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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Arcade Rabbit on February 06, 2014, 12:11:50 pm
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I'm using Mamewah and it works like a charm with MAME, but I wanted to add an Nintendo DS emulator aswell. And I'm using the NO$GBA emulator. So I set up a new folder in the config folder named "gameboy" since it can emulate any of the nintendo handheld consoles. But I can't get any roms to show up in the list. What have I done wrong?
This is my gameboy.ini
### gameboy.ini (mamewah v1.69) ###
emulator_title Handheld Nintendo
### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path C:\NDS\roms
rom_extension nds
dat_file
nms_file
catver_ini_file [emuexepath]\catver.ini
list_generation_method rom_folder
### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines
emulator_commandline C:\NDS\NO$GBA.EXE -rompath [rompath] [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines
general_app_commandlines
### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths C:\MAME\snap
movie_preview_path [emuexepath]\previews
movie_artwork_no 1
enable_fuzzy_search 0
history_dat_file
history_dat_artwork_no 2
### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver 1
select_random_game 0
saver_type gamelist_slideshow
movie_path
movie_fullscreen 1
quit_delay 0
saver_commandline
### Additional Settings ###
music_path
lcd_display_file_path
description_display [description]{scroll}
### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list 0
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And this is my mame.ini which I used as a template.
### mame.ini (mamewah v1.69) ###
emulator_title Arcade
### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path C:\MAME\roms
rom_extension zip
dat_file
nms_file
catver_ini_file [emuexepath]\catver.ini
list_generation_method rom_folder
### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines
emulator_commandline C:\MAME\mame.exe -rompath [rompath] [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines
general_app_commandlines
### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths C:\MAME\snap
movie_preview_path [emuexepath]\previews
movie_artwork_no 1
enable_fuzzy_search 0
history_dat_file
history_dat_artwork_no 2
### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver 1
select_random_game 0
saver_type gamelist_slideshow
movie_path
movie_fullscreen 1
quit_delay 0
saver_commandline
### Additional Settings ###
music_path
lcd_display_file_path
description_display [description]{scroll}
### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list 0
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That looks fine to me. Did you generate your list in Mamewah?
Access the options menu (2)
Select Platform (1)
Pick Handheld Nintendo (1)
Access options menu (2)
Go to Games List Options (1)
Generate List (1)
If you are using Groups, make sure you added that to your groups .ini file
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Yes, I did generate the list but it's still empty. I'm not using groups, hm. Should I try grouping?
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Groups are just helpful if you have a lot of systems and want to separate them - like Arcade, Consolde, Handheld..
If your list isn't generating, are you sure your roms are not in zip format (or 7z for that matter?) instead of nds files?
As long as you have the correct rom path, correct file extension and are using rom_folder to generate - it should pick up any files in that path.
Double check - when you copied the mame config folder, do you have the list ini files in there? those are the mame-0.ini, ... - rename mame-0.ini to whatever you named the system config folder, like gameboy-0.ini - that is the configuration for the main list. Also look in the mamewah\files folder and see if the list file is generated there - it would be something like gameboy-0.lst
If all else fails, see what the mamewah.log file says after you have tried to generate the list..