Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 2:37 pm Post subject: Newbie looking for help with emulators/roms. Please help!!
Hi there,
I am looking for some answers as to what I am doing wrong.
Please help.
I have a modded xbox(chipped), and am using auto installer 4.52.
I installed the Atari7800x, MekaX, and Z26x emulators.
I then ADD MY ROMS followed the instructions in the auto installer manual for building rom set addons.
The roms did not open in their respective emulators(however the files appear, but game can not be played)
They were zipped with 7zip, and the compressed with winrar.
I then read that roms should be zipped with winzip, not 7zip, so I installed winzip on my pc, to make another auto installer boot disk,(with winzipped rom addons) only to discover that the iso file for auto installer has now been converted to a winzip file, and winzip will not open it!
Very frustrating, aarrghh.
Anyway can someone please help me.
I apologise for the long post, but I thought the more information provided, the better chance someone can help me.
Thank you
91dt200r
Edited by WES213: I am sure you can see what i edited and if you look over the rules you will know why, while we thank you for going VIP you do still get held to the same rules as any other site user.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:19 pm Post subject:
Save yourself the time and trouble and just FTP the zip files to the corresponding EMU, as for the files being 7 zip it is because 7 zip is your default program for zip files.
If you have winzip installed you can just right click any zip file on your PC and go to select default program and hit winzip, now all your zip files are winzip.
This same tip will work for ISO files but instead of selecting winzip as default you would select your ISO app like magic ISO.
91dt200r Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jan 07, 2011 Posts: 6
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 3:52 pm Post subject:
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry about the material you had to remove. won't happen again.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:02 pm Post subject:
Ain't no thing bro, enjoy the site and let me know how things turn out with the EMUs.
91dt200r Xbox-HQ Newbie
Joined: Jan 07, 2011 Posts: 6
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 8:32 am Post subject:
Hi there,
So I have managed to get most of my emu/rom problems sorted.
I unzippped any compressed roms, and placed them all in folders and then zippped the folders.
FTPed as suggested(thank you for that), and hey, most of the games now play.
Had a little trouble with MekaX not playing games, switched to SMSplusX, and now most of those games now play.
Thanks very much for the help.
Oh yeah, and thank you for the info about the iso files.
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 2:29 am Post subject:
Happy to have helped you out man.
SPPV V.I.P. Lifetime
Joined: Sep 13, 2010 Posts: 2644 Location: Kamloops BC Canada
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2011 1:36 pm Post subject:
Would any of you know anything on the PS1 emu. It always seems to load and run fine till after the game intro screen then it freezes up on me.
91dt200r Xbox-HQ Newbie Xbox Version: V1.6b Modded: Babylon3 GS
Joined: Jan 07, 2011 Posts: 6
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:48 am Post subject:
Hi,
I am playing with the ps1 emulator at the moment. I am having trouble with it as well, but am slowly working it out(at least I think i am)
wes213 Administrator
Joined: Feb 04, 2007 Posts: 10520 Location: Harrisonburg V.A.
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:
One you could try clearing out the xbox cache folders and two you could try a different PS1 EMU.
forahobby Administrator
Joined: May 22, 2003 Posts: 23944 Location: NSW, Australia
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject:
wes213 wrote:
One you could try clearing out the xbox cache folders and two you could try a different PS1 EMU.
Yes, clear your cache from E: drive and try different versions of each emulator.. Different versions run different roms better and some worse. Like Grand Theft Auto 2 PS1, i used to have to run a specific version for it to run correctly.
Try our VIP download area or VIP FTP Servers we have most of the older archived versions to try too.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum
HQ Network: 8,486 | 
Guests: 1192 | 
Members: 2 
Forums 
