mamewah and catver.ini

[tkuper05]

I can't get my catver.ini file to work with mamewah.  If my catver file is for mame version .99 will it work with .105?

[Minwah]

Yes but obviously newly added games will not have any category info.  Point to catver.ini in your (mamewah) mame.ini file, and ensure you generate the list *after* this.

[tkuper05]

I pointed the (mamewah) mame.ini to the catver.ini file.  Then I "re-generated" the main list.  I did research this but couldn't find anything to help me.  My catver.ini is in my mame folder.

[Minwah]

I pointed the (mamewah) mame.ini to the catver.ini file.  Then I "re-generated" the main list.  I did research this but couldn't find anything to help me.  My catver.ini is in my mame folder.

Sounds like you did everything right....maybe post your (mamewah) mame.ini file...

[tkuper05]

### 01mame.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

emulator_title                            Arcade

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  G:\Emus\zinc\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           C:\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       c:\mame\mame.exe
commandline_format                        [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_1                  [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
alt_commandline_format_2                  [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
game_specific_config_path                 

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      C:\MAME_0.102\MAME_Extras2\titles
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                          C:\Program Files\CPViewer\cpvw.exe
app_1_commandline_format                  -r=[name] -c=[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                              2

[Minwah]

rom_path                                  G:\Emus\zinc\roms

Could it be that this should be pointing to your MAME roms folder??

[tkuper05]

No. I know it's weird but I was having problems with zinc and it didn't like having it's rom folder outside of it's directory.  Mame accesses those roms fine.  I found a different version of catver.ini and I'm going to try it when I have a chance.  Thanks for looking at my mame.ini Minwah

[Minwah]

No. I know it's weird but I was having problems with zinc and it didn't like having it's rom folder outside of it's directory.  Mame accesses those roms fine.  I found a different version of catver.ini and I'm going to try it when I have a chance.  Thanks for looking at my mame.ini Minwah

No problem, it looks fine apart from the unusual rom path.

[ppilot]

I had this problem too.  In (version 1.61) the 'files' subdirectory, for some reason all of the files that ended in .ftr were empty.  I deleted the one that ended in -0.ftr (filtered list) and did a generate list, then I got my catver information again.  If I remember correctly all of the .ftr files were blank, so I may have deleted them all.

[tkuper05]

Well I now have the option to sort by category but now mamewah lists the rom names and not the game names   .  I changed the list generation method to rom_folder and then changed it back to rom_folder_vs_listxml but mamewah still just lists the rom name and not the "game name".  I have re-generated the main list but nothing has helped.

[ppilot]

I'd suggest you delete everything in the 'files' folder and try again.  Make sure you have xml2info.exe in your mame folder.

[tkuper05]

I ended up downloading a .dat file for mame 105 and then changing the list generation method to rom_folder_vs_dat_file.  That seems to have solved it.  I think my original problem was my version of catver.ini.  The one that worked for me was from www.catver.com.