Problems booting some SNES games

[duenez]

Hello everybody: (I am a newbie)

I have been using LJP for some month now and I must say I love it.

Currently I am having problems running some SNES Roms (in particular Super Mario RPG and Kirby Superstar). I have a Zire 72s with UDMH and 24 MB of free memory. The Roms are installed in a SD card so everything looks in place.

I can run many games (including Chrono Trigger, Kirby's Dream Course and Secret of Mana 2e), but when I try to run the problematic ones, they simply don't boot (i.e. the ROM loads but the screen never shows anything, it is all black).

I even tried to trick the emulator by saving stats with ZSNES in my PC and send the .zst and .srm files to the appropriate directory in the SD card. The good news is that I can load the states, the bad news is that the emulation freezes (in particular it does not recognize my key presses).

I am guessing there is something going on with the emulation, and probably some instructions (?) are crashing the program, because it works just fine with other ROMS.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Edgar

[JeremySmith]

You need to use the C CPU Core to play Super Mario RGP. I don't know about Kirby Superstar but I would venture to guess that it will work for that as well.

[Menchi]

Are you using udmh? if so, check that the version of, it should be '5', or you could have problems and if you're not using it, get it aas soon as possible!!! many roms need extra ram, althougt in z72 some doesnt (5mb dynamic ram)

Also try what JeremySmith said: 'c' core is more compatible, while, asm is faster.