Question about older Mame ini files

[Thurman]

I'm running Mame v0.55 and I haven't found any way to set up an ini folder to store game-specific ini files.  If I put the game-specific ini files in the root directory, it finds them just fine.  But I haven't found anywhere in the mame.ini to set these in an ini folder.  Maybe this wasn't a feature back then?  I'll post my mame55.ini file at the bottom of this message.

Also, how do I get Mamewah to recognize these game-specific ini files?  They run just fine when I launch from the command line but not when I launch from Mamewah.  I'm assuming that there's a setting in the emu-name.ini file that I'm missing?



### mame55.ini ###

### Frontend Related ###
clones                  1

### Windows path and directory options ###
rompath                 roms
samplepath              samples
cfg_directory           cfg
nvram_directory         nvram
memcard_directory       memcard
input_directory         inp
hiscore_directory       hi
state_directory         sta
artwork_directory       artwork
snapshot_directory      snap
cheat_file              cheat.dat
history_file            history.dat
mameinfo_file           mameinfo.dat

### Windows video options ###
autoframeskip           0
frameskip               0
waitvsync               0
triplebuffer            0
window                  0
ddraw                   1
hwstretch               1
resolution              auto
refresh                 0
scanlines               0
switchres               1
switchbpp               1
maximize                1
keepaspect              1
matchrefresh            0
syncrefresh             0
dirty                   1
throttle                1
full_screen_brightness   0.000000
frames_to_run           0
effect                  none
screen_aspect           4:3

### Input device options ###
hotrod                  0
hotrodse                0
mouse                   0
joystick                0
steadykey               0

### Mame CORE video options ###
bpp                     0
norotate                0
ror                     0
rol                     0
flipx                   0
flipy                   0
debug_resolution        auto
gamma                   1.000000

### Mame CORE vector game options ###
antialias               1
translucency            1
beam                    1.000000
flicker                 0.000000

### Mame CORE sound options ###
samplerate              44100
samples                 1
resamplefilter          1
sound                   1
volume                  0

### Mame CORE misc options ###
artwork                 1
cheat                   0
debug                   0
# playback              <NULL> (not set)
# record                <NULL> (not set)
log                     0

### Configuration options ###
readconfig              1
verbose                 0

[Thurman]

I've been searching all over the place and still no answers.  Can you put game-specific ini files in their own folder in older versions of Mame?  And how do you get Mamewah to recognize these game-specific ini files?  Thanks for any help that anyone can offer on this!

[SirPoonga]

There are two types of ini files so to speak.

There are the ones you put in the root directory.  They contain any options you can put in the mame.ini file.  This allows you to setup mame specificalyl for that game.  Say you want pacman always rotated.  You could put ror 1 in a pacman.ini file.

there there are/were controler and cgf ini files.  The cfg file is created by mame in the cfg folder.  The ctrlr file you create using ini file format so you can spefic key mappings for specific games.

Are you launching mamewah from a different folder than your mame folder?  You will have to ask minwah about that.  It sounds like the executable isn't being run from it's root directory.  If you have mamewah and mamewah is running mame while mamewah's directory is the active directory, mame will look there for the ini files.  I thought mamewah addressed this long ago.  So it could be something else.

[Thurman]

There are the ones you put in the root directory.

[u_rebelscum]

There are the ones you put in the root directory.

I thought that in the newer versions of mame, you could actually save your game-specific ini files (like pacman.ini) into a separate ini folder.

Yes, at some point mame added the -inipath option, which allows the game specific ini's be in a different path.  I searched the mame.net whatsnew page, however, and didn't find anything on when it was added.  All I know is 0.55 doesn't have it, but 0.70 does; I don't have the versions in between set up to test.

[Thurman]

I finally found the solution to Mamewah launching with game-specific ini files so I figured I would post the info just in case someone else runs into this problem....

Basically Mamewah doesn't recognized ini files, but can recognize cfg files.  So set the "game_specific_config_path" to the folder that you'll be saving these config files.  These config files will contain the entire commandline that you want to use for that specific game (not just Sound 0 like it's stored in an ini file).  And the name of the file must be (name).cfg (example ghouls.cfg).  Not ghouls.ini or anything else.  With the documentation for Mamewah being a little light, and the game_specific_config_path being a new feature, it took quite a few tries to get this right.  Just figured I would pass it along for anyone else in need.