Unresponsive keyboard and gamepad

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:03 am

Ive recently been having problems getting Zsnes to work. It starts up and runs just fine, but when changing resolutions it prompts you to "press any key" But nothing happens when I do. It dosent freeze up, its still running fine, just not responding. The same thing happens when calibrating the gamepad, when it says "press key for up" it stops responding againg, but apparently still running fine (alt+F4 closes it).

Im not 100% sure if this is a hardware or software problem, but both Keyboard and gamepad work fine in other emulators.

It started happening after deleting Zsnes then putting a newer version in a new folder. Ive tried running it from different drives, running different versions and tried different controllers, but nothing seems to fix it.

I really need to get it back up and running, so any help is appriciated.

kevman · Post by **kevman** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 5:15 am

What Operating system do you run?

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:44 am

Win XP Home

mike435 · Post by **mike435** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:54 am

Well I had the same problem until i switched to windows xp so I dont know

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:39 am

Do you have the latest drivers for your video card?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:49 am

Try deleting all the .cfg and .dat files in the folder you have ZSNES in...

It started happening after deleting Zsnes then putting a newer version in a new folder. Ive tried running it from different drives, running different versions and tried different controllers, but nothing seems to fix it.

You need to do the above because of the different ZSNES versions...

Mexandrew · Post by **Mexandrew** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:01 am

I have a problem like that, but only happens with the DOS version.

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:32 am

snkcube wrote:Do you have the latest drivers for your video card?

yup, and I havent changed them after reinstalling ZSNES

Deathlike2 wrote:Try deleting all the .cfg and .dat files in the folder you have ZSNES in...

You need to do the above because of the different ZSNES versions...

Well, I already deleted the old version before installing the new one, are the config files placed anywhere else than the extracted folder?

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:47 am

The config files for ZSnes are automatically generated when you run ZSnes for the first time. They are in the same folder ZSnes is in. They are:
zsnesw.cfg
zsnesgui.cfg
When doing an over-written install of ZSnes (ie: putting it in the folder where ZSnes is), you would erase those two files, then run ZSnes and get new configs.

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 6:53 am

I actually got it working for a few secounds just now. By deleting it again then put the extracted folder in the emulator folder without changing its name, the "ZSNES140" folder that is. But then I put the games in and such, and it stopped working. Not exactly sure what I did that broke it again, but trying the same method again dosent seem to work.

sigh

AspiringSquire · Post by **AspiringSquire** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:25 pm

Have you tried putting the games in their own directory rather than in the ZSNES directory? Perhaps you have too many ROMs in one directory...

If your default folder for extracting is "ZSNES140", then you must have the DOS version of ZSNES. The Windows port of ZSNES will always have a "W" in the filename of the .zip file. Go get "zsnesw142.zip" from www.ipherswipsite.com or any of the various other download sites. You can also try the current WIP for ZSNES at ipher's site.

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:35 pm

AspiringSquire wrote:Have you tried putting the games in their own directory rather than in the ZSNES directory? Perhaps you have too many ROMs in one directory...

If your default folder for extracting is "ZSNES140", then you must have the DOS version of ZSNES. The Windows port of ZSNES will always have a "W" in the filename of the .zip file. Go get "zsnesw142.zip" from www.ipherswipsite.com or any of the various other download sites. You can also try the current WIP for ZSNES at ipher's site.

I read wrong, it is the windows version. But I downloaded the newest version now and it works in its extracted folder, so im just going to keep it there so I dont screw this up again.

Thanks for the help all.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:13 am

That's what we're here for, dude.
Glad to help.

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Sun May 08, 2005 8:07 pm

That didnt last long. Its back again and im getting pretty tired of it. Anybody else know anything that might help?

Vision · Post by **Vision** » Tue May 10, 2005 6:55 am

the same thing happened to me with my sisters computer but i could never figure out how to fix it.

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:10 am

bump

Richard C. · Post by **Richard C.** » Tue May 24, 2005 2:43 am

you ARE using the version from the link in my signature, right?

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:40 pm

Richard C. wrote:you ARE using the version from the link in my signature, right?

I am now atleast, but that has the same problem

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:28 am

After updating windows, graphics card and installing the latest zsnes release, Im atleast able to change graphics without any problems. But reassigning keys is still not possible. When I mouse click on say "up" to assign the up key, its like the mouse just doubleclicks and asignes the mouse button to anything I press. The interval between single and double clicking isnt messed up anywhere else at least, if thats the problem.
Any more help would be greatly appriciated.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 7:41 am

Kvaal wrote:But reassigning keys is still not possible. When I mouse click on say "up" to assign the up key, its like the mouse just doubleclicks and asignes the mouse button to anything I press. The interval between single and double clicking isnt messed up anywhere else at least, if thats the problem.

That's strange, did you tried selecting keyboard/Joystick from the first window and pressing "Set" before attempting to change keys?

Kvaal · Post by **Kvaal** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:22 am

Joe Camacho wrote:
Kvaal wrote:But reassigning keys is still not possible. When I mouse click on say "up" to assign the up key, its like the mouse just doubleclicks and asignes the mouse button to anything I press. The interval between single and double clicking isnt messed up anywhere else at least, if thats the problem.
That's strange, did you tried selecting keyboard/Joystick from the first window and pressing "Set" before attempting to change keys?

Yeah, whem I choose "set" the gamepad dosent respond at all. (it works on everything else)

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:40 am

Sorta OT (and I know I'm gonna get told to update my ZSnes

): Using ELX Linux and ZSnes v1.4 RC1, my gamepads won't respond, however the device managet finds my controllers just fine...

smapdi · Post by **smapdi** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:26 pm

i'm having the exact same problem as the original poster. can load games just fine, but can't change controls or video settings. just out of curiosity, i also tried running the windows versions of 1.41 and 1.20, both to the same effect. each time i tried a different version i made sure to delete both the .cfg and .dat files, as well as everything else in the folder.

one thing i noticed happening was that zsnes was maxing out my cpu whenever it ran. i have an Athlon XP 1.8GHz in this system, and from my understanding that should be more than enough for zsnes.