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Title: Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: Ovalblue on October 18, 2003, 04:11:24 pm

OK here are the steps that I have done:

Download Mamewah v0954b & Mame v075b.
Unziped Mamewah to C:/MameWah
Unziped/Extracted Mame to C:/MameWah
Put all Roms, Samples, etc to folders.
Go to Start ----open MameWah

With all this I get the screen you see below.  I cant do anything since the screen is frozen and I see no Options menu like the Mamewah Readme files says to go to.

Help?

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: SpamMe on October 18, 2003, 05:04:48 pm

Take a look at the layouts.txt file and make sure that all the layout file names are correct.

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: Ovalblue on October 18, 2003, 07:48:36 pm

The layout file is how it was when it was downloaded.  I didnt change a thing from the time I downloaded, unzipped, populate sample, rom art files and run mamewah.  So I doubt this would be the problem.  It has to be something that I am missing... probably something really basic/simple. :)

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: RedSquirrel on October 18, 2003, 07:52:27 pm

Quote from: Ovalblue on October 18, 2003, 07:48:36 pm

The layout file is how it was when it was downloaded.  I didnt change a thing from the time I downloaded, unzipped, populate sample, rom art files and run mamewah.  So I doubt this would be the problem.  It has to be something that I am missing... probably something really basic/simple. :)

i get that screen when i have a problem with the layouts.

you did extract layouts.zip into a folder layouts right?

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 18, 2003, 11:17:18 pm

You more than llikely forgot unzip the layout.zip file intop a c:\mamewah\layout directory.
?the installer doesn't do this step for you. I made some suggestions to minwah, so hopefully he'll soon change the installer to take care of that.

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: Minwah on October 19, 2003, 05:50:29 am

Either unzip LAYOUTS.ZIP as papasch suggested...

Or preferably, download the v0.962 update, overwrite the EXE and you don't need to unzip the layouts.zip file (it will default to the Classic 640x480 layout).

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: ntjedi on October 20, 2003, 09:06:54 am

Just like Minwah says.... I had the same thing the first time I tried to use MameWAH and thats what I did to get it to look right.

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: Ovalblue on October 20, 2003, 12:14:57 pm

Thanks you guys... it looks like it works now :)
Now... when I do open Mamewah a screen opens but I dont see the Options menu (which the instructions tell me to go to first)... how do I navigate through this screen?

Title: Re:Cant get Mamewah to work...
Post by: Minwah on October 20, 2003, 02:00:59 pm

Quote from: Ovalblue on October 20, 2003, 12:14:57 pm

Thanks you guys... it looks like it works now :)
Now... when I do open Mamewah a screen opens but I dont see the Options menu (which the instructions tell me to go to first)... how do I navigate through this screen?

You need to hit '2' :)

Can I recommend once again upgrading to v0.962 now (if you haven't already), so you don't have to re-configure if you choose to upgrade later...