Windows XP - Problems?

[ashardin]

Hopefully somebody can help me here.

I'm setting up a new Mame machine for a friend, all of my mame experience has been in Windows 98, but I thought this would be the time to make the jump to XP for this.  I use XP extensively at work and on another home system but its causing problems for me.  I have a fresh install of Windows XP on the machine, and all drivers have been installed.

My plan was to use Mamewah and Mame .69.  I have Mamewah set up, but it does not run the games correctly.  Every one is square (so the aspect ratio is off) and the colors are really bad, they almost look like its in 16 color mode.

So I figured I would simply go into the mame cfg and look at the settings.  The problem is that there is no mame config created.  As a matter of fact, the only files that are there are from the original zip, none of the other files have been created.

Any ideas?

So I look at the folder properties, and the read-only box is filled (not checked, but darkened.  I can cycle through the box being empty, checked, and darkened).  I fould I could still edit files inside the folder though.

Any ideas, this is driving me batty.  I've used all of these apps before but only in 98, am I missing something really easy here?

[SirPeale]

MAME32 or command line?

if command line, you must create a config:

'mame -cc'

will do that for you.  Edit the .ini file as necessary.

[ashardin]

Command line.  Can I run mame32 under Mamewah? I might have better luck that way...

[pmc]

Command line.  Can I run mame32 under Mamewah? I might have better luck that way...

You can't run MAME32 under Mamewah. Not sure why you'd want to anyway. You've got the right software now.

[SirPeale]

You can't run MAME32 under Mamewah. Not sure why you'd want to anyway. You've got the right software now.

Why not?  It's the same as command line MAME, just with a built in front end.  You can launch a game from the command line just fine, and when you hit [ESC] it returns you to the command line.

[pmc]

You can't run MAME32 under Mamewah. Not sure why you'd want to anyway. You've got the right software now.

Why not?  It's the same as command line MAME, just with a built in front end.  You can launch a game from the command line just fine, and when you hit [ESC] it returns you to the command line.

Hmmmm.... I suppose you are right. The Mamewah site says it's not for use with MAME32 and I guess I just took that for granted. I guess it's easy enough to find out how well it works by just trying it.