ZSNES Windows Installer Project

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:30 am

have two types of install... one where everything is hardcoded in and the other where you specify where each thing is stored and where to install zsnes.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:40 am

5 megs is hardly killing dial-up users.

using dial-up is a completely different experience from broadband, and dial-up people know how handle a 5 meg file just as well as a 100 meg file.

LDAWG · Post by **LDAWG** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:42 pm

Hey all...
Sorry that I kinda fell off the radar with this.
My 250GB Hard Drive crashed and I lost like half of my life with it

(yeah, I know everyone is going to flame me about back-ups and what not)

On a good note:
I started remaking it from scratch, and have already made it be able to upgrade ANY zsnes.cfg file, to the version that you are installing

It basically takes all the variables from your previous .CFG file, and dumps them into the new .CFG.
I had a lot of fun coding-it, and I hope it'll be useful.

Expect some new screen-shots soon...
and better yet, hopefully a working executable for you guys to try out too!

franpa_9 wrote:have two types of install... one where everything is hardcoded in and the other where you specify where each thing is stored and where to install zsnes.

Yes! It is going to have Normal and Custom Install Types.

KingHanco · Post by **KingHanco** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:16 am

I hate installers.

Lord Alpha · Post by **Lord Alpha** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:25 am

KingHanco wrote:I hate installers.

Then don't use it

LDAWG · Post by **LDAWG** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 12:11 am

Below is a screen-shot of a VERY EARLY Beta Version, of my ZSNES Windows Installer.
I will be adding more to it and making it even better, before the Public Beta Release.

This is what the user will see while the installer is scanning for ZSNES's required components, such as DirectX 8.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 7:55 am

that's pretty neat

MaduinTheMarauder · Post by **MaduinTheMarauder** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 8:25 am

Wow dude. That looks cool. I say this could be neat and shit.

BTW first post I've done somewhat sober, but with with one helluva hangover. Oh well, on with my boring life.

smkdan · Post by **smkdan** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:18 am

Nice. This'll be great for first time ZSNES users.

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:37 pm

That's cool. I can help make those. Would you guys mind if I did? Would you guys use them.

eyebrowsoffire · Post by **eyebrowsoffire** » Sun Mar 26, 2006 1:11 am

This installer looks very cool, but I am a little unclear on something. Is this supposed to be something that is an installer you download, and it just basically just unpacks itself into different places on your computer, or is this supposed to an installer that you download, and then it downloads from a server somewhere the individual components that you selected and installs them? If the latter, that sounds cool. If the former, I'm a little skeptical.