James Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) ZiNc - 3D Arcade EmulatorRelease 1.0 - October 23, 2004 Emulator by The_Author and DynaChicken1.0 enhancements by R. Belmont and smf Renderers by Pete Bernert and LewpySound by Pete BernertNamco C7x sound simulator by Cap / Team VivaNonno================================================= What's this?------------ZiNc is an emulator for various arcade games which ran onmodified Sony PlayStation hardware. It does not emulate any other games, including other 3D games. What's it play?---------------To see a complete list of supported games, run ZiNc with the "--list-games" parameter. ZiNc attempts to provide the fullest possible emulation for each ofthese games while also running on relatively low-spec PCs. However,we don't guarantee perfect emulation for any of the games. Soundand/or music in particular may be incomplete or incorrect for certaintypes of games. ZiNc is not flexible enough to support games with analog controls. As aresult, some games on supported hardware that you may have seen inMAME (such as Crypt Killer) are not included. What's new since ZiNc 0.9?--------------------------- True ZN decryption instead of ZiNc's old hacks. Some Capcom games may take a little longer to start up than they did under previous ZiNc versions. This is completely normal- Story text in Kikaioh / Tech Romancer now works- Support for Tecmo TPS, Atlus PS, Raizing/Eighting PS Arcade 95, Konami GV, and Namco System 12- Sound simulation for System 11 games, thanks to Team VivaNonno- Fixed graphics for Tekken and Tekken 2- MAME-style parent/clone support- All ROM sets now match MAME 0.87u5 (not a public version)- CHD support. These may go either in your ROM folder or in a subdirectory of your ROM folder, the same as MAME What's wrong with it?---------------------Sound is not accurate in System 11 games although the simulator doesan excellent job in many cases. Game speed is wrong in many System 11 games. Sound is not accurate in System 12 games. The external sound board is not supported for the Raizing games,Cool Boarders, or the Taito FX-1b games. How to use?-----------Put roms in the roms/ dir where the emulator is (or the directoryspecified by the --roms-directory switch, see below).Make sure a cfg/ dir exists. NOTE: for Linux, it's still best to put the 3 plugins somewhere in yourLD path. E.g. become root, copy them to one of the directories listedin your /etc/ld.so.conf file (/usr/lib is a reasonable default thatshould work on most systems if you can't figure out something better),run ldconfig, then drop back to being a normal user and run ZiNc. For the renderer and controller plugins you may use the --renderer=and --controller= switches as long as you give an absolute path.Example:./zinc 12 --controller=./libcontrolznc.so. type zinc --help to get helptype zinc --list-games to see gamestype zinc x - where x is a game nr to start game type zinc by itself to see all the available options. Options are:--help shows help--list-games lists all games supported--list-sets lists the ROM info for all games supported--version shows the version info--verify verifies a ROM set--use-config-file=<value> gets Zinc config info from the filename specified.--use-renderer-cfg-file=<value> gets renderer config info from the filename specified. A sample renderer config file is provided as "renderer.cfg".--roms-directory=<value> sets the directory to load ROMs from--use-sound=<yes|no> def: yes turns sound on/off--renderer=<value> def: renderer.znc choose renderer to use--controller=<value> def: controller.znc choose controller plugin--use-controller-cfg-file=<value> def: N/A gets controller config info from the specified file. the default keyboard plugin ignores this.--sound-filter-enable=<yes|no> def: no turns the sound filter on/off, provides a quality increase with a tiny amount more CPU.--sound-filter-cutoff=<value> def: 22050 sets the filter cutoff frequency.--sound-surround-lite-enable=<yes|no> def: no Enables "Lite-Surround". Try it and listen --sound-surround_lite-multiplier=<value> def: 40 Adjusts how powerful the lite-surround is.