Post by: Cathesdus on September 09, 2004, 12:45:00 PM
HINT:Try using Ctrl+F to find the Emulator
Ok So lets get started:
Surreal 64 v1.0
N64 Emulator
General
This seems to be the one most people complain about so I'll put it first. Considering how powerful the Xbox truly is, the Emulator does a great job of using as much power as it can to make the games run as accurate as they do. Plus since there are three emulators in one, compatibility isn't that much of an issue.
Setting It Up
As hard as most people find it to set this emulator up, it's actually a piece of cake as long as you can follow directions.
1)Extract the archive to some folder on your PC
2)Open up surreal.ini and change the rom path to the EXACT location where your roms are going to be. If you are going to put your roms in E:\Roms then type E:\Roms. Save the ini.
3)Copy the Surreal64 files over to your Xbox somewhere Ex - E:\Emulators\Surreal64
4)The next step is to put the roms into the folder that you defined in the ini file. If you typed E:\Roms in your ini files, that make a folder on your E:\ drive called Roms and put them in there. I personally Extract them first but I believe Surreal64 also runs them if they're zipped.
5)Run default.xbe in the Surreal64 folder. When it loads, click the little circular arrow (refresh) on the right side.
6)Have Fun!
I also recommend recommend going to my other topic, , so you can configure your roms to run optimal.
Still having a problem? Let's look at this FAQ:
Q)Roms still aren't showing up!
A)This can be one of two things. One, your ran Surreal64 BEFORE editing the ini file. This means it put a new in a folder called a64fea57 in the TDATA folder in E:\. Delete this folder, edit the surreal.ini in your Surreal64 folder (wherever you put it) and then save the ini and run again. Make sure the Rom path is the folder you put your roms in. Also, you may have downloaded the wrong version. The one you want is called Surreal 1.0. Nothing more nothing less. If all else fails, try downloading it from xbins again.
Q)Roms run like crap or not at all. How can I fix this?
A)Check out the Surreal 64 Compatibility List and make sure your rom is compatible. If it is, then check out my Surreal 64 Performace Settings Thread and change your settings to the the ones on the list.
XSnes9X
SNES Emulator
General
A very good Super Nintendo emulator. Very accurate and extremely easy to use.
Setting It Up
Wow, I don't know how I would explain this. Hmmm, lets see. You put the Roms in a folder called roms in the XSnes9X folder and then you run the default.xbe and Walla, there they are. Most people don't want to change the controller settings as they are set up to be just like the ones on a normal SNES. Press Start while in the Roms list to get to the menu and change Misc. Settings. There aren't any there that can screw you up besdies maybe the Rom Options (HiRom, LoRom, Forcing things isn't good unless you know what you're doing). So, yeah. That all for getting this Emulator to work. Have fun!
XPort's Emulators
FCEUltra
Neo Genesis
PCSXbox
Xboy Advance
etc...
Emulators for all types of things, but they set up the same.
General
XPort makes majority of the Emulators out there. Because of this, he uses the same layout for each emulator simply to make his life and everyone elses easier. This is good, so let me take advantage of it by putting all of his emus into one section J.
Setting Them Up
There are two ways to set XPort's emulators up. You can either run it and then exit and edit the ini files in E:\Saves or you can change the options in the Emulator itself. The ladder is easier to me, but do what you want.
Changing Settings From Within The Emulator:
Go into configuration, general settings then default directories. Use the browser, browse through your folders and when your in the one you want to use press start. Very simple
Changing Settings Manually From The Ini:
Run the emulator then locate the respective ini files in the folder called E:\Saves. Open it with your favorite text editor and look for the directory paths. Where it says rom directory, change the path to your rom directory. If the folder you want to use is IN the emulators directory (the folder is in the same directory as the Emulators default.xbe) you can use the letter D to substitute the path. This means if the emulators folder is E:\Emulators\FCEUltraX\ and there is a folder called Roms inside that folder, instead of typing E:\Emulators\FCEUltraX\Roms\, you could just type D:\Roms.
Working on a MameOx guide
This post has been edited by Cathesdus: Nov 5 2004, 03:46 PM
Post by: nagmine on September 09, 2004, 03:30:00 PM
They need to have a like a emulator help area and a xbox emus general chat ... cause i am getting sick of seeing the same questions again and again.
Post by: snyps on September 09, 2004, 06:20:00 PM
i've looked up and down for this kinda tut. Righteous!
