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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Minwah on October 26, 2003, 05:41:33 pm
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David Butler has kindly written a great utility for MAMEWAH. I have not given it any extensive testing, but it seems to work very well...
It allows easy configuring of everything in MAMEWAH, and can even read old config files etc.
Please give it a try: http://uk.geocities.com/david.butler4@btinternet.com
I'll be adding a link from my site shortly...
Edit by SirP: Added url tags. Correction, tried to add url tags, even that didn't help. Sorry folks, you have to copy and paste the link.
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link broken?
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nah, the board just didn't like the @
try copy-pasting the whole URL.
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"Run-time error 5" Invalid Procedure Call or Argument
Oh well, maybe I'll wait for the next version. Does the author monitor these pages?
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Yes I do every so often. :)
Try downloading v 0.72
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Nope, same error in 0.72.
Running XP Pro.
and welcome to the forum.
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Got the same problem, doesnt seem to be XP friendly :'(
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Got the same problem, doesnt seem to be XP friendly :'(
Odd, it worked for me ???
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Could it be that we are missing any files?
What is this baby made with?
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Could it be that we are missing any files?
What is this baby made with?
Yeah, maybe we're missing VB runtimes or something. I seem to have problems with a lot of VB apps, but again lots of others work flawlessly.
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Well it *should* have all the required files included in the setup...
Maybe because I had installed a previous version a while back (or indeed bcause I have VB), I already had the required files. I am not sure what it is programmed in tho...
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It's programed in VB. And I have Windows XP.
But I appear to be having a bit of truoble with the Installer. I am trying to get it sorted out, so there sould be an updated Installer that works within the next few days.
As far as I can tell all the DLL's etc are packaged with the Installer. But as this is my first program that I have released It may take me A while to get it working right.
;D
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Well im looking forward to your next release then, looks like a great program.
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Well im looking forward to your next release then, looks like a great program.
It is - I think a lot of you guys will like it :). It is a very visual way of configuring, without entering MW or editing text files. The fact that old CFG files can be read/updated will be the icing on the cake :)
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Right Lets try again. ::)
Updated prog to ver 0.7.3. Hopefully this will work a bit better.
Should have fixed a few bugs in program and updated Help file.
Let me know if it works or not.
I have installed on Win 98se and it works.
Started to work on Filter editor. Which is going to be fun to do :-\
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No luck yet.
I have XP Pro and am getting a module not found error.
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Has anybody actually got the program to run.
All the errors appear to be on XP Pro.
I have XP Home and it worked on 98se, so why does it not work with XP Pro?
Perhaps I should go back to Package And Deploy wizard in VB?
Also have a question. Im not sure if anybody will find this usefull or not but i am thinking of putting a ROM Suffix renamer program in with my set up program. It's not much but I find it usefull for Genesis and snes files.
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Doesn't work on my xp pro either.
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Has anybody actually got the program to run.
All the errors appear to be on XP Pro.
I have XP Home and it worked on 98se, so why does it not work with XP Pro?
Perhaps I should go back to Package And Deploy wizard in VB?
Also have a question. Im not sure if anybody will find this usefull or not but i am thinking of putting a ROM Suffix renamer program in with my set up program. It's not much but I find it usefull for Genesis and snes files.
I'm using XP Home, and it works. But I can see no reason why it shouldn't work on Pro either :(
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May have found out the problem with program?
I have used a dll that is not redistributale (fm20.dll) :(
Basically the dll is installed as part of MS Office and to use it you need it to be installed on your system prior to installing MAMEWAH Set-up.
The good news is that you can freely download a prog that installs it from Microsoft (Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaxctrl/html/cpad.asp
If this does not fix the problem then I have no idea what the problem is. ???
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Do you need ActiveX control PAd installed or just the DLL?
I'm the paranoid type and I don't like the sound of that ActiveX control.
I have a version of office on the computer I tried this on, but it's a fairly old verison (2000 Pro?). I'll check if fm20.dll is installed.
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Just installed the dlls and now MWSetup seem to work fine!
Time for some hardcore testing ;D
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I already had that Dll on my XP pro box. Here is the message I immediately get when I try to launch it.
