Mamewah problem with Mame .100 update

[JCKnife]

Hey guys, I recently updated from an older Mame (.94?) to .100 and I'm having these 2 problems. I've tried a few things to figure this out but I'm not getting anywhere.

1. In Mamewah 1.61, I can't generate my main games list with ALL available games. Which listgen method should I be using to generate a list of all games? Whatever was the default worked with my older version but not the new one.

2. In Mame, in the Tab menu, I no longer see a Game History option. I have history.dat in my Mame folder.

Any help with these two issues appreciated.

I mainly upgraded for the Robotron issue and I love the new version!

Thanks.

*title edited after history Q answered

[SirPeale]

2. In Mame, in the Tab menu, I no longer see a Game History option. I have history.dat in my Mame folder.

Support was removed from Mame because so many front ends support the history.dat function.

[mahuti]

And according to Haze... history.dat (among other things) SHOULD be removed from mame because it doesn't necessarily aid in the preservation function of mame.

[JCKnife]

Dang, that's too bad--I always liked the History. I think it aided preservation tremendously.

Does Mamewah 1.61 support it? I'll have to look that up.

Any ideas on my listgen problem?

[JCKnife]

I was able to generate a list using rom_folder_vs_listxml but the list is only showing 3166 games.

I have a full rom set

A CMP scan shows something like 5788 games.

What am I doing wrong?

[jcrouse]

rom_folder_vs_listxml is the method you should be using. It sounds like an issue with clones, although I'm not sure what the problem is. You are not inside a custom list, are you?

John

[JCKnife]

Yeah, I realize now this is a clone issue. Yes, I'm definitely on the main list, and I DO want to show clones but they're not showing up.

I'm using merged sets. Is that the reason?

Off to try "search" again...

[JCKnife]

Okay, this is a little embarassing but I found my answer in one of my old posts in this thread:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=14382.0

However, the solution no longer works. I set my list gen method to "verifysets_vs_listxml" but this generates an empty list.

Since my version of Mamewah did not change, I'm assuming Mame .100 no longer supports this list generation method.

So now what?

[Minwah]

Since my version of Mamewah did not change, I'm assuming Mame .100 no longer supports this list generation method.

That's right...they removed -verifysets...so basically you are stuck.  The only solution is to un-merge your sets using ClrMAME...

[JCKnife]

But...I can run mame with -verifysets in a dos window and it works...

Also I have a list of all games (including clones) generated as a "have list" text file from clrMame. Is there any way to use that text file as a games list?

[jcrouse]

Also I have a list of all games (including clones) generated as a "have list" text file from clrMame. Is there any way to use that text file as a games list?

No.

John

[Minwah]

But...I can run mame with -verifysets in a dos window and it works...

Are you sure you have MAME v0.100?  I'm sure this option was removed a few versions ago - just tried it with v0.101 and it is not there.

[JCKnife]

But...I can run mame with -verifysets in a dos window and it works...

Are you sure you have MAME v0.100?

[Minwah]

Whoops, my mistake--what I used is -verifyroms.

Is this the same thing or not?

No, -verifysets checks whether romset(s) are good & -verifyroms checks each rom in a romset and will report back bad dumps etc.