Post by: angrypants on September 09, 2004, 08:03:00 PM
Read the readme file included with the emulator
That pretty much covers every emulator ever made.
Post by: snyps on September 09, 2004, 09:16:00 PM
thank you for all of your effort Cathesdus......
Post by: Spark on September 10, 2004, 09:43:00 AM
I can actually see the Roms now, SOTE even comes up with a little packaging image, but all the games that I have tried are just booting to a black screen.
I'm not really too worried about it, I didn't buy the XBOX for this, but it would be nice if it worked though.
Post by: deathx88 on September 10, 2004, 03:15:00 PM
Post by: Frank castle on September 14, 2004, 01:30:00 PM
Post by: GoukiX on September 14, 2004, 08:00:00 PM
Post by: Kean on September 15, 2004, 08:41:00 AM
Post by: Cathesdus on September 22, 2004, 08:21:00 AM
| QUOTE (deathx88 @ Sep 10 2004, 05:18 PM) |
| damnit cathesdus, you beat me to it, making a thread that explains it all |
That's what I'm here for. BTW, what DID happen to your avatar Death? Instead of looking scary, it looks kind of, well, disgruntled...
Post by: SNICK! on September 22, 2004, 02:22:00 PM
| QUOTE (Cathesdus @ Sep 22 2004, 04:24 PM) |
| That's what I'm here for. BTW, what DID happen to your avatar Death? Instead of looking scary, it looks kind of, well, disgruntled... |
i thought it always look discrunteled, but now it looks a bit more spasticated
anyway good on ya making this topic , will help allot of n00bs.
Post by: Thraxen on September 22, 2004, 05:50:00 PM
Post by: deathx88 on September 22, 2004, 08:03:00 PM
| QUOTE (Cathesdus @ Sep 22 2004, 04:24 PM) |
| That's what I'm here for. BTW, what DID happen to your avatar Death? Instead of looking scary, it looks kind of, well, disgruntled... |
it got into my drug stash
don't worry my new one looks scarier than before, i used photoshop and now it looks like jason x
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| QUOTE |
| i thought it always look discrunteled, but now it looks a bit more spasticated |
ok mr. bruce lee
, now my old avartd is sad
Post by: littleScottydalton on October 25, 2004, 07:31:00 AM
Post by: Cathesdus on November 05, 2004, 06:51:00 AM
Post by: XeKToReX on February 16, 2005, 07:15:00 PM
any ideas?
Post by: Xanados on May 06, 2005, 03:06:00 AM
First at all i´m from Germany so please excuse my bad english.
I have read all the forum posting about Surreal64 but i could not find the answer to my problem.
If i want to open a rom it´s just loading, then it flashes for 0.0002secs and then its black again.
But thats only by some games!
Like SuperMario64 or Ocarina of Time.
What can it be?
How can i solve it?
Thanks for your answers!
Post by: VampX on May 06, 2005, 03:57:00 AM
QUOTE(Xanados @ May 6 2005, 10:12 AM)
hi i need help please.
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: lowki on June 05, 2005, 10:32:00 PM
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I think people should use emulators on the pc before they try to use them on the xbox. Haha might make it a little easier
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: Iriez on June 06, 2005, 12:20:00 AM
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Not really. It would just tend to confuse them. One of the pro's of emulation on the xbox is the simplicty of the UI in comparison to their pc counterparts.
As to running a xbe from a ftp client, Hit Ctrl + R in flashfxp to bring up the raw commannd prompt. In evox, the command is site execute default.xbe when in that xbe's directory.
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: Link267 on August 13, 2005, 09:49:00 PM
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: Link267 on August 13, 2005, 09:52:00 PM
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: VampX on August 14, 2005, 06:06:00 AM
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Then you obviously cant read, since it was right there in the faqs forum.
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: hargle on December 21, 2005, 07:45:00 AM
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What do we do when we upgrade to a newer version of an xport emu like Neogenesis or HugoX, and all we see is a black background and have no background music accompanying our menu? The only folder I have under <D:\> is my roms folder. Everything else the emu came with is in the D: directory. I doubt that setting is correct because when I try to reconfigure using the menu, it doens't see any files, just the roms folder. I also went ahead and deleted the .ini's in the E:Saves folder on my xbox but that didn't do anything. What am I doing wrong here? Please help if you can or at least point me in the right direction. I read the readme's on the Xport site, been thru many xbox emu forums and I can't find crap on this. Everyone says just run the .xbe and it'll all work out.
