Help!!!! Daphne.nms file (minwah)

[lordtodd75]

OK, I have yet to have this daphne.nms file work. I have read all of the threads here, as well as everywhere else that popped up on google. No matter what I do the framefile names display. I suppose I could rename the framefiles and write a game specific .ini file for every laserdisc game so it knows what framefile to use(not even sure if this would work, and even if it did it seems troublesome). Here is my daphne.ini. I am using the latest version of daphne and mamewah 1.61.

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

emulator_title                            daphne

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\daphne\framefile
rom_extension                             txt
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                  c:\daphne\daphne.nms
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       c:\daphne\daphne.exe
commandline_format                        [name] vldp -framefile "C:\daphne\framefile\[name].txt" -fullscreen -nohwaccel{nodosbox}{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:\daphne\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                                c:\music\daphne
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks fellas!

[whatisk]

The daphne.ini file you posted appears to match mine okay.

Have you checked the NMS file itself?

If I remember correctly, mine is a text file in the following format:

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Dragons Lair|dlair
Space Ace|ace
I just made up the names above, but the basic format is <detailed description>|<framefile name>

I can double check all of this when I get home also.

[lordtodd75]

Thank you for the reply what. My .nms seems to be ok. For the life of me I cant understand why this wont work. What version of MAMEWAH are you using?

[whatisk]

I was initially using Mamewah 1.61, but have recently been messing around with 1.62

I will post my daphne.ini (for 1.61 as that is the version you appear to be using) and NMS file when I get home so that you can compare. Perhaps I missed some small difference.

I will also check the naming of my files, etc within Daphne.

[whatisk]

Alrighty, here are my files.
Firstly Daphne.ini

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

emulator_title                            Daphne

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\daphne\framefile
rom_extension                             txt
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                  c:\daphne\daphne.nms
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       c:\daphne\daphne.exe
commandline_format                        [name] vldp -framefile "c:\daphne\framefile\[name].txt" -blank_searches -fullscreen -nohwaccel -noserversend{dosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\daphne\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               0
saver_type                                movie
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

And here is my Daphne.nms

Astron Belt|astron
Astron Belt (Pioneer)|astronp
Badlands|badlands
Bega's Battle|bega
Cliff Hanger|cliff
Cliff Hanger (Alt)|cliffalt
Cobra Command|cobraab
Cobra Command (M.A.C.H. 3 Hardware)|cobram3
Dragon's Lair (US Enhanced 1.1)|dle11
Dragon's Lair (US Enhanced 2.0)|dle20
Dragon's Lair|lair
Dragon's Lair 2: Timewarp|lair2
Esh's Aurunmilla|esh
Galaxy Ranger|galaxy
Goal To Go|gtg
Space Ace (US Enhanced 1)|sae
Space Ace|ace
Star Blazer|blazer
Super Don Quix-ote (Long)|sdq
Super Don Quix-ote (Short)|sdqshort
Thayer's Quest|tq
M.A.C.H. 3|mach3
Us vs Them|uvt
Interstellar Laser Fantasy|Interstellar
Laser Grand Prix|lgp

In the NMS, the names after the '|' match the names of the framefiles.
With the above files, I get the names of the games showing rather than the shorter framefile names.

Hope this helps.

[lordtodd75]

Well, I have established that my .nms and .ini files are correctly formatted. My .nms file is in my daphne directory(same directory as daphne.exe). Anyone???

[ppilot]

go to c:\daphne\framefile in a command prompt, type dir > dir.txt.  Then post the contents of dir.txt and your daphne.nms file.

[lordtodd75]

Well I am positive that the framefile names match that of the .nms file but I will post the info anyway, perhaps I am missing something silly. Unfortunately I dont have any access right now but I will post when I get home this evening. Thank you for all of the help

-t