--sound-stereo-exciter=<yes|no> def: no enables "stereo exciter" which widens the stereo image. Try it and listen --use-slow-geometry=<yes|no> def: no uses slower but more accurate geometry calculations. if you see errors, try this as a fix. Gallop Racer 3 in particular benefits from using the "slow" geometry - the ground breaks up otherwise. KEYS: 1 - Start player 12 - Start player 24 - Test switch (enters test mode in most games)5 - Coin player 16 - Coin player 27 - Service switch Cursor Keys - player 1 directionsA,S,D,Z,X,C - player 1 buttons B, H, N, M - player 2 directionsU,I,O,J,K,L - player 2 buttons ESC - exits the emulator F5 - take a snapshot (may depend on the renderer) The renderers also make use of the insert/home/pageup/delete/end/pagedownkeys for various functions. These should work approximately the same asin popular PlayStation emulators. Troubleshooting--------------- The first time you run Psychic Force you may go into the test menu.Select "Factory Defaults" then "Yes" then "Exit". The screen will say "RESET" and just sit there. Wait a second or two then quit the emulator and restart it. Psychic Force will then play correctly. Enjoy and have fun!© 1997-2004 The_Author and DynaChicken. All Rights reserved.This emulator may be freely distributed as long as the ROM files are notincluded and the executable is not modified in any way. October 25, 2004 ZiNc 1.0.1 update: This update fixes a crash in "Susume! Taisen Puzzle-dama" on the Windows version, disables two games that weren´t working, adds the US version of Street Fighter EX, removes the obsolete --verify option, and adds a --rotate option for people with rotatable LCD or arcade monitors. Additionally the Linux version will now run on non-Pentium 4 CPUs. The ROM sets have all been synced to the latest MAME 0.88 - thanks to Brian Troha for pointing out the differences. >> Offical Site You can also download it from the 1Emulation Download section. >> Download ZiNc 1.0.1 Edited October 26, 2004 by James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted October 24, 2004 Author Share Posted October 24, 2004 Now waiting for a frontend for this version of Zinc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 I just ran it in command line to see the list of games, and here it is 1 Star Gladiator (JP) [starglad, BIOS cpzn1] 2 Street Fighter EX (JP) [sfexj, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1] 3 Street Fighter EX (ASIA) [sfexa, parent sfex, BIOS cpzn1] 4 Street Fighter EX Plus (US) [sfexp, BIOS cpzn1] 5 Street Fighter EX Plus (JP) [sfexpj, parent sfexp, BIOS cpzn1] 6 Street Fighter EX 2 (US) [sfex2j, parent sfex2, BIOS cpzn2] 7 Street Fighter EX 2 (JP) [sfex2j, parent sfex2, BIOS cpzn2] 8 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (US) [sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2] 9 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (JP) [sfex2pj, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2] 10 Street Fighter EX 2 PLUS (ASIA) [sfex2pa, parent sfex2p, BIOS cpzn2] 11 Plasma Sword (US) [plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2] 12 Star Gladiator 2 (JP) [stargld2, parent plsmaswd, BIOS cpzn2] 13 Rival Schools (ASIA) [rvschola, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2] 14 Justice Gakuen (JP) [jgakuen, parent rvschool, BIOS cpzn2] 15 Rival Schools (US) [rvschool, BIOS cpzn2] 16 Strider Hiryu 2 (JP) [shiryu2, parent strider2, BIOS cpzn2] 17 Strider 2 (ASIA) [strider2, BIOS cpzn2] 18 Kikaioh (JP) [kikaioh, parent techromn, BIOS cpzn2] 19 Tech Romancer (US) [techromn, BIOS cpzn2] 20 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (US) [ts2, BIOS cpzn1] 21 Battle Arena Toshinden 2 (JP) [ts2j, parent ts2, BIOS cpzn1] 22 Tetris The Grand Master (JP) [tgmj, BIOS cpzn2] 23 Sonic Wings Limited (JP) [sncwgltd] 24 Beastorizer (US) *bootleg* [beastrzb, BIOS psarc95] 25 Beastorizer (US) [beastrzr, BIOS psarc95] 26 Bloody Roar 2 (JP) [bldyror2, BIOS psarc95] 27 Brave Blade (JP) [brvblade, BIOS tps] 28 Psychic Force (JP 2.4J) [psyforcj, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1] 29 Psychic Force (World 2.4O) [psyforce, BIOS taitofx1] 30 Psychic Force EX (JP 2.0J) [psyfrcex, parent psyforce, BIOS taitofx1] 31 Magical Date EX - sotsugyou kokuhaku daisakusen (JP 2.01J) [mgcldtex, BIOS taitofx1] 32 Raystorm (JP 2.05J) [raystorj, parent raystorm, BIOS taitofx1] 33 Raystorm (US 