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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: electricd on September 22, 2004, 10:43:41 am

Title: PC Games in new Mamewah
Post by: electricd on September 22, 2004, 10:43:41 am

I am trying to get my PC games into the new MameWah (had it working in the older version).  For some reason, the games are not showing up.  Here is my PC.ini file contents:

### PC.ini ###

emulator_title                            PC

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\mamewah\PCShortcuts
rom_extension                             lnk
dat_file                                  
nms_file                                  
catver_ini_file                          
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
emulator_executable                       PC
send_rom_path                             1
send_rom_extension                        1
quotes_around_romnames                    1
long_filenames                            1
show_dos_box                              no
default_options                          
extra_options_1                          
extra_options_2                          

### Artwork Locations ###
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\mamewah\PCShortcuts\snap
artwork_2_image_path                      
artwork_3_image_path                      
artwork_4_image_path                      
artwork_5_image_path                      
artwork_6_image_path                      
artwork_7_image_path                      
artwork_8_image_path                      
artwork_9_image_path                      
artwork_10_image_path                    
movie_preview_path                        
movie_artwork_no                          1

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
saver_type                                slideshow
scr_file                                  
wrapper_executable                        
wrapper_options                          
movie_path                                

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                                
controls_dat_viewer_executable            
controls_dat_viewer_options              
auto_launch_controls_dat_viewer           1
ipc_file_or_path                          
lcd_display_file_path                    
lcd_fe_text                              

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              1


I can confirm that the lnk files exist in the roms directory.  Thanks in advance!

Title: Re:PC Games in new Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on September 22, 2004, 11:20:49 am

Quote from: electricd on September 22, 2004, 10:43:41 am

current_list                              1

Change this to 0, and then in Games List Options, make sure you hit 'Generate List', and not 'Generate Filtered List...'

Title: Re:PC Games in new Mamewah
Post by: electricd on September 22, 2004, 11:42:10 am

sorry Minwah, I am an idiot somtimes...i did that and now voila it works.  Thanks for a great frontend!

Title: Re:PC Games in new Mamewah
Post by: Minwah on September 22, 2004, 11:47:02 am

Quote from: electricd on September 22, 2004, 11:42:10 am

sorry Minwah, I am an idiot somtimes...i did that and now voila it works.  Thanks for a great frontend!

No worries, had me scratching my head for a minute or two...