MameWah has wrong colors.

[skorpi0wn]

This is probably and easy fix, but here it goes...

I'm working on setting up MAME with MAMEWAH.  Everything with MAME seems configured correctly.  When I run mame from the command line, it runs fine.  (Ex: mame ssf2ce).

Now, if I run that same rom from within MAMEWAH, the game runs 50x slower and the colors are messed up.

What's going on here?

Thanks in advance.

[KHAN]

mameWAH is such a nice frontend,having many qualities...
As u say u have configure all.Also check mame in dos mode..

First check mame.cfg or delete it...
mameWAH is not responsible to play a game fast or slow...
all depends upon  configuration settings and  hardware...
Every one knows that games can be play more accurately or
succesfully by using a frontend...
                            It is true that the color effects in mameWAH and in some other frontends are un expected...
because of  no directx support in frontends,due to make a
faster perfomence...
                        just wait for some next releses it will be compatible all great video features....

[Minwah]

I think you just need to make a mame.ini file (if you haven't already), and make sure you have this in there:

switchres               1
switchbpp               1

In addition to that, try setting actual resolution(s), rather than using mame's auto resolution function, eg:

resolution 640x480

MAMEWAH (or generally speaking any FE) are not responsible for anything unusual like this happening, but sometimes it appears that way depending how things are configured.

One other thing to check is that you have suitable/latest video drivers - I believe 2 users have contacted me with a similar problem before and this turned out ot be the culprit.  Try the above first tho...

[skorpi0wn]

I updated the video drivers and it seemed to take care of the color problem.  All the other changes were the same.

Now what about this slow down thing when running Mamewah, but there is no problem when loading games using the command line.

[Minwah]

Now what about this slow down thing when running Mamewah, but there is no problem when loading games using the command line.

MAME is probably using different resolutions when being run from MAMEWAH than commandline.  As I said make a mame.ini and explicitly set up MAME, so it runs the same from commandline or FE.

[skorpi0wn]

Minwah

I've had the mame.ini file setup since the beginning.  I removed the auto next to resolution and put in 640x480.  I still have the same problem.

I was playing around with some of the games and I discovered that I'm really only having a problem with the Street Fighter Series and Mortal Kombat 3.  MK 1 and 2 run flawlessly.

Of course, when I start any of the Street Fighters or MK3 from the command line, they run fine.  When run through MameWah, they are very slow and choppy.  Active X being used with MameWah wouldn't have anything to do with the slowdown or choppiness, would it?

Anywho, my current setup is a 1Ghz P3, 256 Ram, Windows XP.

Maybe you could post your mame.ini file so I could see what settings I may be missing?  (If yours isn't too much different from the default created that is).

Thanks much!

EDIT: I just tried with Mame32 and the Street Fighter series works great with it's default settings...

EDIT: I checked out the debug.log.  The command being run is: c:\emulate\mame\mame.exe sf2   If I run this from the command line, everything runs fine.

[Minwah]

That's pretty wierd.  MAMEWAH effectively stops running when it launches the emulator, so there should be very little overhead there.

I wonder if your mame.ini is being read/used?  Try putting something obvious in there, like turn hwstretch on or off (make sure you can tell the difference) and then try it from MAMEWAH.

I can't think of anything else to try atm...