New Member ~ Long time Lurker (introduction + two questions)

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24th-June-2016, 01:01
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

New Member ~ Long time Lurker (introduction + two questions)
Good Afternoon,

My name is JesZeK and I live in Honduras; I've been visiting the Emuparadise website for learning and downloading content, since many, many years ago; but this is the very first time I post here, so despite that I've been running emulators and repairing old gaming consoles since many years ago, you can consider me a Newbie; especially at this Forum.

I have two simple Questions: I have two Atari 5200 consoles + Cartridges, but I can Not find a Great Emulator for Windows; could you point me on the right direction?

The 5200 was my First console and I want same game experience, for my Little Daughter, but I prefer to let her use an Emulator, instead of the 35 years old Hardware, you understand...

Second Question: I run the Dolphin Emulator with great success, on my PC, which I built six years ago; it has a Dual Core Quad intel processor @ 2.6 Ghz, 4 Gb of Ram and 1 Gb video card; you can see an example of my Emulation, on a Video I made, shared on my YouTube Channel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcC963W3ZkA

I've downloaded Two ROMS for the Dolphin Emulator, which are:
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1. Mario Kart - Double Dash!! (USA)
2. Super Mario Sunshine (USA)
Both came compressed in the 7z format, and I've tried many ways to uncompress them, but WinRar and 7z can't open them; so the Question is:

Should I download a especial software to Uncompress those ROMS?

Thank you for reading such a long introduction, for your time, and for allowing me to be a Part of this Great forum.

Greetings from Honduras, Kind Regards.
24th-June-2016, 01:12
deadlegion

Use the latest version of 7zip from the official site.
24th-June-2016, 04:09
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadlegion

Use the latest version of 7zip from the official site.

Already tried that, unsuccessfully.

Despite that the 7z roms were downloaded three times,

7z gives a message while trying to extract those ROMs:

"Cannot open the file as [7z] archive
unexpected end of data"
24th-June-2016, 04:17
Zaladane

Sounds like it's an incomplete download. Your connection may have dropped for a moment. Checking the filesize vs what it says on the download page could verify this.

Only thing you can really do is download again - maybe use a download manager like FDM which has a good resume functionality.

Edit: was it a main site download or a user upoad here on the forums?
24th-June-2016, 04:18
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

A couple of minutes ago, I tried to rename those 7z files, changing their extension from .7z to .iso, .rar, .zip, and .gcm, without avail. :(
24th-June-2016, 04:20
Zaladane

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loyale 2.7 Turbo

A couple of minutes ago, I tried to rename those 7z files, changing their extension from .7z to .iso, .rar, .zip, and .gcm, without avail. :(

Yeah that won't do anything.

Edit: can you post a screenshot of the files you got??
24th-June-2016, 04:26
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaladane

... Edit: was it a main site download or a user upoad here on the forums?

As far as I can remember, I downloaded the "Super Mario Sunshine" and "Mario Kart - Double Dash!!" from Emuparadise, some months ago, and I've been "toying" with a copy of them, trying to extract the compressed images; because my little Daughter wants those games since long ago...
24th-June-2016, 04:31
Zaladane

Definitely try downloading again and make sure you have the whole file/download is fully complete. Should be 964mb whilst zipped for example.

If this doesn't work maybe one of the staff can check the file itself as I'm on a mobile device and can't exactly do it at the moment.
24th-June-2016, 04:36
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaladane

... can you post a screenshot of the files you got??

Yes of Course, here you go:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...0Directory.jpg

You can see the other four ROMs (non-7z) working flawlessly, on my Video above.

My Windows 7 "Ultimate" is in Spanish, as I live in Honduras is my mother tongue,

I learned english only by myself; so sorry for my misspellings... Kind Regards.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaladane

Definitely try downloading again and make sure you have the whole file/download is fully complete...

Thank you for your kind advice.

I'll retry the Downloads for a fourth time this incoming Weekend; because the internet speed I have at home, Sucks; I'll travel to visit my parents at my Hometown, and try to download those files from their internet connection.

Kind Regards.
24th-June-2016, 04:43
Zaladane

Yeah see Mario Sunshine is shown at 416mb when it should be 964 so it wasn't quite halfway finished. That's all. You need to download again.

