WinSTonX Atari ST Emulator port for XBox v9

http://xport.xbox-scene.com
goto http://www.ressurectionxtras.net/ for latest cheats, rumbles, synopsis and skin updates.

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*** To Do For WinstonX ***
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- Hopefully create some Xtra's based on the Gamebase ST.
- Possibly implement some preset controller definitions.
- WinstonX is a bit of a memory whore. Sadly to fix this will require alot of work so it may be a while. So hang in there!
- Chip music player?

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*** Changes To WinstonX Core ***
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* Auto unzip's Gamebase ST style "HARDISK.ZIP" files and autoboot them. (user must use TOS_104).
* Can now change region (NTSC/PAL). Defaults to PAL.
* Modified screen size to more accurately match the ST screen size (now screenshots look correct).
* Added a menu option to display what disks are loaded in drives 1 and 2.

* Given the full "Madmab Edition" treatment.
* New dual-preview skin to support Ressurection Xtra's. Say thank you to Gilou9999 for the skin.
* "Auto Game Configurations (aka Configuration defaults)" added (see below description).

* Fixed a couple goofs that prevented loading ROMS over a samba share.
* "Move Selected to the Garbage Folder?" now has a new option.. "Never Move". So "Yes" will ask before moving the selected file to the Garbage folder. "No" will just move the file and "Never Move" won't move the file at all.

* New feature "Seconds before playing movie" determines how long the emu will wait before playing a movie. The default is half a second. This will help speed up rom browsing. Especially useful for people streaming stuff (like movies) across the network.
* Pick -1 on "Seconds before playing movie" to set to 0 seconds. 0 will equal half a second.. 1 one second, and so on.

* If streaming movies from across the network and the user press on the dpad or a, b, x or y the emulator will abort the transfer. This should help speed up rom browsing and allow the user an "out" especially for the larger movies.

* User can now select which "cheat code database" they wan't to load since it seemed silly to mix the many AR and GG codes into one file for Snes9xbox.
* Select file function now has an option to not display directories. First menu to use this is the cheat code database select screen.

* Pressing the back key while viewing a games synopsis will toggle between a fixed font and the skins proportional font.
* Fixed long standing bug of YesNo Menu pop-up graphic not centering properly.
* Fixed an issue with the software filters displaying garbage.
* Activated the "Keep user Within ROM Directory Tree?" which I somehow missed.
* Fixed up the box/cart art position on a few skins.
* Fixed a problem where setting the box/cart orientation was screwed up.
* Fixed the bug that screwed up Gilou's skin to begin with (too weird to explain).

* Fixed a long standing bug in the favorites system. This one goes waaaaay back.
* Emulator should now work with 1.6 Xbox's super big thanks to FreakDave. 1.6 users let me know how this works for you.
* Fixed a problem where the media directory selected by the user replaced the wrong media directory. Again. Double Doi on me!
* Fixed the problem where the wrong synopsis description was showing when selecting a game in the favorites menu.
* Fixed odd bug where the opening movie and movies played full screen in the media browser would not display properly at 1080i

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New SAMBA code from XBMC (See readme for more details)
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**** Carryovers from Atarixlbox ****
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A gazillion changes carried over from Atarixlbox. Read the Latest-Snes9x.txt file.

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*** "Auto Game Configurations (aka Configuration defaults) for select emulators ***
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In the "General settings" menu there will be a new option.

"Automatically Use Default Game Configuration - Yes/No"

If the user sets it to "Yes" it will bring up the game configuration screen and let the user define the default (if no default.stg and default.key file exists).

In the "Configuration" menu there will be a new option... "Set default game configuration"

The user can go in anytime thru the "Configuration" menu to change these "defaults" to something else if they wish.

Once set to "Automatically use Default Game Configuration" the user will not see the game configuration screen again unless they... a) press X when selecting a game. Change "Use Default Game Configuration" back to "No".

Keep in mind when it is set to "Yes" the game will use your "Default game settings" and not the normal x-port behavior. If set to "No" the emulator will behave like it usually does. Each emu is typically different. But all, at the very least carry the controller settings over.

This feature will only be added to emulators in which it is feasible to use.

Emu can be found in the usual places.

Thanks. No chance of updating to Hatari core? Hatari is based on WinSTon

excellent stuff, my atari mad friend will be pleased!

