Control Configuration Reseting

[glowtmickey]

Yesterday, I got ZSNES. I didn't like the defult controls, so I changed them. Now every time I load ZSNES, the controls are back to the defult. I also get the one-time user reminder. Did I instal it wrong or something? My games work fine, but my settings wont say set.

[Agozer]

Make sure that you have full read/write access to the directory that ZSNES is in, i.e. the directory is not read only. ZSNES was unable to save the changes you made into the configuration file, hence the problems you have.

[glowtmickey]

Can somebody remind me how I would go about doing that?

[paulguy]

Well, in windows, you would right click the directory you have zsnes in and go to properties, and see if you have permission to write there. If there is a zsnesw.cfg, you should check the file, too.

[glowtmickey]

Every time I un-check read only and apply, it rechecks itself


Edit:

I moved the emulator program out of the folder I had it in, and it is no longer read only, but my settings still reset.

[paulguy]

Are you running it from a CD or a location outside of your User directory?

[Agozer]

Delete everything and extract the contents of the zip archive to a brand new directory, e.g. C:\Games\Zsnes. Don't just move files around. Does the problem persist? Do this for shits and giggles if for nothing else.

The problem of Windows not clearing the read-only bit is very well known, at least under Windows XP (probably others as well). One option to get around this is to remove the read-only attribute via the command line. IIRC, something along the lines of:

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attrib -rsh c:\games\zsnes /s /d

I would advise you to not do this to every single directory on your hard drive though.

[Gil_Hamilton]

The problem of Windows not clearing the read-only bit is very well known, at least under Windows XP (probably others as well). One option to get around this is to remove the read-only attribute via the command line.

If I recall, that goes back to 95.

MS never considered it an issue, because ZSNES is just about the only thing that respects the read-only bit.

[glowtmickey]

I'm still a bit confused. Can somebody let me know what I would put in if I keep zsnes under c:\mame in a folder called snes?

[Gil_Hamilton]

Why on Earth are you storing ZSNES in your MAME folder?

[glowtmickey]

I'm trying to keep my emulator stuff mostly in the same place. Can you please answer my question?

[odditude]

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attrib -rsh c:\mame\snes /s /d

please try the obvious before asking; that's why your question was ignored.

as for an explanation...

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C:\>attrib /?
Displays or changes file attributes.

ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A ] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [+I | -I]
       [drive:][path][filename] [/S [/D] [/L]]

  +   Sets an attribute.
  -   Clears an attribute.
  R   Read-only file attribute.
  A   Archive file attribute.
  S   System file attribute.
  H   Hidden file attribute.
  I   Not content indexed file attribute.
  [drive:][path][filename]
      Specifies a file or files for attrib to process.
  /S  Processes matching files in the current folder
      and all subfolders.
  /D  Processes folders as well.
  /L  Work on the attributes of the Symbolic Link versus
      the target of the Symbolic Link

[glowtmickey]

none of this is obvious to me as I have never needed to use cmd before.

When I try to use the code I was given, I get an error mesage stating
"Invalid Switch - -rsh"

I'm sorry if I seem like and idiot or something, but nothing I am trying is working

[Agozer]

When I try to use the code I was given, I get an error mesage stating
"Invalid Switch - -rsh"

Then use

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attrib -r -s -h c:\mame\snes /s /d

instead.