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RomanStewart:
I really need some help. I've managed to figure out how to set up Daphne in MAMEWAH and PinMAME. For the life of me I can not figure out how to get Arcade Music Box to work in MAMEWAH. I'm not a programmer and some of the stuff I've read in these threads leave me bewildered. I've gotten into this mainly because I'm helping a family member get this put together for his cab, so experiance is not on my side. I'm including the .ini file I've got started for AMB. Could someone look over it and tell me what I'm missing? Also I can't seem to get MAMEWAH to generate a list of the songs. They were downloaded from iTunes and reside in the Documents and Settings folder. I can get AMB to pull the songs from this folder when it runs by itself.

Is there someone out there that can explain this to me like the moron I am? Thanks in advance for your time.

Roman

### 0006.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            Arcade Music Box

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  "C:\Program Files\Arcade Music Box 2\bin\AMB.exe"
rom_extension                             lnk
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       PC
commandline_format                        "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                     
artwork_2_image_path                     
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
saver_type                                blank_screen
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              1
 
Minwah:
Arcade Music Box is a standalone jukebox so you would probably be best off not treating it as an 'emulator', and just launching it as an application.

In your emulator.ini file(s), set:

app_1_executable                C:\Program Files\Arcade Music Box 2\bin\AMB.exe         
app_1_commandline_format   

You can then launch it at the press of a button (or selection in the menu).
rockmes:
just an example of what l got


### Jukebox.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            Jukebox

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\arcadejukebox8
rom_extension                             LNK
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       PC
commandline_format                        [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\arcadejukebox8\images
artwork_2_image_path                     
artwork_3_image_path                     
artwork_4_image_path                     
artwork_5_image_path                     
artwork_6_image_path                     
artwork_7_image_path                     
artwork_8_image_path                     
artwork_9_image_path                     
artwork_10_image_path                     
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
saver_type                                slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                         
app_1_commandline_format                 
app_2_executable                         
app_2_commandline_format                 
app_3_executable                         
app_3_commandline_format                 
auto_launch_apps                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0
Space Fractal:
Arcade JukeBox 8 and Arcade Music Box is not the same jukebox application! You should install Arcade Music Box on the standard folder to avoid problems, and config it using the config manager.

If it dosent generate a list, please create a shortcut to exe file, and put it on the main AMB directory (a shortcut use LNK as extension, but it hided). But remeber to delete the config shortcut, and then regenerate.

A thing about AMB:
- MAMEWAH can NOT generate songs from AMB, wich is not the scrope of AMB. Arcade Music Box is just a PC application, and is designed with MAMEWAH in mind, hince they look pretty the same.

I hope you can get this running (it find, you have contacted my per email)!
RomanStewart:
MinWAh,

Will this bring up the AMB program itself and leave MAMEWAH running in the background? I made the change in the .ini file. Got rid of the command in the emmulator_executable line and the commandline_format. So, the only thing I have is that command you wrote in your reply. The thing is it's not working. I have the "" around the command "c:/Program Files........" I select "Run external application" and it goes to the Default MAMEWAH screen.(I have no layout set up)

Space Fractal,

I did E-mail you about the problem I was having. I greatly appreciate your time. I wasn't understanding your explanation.......it's not registering what your telling me to do and knowing how to do it. I thought maybe if I got a few explanations from different people something would click.(It worked for everything else I've tried to set up)  :)

Thanks again to both of you!
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