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Title: Help with Mamewah
Post by: Josh on June 19, 2004, 04:57:01 pm

I am very new to this and am working on getting my pc ready to put in my new cabinet.  I am trying to use Mamewah as my front end.  I got mame up and running without a problem, but I am having no luck with any of the other emulators.  I am trying to configure Z26 for Atari 2600, Zsnesw for super nintendo, FCE Ultra for Nintendo, and I want to set up Wincab to use as a MP3 player.  I have modified the proper .cfg files for the emulators and pointed it to where the roms are located, but can't seem to get anything except for mame to work.  I have followed the information on screenshotarchive.com. When I tell it to refresh the game list it either has an error message or the program locks up.  Do the other emulators require the roms to be in a certain location?  I just put them in a rom folder inside of the corresponding program folder.   Are there any good sites that can halp me with these problems?  What do I have to do to set up the jukebox in Mamewah?

Is there a easy way to switch between emulators?  How will it be done with the control panel?

Thanks for any help you can provide
Josh

Title: Re:Help with Mamewah
Post by: GGKoul on June 19, 2004, 05:28:00 pm

Here's some sites that will help

http://www.mamewah-setup.co.uk/index.html

http://www.screenshotarchive.com/mwhelp.htm

Title: Re:Help with Mamewah
Post by: Josh on June 19, 2004, 09:00:29 pm

I tried those sites, but couldn't figure anything out

Title: Re:Help with Mamewah
Post by: pointdablame on June 20, 2004, 12:43:19 pm

try screenshotarchive again, download the emulators they have on the site and use those.  Follow the settings exactly.... hundreds of us have set them up using those instructions... they work.

Check your file extension perhaps?  did you unzip all your rom files and still have the setting as ".zip"  If you unzipped them, you'll have to set it to the emulator specific file type (.smc, .nes, etc)

Make sure your directory paths are spelled correctly, and use the correct slash ( "\" ), although I'm not sure that matters in MameWah... just throwing out ideas.

Title: Re:Help with Mamewah
Post by: GGKoul on June 21, 2004, 12:23:11 am

You may want to try a "Refresh Game list" when your in that emulator screen in MAMEWAH.

Also, make sure you following the settings in Screenshot.com and did you download the MAMEWAH setup utility?  As that may help you as well.

-GGKoul

Title: Re:Help with Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on June 21, 2004, 05:52:50 am

While the stuff at screenshotarchive.com is great, if you are having problems I encourage you to delete the contents of your \mamewah\files folder, and start again, but using MAMEWAH's in-built menus.  The menu system does checks to ensure your paths/filenames etc. are valid.  Editing CFG files directly avoids such checking...