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I also have fm20.dll on my XP Pro box.
I get a "Red X" error box that says:
System Error &H8007007E (-2147024770). The specified module could not be found.
<edit> This must be an old version of fm20.dll.
I just installed the ActiveX patch and MAMEWAH Setup is working great.
Looks good so far.
Thanks DBut!! </edit>
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Been trying out the program for a while now and I must say: Great Job! Its a great tool for a great frontend! d:^_^:b (thats two thumbs up incase you didnt know ;) )
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I installed the active pad control and still no work on my xp pro.
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I already have fm20.dll v 2.1.9922.1 on my machine (running XP Pro) and I get the same message as eigthbit. I haven't tried installing the ActiveX control but from previous posts it seems like a no-go.
Do we need a specific version fothe dll?
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eightbit and Papaschtroumpf.
I have no idea why you are getting the runtime error 5.
I can only sugest a few things to try to see what happens.
1. MAMEWAH Set-up uses the systems regisry to store info. If the program doesn't dispaly anything apart from the error (A window should appear asking where MAMEWAH.EXE is installed) then there shouldn't be anything in the resitry, check 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER,Software,VB and VBA Program settings,MAMEWAHSetup' if MAMEWAHSetup exists you could try deleting it (It should not do any harm).
2. In the MAMEWAH folder move your CFG files to a back up folder and run MAMEWAH as though it was a new install, so that you get the blank config files, and try running Set-up to see if you still get the same error. But if you do not get the first window to display I can't see this being the problem.
If none of the above work the problem is in the first few line of my code and all that happens is the sound is setup and the tab strip for the differant pages.
I'll keep diging to see if I come up with anything else ;D
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Did you uninstall and then reinstall MWSetup after you installed the dlls?
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Version 0.7.4 Released
I have added an update (EXE only) to my site so you don't have to download the whole installer again. Unzip and put into MW Setup folder.
Added filter Editor.
Added code to do Game list for ZINC.
Found a few more bugs. >:(
See News on my site for info
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I was one of the people having trouble getting it to work. I tried the new version and it works great for me. This is really cool it will help you configure options easily that you probably didn't even know were there.
I'm running xp pro.
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I'll give it a try too then. I didn't see anything in the post about addressing the problem we were having, but now it's worth giving it a try (also my cab computer is finally up after upgrades so I can try it on the real one instead of my laptop).
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I haven't tried it on the real cab. It works on my laptop though and since I was getting the exact same error on both my guess would be that it should work. Its really cool and exposes a bunch of features that I didn't even know were there.
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works for me too!
Cool!
Haven't played with it much yet but it looks pretty complete.
Thanks DBut!
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Works on my cab just fine now, so whatever the problem was, it's fixed.
The app doesn't quite fit in a 1024x768 window, I find that kind of annoying, but that's very minor.
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I Know the window is a bit large but you can resize the window and use the scroll bars.
It was that or have a dozen pages with all the options on which i think would have been even more annoying trying to find the options that you want.
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auto-hiding the taskbar takes care of the window not quite fitting in the screen.
I do have a problem though: the "save" options in the File menu are grayed (greyed ;) )out and the program doesn't save my changes even though I made some changes (changed layout and changed # of emulators to display.
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The Layout Filename/Folder does not seem the want to save but when i alter the 'No Of emulators to display' the Save MAME Wah Settings becomes enabled so it should save. I've clicked, scrolled and even used the cursor keys and the menu gets enabled every time.
So if you change your layout folder then change # of emu's it should save.
I'll fix the layout folder on the next update ;D
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I tried running the setup program on a clean install of XP and Mamewah (but forgot to run mamewah to default config files) and that will create a runtime 0 error (in case anyone gets that error).
Thanks for this great program!
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Installed and this program is very helpful. I have a question about upgrading Mamewah through this program. I have v0.954b installed and downloaded and unzipped v0.962. I pointed the program to the v0.954b exe. To upgrade to v0.962, do I just need to point the program to the v0.962 exe? When I tried that my machine seemed to lock up and I had to force quit. When I relauched mamewah, my emu1 CFG was corrupt. Will the program update all of the CFG files on its own? Thanks for any help.
