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| Turnarcades:
Hope someone can help me with this; I'm getting really wound up with MAMEWAH but I wanted to get into this as everyone reckons it's the best bootable frontend for arcade cabinets. This is a lengthy post as I'm trying to give you all the details I can to hopefully get this solved quickly, as all the advice I have scoured through elsewhere relates to old versions of MAME and MAMEWAH. The problem is like this: I have a complete list of roms showing when I boot MAMEWAH, yet when I try to launch a game, the message box crops up (the one that says 'loading rom') for a second or two, then nothing happens. It just stays on the MAMEWAH menu and nothing happens. It doesn't freeze, it just doesn't actually launch the game. I have installed the command line version of MAME 0.107b in c:\mame folder. I have installed MAMEWAH 1.61 in it's own folder in my documents. MAMEWAH has been set up correctly (as far as I know) to identify the correct rom path and mame.exe file. MAMEWAH boots and I have managed to generate a rom list (which was at first problematic, but now works). I have tested MAME and run it from the command line successfully. The roms are all complete and ClrMAMEpro verified, all are zip files, unmerged. I tried to use MAMEWAH 0.97 and also with the 'MAMEWAH Setup Tool' but I kept getting error messages when I tried to compile a game list, so gave up. The only documentation I have found with people having the same problem on the 'net is help with older versions of MAMEWAH, but this is no good as the config/file/ini structure is different in the newer versions. Even those people had trouble finding help. Ideally someone else who is running MAMEWAH succesfully in their cabinet can help me by comparing my setup and actual config/ini files to theirs. If nothing else, I could re-write mine to match theirs and tweak it for my own needs. It may even help if someone could send me the EXACT files/MAME package/MAMEWAH install package they use, in case the ones I got were bad. They shouldn't be, as they were downloaded straight from their homepages. Maybe their are other files I need that are missing? One file was dodgy so I've already replaced that! What's strange is that it did load a game from the menu - once, but never again since. Maybe I changed something and didn't realise, but I've uninstalled and re-installed loads of times. Here's what I have: MAME folder (c:\mame\) contents: mame.exe mame.dat (empty) mame.ini jedutil chdman romcmp xml2info (downloaded from the 'net. Wouldn't generate rom list without it) +all the other MAME folders; roms, artwork etc.... The mame.ini reads as follows: ### mame.ini ### ### Frontend Related ### clones 1 ### Windows path and directory options ### rompath roms samplepath samples inipath .;ini cfg_directory cfg nvram_directory nvram memcard_directory memcard input_directory inp hiscore_directory hi state_directory sta artwork_directory artwork snapshot_directory snap diff_directory diff cheat_file cheat.dat history_file history.dat mameinfo_file mameinfo.dat ctrlr_directory ctrlr ### Windows video options ### autoframeskip 1 frameskip 0 waitvsync 0 triplebuffer 1 window 0 ddraw 1 hwstretch 1 resolution 800x600x16 refresh 0 scanlines 0 switchres 1 switchbpp 1 maximize 1 keepaspect 1 matchrefresh 0 syncrefresh 0 throttle 1 full_screen_brightness 0.000000 frames_to_run 0 effect none screen_aspect 4:3 sleep 1 ### Input device options ### mouse 1 joystick 0 lightgun 0 steadykey 0 keyboard_leds 1 a2d_deadzone 0.300000 ctrlr slikstik ### Mame CORE video options ### norotate 0 ror 0 rol 0 flipx 0 flipy 0 debug_resolution auto gamma 1.000000 brightness 1.000000 ### Mame CORE vector game options ### antialias 1 translucency 1 beam 1.000000 flicker 0.000000 intensity 1.500000 ### Mame CORE sound options ### samplerate 44100 samples 1 resamplefilter 1 sound 1 volume 0 ### Mame CORE misc options ### artwork 1 use_backdrops 1 use_overlays 1 use_bezels 1 artwork_crop 0 artwork_resolution 0 cheat 0 debug 0 # playback <NULL> (not set) # record <NULL> (not set) log 0 ### Configuration options ### readconfig 1 verbose 0 The MAMEWAH folder (c:\documents and settings\Turner's documents\MAMEWAH\) has: ctrlr (folder) docs (folder) files (folder) ini (folder) mamewah.exe mamewah.ini mamewah layout designer.exe transparent (cursor file) xml2info (same as MAME folder one. Not sure why, but list wouldn't generate without it. Read somewhere to add this to make it work.) The ini folder contains 3 files - mame,mame-0 and mame-1, all .ini files. mame.ini reads as follows: ### mame.ini (mamewah v1.61) ### emulator_title M.A.M.E. ### List Generation Settings ### rom_path c:\mame\roms rom_extension zip dat_file nms_file catver_ini_file list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_listxml ### Execution Settings ### emulator_executable c:\mame\mame.