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Marky_1979:
**UPDATE** Great news I managed to get mamewah to recognise Zinc and create a games list but when I press 1 to launch a game nothing happens Iv tried it on all the games in my list, any suggestions about what I need to do?

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

emulator_title                            ZINC

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\ZINC\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  C:\ZINC\zinc.dat
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           C:\ZINC\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    dat_file

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       C:\ZINC\zinc.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                     
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                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
lcd_fe_text                               

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0
Zebidee:
Marky,

The reason it doesn't work from Mamewah is because you are not passing a [name] parameter (which mamewah gets from the zinc.dat file) to tell zinc what game you want to play. eg:

c:\zinc\zinc.exe [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}

Also you should not use {autodosbox} with anything but mame.

Finally, why not save all this trouble and just download the Zinc setup files I have just reposted on this forum  here :cheers::

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=73330.0

Are you using mamewah 1.61?  The mamewah zinc files I posted are for 1.62b9+, and there are some minor config file formatting differences to be aware of.  No big deal though.
Marky_1979:
Hi mate yeah I use version 1.61. I must admit I dont understand how mamewah works and the ini system is a nightmare to configure for me. I have tried to do what you said but still I cant get it to work and I know that im probably mis understanding what your trying to explain to me. I have typed in what you said verbatim but still no joy.
Zebidee:
Marky, as a suggestion, you could make life easier and get better support if you update to the latest software first.  The whole Mamewah config system and command syntax has been changed.  People like me may have trouble trying to remember how old software works.

I recommend that you download the latest MAMEwah (v1.62b13) from jcrouse's site and use the files I posted in the other thread.  It should work very easily then.

http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm

For mamewah 1.61 this will probably work but I can't test it.  The following assumes that you are using the "zinc.dat" and properly generating a game list with full game names.  It also assumes that you are using the controller config files I posted earlier.

In your zinc.ini for Mamewah, Change your emulator command line to read (cut & paste):

emulator_executable                       c:\Zinc\Zinc.exe

Then change the command line format (next line) to read (cut & paste):

commandline_format                        [name] --use-controller-cfg-file=c:\zinc\ini\[name].ini{nodosbox}{safelaunch}

If that doesn't work, then update mamewah to the latest version and try again.
Marky_1979:
Hi buddy iv upgraded to latest mamewah but it seems a lot different to the version im used to I cant change window size and on my old version I ran a snes, genesis, nes, gba emulator but cant see where I need to put the ini files to get these to run. Sorry to be a real pain in the ass but i will get there in the end.
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