Thanks
James
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Run MAMEWAH v0.954b first to get the config files written.
Then run MAMEWAH Set-up. When MW set up runs it makes a note of what version of MAMEWAH you have and stores this in the windows registry.
Exit MW Set-up and overwrite v0.954b of MAMEWAH with v0.962.
Then run MW set-up again.
As it loads it checks what version of MAMEWAH it used last to the version that you are using now and if they do not match it should update all the config files to match.
Once you have selected the folder that MAMEWAH is installed in you do not have to set this again.
If you upgrade MAMEWAH all you have to do is start MW Set-up and everything should get done for you.
Hope this helps ;D
You may have to modify the registry settings for MW Set-up. Because it may have the wrong version number saved in there.
If you run regedit and goto 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MAMEWAHSetup\Start' in the box on the right you will find a Key called 'Version' if you are going to run v0.954b of MAMEWAH first modify this setting to 0.9.0.54
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A quick request, if you don't mind.
Even if you uninstall, the registry values stay there. Could you add the removal of the registry settings to the uninstaller? I got the error 5 problem previously and tried an uninstall/reinstall, but it didn't seem to help, I think because of the registry values.
Thanks.
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Consider it done ;D
It will be on the next release.
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Run MAMEWAH v0.954b first to get the config files written.
Then run MAMEWAH Set-up. When MW set up runs it makes a note of what version of MAMEWAH you have and stores this in the windows registry.
Exit MW Set-up and overwrite v0.954b of MAMEWAH with v0.962.
Then run MW set-up again.
As it loads it checks what version of MAMEWAH it used last to the version that you are using now and if they do not match it should update all the config files to match.
Once you have selected the folder that MAMEWAH is installed in you do not have to set this again.
If you upgrade MAMEWAH all you have to do is start MW Set-up and everything should get done for you.
Hope this helps ;D
You may have to modify the registry settings for MW Set-up. Because it may have the wrong version number saved in there.
If you run regedit and goto 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VB and VBA Program Settings\MAMEWAHSetup\Start' in the box on the right you will find a Key called 'Version' if you are going to run v0.954b of MAMEWAH first modify this setting to 0.9.0.54
This worked great. Make sure you tell Mamewah to display your custom lists after upgrade. By default it displayed the Main List for each emulator. Thanks for the great utility!
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I'm runing MamewahSetup 0.7.7 and downloaded the FM20.DLL file on XP Home. Running the MamewahSetup program gives me:
System Error &H800700E (2147024770). The specified module could not be found.
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Unless ur using a VERY old version of MAMEWAH, you can't use this, go w/ screaming's mamewah config, as that is compatible w/ the newest MAMEWAH versions, otherwise im not sure really :P
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lol, by the time you get this app to load after ya DL it you culd have MW already setup it seems.... ;)
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I was thinking the same thing. It's nice that many of the community develops apps like this, but why is it that some seem to be programmed in such a way that they require a crapload of other software in order to work. I see alot of the "You must have Microsoft .NET 1.1 Framework" blah blah... Whereas other programmers seem to make apps that work out the box.
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Theres no getting away without the .NET framework I'm afraid, as any of the newest development tools from Microsoft use it. As more and more programmers move to it more will need it. Older version needed the VB6 stuff too its just that most people have that now.
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Whereas other programmers seem to make apps that work out the box.
Microsoft (and the other .NET initiatives) are making it very very easy on new programmers. Gargage collection, automatic type casting, integrated form designers (for GUIs) are all things that you pretty much can't get without some kind of extra end-user libraries/runtimes these days.
Besides that, almost every program you use requires some sort of library/runtime. MAME, even, requires Direct3d for Windows - only Windows comes with it.
*shrug* I say try it out for yourself, and I think you'll answer your own question very quickly.
-sab
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I dont mind the .net install on my machine, I install it on every machine now.. I just read "do this and that and get this and go over there and get that" Im just in a cranky mood.. installing all the populare fE's on 3 differant machines with the same fresh os install to compare mame speed but the FE's dont even work.. works on this one but not that one.. yadaydaydaydyada