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Author Topic: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?  (Read 2226 times)

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Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« on: October 04, 2005, 11:50:57 am »
I was playing with Johnny5 yesterday, and I discovered that if I used an executable other than mame.exe, my buttons would not get labelled. I would still see the game full name, joystick type, maybe the details (I can't remember) but no button labels.
I tried it with mamepp.exe (v0.92 if it matters) and my own build of buddamame 0.92 (which I called mameatxp.exe because it's optimized for Athlon XP)
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2005, 12:02:24 pm »
Did you change the name that Johnny5 is looking for by typing mameatxp.exe on the Options>Viewer form?
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2005, 12:04:47 pm »
I manually edited the .cfg file, is that what the menu option you're talking about does?
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2005, 12:06:13 pm »
Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 04, 2005, 12:04:47 pm
I manually edited the .cfg file, is that what the menu option you're talking about does?
Yep. . .
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am »
Mame's ini file needs to be in place for the viewer to work as well. Mameatxp.exe should have a Mameatxp.ini   What makes this more confusing is the fact that recently mame changed it's code so that it looks for both the default mame.ini and the exename.ini 

I haven't checked my code (j5 is dormant again)  but it's probablylooking for one and finding the other or vice versa or not finding either. 

Quite honestly, I don't really test for that since I always rename a build to mame.exe as I test at the command prompt and mameatxp is too much to type. :)
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2005, 10:44:59 am »
Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am
Quite honestly, I don't really test for that since I always rename a build to mame.exe as I test at the command prompt and mameatxp is too much to type. :)

That's what the up key is for  ;)


That's probably the problem, even though the exe is mameatxp.ini, the ini file is still mame.ini, because I can then use any build of mame with the same ini (the official mame jsut outputs a few warnings that some ofthe buddamame options are unknown)
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2005, 10:50:41 am »
Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 05, 2005, 10:44:59 am
That's what the up key is for  ;)
Zing!!! (Nice retort, although I'm sure Howard meant that he has to reopen the command prompt and retype).
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2005, 07:44:29 pm »
Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am
...   What makes this more confusing is the fact that recently mame changed it's code so that it looks for both the default mame.ini and the exename.ini  ...

Recently? ;)  Mame was reading both since version 0.61 (over three years ago). 
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Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2005, 11:16:03 pm »
Yeah, I know, but it all blurs together at this point.  For me anything over 37b15 is recently.  ;)
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