Things to try:
1) navigate through the menus to configuration->general configuration->force reload of *.ini
Then exit back to your dashboard and launch the emulator again.
2) using the menus and skin configuration options, you can point the emulator to the proper background screens to load up. You'll have to fix each screen, but xport's emulators are pretty easy to browse through files and the default skin has names of files that are easy to figure out. It's something like this:
configuration->configure skin->select game select background image->browse til you find gameselbg.png
configuration->configure skin->select main menu image->browse til you find mainmnu.png
(sorry I can't provide exact filenames or menu options here-I'm nowhere near an xbox)
It's not that much work, and I've salvaged an install this way before.
3) boot into your MS dashboard, go to your save games, and delete everything for the emulator causing you trouble, provided you can locate it. If not, tell us exactly which emulator is causing the problem and we'll dig up the UDATA\xxxxxxxx folder the config stuff is saved in, which you can then delete. It wouldn't be a bad idea to delete the emulator install and re-upload it again so you'll be starting completely fresh.
That's about all I can think of.
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: dink04 on December 28, 2005, 05:03:00 AM
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hey guys, having a little bit of trouble playing roms off of a dvd in xsnes9x.
I have all of my roms split into different country folders on the dvd, ie: australia, japan, USA.
The problem is when i go to dvd browser in xsnes9x nothing shows up.
Can it not read folders? I would really like to keep them organized in this way, there are just too many versions of each rom. Is there a way around this?
Thanks
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Title: Complete Guide To Emulators
Post by: cobra112dsd on April 16, 2006, 06:30:00 PM
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ive read 100 forums and i can't find the help i'm looking for....i cant even get my emulators to show up on the boot menu in my dash .... the only emulator i want is the sureal xxx and i'm running the evox dash are these compatable?
Post by: lowki on June 05, 2005, 10:32:00 PM
Post by: Iriez on June 06, 2005, 12:20:00 AM
As to running a xbe from a ftp client, Hit Ctrl + R in flashfxp to bring up the raw commannd prompt. In evox, the command is site execute default.xbe when in that xbe's directory.
Post by: Link267 on August 13, 2005, 09:49:00 PM
Post by: Link267 on August 13, 2005, 09:52:00 PM
Post by: VampX on August 14, 2005, 06:06:00 AM
Post by: hargle on December 21, 2005, 07:45:00 AM
QUOTE(hught78 @ Dec 21 2005, 08:05 AM) 
What do we do when we upgrade to a newer version of an xport emu like Neogenesis or HugoX, and all we see is a black background and have no background music accompanying our menu? The only folder I have under <D:\> is my roms folder. Everything else the emu came with is in the D: directory. I doubt that setting is correct because when I try to reconfigure using the menu, it doens't see any files, just the roms folder. I also went ahead and deleted the .ini's in the E:Saves folder on my xbox but that didn't do anything. What am I doing wrong here? Please help if you can or at least point me in the right direction. I read the readme's on the Xport site, been thru many xbox emu forums and I can't find crap on this. Everyone says just run the .xbe and it'll all work out.
Things to try:
1) navigate through the menus to configuration->general configuration->force reload of *.ini
Then exit back to your dashboard and launch the emulator again.
2) using the menus and skin configuration options, you can point the emulator to the proper background screens to load up. You'll have to fix each screen, but xport's emulators are pretty easy to browse through files and the default skin has names of files that are easy to figure out. It's something like this:
configuration->configure skin->select game select background image->browse til you find gameselbg.png
configuration->configure skin->select main menu image->browse til you find mainmnu.png
(sorry I can't provide exact filenames or menu options here-I'm nowhere near an xbox)
It's not that much work, and I've salvaged an install this way before.
3) boot into your MS dashboard, go to your save games, and delete everything for the emulator causing you trouble, provided you can locate it. If not, tell us exactly which emulator is causing the problem and we'll dig up the UDATA\xxxxxxxx folder the config stuff is saved in, which you can then delete. It wouldn't be a bad idea to delete the emulator install and re-upload it again so you'll be starting completely fresh.
That's about all I can think of.
Post by: dink04 on December 28, 2005, 05:03:00 AM
I have all of my roms split into different country folders on the dvd, ie: australia, japan, USA.
The problem is when i go to dvd browser in xsnes9x nothing shows up.
Can it not read folders? I would really like to keep them organized in this way, there are just too many versions of each rom. Is there a way around this?
Thanks
Post by: cobra112dsd on April 16, 2006, 06:30:00 PM