Zelda Classic FAQS (Noobs Click In)

Out of pure curiosity, did anyone ask/answer my question before I asked it?

This may be a really dumb question, but I can't get the game to stop the intro loop. It just goes from a title screen to the storyline, to showing all the items. Then it does it again. I can't actually play anything. What do I do?

xavea wrote:This may be a really dumb question, but I can't get the game to stop the intro loop. It just goes from a title screen to the storyline, to showing all the items. Then it does it again. I can't actually play anything. What do I do?

Britannianhero4 wrote:... ... o...kay, ... ... *lol* ... Wow, this is a rare dilemma. XD

Have you tried pressing enter? 😛

If that doesn't work, hit Escape, and configure the keys so you know what to press to press the "Enter" button, or "Start." Whatever it is. Hitting that should get you to the Quest Selection screen.

Okay, maybe I should have used specifics in my post. I tried pressing enter, configuring the keys, I tried every feature in the escape menus, and I tried it in fullscreen and two different sized windows. I still can't get it off the intro loop. I realized I may have sounded so from my very vague post, but I'm not and idiot and I did try various things to make it work. It doesn't. I could have been more specific, but you didn't have to be rude and sarcastic. If anyone could help without simply telling me to push enter and reconfigure the key buttons, it would be appreciated.

Have you tried uninstalling it and re-installing? If soand it didn't work, try downloading an older version of ZC and see if you have the same problem.

BTW, what Windows are you running?

Hey there. Could be this issue has been spoken about somewhere else. If that is so, I overlooked it 😊 .
My problem is as following I'm using Win XP SP2 and with most custom quests I download and try to play it seems my controls wont work. I tried reconfiguring the controls, resetting the game, installing an older version(which btw didn't run) and uninstall and reinstalling it. Nothing seemed to work.
For instance: when I start "a link to the past" all I get is Link in the mainscreen with the background music. I can press left, right, up down A,B or whatevenr key. Nothing seems to make old link move. I only have 2 options then: 1. start dancing to the background music or 2. reset the game and try starting another.

if anyone has some ideas, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks already Warpath

delete the games config files it seems you touched the settings for the gamepad/joypad dont touch them and dont use a joypad.


however, if you do, dont set the controls to nothing, or else you will need to delete the config files again and adjust the controls yet again.

its a known issue and setting it to nothing prevents you from changing it without deleting your config files.

i personaly recomend not to touch the gamepad/joypad settings and leave em be.

the gamepad/joypad controls (if you havnt noticed) also afect the keyboard controls when set to nothing.

Try running the quests in the ZC player they were designed in. For instance, 'A link to the past' was created with 1.92, so use ZC 1.92 to play it.

[quote="Gerudo"]ZC Fullscreen -> "C:\Program Files\ZC2.10\zelda-w.exe" -res 320 240 -fullscreen
ZC Windowed Large -> "C:\Program Files\ZC2.10\zelda-w.exe" -res 512 448 big -windowed
ZC Windowed Small - > "C:\Program Files\ZC2.10\zelda-w.exe" -res 320 240 -windowed

i did not list ZQ since it was not mentioned... [/quote]

What about my question about tiles?

I have 2.10 and for some of those test files, the link sprites are all messed up.

That's a bug that happens in the version 2.10, this bug has been eliminated in the version 2.11.

Hello, I'm new here(I've browsed a bit through the forum, though). Zero knowledge on Nintendo consoles.

BIG QUESTION:
I'm playing the default quest in ZC. How do I save my game? How can I exit the Zelda Classic software without losing my progress through the game?

Stupid question for some of you, but newcomers need some basic info also - not just how to do layers&tiles&16colors palettes in the quest editor.

Thanks.

F6. Say yes to "do you want to quit" then select "save" on the next screen. Note that you don't start in the same room as you saved, you start where you entered the dmap (dungeon etc.) if set, otherwise back at the start point - but you do still have your items and triforce pieces.

Q: Ive been pressing every button on my keyboard but i cant figure out how to attack with my fricken sword

Try reassigning the buttons - hit Esc, then go to the controls menu, and then click on a button. Then hit the button you would normally want to hit with and it will be entered. Standard settings = Ctrl - B / Alt - A / z - L / x - R / Space - Select / Enter - Start.
These are my settings: z - A / x - B / a - L / s - R / Space - Select / Enter - Start.
If any of that still does not work, then I dunno what's wrong.

Does anyone know how to make 1.92 183 beta run full screen? I can't figure it out, but I'm trying to play a few quests that only run on this version. Unfortunately, the screen is so friggin' small that it's no fun.

Any advice would be appreciated ...

