Fighter</genre>

<rating>AAMA - Yellow (Animated Violence Mild)</rating>

<enabled>Yes</enabled>

</game>

the tekken rom is saved as tekken.zip (not 45.zip).....doesnt work with 45.zip but does work with tekken.zip

i have the zinc emulator opening zinc.exe

what else can i tell you to help me out?

why am i getting this error?

any help greatly appreciated

craig

[mameshane]

whatever is here <game name="45" is what hyperlaunch sends to the emulator to run. if you don't have a rom named that, it's going to give errors. I would rename your rom to 45.zip.

if it still work. does it work out of HL? if yes then set your logging level to troubleshoot and paste your log here or on pastebin

[32assassin]

create 71 empty folders named them 1 to 71

zip all empty folders to individual zip files

move them all to a dummy files folder

add a second rom path to that dummy rom folder

you are done.

when ever you audit your roms in HyperLaunchHQ it will find the dummy files but load the correctly named takken to the Zinc emulator.

[craiganderson]

create 71 empty folders named them 1 to 71

zip all empty folders to individual zip files

move them all to a dummy files folder

add a second rom path to that dummy rom folder

you are done.

when ever you audit your roms in HyperLaunchHQ it will find the dummy files but load the correctly named takken to the Zinc emulator.

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thanks

i did what you suggested for tekken / game 45

i have both tekken.zip and 45.zip in my roms folder

in the dummy folder i have 45.7z and 45.zip

(i tried multiple combos / versions of the above two lines....)

nothing changed unfortunately

still get the error message (see pic in my post above.)

thanks

craig

ill keep trying

...........

any help is appreciated

[hhgross]

Did you ever figure this out? I'll post a new thread if not.

[hhgross]

If anyone comes upon this problem, here's how I "fixed" it:

The error was asking for something in Drive H... I have a smart media reader and one of the drive letters assigned to it is H. I don't use that particular card reader, so I changed the drive letter on that to an available letter, K. Now there's no more error when I exit a Zinc game in Hyperlaunch.

Still don't know the cause of the error, couldn't find anything anywhere in Zinc or HL referencing drive H, but this is my workaround and hopefully is stays working.

[Polemicist]

I'm surprised that you guys have had so many problems. For me zinc was one of the easy ones. I grabbed a named zip set named DB setup Zinc and downloaded media. From memory the second update was the only minor headache.

[hhgross]

Mine was pretty easy too. Just had that weird error popping up when exiting games, but I've got it sorted now.

[trinipablo660]

I am having the same problem launching zinc games in HS but it launches in the native Zinc exe,