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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: GameDork on June 18, 2004, 04:43:12 am

Title: can somebody help me?? I am a complete MORON with this.
Post by: GameDork on June 18, 2004, 04:43:12 am

Could Somebody explain or show me a site, in step by step format, how to set up mame inside of Mamewah?

I have both downloaded with roms, etc waiting.

Call me stupid, but I have tried for a hour or so and I feel completely retarded.
 >:( :-[

I am terrible at this, I am ashamed to say that I am a point double click moron. I have only screwed around with Mame32.

If there is any command line stuff, please explain s l o w l y as I have very little experiance with it.

Thank you in advance

Title: Re:can somebody help me?? I am a complete MORON with this.
Post by: Minwah on June 18, 2004, 05:15:16 am

1) Unzip MAME (if you haven't already) into a folder, eg c:\mame
2) Bung your roms in the \mame\roms folder
3) Bung your screenshots (if you have any) in the \mame\snap folder
4) Run the MAMEWAH download, and unzip to a folder (My Documents or Desktop will do)
5) Run 'setup.exe' from whereever you unzipped to in step 2)
6) Just follow the on-screen instructions until the installation finishes
7) Run MAMEWAH
8) Go into Emulator Settings > Exectution Settings and enter the 'Emulator Executable' (eg 'c:\mame\mame.exe')
9) If you used my suggested 'standard' rom and snap paths, these will be automatically setup (ie 'ROM Path' and 'Artwork #1 Path'), otherwise you'll need to enter these
10) Go into Games List Options and hit 'Refresh Games List'

In case you don't know to navigate MAMEWAH use cursors, and 1 to select, 2 to bring up / back out of the options menu.

Next you will probably want to setup MAME...go into a command prompt and do this (assuming MAME is in c:\mame):

c:
cd\mame
mame -cc

Then you can edit the generated mame.ini file using Notepad or similar, to setup MAME as you wish.

I think that's it :)