Pause Emulation?

FistOfFury · Post by **FistOfFury** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:16 am

Is there a pause button in ZSNES? Like the pause function in MAME? Would be usefull for parts of the games that don't let you pause, or like if you want to pause while watching a Zsnes movie. Because I was analyzing a zmv movie of a fighting game match in slow motion, and it would be nice to pause during specific frames to see what's going on. The only remotely similar feature that I can find that pauses is the F3 button to load a save state, but the window dialogue gets in the way.

ShadowFX · Post by **ShadowFX** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:10 am

I bet someone's going to say to you to hit the esc button to bring up the menu and use that as a pause option

I like the idea though...

ieremiou · Post by **ieremiou** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:01 pm

EMu-LoRd wrote:I bet someone's going to say to you to hit the esc button to bring up the menu and use that as a pause option

I like the idea though...

Dangit i was gonna say use ESC.

I helped add a minor pause button emulation in DOSBox but i'm not too good at programming. I also don't know much about the internals of ZSNES except getting it to compile and pointing out obvious errors. (whatever obvious means)

*if* they do implemented a Pause-like button.. Please make sure it unlocks the mouse when you pause it cause it would be nasty to keep the mouse locked lol.

/Ieremiou

FistOfFury · Post by **FistOfFury** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:31 am

ESC changes the colors and the top has the annoying menu

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:07 am

FistOfFury wrote:ESC changes the colors and the top has the annoying menu

Who cares?

ShadowFX · Post by **ShadowFX** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:02 am

It's the same with asking to implement a Close ROM option (which also would be nice to have, but yeah it's all that GUI stuff which is apparently hard to edit).

FistOfFury · Post by **FistOfFury** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:22 am

EMu-LoRd wrote:It's the same with asking to implement a Close ROM option (which also would be nice to have, but yeah it's all that GUI stuff which is apparently hard to edit).

Yes, I imagine it would be hard, but the code is already there, isn't it? It's used twice, once during the load save state dialogue, and again, during the ESC execution, so it shouldn't be too hard to edit, just transfer the code to a new function. But then, you have to do a new assign hotkey code in the Game Keys menu section, so it gets hard again. It just comes down to personal perference though, but it would be practical for like, lets say you're trying to rip a specific sprite animation frame that is really fast, and you can't rip it or it's hard to do because either there's no way to pause the game, or it's too fast for slow-mo, the menu dialogue is in the way, etc. Anyway.

Malcster · Post by **Malcster** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:30 pm

You can press F1, that gives you a menu but you can move it, (I think?)

Post by **pagefault** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:07 pm

I will add a pause function. But I will have to find more room in the GUI for it again... Ugh.

Post by **Nach** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:59 pm

pagefault wrote:I will add a pause function. But I will have to find more room in the GUI for it again... Ugh.

We should split off varios buttons into other windows.
For example, save related buttons could/should be stuck in the save window. There certainly is room for it there.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:43 pm

Bacon wrote:
FistOfFury wrote:ESC changes the colors and the top has the annoying menu
Who cares?

Apparently.... HE does.

cdbsi · Post by **cdbsi** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:46 pm

Thanks for all of your hard work guys.

What's so great about having a Close ROM feature? I think it would be rather pointless.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:09 pm

A "Close ROM" feature is equivalent to two things you would normally do...

1) Stop playing anymore - easy solution, just quit ZSNES

2) Play a different ROM - easy solution, just load up a different ROM

Not much there in between that's significant...

Post by **Nach** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:39 pm

A "Close ROM" feature is equivalent to something an SNES doesn't even have.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:47 pm

A "Close ROM" feature is equivalent to something an SNES doesn't even have.

Actually.. it's really the equivalent of "powering down the SNES"

Post by **Nach** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:58 pm

Deathlike2 wrote:
A "Close ROM" feature is equivalent to something an SNES doesn't even have.
Actually.. it's really the equivalent of "powering down the SNES"

Powering down ZSNES already exists.

Tallgeese · Post by **Tallgeese** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:51 pm

...Duh.

TO SIMULATE POWERING DOWN THE SNES IN ZSNES:

Press ESC or whatever button you use to enter the GUI.
Click on the GAME button.
Click QUIT.

Put this in the FAQs.

Post by **Agozer** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:00 am

Metatron wrote:...Duh.

TO SIMULATE POWERING DOWN THE SNES IN ZSNES:

Press ESC or whatever button you use to enter the GUI.
Click on the GAME button.
Click QUIT.

Put this in the FAQs.

Very n00b-friendly.

Post by **pagefault** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:07 am

Nach wrote:
pagefault wrote:I will add a pause function. But I will have to find more room in the GUI for it again... Ugh.
We should split off varios buttons into other windows.
For example, save related buttons could/should be stuck in the save window. There certainly is room for it there.

Yeah well if you want to do it then go ahead. I am not touching the GUI with a 10 foot pole.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:21 am

Hey Metatron, don't forget about ALT+F4 and the little red/grey "X" in the top right corner of the window

Post by **Nach** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:13 am

pagefault wrote:
Nach wrote:
pagefault wrote:I will add a pause function. But I will have to find more room in the GUI for it again... Ugh.
We should split off varios buttons into other windows.
For example, save related buttons could/should be stuck in the save window. There certainly is room for it there.
Yeah well if you want to do it then go ahead. I am not touching the GUI with a 10 foot pole.

Once I finish my ZMV updates and DSP-4, perhaps I will.

Post by **grinvader** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:50 pm

Malcster wrote:You can press F1, that gives you a menu but you can move it, (I think?)

As he said.

To pause any game without colour changes/title bar - press F1. You *can* move the window around, use the 'MOVE WINDOW' feature.

Post by **Nach** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:29 pm

ipher and I implemented pause and increment frame buttons.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:35 am

This pause feature has a small inconvienience: It seems that it can "pause" the GUI too! Is this intentional? After pausing emulation, press escape to go to the GUI, then press Esc again.

Post by **Nach** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 3:37 am

I have not found it to pause the GUI. Give an example.

I have found upon exiting the GUI that it doesn't update the screen, which I'm working on.