That's in the plans.. especially since Hatari has a reduced memory option which will really help with the memory issues that WistonX has. But it won't be anytime soon.. But I'll eventually get around to it.

Yo,

just realised you can now view a synopsis for atari games!

is this out yet? if so how do I set it up, have googled to no avail

cheers!

Yes but no sysnopsis exists yet for WinstonX. Hopefully we will create one whenever we get around to doing some Xtras.

cool, that really will be the cream on the pudding! often have no idea what those games are about!

Hey madmab, first off..big thanks for all the updates to xports emulators. great work on these and it's very much appreciated.

now to my question. I have just started work on my own synopsis file for winstonx and noticed it works along the same lines as the Sega, Snes and Atari VCS emulators, where it checks and compares CRC's to match the rom/image/disk with the synopsis entry.

I was wondering, would it be possible to have winstonx's synopsis feature act some what like PCSBOX's where
it looks to match the game name only?

If there is some reason it is done this way (with CRC's) that we don't know about then that’s cool, it's just with the numerous scene/crack groups that released multiple versions of ST games back in the day, matching up all those CRC's could turn into a real nightmare, not to mention the hundreds of menu disks around. It's much easier to enter/match file names, than to find out the CRC of every individual disk and enter that in the synopsis.txt

Another slight drawback is, if you have a game with multiple disks and they are all in one zip file (very nice feature by the way) the synopsis system asks you to pick a disk before displaying, if it went solely on the game/zip name would this not be necessary?

I'll gladly share any synopsis file I create but will hold off doing it until I've heard your thoughts.

This is just a suggestion and like I said if there is a reason for using this method then that's cool.

I was just asking

Once again a Big Thank You for all your work.

CRC's are really the best way to go because it is the only way to know 100% that an image is the right image. You can put multiple CRC's for each entry (seperate with a comma).

I use a program called hash my files to get crc's. Just unzip all your files into a directory somewhere and drag -n- drop this sucker on hash my files and it will give you the crc's for all your files.

It will even color code them so you can see if you have duplicates!

First off!! fantastic emulator! as are all the madmab ones

I just can`t get this one going... always boots to the green/white desktop..

Not sure where the TOS images go.. I have TOS_100.img and TOS_102.img.. Do I need to rename them? if so.. where do I put them.

Thanks in advance!

All the other emulators are fine I`ve worked those out...

I`m no idiot.. but I just cant work this one out

For some reason this emu wants the TOS names to be..

TOS_A.ROM, TOS_B.ROM, or TOS_C.ROM. Put them in the same directory as the emu.

Which TOS you name what doesn't matter. Just make sure you keep track of which is which.. lol

Cheers MM!

Hmm I`ve renamed and put them in the same dir as the default.xbe but the emulator still goes to the screen desktop..

Before the game loads you get the little menu pop up where you can select the TOS.. it seems to show D:\TOS... as default..


I don`t see anywhere where you set the TOS rom directory?


Darren

Bump!! still not working..

Read my response.. You must not be doing something right.

Make sure you TOS roms are the above mentioned named and in the game setup screen (X when selecting game) pick which TOS FILE you want to use. You'll have to keep track of which is which since it uses the names A, B, and C.

There is no setting the ROM directory. The files go in the same directory as the emu, as I stated earlier.

I`ve renamed tos1.0, tos1.02 and tos1.04 to the file names the emulator wants.
They are in the main dir where the default.xbe is ( also in the stdisks dir for good measure )

When I start the emulator and get to the TOS selection screen, doesn`t matter which one I select, I just get put to the ST green desktop!

I`ve tried various disk images as well...( zipped, .stt files etc ) nothing seems to load

Added configuration option to select your own TOS file. You can either select the
internal TOS1.0 or select a D:\TOS_A.ROM, D:\TOS_B.ROM, or D:\TOS_C.ROM <-- I can`t put anything on my D: drive.. so i`m guessing it knows where the roms are ? ( in the main dir where the .xbe is? )

thanks again..

If you are getting to the ST green desktop than that means you have the TOS files named correctly. You can confirm this by checking the "about" option in the GEM menu on the green desktop. If it is going to the desktop move the mouse over to the "Drive A" image, double click, and then double clock the first "*.prg" file you see in there.

There are some disk images that Winston never supported like pasti/stx.