WahCade filters (under GroovyArcade)

[cvpeck]

Hello all,

I'm having trouble setting up WahCade under GroovyArcade.

When running the WahCade setup and trying to create the initial filter list, no roms are listed. The select boxes on the filter list do not appear to function in any way. This means I always end up with an empty rom list.

Can anybody assist at all?

Cheers,
Chris.

[cvpeck]

Now it looks like I have a corrupted mame-0.ftr file. Does anybody know how to recreate it?

[bitbytebit]

I never could get Wahcade to rescan my roms when they changed without completely removing the .wahcade directory it creates and starting over.  That was one thing I couldn't figure out, but I'm guessing there's some bugs in that part of it.  Best to start fresh each time I guess, and when redoing filters like that, same thing too.  So just try to run `rm -rf .wahcade` or safer to run `mv .wahcade old_wahcade` and see what happens when running setup after that.

[migraineman]

I'm running WahCade under FC15, and it's working nicely now that I have dumped Gnome3 in favor of Xfce. 

Recommendation: Run wahcade-setup from a terminal window instead of from the pull-down menu.  You can see the error messages when it craps out.

I had problems with mameinfo.xml and mame-0.ftr.  I resolved the problems by changing the List Generation Method in Emulators/List_Generation from XML to "ROM Directory".  Then I generated the mameinfo.xml file using the circular-arrow button on the MAME_Only page.  Once that was done, I would get the mame-0.ftr error when I pressed the Setup Filters button on the MAME Only page.  This was cleared by changing the List Generation Method back to XML, then running the Setup Filters function. 

Took me a while to figure this out, but I've done it successfully on two different machines now.