You would just right click on the shortcut and just type in -fullscreen it should fix it with no problems

Seanbox344 wrote:You would just right click on the shortcut and just type in -fullscreen it should fix it with no problems

God bless you you saintly angle you! That worked. You wouldn't believe how many times I've asked this question and no one's been able to explain it like that. Thanks again! 😊 I'm off to play 😉

I've tried to use both 2.10 and 1.92, but I can't get either of them to work. With both formats I get an error saying that it can't load my quest, and then when I hit "Alt" twice to get to the dialog box that lets you select a quest, it says it can't read the files!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Silversiren

I have made an edit in the faqs to point where you can get the newest beta for zc.

I don't hear any. I play games mostly to hear the music. Why can't I hear it? I tried every option in the sound menu.

Everythign on my end seems to work just fine...so I'm not sure why I can hear sfx, but no bgm...

You have NO IDEA how pissed off I am right now, it took me well over an hour to figure out how to get this program to be seen properly. (I'm intelligent & LOOK around for the answers) I can't find anything about not hearing bgm on the forums so far...

I'll keep looking.

Uriel wrote:I don't hear any. I play games mostly to hear the music. Why can't I hear it? I tried every option in the sound menu.

Everythign on my end seems to work just fine...so I'm not sure why I can hear sfx, but no bgm...

You have NO IDEA how pissed off I am right now, it took me well over an hour to figure out how to get this program to be seen properly. (I'm intelligent & LOOK around for the answers) I can't find anything about not hearing bgm on the forums so far...

I'll keep looking.

Uriel wrote:I don't hear any. I play games mostly to hear the music. Why can't I hear it? I tried every option in the sound menu.

Everythign on my end seems to work just fine...so I'm not sure why I can hear sfx, but no bgm...

You have NO IDEA how pissed off I am right now, it took me well over an hour to figure out how to get this program to be seen properly. (I'm intelligent & LOOK around for the answers) I can't find anything about not hearing bgm on the forums so far...

I'll keep looking.

Have you checked to make sure your 'SW Synth' or 'Midi' volume control is enabled on your PC?

Uriel wrote:I don't hear any. I play games mostly to hear the music. Why can't I hear it? I tried every option in the sound menu.

Everythign on my end seems to work just fine...so I'm not sure why I can hear sfx, but no bgm...

You have NO IDEA how pissed off I am right now, it took me well over an hour to figure out how to get this program to be seen properly. (I'm intelligent & LOOK around for the answers) I can't find anything about not hearing bgm on the forums so far...

I'll keep looking.

Open Agsetup.exe in ZC directory.

For some reason, some packages don't contain AGsetup. If you can't find it, chances are you're running the windows version... so just run ZQ, and go to the ect menu, and click "lost woods"
I was told to do this a while ago - Always works. At least for me.

AGsetup is no longer needed. With him not hearing music. It's probably his soundcard doesn't support midi.

I've downloaded 2.10, installed it and tried to run it a few times now. Everytime I open the thing pick a file and run it, my character heads directly up until it hits the wall, then it runs left until getting caught into a corner.
I've tried reconfiguring it's controls, which seem to have no effect. I also tried different quests for it to see if the quest I were running were defective.
Is this a 2.10 glitch? Did I just get a defective download? Anyone know anthing about this?

Are you using a Joystick? O.o' If you're using a keyboard, this definitely shouldn't happen. Uncontrollability (Or ghost controls, like this.) Usually happen when a joystick is already in a default position, but is kinda out of it when you start the game. It's like holding in a Console controller in a direction when you start the game, so it thinks it's the default position. Its default position and your default position are two different things for the moment, but you think it's one and the same because you forgot that it started in a different position.

Switch back to the keyboard. 😛

Sad part is that I am using a keyboard. I'm familiar with the joystick issues with callibration and such at start-up. But even beyond that I don't think it's an issue with keyboards, let alone that I'm not continually holding down up and then left. >.<
It's completely unresponsive to anything I seem to be trying. My keys aren't performing that way out of the program either, so hardware doesn't seem to be the issue.
I'm not sure what I should be getting in the menu, but I can only scroll the inverse. Down or right, but both are responsive. My buttons seem to be responsive otherwise, map and menu, can't exactly to anything to test A & B.
Oh. I also tried to delete the config file to see if it were somehow attributing my controls to joystick by some error of mine. This didn't work. >.>
Tried using the newer 2.11 and that one is giving me the same problem.

Can anyone suggest how to fix this? I can't be the only one to have stumbled on this problem. >.> I can't be that terribly unique. (Also an excuse to edit this post to remove an error I had already corrected.)