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Title: mamewah game names
Post by: dan57fina on June 10, 2005, 03:41:36 pm
is there any way to change mamewah so that it reads the game name and not its rom name? i'm using mamewah config if it helps.
any help would be greatly appriciated.
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: sc1103 on June 10, 2005, 10:10:34 pm
what emulator?
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 10, 2005, 10:27:18 pm
For consoles if you create a custom list it will truncate all the junk off the end by default.

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: dan57fina on June 11, 2005, 12:52:34 pm
my console list is fine...but in mame it just reads the rom name instead of the game. thanks for the replies
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 11, 2005, 01:14:30 pm
What type of list generation method are you using in your MameWAH's mame.ini file? Try one of the others like rom_folder_vs_dat_file.

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: sc1103 on June 11, 2005, 02:30:17 pm
Alternatively, you can run a rom folder vs. -listxml for after ~.84 mame i believe, otherwise you can run a rom folder vs. -listinfo
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: Steve Kaz on June 11, 2005, 03:56:47 pm
I'm having the same thing now because the mamewah config couldn't find the dat file and i had to check "rom only" to get it to keep going forward with the emulator setup.

Where is the dat file usually kept (as i can't have it update via the internet because my cab isn't online)
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 11, 2005, 04:03:18 pm
You generate it like I said in my above post. You be better using the method in the previous post if you didn't understand my post. I'd say the best place for it is in the mame folder but YOU need to generate it!

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: spriggy on June 12, 2005, 11:21:45 am
Alternatively, you can run a rom folder vs. -listxml for after ~.84 mame i believe, otherwise you can run a rom folder vs. -listinfo

..for info, I'm using rom folder vs. -listxml with 0.71 without problems.
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: sc1103 on June 12, 2005, 11:33:35 am
Alternatively, you can run a rom folder vs. -listxml for after ~.84 mame i believe, otherwise you can run a rom folder vs. -listinfo

..for info, I'm using rom folder vs. -listxml with 0.71 without problems.


Ok I'm just going by Screaming's Config, which says pre-84 use listinfo and post.84 use listxml
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 12, 2005, 12:12:06 pm
Scremaing is correct. It moved to listxml at 0.84.

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: dan57fina on June 12, 2005, 06:35:05 pm
thanks for all the responses. this may seem dumb but, where would i find the file for listxml?
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 12, 2005, 07:01:00 pm
"-listxml" is a command-line switch for mame. If you using version 0.84 or later you don't need a file. MameWAH will do what it need. Just set you list generation method to rom_folder_vs_listxml (I think that right).

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: spriggy on June 12, 2005, 09:21:05 pm
"-listxml" is a command-line switch for mame. If you using version 0.84 or later you don't need a file. MameWAH will do what it need. Just set you list generation method to rom_folder_vs_listxml (I think that right).

John

..in my case...that's bizzare then!? ???
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: Minwah on June 14, 2005, 05:55:51 pm
in my case...that's bizzare then!? ???

Yeah very strange...it shouldn't work!  ???
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: spriggy on June 14, 2005, 08:55:22 pm
in my case...that's bizzare then!? ???

Yeah very strange...it shouldn't work!
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: jcrouse on June 14, 2005, 09:41:21 pm
Just curious, R U also using a DAT file (listed in your ini). Kinda a dumb question but I have to ask.

John
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: spriggy on June 15, 2005, 02:36:29 am
Just curious, R U also using a DAT file (listed in your ini). Kinda a dumb question but I have to ask.

John

Nope...no Mame.dat file used.   I am pointing to catver.ini...but thats about it over the default settings.
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: Veinman on June 15, 2005, 08:15:39 am
I just started trying to configure mamewah for the first time tonight, using the mameconfig app. I got it to build a gamelist, but when I added a game, it didn't update the list. I couldn't see how to make it do that. Do I have to do that outside of the config app?
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: Minwah on June 15, 2005, 02:39:44 pm
I just started trying to configure mamewah for the first time tonight, using the mameconfig app. I got it to build a gamelist, but when I added a game, it didn't update the list. I couldn't see how to make it do that. Do I have to do that outside of the config app?

What do you mean 'added a game'?  If you just added a rom into your roms folder you need to regenerate the list.
Title: Re: mamewah game names
Post by: Veinman on June 16, 2005, 08:11:16 am
That's exactly what I want to do. My question is that I didn't see how to regen the list from the Mamewah Config app. It's fine if I need to do it manually, but if the config app will do it, then that would be great. :)