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Title: VirtuaNES with MAMEWAH doesn't work anymore? YES it does.
Post by: Crazy Cooter on October 07, 2004, 01:40:41 am

I tried a couple NES emulators and have decided on VirtuaNES.  I just can't get it to work with MAMEWAH.  I'm using VirtualNES 0.92e from www.screenshotarchive.com (http://www.screenshotarchive.com) and MAMEWAH 1.51

I found settings for previous MAMEWAH versions at http://webpages.charter.net/rbecker5/emulators.html (http://webpages.charter.net/rbecker5/emulators.html) that should work.
Show DOS Box = 0
Send ROM Path = True
Use Long Filenames = True
Send ROM Extension = True

I started with a copy on my mame.ini and saved it as virtuanes.ini  with the following changes:
emulator_executable                       C:\Games\Arcade\NES\virtuanes092e\VirtuaNES.exe
send_rom_path                             1
send_rom_extension                        1
quotes_around_romnames                    0
long_filenames                            1
show_dos_box                              0

When MAMEWAH tries to fire the game through VirtuaNES, I get a VirtuaNES error saying "don't open a "rom_xx" -verify roms file".  Most of the time this is a double error.  If I open the game with just VirtuaNES, close it, and then try with MAMEWAH, I can get it to a single error (and the game loaded) only if I show dos box.

Needless to say, I'm baffled.  Is there a remnant from the copied mame.ini calling for VituaNES to verify the ROM?  Maybe the new version of MAMEWAH changed something?

[edit]
I just noticed the log file for MAMEWAH:
10/7/04 12:38:12 AM C:\GAMES\ARCADE\NES\VIRTUA~1\VIRTUA~1.EXE C:\Games\Arcade\NES\10-YARD FIGHT (U).nes
10/7/04 12:38:14 AM Error 75 Path/File access error in EMU_VerifyROMs

It doesn't help me, but maybe someone else can make sense of it?  If I just open the roms directly with VirtuaNES, they play great.

Title: Re:VirtuaNES with MAMEWAH doesn't work anymore?
Post by: Minwah on October 07, 2004, 05:43:33 am

Quote from: Crazy Cooter on October 07, 2004, 01:40:41 am

show_dos_box                              0

This should be set to 'no'.  As MAMEWAH doesn't recognise '0' for this setting, it is defaulting to 'auto', which will not work for any other emulator than MAME.

Title: Re:VirtuaNES with MAMEWAH doesn't work anymore?
Post by: Crazy Cooter on October 07, 2004, 11:18:57 am

Booyah!
Thanks Minwah.

I switched show_dos_box to "no" and enabled "switch to full screen on ROM load."

It was all my mistake, in the \mamewah\docs\ini.txt help file it lists the options for the show_dos_box as "no / yes / auto."  I just didn't catch it. :-[