After watching countless Let's Play videos of guys playing emulated games, and eventually realising that the risk attached is quite small, I recently decided to download an emulator. I went for ZSnes, and it's sitting on my desktop working perfectly. The problem is that I'm clueless when it come to ROMS. I have both WinRar and 7zip. I'm pretty much a novice when it comes to everything computers, but I'll try and go through the step-by-step process that I'm using, and perhaps someone can tell me if I'm doing something wrong (which I definitely am)?
1. I download the ROM. I'm on Vista, and a box pops up saying "What should Firefox do with this file"- I choose "Open with- WinRAR.ZIP (default)"
2. The evaluation version of WinRAR pops up, with a window asking me to register. I assume this costs money? (Also, do you have to pay for a programme to unzip your files? I know 7zip is free but you can't use 7zip to open ROMS that are in a RAR format... can you?)
I close the window.
3. The ROM can be seen in the WinRAR programme, in this case Final Fantasy VI.
If I double left-click the ROM, an error message pops up saying:
Can not open file:
'C:\Users\John\AppData\Label\Temp\Rar$DI15.851\Final Fantasy III (U)
(V1.0) [T+Ita].smc' as archive'
If I right-click the ROM I get loads of options, (Add files to archive; Extract files to the specified folder; Test archive files etc), but I never manage to find a way to get the ROM playable on the emulator.
I know that I've just posted a load of newbie tosh, but I really have been at this now for a good while without being able to make headway. The really frustrating thing is that I somehow managed to get Final Fantasy V working on the emulator, and I have absolutely no idea how I did it. I need some help, folks! Thanks.
1. I download the ROM. I'm on Vista, and a box pops up saying "What should Firefox do with this file"- I choose "Open with- WinRAR.ZIP (default)"
2. The evaluation version of WinRAR pops up, with a window asking me to register. I assume this costs money? (Also, do you have to pay for a programme to unzip your files? I know 7zip is free but you can't use 7zip to open ROMS that are in a RAR format... can you?)
I close the window.
3. The ROM can be seen in the WinRAR programme, in this case Final Fantasy VI.
If I double left-click the ROM, an error message pops up saying:
Can not open file:
'C:\Users\John\AppData\Label\Temp\Rar$DI15.851\Final Fantasy III (U)
(V1.0) [T+Ita].smc' as archive'
If I right-click the ROM I get loads of options, (Add files to archive; Extract files to the specified folder; Test archive files etc), but I never manage to find a way to get the ROM playable on the emulator.
I know that I've just posted a load of newbie tosh, but I really have been at this now for a good while without being able to make headway. The really frustrating thing is that I somehow managed to get Final Fantasy V working on the emulator, and I have absolutely no idea how I did it. I need some help, folks! Thanks.