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 artwork_2_image_path c:\mame\marquees artwork_3_image_path c:\mame\flyers artwork_4_image_path c:\mame\marquees 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 lcd_display_file_path lcd_fe_text ### Settings used by MAMEWAH ### current_list 0 mame-0.ini reads as follows: ### mame-0.ini (mamewah v1.61) ### list_title All Games ### Games List Settings ### cycle_list 1 ### Execution Settings ### commandline_format alt_commandline_format_1 alt_commandline_format_2 ### Settings used by MAMEWAH ### current_game 1 mame-1.ini reads as follows: ### mame-1.ini (mamewah v1.61) ### list_title Filtered ### Games List Settings ### cycle_list 1 list_type normal display_clone_info 0 max_favorites 0 ### Execution Settings ### commandline_format alt_commandline_format_1 alt_commandline_format_2 ### Settings used by MAMEWAH ### current_game 1 The mamewah.ini reads as follows: ### mamewah.ini (mamewah v1.61) ### ### (Global) Screen-Saver Options ### delay 300 slide_duration 3 ### Audio Options ### enable_sounds 1 sound_volume 100 music_path enable_music 1 music_volume 100 ### Movie Options ### intro_movie_file exit_movie_file keep_movie_preview_aspect game_aspect delay_before_movie_preview 2 music_movie_mix mute_movies movie_volume 100 ### Misc Options ### layout Custom1 ctrlr default wrap_list 0 remember_current_game 1 keep_image_aspect 1 refresh_images 0 correct_orientations horizontal safe_mode 0 show_cursor 0 keyboard_led_states -,-,- winipac_file mamewah_ipc_file lcd_com_port 1 lcd_settings exit_action choice app_to_run_on_exit ### Settings used by MAMEWAH ### current_emulator mame locked 0 last_ipc SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME OUT!!!!! I'd love to use this frontend in my cabinet, but I can't get it to work. Other frontends just don't cut it, and as I've never used command line MAME before (I've always used MAME32) I may be doing something wrong. Even if it's not perfect for how I want it, if someone can send me links to the files they used to install theirs it may help! I've tried loads of other forums but just can't get an answer for the newer software or old! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :timebomb: :timebomb: |
| 2600:
I believe you need to use the latest beta MAMEWAH release, available on the MAMEWAH forums, with the later versions of MAME. MAMEWAH sends out the romname in all caps and the later versions of MAME doesn't like that if I recall. |
| Turnarcades:
I've tried MAMEWAH 1.61 with older versions of MAME though. My romset is actually a complete 0.78b set. I've tried loads of versions (0.78, 0.84. 0.93 and others) but it doesn't seem to make a difference. MAMEWAH 1.62 is mentioned a lot of places, but it isn't available from the MAMEWAH site and reports suggest it's a bit unstable, which will upset matters more. Someone out there must be running MAMEWAH efficiently! Throw me a bone someone! |
| MiKman:
I had a similar problem except I was using mame32. click on the rom, it would start to load then nothing just woudln't run. It was fustrating, and was after I upp'ed from 106 to 107. Deleted the default.cfg file and blew away all my settings (reset to default). then it worked. Long sory short, try deleting the default.cfg file (back it up first). |
| Turnarcades:
You mean the default.cfg file inside the 'cfg' folder in MAME? You really need to specify cos this file just appears to not have much info in it..... Do you mean the .ini file or what? From what I read, new versions of MAMEWAH don't work with MAME32 anyway. I certainly couldn't get it to work with MAME32 (wouldn't generate a gamelist) and it was supposed to run really slow when it did work on older versions..... Let me know, before I lob the thing out the window! |
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