does ZSNES work with new direct x feb 2006 and catalyst 6.2?

MYGUTTER · Post by **MYGUTTER** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:36 pm

zsnes crashs by pressing a button in sim city. <only failure I know with direct x and da new catalyst all other works fine. does someone support me!?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:47 pm

You have made no mention what version of ZSNES is being used...

Otherwise the both of the latest CATALYST and DX version works fine...

So.. it's just you.. and probably the game.. since I don't know how well it runs...

MYGUTTER · Post by **MYGUTTER** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:52 pm

well my ZSNES version is 1.42 with newest directx feb 2006 and catalyst6.2.
I load the game and everything works fine but if I press the start button or any button to get the options screen ZSNES crashes and I´m back on my Desktop screen so I´m not able to play the game. with directx 9.0b and catalyst 5.x everything works fine. HELP

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:05 pm

Did you happen to recently update ZSNES... if so, delete zsnesw.cfg and zguicfgw.dat in the ZSNES folder and try again...

Also, you have yet to provide some relevent info... like the NSRT output of the ROM...

MYGUTTER · Post by **MYGUTTER** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 9:32 pm

I allready tried zsnes (btw i'm too stupid to learn the name of the emulator) Network Version 1.42n but its still the same - I deleted the dat and the cfg files with same result. I coulndt run NSRT so I tested zsnes and NSRT on my girlfriends Laptop getting the same stupid result.

Hyos · Post by **Hyos** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:41 pm

First, try running the WIP (Work In Progress) version from
http://zsnes.ipherswipsite.com/

Newest WIP is from 1/5/2006.

I don't know what DirectX version you are talking about, the newest one avaiable is 9.0c published 8/4/2004, runs very fine with me. Unless you are trying to run a beta version.

Get NSRT and the Frontend from http://nsrt.edgeemu.com/forum/portal.php
run NSRT on the ROM of the game, not ZSNES (your previous post sounded like that).

Truth Unknown · Post by **Truth Unknown** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 10:59 pm

This seems to be the latest. As he said.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 2:42 am

Ah, it's just 9c.

/me thought it was DX 10...

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:13 am

It is an updated version of DX9.0c.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:29 am

Ah, thanks dude. I shall now go update my Direct X 9.0c to... well, the new and improved DX 9.0c.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 4:45 am

I'm starting to think the original poster is running a bad Simcity ROM...

To know if that ROM is bad... when loading up Simcity.. you need to check what the chksum says about the ROM (by default, there is a text file called rominfo.txt that appears in the ROM folder... it may help to copy+paste the contents of that file here...

Also.. I definately suppose that the original poster doesn't know how to use NSRT (especially since it uses the command line)...

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:15 am

I've heard in the past that there supposedly are issues with the (E) SimCity ROM, but I can't remember what they are exactly. The original poster should try the (U) version.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 6:40 am

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic ... 67&start=0

It probably hasn't been fixed yet... there must be some sort of special thing that ports of the Sim series need that won't work on ZSNES...

You probably want to use a different Snes emulator for this game though...

xamenus · Post by **xamenus** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 7:26 am

OK, I just confirmed it myself. It is indeed an issue ZSNES has with the (E) ROM, as it runs the (U) version perfectly. As the OP said, the (E) version will crash after pressing a button to start the game.

MYGUTTER · Post by **MYGUTTER** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:44 am

I tried version G also I tried the newest Wip Version with same bad result

here is what NSRT says:

Sim City (G).smc
Name SIMCITY
Company Nintendo
Header SWC
Bank LoROM
Interleaved No
SRAM 256 Kb
Type Normal + Batt
ROM 4 Mb
Country Germ/Aust/Switz
Video PAL
ROM Speed 200ns (SlowROM)
Revision 1.0
Checksum Good 0x0038
CRC32 451E4708
MD5 D0142F63A3DEE58F97C21D939B6DBD60
Database Name Sim City
Country Germany
Revision 1.0
Port 1 Gamepad
Port 2 Gamepad

I tried Version U and it works fine

does anyone knows a workin´german version?

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 1:43 pm

There is no working german version if what you have already crashes.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:38 pm

I'm just thinking there's some PAL issues now...

Is having the US version a huge problem though? It's better than nothing...

Hmm.. I've never noticed a game that used that much SRAM before... hmm

Post by **Agozer** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:45 pm

Deathlike2 wrote: Is having the US version a huge problem though? It's better than nothing...

Yeah, plus I'd take that extra 10fps anyday.

Post by **grinvader** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:17 pm

Known issue probably due to the sudden resolution increase when you jump from the intro to the next screen.

Kyatto · Post by **Kyatto** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 8:14 pm

I guess there is no problem with the latest catalyst drivers. I have had this problem too with my Geforce4 card, and again with my Radeon9600 card. It's not a driver problem. I have used several Zsnes 0.x to 1.42 versions and all couldn't start SimCity. The older Zsnes-versions crash and the latest ones give a black screen.

how i fixed it?
i found a version of SimCity which is working. why i do not know.
PM and i'll email you the rom i use.

Post by **Nach** » Tue Feb 14, 2006 2:36 am

Kyatto wrote: i found a version of SimCity which is working. why i do not know.
PM and i'll email you the rom i use.

Please don't make us ban you.