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| MPTech:
I've had MAME32 running for a little over a month on the new PC I built after Christmas. I'd like to setup MAMEWAH to run MAME and some of the other emu's and use the CP joystick & buttons, as opposed to pulling out the KB / mouse. I'm running WinXP on a P4/3ghz. I installed MAMEWAH, changed the paths in the ini's to find MAME & ROMs, but when I select "Generate List", it says "All Games" at the top and "No Games Available" at the bottom. i've read the docs, but just can't fingure this one out. What am i missing? |
| eccs19:
I had the same problem a while ago, and posted same question on a different board. Here's what I was told, and yes it did work for me. Good luck! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hey Eccss19 > > Had the same problem. If you THINK you botched up your ini files, chances are you did > (I did). > > I would start over with a fresh install of Mamewah. I had some files missing with > regards to the LAYOUT FOLDER that didn't come through for some reason (in your > mamewah directory (after you download). BE SURE you have this folder, otherwise it > won't work. You should have about 5 classic screen resoloution folders, a png, and a > gif. If you don't, try again, another mirror or whatever. While your at it, deep six > your mame.cfg too. > > Next thing after verifying the contents of your Mamewah folder, be sure to have the > correct version of mame that you're interested in using. I don't THINK that your > version of mame is too old. I'm running mame 81 so that's not too far ahead of what > your using. Be sure to download mame079b. In otherwords, official MAME 0.79. NO > EMBELISHMENTS!!! I tried setting up my datfile on a non official mame variant and was > losing my mind trying to figure out why it wasn't working -that's why. Keep it > official while your setting it up -then tweak later. > > Next thing is to create your dat file in mame. (ignore Mamewah for now) > 1-go to command line (dos) and get to your mame directory > 2-create a new mame.cfg file: > C:\mame> mame -createconfig > then Create a listinfo command written to a datfile: > C:\mame> mame -listinfo > mame.dat > 3-verify that indeed there is a mame.dat file sitting in your mame directory folder > 4-make sure that your paths are set in your mame.cfg (watch out for upper/lower case) > 5-NOW go to your Mamewah folder (make sure this is a SEPARATE FOLDER that is NOT in > your Mame folder -keep it simple) > 6-go to your ini folder > 7-go into your Mame.cfg (not mame-1 or mame-0) > 8-verify your paths are pointing to the right directories. > > This is what mine looks like: > > emulator_title M.A.M.E. > > ### List Generation Settings ### > rom_path C:\mame\roms > rom_extension zip > dat_file C:\mame\mame.dat > nms_file > catver_ini_file > list_generation_method dat_file > > ### Execution Settings ### > emulator_executable C:\mame\mameanalogXP.exe > commandline_format [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch} > alt_commandline_format_1 [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch} > alt_commandline_format_2 [name]{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch} > game_specific_config_path > > ### Artwork Locations ### > artwork_1_image_path C:\mame\snap > > Pay attention to where it says: > dat_file make sure it points to the correct location to where it is (you just created > it) > > list_generation_method make sure it reads: dat_file > > emulator_executable make sure it reads: mame.exe (or whatever exe) > > artwork_1_image_path you get the picture > > WATCH THOSE CAPS!!! > > for anyone else reading this, feel free to put a halt to my nonsense if I'm steering > this person in the wrong direction. > > HTH > > rhetro > > > I've been trying to get mamewah working for a few days now with no success. (Not > > reading my ROMS) I've played with all the INI files. (I hope I've not got them > > totally messed up now) > > > > After doing some reading in here I THINK that my problem is that my version of Mame > > is to old. (0.79) When I get home I want to try a newer version. What version would > > be recommended to run with Mamwah 1.61? Will my roms from .79 work with the newer > > version of mame? Any other tips I should know before I change to the newer version > > that may help me along? > > > > Thank-you in advance! Thanks to both of you guys for the responses. It seems as if I had everything going. The only thing that I didn't read anywhere in my lookings was the "mame -createconfig" command. I will try when I get home. I originally was trying to get it working with mame32, but had no luck, so then re-installed by mame and moved over a few roms for testing. I know the mame was working, as I did the old mame pacman to see if it would run, and it did. I hope the createconfig works. Everything else seems correct for the most part. Wish me luck, and I will post back the results. Best Regards |
| leapinlew:
--- Quote from: MPTech on February 28, 2006, 11:28:00 pm ---I've had MAME32 running for a little over a month on the new PC I built after Christmas. I'd like to setup MAMEWAH to run MAME and some of the other emu's and use the CP joystick & buttons, as opposed to pulling out the KB / mouse. I'm running WinXP on a P4/3ghz. I installed MAMEWAH, changed the paths in the ini's to find MAME & ROMs, but when I select "Generate List", it says "All Games" at the top and "No Games Available" at the bottom. i've read the docs, but just can't fingure this one out. What am i missing? --- End quote --- Make sure you do a search for games. Hit the 2 player button and look in th menu. Should be an option there for game search or something like that. |
| Sinner:
I was having a problem with generating a MAME games list...I was missing a DAT file... Once I put it in, and changed the list generation method to "rom_folder_vs_dat_file", it worked fine... Here's the link to the thread...http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=50431.0 ### List Generation Settings ### rom_path c:\mame\roms rom_extension zip dat_file MAME.DAT nms_file catver_ini_file c:\mame\catver.ini list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_dat_file |
| MPTech:
thanks guys! ;D I'll try some of these suggestions tonite when I get home |
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