Issue with setting up an NES emulator (has me bewildered.)

[Astraltar]

Yes, last night I decided to set up an NES emulator on my computer (for the first time with this PC) but I kept encountering the same problem. I'd click the "save" button to download but when I went into my "downloads" folder the file type of the NES Emulator shows up as "SNES9X ROM". It doesn't acknowledge it as its own kind of file. I tried launching the software anyway, but of course it didn't work. I suspect it may have something to do with the fact that, a while ago, when I was setting up my SNES emulator, I had an issue with this error message that baffled me...until I went to the SNES9X forums for help and some guy gave me a link to a download that fixed the problem. But i'm worried that same supplemental download my be what's making all my NES emulator and NES rom downloads show up as an "SNES9X ROM" file type. BTW I also tried to download Game Boy Advance Emulators and they had the same problem.

Does anyone on this forum know what I can do?

Please reply to this post AND PM me if you can help.

[skullpoker]

If your .zip files look like SNES9X files, you can fix that. Right click on a .zip file and find Open With > Choose default program...

This opens a window. Click on 7-zip,WinRAR, or Windows File Manager. Make sure the box at the bottom is checked "Always use the selected program to open this type of file" and then click OK.

This is why I extract all my ROMs from the .zip and then set them to their appropriate emulator.

[Astraltar]

Okay...I was able to find a solution. It didn't go exactly as you instructed, but I finally got a JNES program running...and Visual Boy Advance. Thanks.

[skullpoker]

Common answer to that kind of problem. Glad you were able to figure it out from there.