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digitalpackrat:
First let me say Mamewah is amazing albeit overwhelming

I used to use mame32 and really didn't need to create lists but I want to use a frontend in my cab to tidy up all these emulators.  I've been playing around with mamewah and got looking for stuff online and found a site that had premade game list generator for all games in my mame folder but  i would also like to create lists for:

favorites
3+ player games
fighting games
etc

but don't have a clue on how to go about it now that i'm using mame (v. 1.02b) command line version. 

How do you change the text size for the game list?

also how do i get mame to stop showing the disclaimer?
digitalpackrat:
No one knows how to make game lists?

I'm learning more and more everyday as I try to muddle through it on my own.  I found the mamewah config program that works with v1.61 of mamewah and its a great addition to helping new people with mamewah but as i learn more about mamewah I'm finding it better to just edit the ini files by hand alot of the times but it helps out alot in showing you all the features in mamewah.  so far it is the only program i've found to create game lists fairly easily. 

When creating a list in mamewah is there anyway to have it look for more than one extension?  for instance sega megadrive (genesis/32x machine) roms come in .bin, .smd, and .32x extensions and while fusion can view all of them i can only get  mamewah and mamewah config to detect one extension

The learning curve is huge for a newbie like me for mamewah and all these emulators but it is slowly getting easier.  I've managed to get mame, sega mastersystem and N64 working (thx for the wrapper jcrouse)  still have like 15 more systems to go.
fillup:
As of right now I think Mamewah can only see one kind of extension for each emulator.  You can set up multiple emulator INI's for the same emulator just having different names and have each show its own extension (ie KegaFusion but have a different INI for sega genesis, 32x, and game gear)  In effect each will be treated as a seperate emulator.  I am a newbie to so I am just learning as well.  Hope this helps
Pez4Brains:
While this isn't anything that adds anything to mamewah, many emulators support roms in zip files.  Once all your .bin/.smd/.*s are in individual zip files you shouldn't have too much to worry about as far as mamewah lists go, just finding an emulator that supports everything else you want AND zip files.
digitalpackrat:
thxs for the help guys.  yea the zip format seems to be the best way to go because many roms for the same system come in multiple extensions.  whats the best program to individually zip all the files in a folder?  i've been using power archiver which has a batch option to individually zip all the files in a folder but the dumb program also adds the file extension to the zip name as well as adding underscores where spaces belong.  i then thought to try the good tools rom renamer and it seemed to work properly for the most part with my n64 roms, only a few were renamed to the wrong file name (i'm trying to get my file names to match those of the screens and boxart found on screenshotarchive.com) but when i did my genesis files it messed up most of them.  for example my genesis roms would have a (a) or (5) at the end as well as the screens from screenshotarchive but the good tools renamer would change them to (U) or (E)  any ideas?
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