This is the screen
that you will see when you first load Calice...
Although Calice is
fairly new to the emulation scene there are alot of settings you can
change. Here is a summary...
Game Menu
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Load
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All you have
to do is to highlight the game you want and press load. You need to
be careful as at the moment because Calice won't filter out any
missing games from the list. The check boxes allow you to hide /
show the different systems supported.
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Start Netplay
| Lets you play you
games against opponents on the net.
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Dipswitches
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To use this
screen highlight the option you want to change in the left column
and then pick the setting you want from the right column. Press
close to continue or press default if you want to use the default
settings.
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Setup Directories
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This screen
lets you set up the default directories used by Calice. This can be
useful if you share the roms directory from a different emulator.
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Cheats
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You need to
open a game first but then you can access Nebula format cheats for
the game. You'll see a screen like this...

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Exit
| Exit from Calice
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CPU Menu
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Pause
| Pauses Calice
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Reset
| Reset the currently
loaded game
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Load State
| Load a saved game
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Save State
| Save your current games
position
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CPU Speedup
| Speeds up the simulated
CPU for the loaded game.
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Debugger
| Opens the debugging
screen which allows developers to monitor whats going on in
games. |
Controller Menu
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All you need to do is to select the controller type from the
top of the menu and select configure if you want to change it's
settings.
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Direct Input 3.0 Keyboard
| Use this if you are using
Direct X below version 7.0
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Direct Input 7.0 Joystick
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To configure
this screen press a button and then press a joystick key. You can
test your settings at the bottom of the window. Press exit &
save when you've finished.
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Direct Input 7.0 Keyboard
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To configure
this click in a box, press a key and when you're done press OK.
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Direct Input 7.0 Unified
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This Option lets you use a mixture of keyboard and joystick
controllers.
Pressing device will let you select which controller you want
to use and when your happy with your selection you can configure it
by pressing configure.
Selecting a joystick device will bring up this
window...

Just click a button and press the joystick button you want to
use.
A
keyboard Controller will bring up this screen...

Just click a button and press the key you want to use.
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Video Menu
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Windowed Mode
| Sets the type of zoom or
rotation used to display Calice in a window.
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Fullscreen Mode
| Sets the resolution of
the screen used in fullscreen mode.
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Frameskip
| Frameskip sets whether
you want Calice to skip frames of games to speed up gameplay. If you
find your games are going far too fast you can select Sync to 60hz
which makes sure that the game runs at the speed it was supposed to.
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Layers
| Turns on or off the
different layers of graphics. Very useful for grabbing screen
images. |
Sound Menu
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Configure
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Feature
| Lets you pick how the sound is handled through you
sound card. The stereo / mono options are simple enough and
the 2D / 3D options should be enabled depending on whether you
have a multi speaker system.
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Sample Rate
| This option determines the quality of sound produced.
The higher the number, the better the sound.
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Channel Type
| This part determines the sound system that Calice uses
to decode the sound in the games. QSound is the original sound
type used by Capcom. Software uses Calices own sound decoder.
Streaming directly uses the hardware on your soundcard.
Directsound uses Windows DirectX to play the sound. (Qsound is
the best!)
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Pitch
Shift Calculation
| This option is purely to make the sound better by using
different method to smooth the waveform being produced.
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Sound
Enable
| Enable the different sound systems used by Calice.
YM2151 is the main music chip. ADPCM is the sound timer used
(I Think!). QSound is Capcoms own sound system.
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Pre
Amp
| Boost the volume output.
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QSound Player
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According to
David (the author) all you need to do is click change, select a game
and use next to select the music track you want to hear.
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Settings Menu
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Thread Priority
| Determines how much CPU
time is used up by Calice. Only useful if you run more than one
program at a time.
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Language
| Sets the language Calice
is displayed in. |
NEO-GEO Menu
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Territory
| Sets which language will
be displayed on NEO-GEO games.
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Machine Type
| Sets whether Calice
emulates the arcade NEO-GEO or the home version.
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Memory Card
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Allows you to
manage memory cards which the NEO-GEO saves its games on
to.
The Call
Manager opens the games internal Memory Card manager which looks
like this...

The rest of the options are fairly self
explanitary. |
Finally below you
can see the information stored in the calice.ini file. To open this file
you need to open the C:\Calice directory and find a file called calice
with an icon that looks like a textpad with a yellow stamp on it. Double
click on it and it will open.
Romdir Logdir Drvdir Epmdir Stadir
Frameskip VerifyRoms debugMode continueMode demoSounds videoFlip freezeScreen freePlay fastPc firstTimeRun threadPriority rasterEffects Language controllerDll videoDll vsync ym2151Enabled qsoundEnabled adpcmEnabled QMixer QFeature DisplayCps1 DisplayCps2 DisplayZn1 DisplayZn2 DisplayNeogeo DisplaySystem16
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"
.\roms\" " .\log\" " .\drv\" " .\epm\" "
.\states\"
0 yes no no yes no no no yes no highest yes 0 ".\plugins\controllers\titojoy.dll" ".\plugins\video\wzoom2x.dll" yes yes yes no QSoundSW 2D yes yes yes yes yes yes
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There are settings
that aren't in the GUI. Here they are...
Verifyroms - This
enable/disables whether Calice checks the CRC's of roms when they load.
continuemode /
demosounds / freeplay- will set these dipswitches by default when a game
loads.
videoFlip - Can
smooth out graphics
fastPC - If you've
got a fast PC (like me) then set this option to yes as it will slow Calice
to the correct speed.
rastereffects -
enable some effects that Capcom game use when drawing graphics (e.g. the
3D floor in the streetfighter series)
vsync - should stop
graphics "tearing" in full screen mode.
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