Edit: use a download manager to insure it can resume if there's a connection loss. Free Download Manager is a decent one as well as Jdownloader but make sure with jdownloader you use the offline installer. Trust me it's worth looking into/just google it.
24th-June-2016, 04:55
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaladane

Yeah see Mario Sunshine is shown at 416mb when it should be 964 so it wasn't quite halfway finished. That's all. You need to download again...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zaladane

... download again - maybe use a download manager like FDM which has a good resume functionality...

In the Past, long ago, I used a small program called "GetRight" as my Download Manager, but I've not used such a thing since the rise of Windows 7; and I am afraid to install a download manager, because many file hosting websites, such as DepositFiles, Mega, Freakshare, etc... simply doesn't allow the use of Download Managers.

However, I will read further about FDM, it means "Free Download Manager" isn't it?

Kind Regards.
24th-June-2016, 05:13
Zaladane

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loyale 2.7 Turbo

In the Past, long ago, I used a small program called "GetRight" as my Download Manager, but I've not used such a thing since the rise of Windows 7; and I am afraid to install a download manager, because many file hosting websites, such as DepositFiles, Mega, Freakshare, etc... simply doesn't allow the use of Download Managers.

However, I will read further about FDM, it means "Free Download Manager" isn't it?

Kind Regards.

Yup and it works with this site. I don't know if getright is still around but you've got the right idea ;)
24th-June-2016, 05:16
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Thank You,

I am already in the process of Downloading and installing FDM on my system;

I'll share here my experience using it, after some downloads are done.

Kind Regards.
24th-June-2016, 08:03
Zorlon

Yeah Free Download Manager should do the trick :)
13th-October-2016, 01:19
deadlegion

Thread unlocked on OP request.
13th-October-2016, 01:29
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Necessary Update!

Dear fellows,

I tried with download managers without avail, and also my 32 bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate, wasn't helping, because the newer Dolphin emulator (5) requires a 64 bit version of Windows to work; so, I decided to Format my six years old PC, and installed fresh Windows 7 at 64 bits... My PC is still the same that I stated above: Core 2 Quad @ 2.66 Mhz, 4 GB of Ram and a video card made by nVidia, the GTS-250; but somehow, the computer really, Really is working Faster, not only the response to software, but also it is quick to load movies, pictures and huge applications; the Dolphin 5 really is a Huge upgrade from what the older, 32 bit versions were.

So, back on Topic, you were right about the old .rar files I had, they were corrupted downloads, which I erased already; I downloaded them again, and the ISO extraction from the .rar compressed files, went smoothly, and the ISO images are working alright. Thanks for the Suggestion, and lighting my path.

The only problem I have, is with the emulation of the wiimote, I chose the right side stick for that, on my Genius controller; but it is not really smooth to emulate the movement, in fact, it is very hard to use it.

So, I need to know if there is another option to properly emulate the wiimote; My little daughter wants to play the Pirate Treasure Barbie game, and we barely could set the letters of her name on the title screen... Other games, however, are running good.

Thank you for bear with me with all this, I appreciate your feedback.

Kind Regards.
14th-October-2016, 08:11
Zorlon

Asides from using an actual WiiMote or buying a Wii (soft mod it, very easy to do) to save any emu issues at all :P, there are no real alts though for controls asides from buying a WiiMote, if you are talking about the aimed movement then hook that up to mouse instead of a Pad or Stick, but then it is finding comfort in using a mouse and joypad together, it can work for some but others just find that really awkward.
17th-October-2016, 02:59
Loyale 2.7 Turbo

Thank you for your kind answer.

What I am trying to emulate, is the movement of the user's Arm, holding the Controller; sorry, if I can not write its proper name, but I learned english only by my self. I thought it was Wiimote, but now I believe that it is the name of the whole wii controller.

I already tried with mouse emulation, and the arrow moved extremely Fast, to the point that a single milimeter of the Mouse's movement, equal to half Screen; so it was impossible to control the game as it should.

The USB "Genius" gamepad controller I have, has two sticks, I selected the one on the right for that user's movement and still is extremely fast, somehow.

I can not obtain a Wii now, maybe in the future, so I use my PC for gaming.

Any other way to emulate the user's arm movement, in a more accurate way? :qq:

Thanks for the ideas, Kind Regards.