I'm having problems getting older versions of ZSNES to run

Karonath · Post by **Karonath** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:31 am

Specifically I'm trying to get version 0.989c to run. However, I've been unable to run anything older than 1.10. I'm getting the following message.
C:\Program Files\Snes\0A02E~1.989\ZSNES.EXE
C:\Windows\System32\Autoexec.net. The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows applications. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

This sounds like it is not compatable with Windows. The site which I downloaded it from, http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/archives.html did not label whether it was a Windows port, only versions after 1.10 were labeled as either DOS, Windows, or Linux.

Any help on this issue would be appreciated.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:48 am

Are you running it on win xp? Win Xp has issues with the Dos port.

Karonath · Post by **Karonath** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:50 am

Yes, I'm running it on Windows XP. I forgot to mention that.
Is there anything I can do?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:52 am

You need to use command prompt to run the program....I think.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:56 am

I downloaded the file, just for the heck of it, and it is the Dos version.

You could try using Dos Box to run zsnes on Xp.

Karonath · Post by **Karonath** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:57 am

I've tried using the command prompt. It still results in the same error.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:11 am

Karonath wrote:I've tried using the command prompt. It still results in the same error.

What about DOS Box like what Joe Camacho suggested?

Karonath · Post by **Karonath** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:18 am

Well, the good news is that DOS Box runs ZSNES 0.989c. Unfortuantely it runs it very slowly.
Unless there's a way to speed it up or another way to run ZSNES on Win XP, it looks like I'm out of luck with this.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:19 am

Why do you want to run this version? are you trying to play a movie file or what?

Karonath · Post by **Karonath** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:36 am

Yeah, I'm trying to run a movie. I tried the newest version of ZSNES and it resulted in a desync, as I expected.

Post by **Agozer** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:06 pm

Windows XP and DOS are not a good mix. You're stuck if you ask me.

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 2:34 pm

Karonath wrote:I tried the newest version of ZSNES and it resulted in a desync, as I expected.

You say that you've tried the latest release, but have you tried the latest WIP from ipher's WIP site? It has fixes for 0.989c desyncs, though all aren't guaranteed to work.

Post by **Nach** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:03 pm

IceFox wrote:
Karonath wrote:I tried the newest version of ZSNES and it resulted in a desync, as I expected.
You say that you've tried the latest release, but have you tried the latest WIP from ipher's WIP site? It has fixes for 0.989c desyncs, though all aren't guaranteed to work.

You can't expect every movie to work under different timing.

Although all my Killer Instinct movies from way back work perfectly

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:27 pm

Karonath wrote:Well, the good news is that DOS Box runs ZSNES 0.989c. Unfortuantely it runs it very slowly.
Unless there's a way to speed it up or another way to run ZSNES on Win XP, it looks like I'm out of luck with this.

See the documentation:

CTRL-F7 = Decreases frameskip
CTRL-F8 = Increases Frameskip
CTRL-F11 = Slows down the game
CTRL-F12 = Speeds up the game

Saturn · Post by **Saturn** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 11:21 am

Karonath:
Try ZSNES v1.000 (the first Windows version and very rare) to run some (not all) of this movies. The newest movies together with this Emulator are on my Site:

http://www.freewebs.com/saturnsmovies/zsnesmovies.htm

Nach:
Sadly none of my movies stays in sync even on the latest WIP. As you mentioned the timing is different. Terranigma is longest, playbacks till about 55000 frames and gets out of sync then.

A question: is it possibe to copy the movie-timing from ZSNES v.989c to the latest WIP? Maybe this problem would be solved then.

Post by **Nach** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:02 pm

Saturn wrote: A question: is it possibe to copy the movie-timing from ZSNES v.989c to the latest WIP? Maybe this problem would be solved then.

Yes it would be possible, but why? If we did that, we should have to do it for every version. It would also be a lot of pointless work to do it.

While we wish we had perfect timing and thus would never have to change it for future releases, sadly that is an extremely hard to obtain goal.

Saturn · Post by **Saturn** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:40 am

Nach wrote:Yes it would be possible, but why? If we did that, we should have to do it for every version. It would also be a lot of pointless work to do it.

I just thought of one special version (so called special build of ZSNES). Again I thought copying something to another version is a matter of 5 min since you don't have to change or connect anything to another port.

I just got a person who wants make AVIs of this movies and I'm not sure if DOS would work for screen capture.

Joe Camacho · Post by **Joe Camacho** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 7:05 am

Saturn wrote:
Nach wrote:Yes it would be possible, but why? If we did that, we should have to do it for every version. It would also be a lot of pointless work to do it.
I just thought of one special version (so called special build of ZSNES). Again I thought copying something to another version is a matter of 5 min since you don't have to change or connect anything to another port.

I just got a person who wants make AVIs of this movies and I'm not sure if DOS would work for screen capture.

Well, if you posess the abilities for such a task, you are invited to do so, after all, zsnes is open source.

Post by **grinvader** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:19 am

Saturn wrote:Again I thought copying something to another version is a matter of 5 min since you don't have to change or connect anything

You are sorely mistaken. But we can't really blame you.

Saturn · Post by **Saturn** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:16 am

Joe wrote:Well, if you posess the abilities for such a task, you are invited to do so, after all, zsnes is open source.

Nope, if I had this abilities I would do so (or at least try) 3 years ago already.

grinvader wrote:You are sorely mistaken. But we can't really blame you.

There is no need to blame me, I really have absolutely no clue how this all works and just asked 'cause I was not sure.