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Title: Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: Popcorrin on September 18, 2003, 06:30:44 pm

I have recently installed the latest version of mamewah and I have had this problem when I leave the computer inactive for a little while.  Mamewah will freeze up and I get a small window that says:

Run-tme error '-2147221493 (8004000b)':
End of file reached while decoding.

It seems to happen maybe 5 minutes after the slide show screensaver starts and I have only noticed while on mame.  It didn't seem to happen while on Zinc.  Also I have the mp3 playing while browsing and they keep playing after mamewah freezes up.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.  Thanks

Title: Re:Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: Minwah on September 21, 2003, 05:37:47 pm

That's an odd error - it sounds as if you have a 'bad' png file...can you see the game description when the error message box appears?

Title: Re:Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: Popcorrin on September 21, 2003, 09:44:55 pm

It doesn't say which one it freezes up on.  Is there any way that I could manually find the the png it's freezes up on?

Title: Re:Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: Minwah on September 22, 2003, 01:45:30 pm

Quote from: Popcorrin on September 21, 2003, 09:44:55 pm

It doesn't say which one it freezes up on.  Is there any way that I could manually find the the png it's freezes up on?

If you have a graphics program that can open png's, try selecting loads of files at once in explorer, and hitting enter so that they all load.  It should stop and give an error if it cannot open one of them.  That's all I can think of atm...

Title: Re:Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: JackTucky on September 22, 2003, 10:24:05 pm

I get a similar runtime error when I try to use mycustom list 1.

I copied the emu-0.lst (not sure of exact file name) to emu-1.lst.  

I edited it with notepad, removing the games I didn't want.

When I try to use it, I get a runtime error too.

Are there any rules to editing that file?  It has lots of CR/LF's.  do I always need those in between games.

Thanks.

Art

Title: Re:Mamewah Run-time error
Post by: Minwah on September 23, 2003, 01:25:31 pm

Quote from: JackTucky on September 22, 2003, 10:24:05 pm

Are there any rules to editing that file?  It has lots of CR/LF's.  do I always need those in between games.

The CR/LF's DO need to be there.  You can edit the file so long as each game has 13 lines of stuff to it (in the correct order):

romname
description
year
manufacturer
cloneof
romof
screen type
screen orientation
input type
general status
color status
sound status
category

These are all as found in mame -listinfo's output, except category which is from catver.ini.  If any of these are blank (eg category if you don't use catver), then the blank list must exist.

Hope this helps...