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Title: multiple executables for the same "emulator" in mamewah
Post by: papaschtroumpf on March 22, 2004, 12:31:53 pm

I'm thinking about setting up mamewah using different "types" of games instead of emulators. For example I could have a pinball section that would mix mame-based pinballs and PC-based pinball progams and visualPinball table.

I can make all my "rom" extensions be .ZIP and setup a batch file to be "emulator executable" and the batch file would know how to differentiate between the different styles of "ROMS" by looking inside the zip file and run the appropriate emulator/PC game based on that.

It all works just fine excepts that I have to use the "ROM folder" style of list generation. which means that some of the names displayed (for example for mame ROMs) are cryptic because they're in the 8.3 DOS file format. What I would like to do is "hack" the file that mamewah uses for mame rom to name translation to add my PC games in for example. I could then tell mamewah to use that file to determine the names to display and still add an entry for say Microsoft Pinball Arcade.

Is this even possible? what's the name of the file that mamewah uses (if that's how it works) and what's its format so that I can hack it?

Other ideas? I don't know if I can rename the mame ROMs instead to use full names instead of 8.3 names.

Title: Re:multiple executables for the same "emulator" in mamewah
Post by: Mr. Dude on March 22, 2004, 12:40:19 pm

Get the Mamewah setup utility found here http://uk.geocities.com/david.butler4@btinternet.com/ (http://uk.geocities.com/david.butler4@btinternet.com/) with this program you can go to the game list info tab and change the displayed roms name to whatever you want it to be.

Title: Re:multiple executables for the same "emulator" in mamewah
Post by: Minwah on March 22, 2004, 02:02:40 pm

Alternatively, you can use an NMS file.  This is just a text file, named the same as your emulator exe (or probably .bat file in this case) but with .NMS as the extension.  Here is a small example for Daphne:

Space Ace|ace
Dragon's Lair|lair

Title: Re:multiple executables for the same "emulator" in mamewah
Post by: steve_pss on March 22, 2004, 03:26:15 pm

I created a second mame folder on my C: drive with the games i wanted on the 2nd emulator and created a 2nd emulator in mamewah pointing to the appropiate folders for that folder. worked great.

Title: Re:multiple executables for the same "emulator" in mamewah
Post by: papaschtroumpf on March 22, 2004, 05:16:09 pm

Thanks guys, sounds like this was easier than I thought!