problem running games

[kenmelk]

Hey I am using teh lateset MAMEWAH, and the latest mame, I have a sony arcade  mointor using an s-video hook up and a video card with TV out s-video.  I am waiting on anew cable for my AVGA card.  ANyway, i can load all games to my list on mamewah, however when i start some (most) game the screen goes blank.  Now you can to the "left right" joystick thing and i can hear the games, so i know they have loaded, i just cannot see them to play.  Now some games play fine (gaunlet).   I am really confused here.  I ran teh MAMEWAH Res tool and it did nothing to help.  ANy ideas here??  Like i said when i get my new cable for my monitor i am going to switch back to my AVGA card and see if that will work, but until then i would like to play packman and galaga, and cannot due to the blank screen.  Please let me know if you guys have any thoughts here as i have tried everything to get this to work.
Thanks a bunch to everyone on this board, the information here is SOOOO USEFULL, and the people are incrediable!!!!!!!!!!

[D5A1AC]

Try enabling safelaunch in your emulator ini settings, or if that doesnt have any effect disable the "hide windows" feature - that gave me some problems when I first started using mamewah.

[kenmelk]

Hey thanks for the info, would safelaunch be in the mame ini or the mamewah ini?  Also where the heck is the hide windows thing you are talking about?  I did look for that and could not find it.  Thanks for the help!

[D5A1AC]

For safelaunch, go to your emulator ini file (in the mamewah\ini directory) and change the {nosafelaunch} part of the commandline_format option to {safelaunch}

If that doesn't fix it, you can enable safe mode by opening up the mamewah.ini file in the root of your mamewah folder and change the safe_mode value from 0 to 1.

Good luck!