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Trouble with new MAMEwah 0.97 AND Butler's new MAMEwah setup
Dave Butler:
I think I may have found the problem :o
The problem appears to be the Fonts that the layout uses. For example the 'Cabinet with Help Screen by Gndprx / SteveH' has two fonts that are in the zip file.
If you run MAMEWah Setup with this layout and the Font is not found in the fonts directory it will default to the 'Arial' font, however if you run MAMEWah with the layout you get '380 invalid property value' because it can not find the font in the Fonts directory.
To test this theory put 'coah.ttf' and 'coahb.ttf' in your fonts directory and try running MAMEWah. Hopefully it should work ;D
Minwah:
--- Quote from: Dave Butler on June 06, 2004, 11:48:07 am ---I think I may have found the problem :o
The problem appears to be the Fonts that the layout uses. For example the 'Cabinet with Help Screen by Gndprx / SteveH' has two fonts that are in the zip file.
If you run MAMEWah Setup with this layout and the Font is not found in the fonts directory it will default to the 'Arial' font, however if you run MAMEWah with the layout you get '380 invalid property value' because it can not find the font in the Fonts directory.
To test this theory put 'coah.ttf' and 'coahb.ttf' in your fonts directory and try running MAMEWah. Hopefully it should work ;D
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That is true, I intend to add some checking while the layout is read in future, and create a log or something to highlight the problem...
Aceldamor:
I'm getting an interesting situation myself.
When I try to tell Mamewah Setup where my .dat file is so I can create a gamelist, I can't manually type in the location, so I use the explorer option, set the .dat file location and click ok. Once I do this, the box shows the locaion of my mame.exe not the locaion of my .dat file. I try to correct this but it never accepts the location of my .dat file and I cannot create any list but the rom folder only list...which is not a very good list to try to find games from :P
Any insight on why this would be happening?
Dave Butler:
Congratulations you have found a bug :-[
Allthough MAMEWah setup should let you set the MAME.DAT file (when it works) it will not create a gamelist from a DAT file.
Because I would not know where to start to actually read a DAT file never mind create a list from one.
You should be able to use 'Rom Folder Vs List Info' to create a list and I think if you select 'Rom Folder only' it will put the correct names of the games in but not the info. ???
I will look into the nameing bug and try to get it going again. But as for creating a list with a DAT file that may be some time..........................
Aceldamor:
Thanks for clarifying Dave, it was driving me batty! ;D I'll try giving the list Info option a try, because the rom folder only option creates the list with exactly the names of the roms....which for mame at least isn't the best game list to scroll through to pick a game from ;D