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nes6502

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« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2007, 06:42:00 AM »
QUOTE(Harlock_Gbase @ Jun 12 2007, 12:26 PM) View Post

Hi Snes, happy that you are still working on this beauty. I have a big problem with the latest release though. My games don't start anymore. Not one of them. I have made a fresh install of the emulator and have also  deleted the savegame to make sure everything is alright.

Do you have an idea what this could be?

Thanks


Your "games" don't start or "ZsnexBox" doesn't start? I assume you mean ZsnexBox. If that's the case, sounds like you have an invalid Path.ini.
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« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2007, 07:32:00 AM »
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Hi Snes, happy that you are still working on this beauty. I have a big problem with the latest release though. My games don't start anymore. Not one of them. I have made a fresh install of the emulator and have also deleted the savegame to make sure everything is alright.

Do you have an idea what this could be?

Thanks


Hey I am guessing that when you try to play a rom, it never loads, but instead freezes up the xbox... This same thing happened to me. However I got everything to work again. Although I am not sure Exactly what it was that I did that actually fixed it... Like you i reinstalled everything, including ftping the roms from my computer back to my xbox... initially i just moved the roms from a diff location on my xbox... after this step it didn't work for me either so I looked at the zsnexbox 3.3 folder contents compared to zsnexbox 3.2 and i noticed a couple of folders that were missing... so I ftped them over, I have no idea how this would actually fix anything since all the folders that were mising were all empty with "placeholder.txt" inside.... but anyhow after I did this i randomly chose to try a different skin and somehow someway it worked again...

Again so thats EXACTLY what I did and mine works again, but again who knows what it was that actually fixed it... hope this helps... a little?
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« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2007, 08:07:00 AM »
@nes: ZsnesXbox loads fine, but when i try to start a game then my xbox freezes. I think competes2win has the solution as he seems to have had the same problem.

@competes2win: this sounds exactly like my problem...hmmm, strange thing. Will try your suggestion and ftp over everything again. Thanks anyway.
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nes6502

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« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2007, 08:11:00 AM »
QUOTE(Harlock_Gbase @ Jun 12 2007, 03:43 PM) View Post

@nes: ZsnesXbox loads fine, but when i try to start a game then my xbox freezes. I think competes2win has the solution as he seems to have had the same problem.

@competes2win: this sounds exactly like my problem...hmmm, strange thing. Will try your suggestion and ftp over everything again. Thanks anyway.


If you are missing any of the folders (like sram, ini, artwork, etc...), it could easilly crash. Also, you sure your games are valid SNES games?
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« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2007, 08:14:00 AM »
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@competes2win: this sounds exactly like my problem...hmmm, strange thing. Will try your suggestion and ftp over everything again. Thanks anyway.


and don't forget to ftp all the folders that are present in 3.2 and not in 3.3.. because I think maybe this is what helped? I'm sure nes will eventually come on to say a sophisticated reason as to where we went wrong and how we stumbled upon a solution....

wow i totally posted w/o realizing that nes beat me to the punch... sorry

This post has been edited by competes2win: Jun 12 2007, 03:15 PM
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nes6502

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« Reply #20 on: June 12, 2007, 08:55:00 AM »
QUOTE(competes2win @ Jun 12 2007, 03:50 PM) View Post

and don't forget to ftp all the folders that are present in 3.2 and not in 3.3.. because I think maybe this is what helped? I'm sure nes will eventually come on to say a sophisticated reason as to where we went wrong and how we stumbled upon a solution....

wow i totally posted w/o realizing that nes beat me to the punch... sorry


What folders are missing from 3.3 that were in 3.2?
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« Reply #21 on: June 12, 2007, 11:31:00 AM »
First of all thanks Nes6502 for porting this emu, I'm having the crash issue too but I think I have located the problem, I believe it crashes when you try to load roms from external media (network, dvd) and the roms have names that fatx can't handle I.E. longer than 40 chars or with special symbols. I'd like to be able to resolve this problem cause all my roms are in dvd and my HD is full(I saw in the help that this is the last release). Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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« Reply #22 on: June 12, 2007, 11:43:00 AM »
QUOTE(Manuel @ Jun 12 2007, 07:07 PM) View Post

First of all thanks Nes6502 for porting this emu, I'm having the crash issue too but I think I have located the problem, I believe it crashes when you try to load roms from external media (network, dvd) and the roms have names that fatx can't handle I.E. longer than 40 chars or with special symbols. I'd like to be able to resolve this problem cause all my roms are in dvd and my HD is full(I saw in the help that this is the last release). Thanks in advance for any suggestions.


There is no network support, so loading from a remote drive is not possible.

Your ROMs must be fatx compliant even if loading from a DVD. ZsnexBox uses the names of the game to create the sram, cheat, etc... files/folders on the Xbox hard drive. If they are not fatx compliant, this will fail and cause a crash.
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« Reply #23 on: June 12, 2007, 12:49:00 PM »
QUOTE(nes6502 @ Jun 12 2007, 08:19 PM) *

There is no network support, so loading from a remote drive is not possible.

Your ROMs must be fatx compliant even if loading from a DVD. ZsnexBox uses the names of the game to create the sram, cheat, etc... files/folders on the Xbox hard drive. If they are not fatx compliant, this will fail and cause a crash.


Yes, you're right there's no network support, I just assumed that if there were It would fail too. Well thanks, I guess I'll have to stick to what I have.
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« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2007, 07:04:00 PM »
I'm having the crashing problem as well.  When you select the game to play is where it is freezing at.  You hit the A button and it just locks up instead of loading the game, requiring a restart of the xbox.  I did a clean install of ZsnexBox 3.3 and am using the 720p video setting if that helps.
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« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2007, 08:00:00 PM »
nes, are you going to make the default emu icon those ones that the guy made in the thread  you were looking for?
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nes6502

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« Reply #26 on: June 12, 2007, 08:20:00 PM »
QUOTE(SC10-E @ Jun 13 2007, 03:36 AM) View Post

nes, are you going to make the default emu icon those ones that the guy made in the thread  you were looking for?


Yup

@illusion456
Sounds like you are trying to launch a game that is not a correct SNES ROM, not fatx compliant, or not a valid zip file. Have you verified the rom is good by launching it in xSnes9x or on your PC?
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« Reply #27 on: June 12, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »
Yes the roms are good, but after doing some tinkering around I've figured out it has something to do with the Path.ini .. in the FAQ it talked about a " \ " that shouldn't be there at the end of the path values.  So I looked at the Path.ini and every one of them had the slash at the end (was like that when I downloaded it).  After removing all of the slashes, all of the games work properly now.  Also, if I set it to usePathINI=0 , this solves the freezing issue as well.  Hope this isn't too confusing  huh.gif
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« Reply #28 on: June 12, 2007, 10:20:00 PM »
Update -  After toying around, I found that the problem is exactly what competes2win and nes6502 said about the folders not being present.  The folders "cheats", "rumble", "sram", "save", and "bookmarks" that the Path.ini refers to were not there, and after creating them, all of my games now work.  Thanks for the help!  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2007, 12:10:00 AM »
Exactly, it's the folders. After checking it again i noticed that these folders don't get uploaded to the xbox because they are empty. Either create them directly on the xbox with your ftp program or just put an empty file like placeholder.txt in each folder before uploading them to the xbox. Problem solved.

By the way this new version works like a charm. Probably the best version you ever made and the best emulator for xbox. Thanks again Nes
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