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--- Quote from: headkaze on August 22, 2009, 04:11:19 am ---Tried the files you sent and it worked fine for me (see attached image). So here are a few things I would check.
1. Make sure the ctrlr folder is correctly set in Edit->Options->Mame Folders
2. Make sure mame.ini is located in the root of your Mame folder. It should also have "ctrlr main" in it to specify your ctrlr file
3. You may need to delete the cfg\default.cfg. You shouldn't need one if your using a ctrlr file anyway
Give those a try and hopefully it should work. There is not a problem with the files you sent me so it must be some other configuration issue.
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Thanks for taking a look. I checked all those things, and there were no problems there. I'll just use the work-around that I mentioned in my email. Thanks again for the assist, and for the program!
jasonbar:
Howdy-
Now that I've gotten all my oddball games squared away, I'm revisiting CPWizard (downloaded & installed 2.21 today) to get my control panel to pop up when launching a game from MaLa.
I've appended my extra games to mame.xml & controls.ini & history.dat so that MaLa displays them & their associated information properly.
I'm having trouble getting these extra games to show up in CPWizard. When I look at View/Preview in CPW, the extra games don't show up in the preview list, & when I tried generating an export batch of files, they didn't appear also.
What file feeds the list of games that CPWizard displays?
Thanks,
-Jason
headkaze:
CPWizard generates the file ListInfo.xml which contains all the data from Mame and from that it combines a bunch of different files into one xml called MiniInfo.xml. So the file you need to edit is MiniInfo.xml. Just be aware though that CPWizard will auto-generate a new MiniInfo.xml when it detects a new version of Mame or data file.
jasonbar:
Thank you very much for the info, Headkaze.
I definitely don't want to have my MiniInfo.xml file get overwritten automatically, so it would be swell to feed CPW what it needs to properly to generate (and regenerate in the future) MiniInfo.xml with my extra games.
Can you please give a little more detail on what files are read? I've got mame.xml, control.ini, & history.dat all updated with the extra games, but CPW didn't include the extra games in LilstInfo.xml or MiniInfo.xml.
Thank you very much,
-Jason
jasonbar:
One more CPWizard quickie question, please.
I was transferring CPWizard to my cab & had trouble running it, so I tried to install a fresh copy.
Turns out I don't have .net 2.0 on my cab & with no internet connection (I keep my cab Windows install very minimal), the CPWizard installation program barfs when it tries to download dotnetfx.exe at the beginning of installation.
Headkaze, I found your link to the .net 2.0 download @ microsoft.com & am getting ready to install that onto my cab & then CPWizard.
But, my question is: what sort of resources does .net 2.0 require?
I found that it takes 280MB of hard drive space: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en#Requirements . No problem there (unless it wants to go out to the internet during installation...).
And, more importanly, will installation of .net 2.0 use up some system resources & hinder my modest cab's PC & its running of MAME & MaLa in any way? I'm running Win XP Pro SP2 on a P4 1.5GHz. I've been through the Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework) & almost all of it is over my head, so I wanted to get a BYOAC opinion before plunging in.
Thank you very much,
-Jason