ZSNES 1.51 not responding at all

WhatWouldJeffDo · Post by **WhatWouldJeffDo** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:31 pm

Whenever I start ZSNES I can't get it to respond at all. The One-Time Reminder message just pops up and It doesn't go away. Even If I load a game, which it let me does by dragging it, I still can't interact with the game. Can someone help me?

Post by **odditude** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 5:44 pm

Please provide more info... what version of ZSNES, what OS, how exactly you're launching the program, install path, etc...

WhatWouldJeffDo · Post by **WhatWouldJeffDo** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:32 pm

It's ZSNES v1.51 and I have Windows XP. I launched the program from the exe which I extracted from the rar file off of the official website and I just extracted it from the rar file. There was no actual install

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:39 pm

ZSNES is not stored in a RAR file.

WhatWouldJeffDo · Post by **WhatWouldJeffDo** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:04 pm

oh haha well that's how it appeared for me, it was just the image then I guess but I downloaded it from http://www.zsnes.com/index.php?page=files

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:18 pm

Both DOS and Windows binaries are distributed in Zip files. The linux tarball uses bzip2. If you 've associated WinRAR (or whatever program you use that handles RAR files as well) with Zip files, then yes, it might seem to you that the ZSNES package is in a RAR file - which in incorrect.

Post by **odditude** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:34 pm

WhatWouldJeffDo wrote:It's ZSNES v1.51 and I have Windows XP. I launched the program from the exe which I extracted from the rar file off of the official website and I just extracted it from the rar file. There was no actual install

where did you extract it to? which version did you download, win or dos? what service pack do you have installed?

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:37 pm

WhatWouldJeffDo wrote:The One-Time Reminder message just pops up and It doesn't go away.

What are you even trying to do to make it "go away" ?

WhatWouldJeffDo · Post by **WhatWouldJeffDo** » Tue Aug 18, 2009 11:46 pm

I'm trying to interact with it at all or make it respond(as in the program). I downloaded Win 1.51 because as it says that's the version for Windows XP.
As far as I know I didn't use a service pack or anything like that and I extracted it to my desktop and into a folder named SNES which I made because it gave me a tip saying to do that.

Post by **odditude** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:22 am

the correct answer would be "i'm pressing the 'z' key like the prompt says, but it's not going away."

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to make sure there aren't any path issues rearing their ugly heads, extract the archive to a directory with no "strange" characters in the path... say c:\zsnes.

WhatWouldJeffDo · Post by **WhatWouldJeffDo** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 3:06 am

Okay then.

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:56 am

odditude wrote:the correct answer would be "i'm pressing the 'z' key like the prompt says, but it's not going away."

I'm gonna assume you meant space bar. I'm not gonna assume OP did press the space bar until s/he says explicitely so.

Post by **odditude** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 2:04 pm

odditude wrote:the correct answer would be "i'm pressing the spacebar like the prompt says, but it's not going away."

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to make sure there aren't any path issues rearing their ugly heads, extract the archive to a directory with no "strange" characters in the path... say c:\zsnes.

edit: fixed for great justice!

...and either i need coffee or the board did something wonky. methinks i'm just not awake yet. anyway, when did it stop being Z?

Post by **grinvader** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:59 pm

About 2 monthes after I officially started working on ZSNES.

Like, 4.5 years ago.

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