Newbie Mamewah Questions

[jcroach]

Hey.  Newbie here.  I just installed MameWah yesturday.  I think I'm going to like it!  A couple of questions for you all.

Where do I put the command line commands to tweak my emulators? These would be the "-noart" or whatever used to specify the look and feel of the emulator.  Do I put these in the emulator.ini file? Where in the file?  Or do they go somehwere else?

Also, how to I rename my roms and attach attributes to them?  With mame, mamewah pulls of the actual game anme, the year manufactured, the type of controls, etc.  How can I do this for my Atari or Nintendo or Sega roms? 

What emulators do you all use with MameWah? So far I've been able to get z26 and fusion to work for Atari 2600 and Sega games respectively.  How about SNES and NES game, any emulator suggestions?

Finally, I'll eventually be using my new I-PAC VE with MameWah. Can I create multiple I-PAC codesets for different emulators? Where shold these be saved and how should they be named?  Will MameWah automatically reprogram the I-PAC VE based on these code sets when a certain emulator is loaded?

Thanks in advance!

[GGKoul]

This may help you out

http://www.screenshotarchive.com/mwtutorial.htm

[jcroach]

Thanks.  I had seen that earlier today.  It helped me out some.  I still can't find the location for the emulator specific command line switches......... 

Anyone else out there that can give me some advice?

[jcrouse]

I believe that is an old tutorial, possibly for ver. .97.

John

[jcroach]

I believe that is an old tutorial, possibly for ver. .97.

John

Thanks John.  I believe you just answered some of my questions over at the MameWah forum.  I'll work with your advice tonight.  I might have more questions tomorrow. 

Would you mind if I sent you a PM or would you rather keep it on the board for other people's benefit?

[jcroach]

Thanks again for the help. I messed with MameWah last night. Everything seems to be working with the emulators.

I am still trying to find a way to display the correct names for my console games. I might have to learn to create my own dat file. Can anyone give me some pointers on this?

Also, I loaded up the WinPAC IPD software yesturday. How do I get MameWah to automatically reprogram the I-PAC VE based on these code sets when a certain emulator is loaded? Do I just put the codeset file name and location into the .ini for the emulator in the "ipc_file_or_path" location?

[jcrouse]

I am still trying to find a way to display the correct names for my console games. I might have to learn to create my own dat file. Can anyone give me some pointers on this?

Well, this is the best that's natively possible with MameWAH. Lets take Atari 2600 for an example and say that you have an INI file named atari2600.ini. The settings for your main game list will be stored in a file named atari2600-0.ini. If you want to create custom lists you need to manually create a file named atari2600-1.ini in the ./MameWAH/INI folder. The file can be empty, MameWAH will populate it automatically. Now go into MameWAH, press "2", arrow down to "Select Game List" and press "1". This will select your file that you manually created. Now generate the list. You will notice it has removed all the symbols off of the end of the rom name. You can now open the atari2600-1.ini file in a text editor and edit the name of the game list (about the third line). Also you'll notice the "display_clone_info" line is set to "0" (no). This is what hides the junk.

There is a tutorial for this on the downloads page at my website, http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer .

Enjoy,
John