importing games

[Stryker]

I don't know if this has already bee asked but I didn't see anything on this on the 5 pages i looked through. I hae downloaded ZSNES and I then had to download games. What I want to know is how to import the games to the ZSNES, so that I can play them. I tried to figure it out on my own but just couldn't do it. Thanks for any help you can provide.

[Mexandrew]

Zsnes just loads the file.
1.- Go to "Game->Load"
2.- Find your game.
3.- Double click it.

[Stryker]

That is not what I asked. I know how to load a game when a game is present. I just don't have a game present to load. I downloaded the ZSNES (which did not come with games), so I then downloaded the games and don't know how to get them to show up on the load menu. Cause I used to have a ZSNES on my computer, which i got from a friend who already put games on it. But I got a new computer and had to download everything myself.

[Agozer]

Put the games into the same folder where Zsnes(w).exe is

[Mexandrew]

The games you download often come in ZIP files. Zsnes can load them just fine.

I am still a little bit confused about what do you want to do, tho.

[What evar]

He probably wants to know how to find the games on his computer.
You know that window next to where the games are supposed to appear? With the
.
..
randomfolder

stuff? It's not just for show. In fact, ".." takes you out of the current folder (likea "back" button) and into the prvious folder. Double-clicking randomfolder will take you to that folder.
Let's say that you have your games in C:/ZSNES/games. and you have ZSNES is C:/ZSNES. ZSNES will start out in C:/ZSNES, so you have to double click Games in the load window and you'll fidn the games.
I hope you understand my confusing explanation.

[blackmyst]

I'm guessing that he doesn't know how to get games to appear in the load game menu?

Well what you see on the right are your folders and drives. Doubleclick any folder to go in it, doubleclick the two dots to go up one folder. Or you can use the keyboard arrows and enter button instead of the mouse, whichever. If you know what folder your games are in, just go there, and they'll appear in the box to the left.

(edit, whoops, got beaten to it).

[Oblivion]

".." is the equivalent of Windows' "Up one level" button, not the back button.

[What evar]

Since we're on that subject, what purpose does "." have? It doesn't do anything for me.

[Oblivion]

I'm pretty sure that "." is the current directory.

[adventure_of_link]

I think it's like a refresh button.

[grinvader]

The '.' directory is the current directory, thus useless with Change Directory commands.

But extremely useful for other matters. Example, if I type:

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~/zsnes/src$ zsnes

Then I will run /usr/games/bin/zsnes, because /usr/games/bin/ is in my PATH and whatever's in PATH is prioritary on anything else.
If I type:

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~/zsnes/src$ ./zsnes

Then I will run /home/grin/zsnes/src/zsnes, because that's what I just asked.

Hope this helped.

[Stryker]

Alright I figured it out what I needed to do was extract the games and the ZSNES.exe into a single folder then the games showed up on the load screen. Thanks for all the help.

[creaothceann]

It's better to use one directory for each ZSNES version, and one directory for all the ROMs.

C:\Games\SNES\ZSNESW WIP 05.02.24
C:\Games\SNES\Actraiser.zip
C:\Games\SNES\Axelay.zip
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