2.06A) [raystorm, BIOS taitofx1] 34 Fighters Impact A (JP 2.00J) [ftimpcta, BIOS taitofx1] 35 G-Darius (JP 2.01J) [gdarius, BIOS taitofx1] 36 G-Darius Ver.2 (JP 2.03J) [gdarius2, parent gdarius, BIOS taitofx1] 37 Dancing Eyes (JP) Ver. A [danceyes] 38 Xevious 3D/G (JP) Ver. A [xevi3dg] 39 Star Sweep (JP) Ver. A [starswep] 40 Kosodate Quiz My Angel 3 (JP) Ver. A [myangel3] 41 Tekken (JP) Ver. B [tekkenb, parent tekken] 42 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. B [tekkena, parent tekken] 43 Tekken (WORLD) Ver. C [tekken] 44 Tekken 2 (JP) Ver. B [tekken2a, parent tekken2] 45 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. A [tekken2b, parent tekken2] 46 Tekken 2 (World) Ver. B [tekken2] 47 Soul Edge (JP) SO3 Ver. A [souledga, parent souledge] 48 Soul Edge (JP) SO1 Ver. A [souledgb, parent souledge] 49 Soul Edge Ver. II (JP) SO4 Ver. C [souledge] 50 Dunk Mania (JP) DM2 Ver. C [dunkmnia] 51 Dunk Mania (JP) DM1 Ver. C [dunkmnic, parent dunkmnia] 52 Prime Goal EX (JP) Ver. A [primglex] 53 Wedding Rhapsody (JP) Ver. JAA [weddingr, BIOS konamigv] 54 Hyper Athlete (JP) Ver. 1.00 [hyperath, BIOS konamigv] 55 Powerful Baseball 96 (JP) Ver. 1.03 [pbball96, BIOS konamigv] 56 Susume! Taisen Puzzle-Dama (JP) Ver. 1.20 [susume, BIOS konamigv] 57 Fighting Layer (JP) Ver. B [fgtlayer] 58 Ehrgeiz (JP) Ver. A [ehrgeiz] 59 Tekken 3 (JP) Ver. A [tekken3] 60 Mr Driller (JP) Ver. A [mrdrillr] 61 Aqua Rush (JP) Ver. A [aquarush] 62 Paca Paca Passion (JP) Ver. A [pacapp] 63 Super World Stadium 99 (JP) Ver. A [sws99] 64 Gallop Racer 3 (JP) [glpracr3, BIOS tps] 65 Shanghai Matekibuyuu (JP) [shngmtkb, BIOS tps] 66 Cool Boarders Arcade Jam (US) [cbaj, BIOS tps] 67 Dead or Alive++ [doapp, BIOS tps] 68 Tondemo Crisis [tondemo, BIOS tps] 69 Monster Farm Jump (JP) [mfjump, BIOS tps] 70 Heaven's Gate [hvnsgate, BIOS atluspsx] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) About friggin' time. Million thumbs up to the muppet team. EDIT: Dead or Alive ++ rocks my flocking socks off. * Tekken 3 freezes at startup for some reason.* Fighters' Impact A's video freaks out everytime a character performs a throw.* Paca Paca Passion seems to crash the emulator after the How to Play screen. Edited October 24, 2004 by Agozer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 and for those who can't stand using the command line, here ya go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Heh. Just a moment ago I was wondering if I should go check Aldo's site if he has released a new version of his frontend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gryph Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Sweetness. I have been waiting for this for some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoRAGERx Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 Does ZiNC work with a Voodoo2 card ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 most likely with the glide renderer, but aldo's updated frontend doesn't list many of the new games for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agozer Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) most likely with the glide renderer, but aldo's updated frontend doesn't list many of the new games for some reasonYeah, it sucks and is outright strange, but it's not like to too lazy to type "zinc #" at the command prompt. NeoRAGERx: yeah, you should stick with the Glide renderer, as it's tailor-made for Voodoos (yeah, I have a first-generation Voodoo1 on my old machine). Edited October 24, 2004 by Agozer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weirdy Posted October 24, 2004 Share Posted October 24, 2004 (edited) most likely with the glide renderer, but aldo's updated frontend doesn't list many of the new games for some reasonYeah, it sucks and is outright strange, but it's not like to too lazy to type "zinc #" at the command prompt. NeoRAGERx: yeah, you should stick with the Glide renderer, as it's tailor-made for Voodoos (yeah, I have a first-generation Voodoo1 on my old machine).I'm a noob at using ZiNc through command line, but how do you map the keys from the command line? Edited October 24, 2004 by Weirdanzeige Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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