emulation rom questions

nightavenger · Post by **nightavenger** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 2:58 pm

im usually good with this stuff but when i tried getting the rom for
Star Ocean dejap style from these guys, i tried putting my zsnes with it to have it run when i clicked on SO but it wouldnt work, unlike last time.

so it tried something else, and it would'nt come off of the game shortcut.
It now appears as a red A with blue lines. Please help me get that off and put zsnes to work with it.

nightavenger · Post by **nightavenger** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:41 pm

well anyway can you at least tell me how to get the dejaped Star Ocean to run with zsnes when you download the decompression pack?

Post by **Agozer** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 3:46 pm

Please help me understand your problem better, as your style of writing makes it quite difficult to understand just what exactly is the problem.

In short, make sense.

Few points:

1. Specify the ZSNES version you are using.
2. You don't need graphics packs (I'm going on a limb here and presume that this is what you meant) for Star Ocean anymore, as of ZSNES 1.40+ versions anyway).
3. I strongly recommend loading games via ZSNES' load window.

And then for the millionth time (probably), read the documentation that comes with ZSNES, especially the part that deals with automatic IPS patching (or in this case, how to make your Star Ocean ROM into the "DeJapped" one, even though I hate that word like the plague).

Or you could, I don't know, read the second-to-last topic in the FAQs forum. If you look around, you'll probably see this particular forum just hanging above the forum you just posted in. No seriously, read them all. This board also sports a very nifty search feature that provides you with information from threads past.

nightavenger · Post by **nightavenger** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:41 pm

It is v. 1.42

before i meant right when i downloaded it I clicked on it ( and a thing came up saying i needed to find what program to run with it) so I was trying to get zsnes to run with it, and it didn't work.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:27 pm

If you're trying to run the patch, well, it won't work. You need the original rom, which we can't tell you where to find it.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:31 pm

You could also try ZSNES version 1.5.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:36 pm

nightavenger wrote:m usually good with this stuff but when i tried getting the rom for
Star Ocean dejap style from these guys, i tried putting my zsnes with it to have it run when i clicked on SO but it wouldnt work, unlike last time.

The patch from dejap is not supposed to be loaded via the file loader or command line. You're supposed to obtain the Jap version of SO first and put it in the same folder as the patch. ZSNES should auto load the IPS patch (it cannot be contained in a zip file, though I wonder if that behavior could change).

so it tried something else, and it would'nt come off of the game shortcut.
It now appears as a red A with blue lines. Please help me get that off and put zsnes to work with it.

How about you learn to use ZSNES with the simple games first?

well anyway can you at least tell me how to get the dejaped Star Ocean to run with zsnes when you download the decompression pack?

The decompression pack has been obsolete for a while.

before i meant right when i downloaded it I clicked on it ( and a thing came up saying i needed to find what program to run with it) so I was trying to get zsnes to run with it, and it didn't work.

That's probably because you are trying to load the patch/decompression pack directly and it simply won't work like that.