My Mamewah screensaver doesn't works!!

[fabri_deasonora]

Hi and Mame Xmas to all!! 
.. please help to make my mamewah screensaver working..
This is my .ini but never happens.. no random games, no slideshow.. I also tried with emusaver but it doesn't works. My purpose is to have the launch_random_game.
I have mamewah 1.61 and mame 32 0.61. This is the best frontend and I miss only this feature. Please help me.

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

### (Global) Screen-Saver Options ###
delay                       60
slide_duration              60
--------------------------
### mame.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  D:\mame32-061\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  D:\mame32-061
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       D:\mame32-061\mame32.exe
commandline_format                        [name] -joy{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]-ctrlr mycab{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      D:\mame32-061\snap
artwork_2_image_path                      D:\mame32-061\marquees
artwork_3_image_path                      D:\mame32-061\cabinets
artwork_4_image_path                      D:\mame32-061\flyers
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                                run_random_game
movie_path                                D:\mame32-061\snap
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                100
wrapper_executable                       
wrapper_commandline_format                [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
scr_file                                 

### External Application Settings ###
ipc_file_or_path                         
app_1_executable                          C:\Programmi\CPViewer\cpviewer.exe
app_1_commandline_format                  [name] -clone [cloneof]
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

[fabri_deasonora]

  ok nobody can help me... thanks

[Roughy]

ok nobody can help me... thanks

It's been 8 hours only....

Relax just a little.  People aren't all on your time schedule and the intarwebs are global.  Let people get home from work, tinker, eat dinner, bounce babies on their knees, kiss wives, fall asleep on the couch and get back to their computers...

[brophog]

1st: Are you sure you're on the Mame tab, assuming you're running different emulators. Try this, I've never used run_random_game but I just tried it on my setup and it worked.

Set quit delay to 30 in your mame.ini under mamewah.


Set mamewah.ini to the following:

delay 5
slide duration 3

The only thing I'm doing different than you is I'm not running cpviewer. But I just checked my config for 1.61 and it matches except those settings. Wait 5 seconds and a game should start.

[fabri_deasonora]

Ok Brophog thanks a lot. I will try this. However I did all the try even without cpviewer and never happens. I tried different combinations of delay, duration... 

Sorry Roughy.. I apologize for my pressing request. You're right..
next time I will have more patience. The only reason is that I have internet only at work and today is the last one before the xmas pause. I would like to set my screensaver in christmas days. However you're are right. Will never happens again. 

[eccs19]

Perhaps your mamewah log will show something.  I was having trouble with mamewah, and the log helped me track down a couple of my problems.

[Bub&Bob]

I'm having a similar/maybe related problem with the latest beta of Mamewah.  I would set the "saver_type" to "run_random_game" in my mame.ini file, then run mamewah and it would change the setting back to "slideshow" in the mame.ini    Mamewah log would only show where it started the slideshow, nothing to indicate why it changed the setting.

I ended up using the "movie" option with the intro videos instead, which works great.