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Title: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: Stobe on July 18, 2005, 10:19:27 am

Is there a way to have a cross platform (cross emu) list setup in MameWAH.

For example, if I wanted to make a list for my kids including a few NES games, a few genesis games, etc.

Would be handy for me.

Thanks,
Stobe

Title: Re: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: DaemonCollector on July 18, 2005, 10:23:02 am

There is no actuall support for this built into MameWah, but there are ways to get it to work. You can make the list and create a folder of batch files for that list. Set Mamewah to read .bat as the rom extension and make each bat call the emulator it needs to for the game.

Title: Re: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: Stobe on July 18, 2005, 10:33:02 am

Cool idea.

So I guess you'd create an .ini for a dummy emu that has the lost looking for batch files?  Then the batch files will have to call the commandline verbose for the given emu/game?

Sounds straight forward enough.

Now if I can just get the layouts to switch when switching emus....  more reading to do, lol.

-Stobe

Title: Re: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: Minwah on July 18, 2005, 11:10:47 am

Quote from: Stobe on July 18, 2005, 10:33:02 am

So I guess you'd create an .ini for a dummy emu that has the lost looking for batch files?  Then the batch files will have to call the commandline verbose for the given emu/game?

Yeah, you could call the emulator 'All Games' or something.

You should be able to find an example batch file here or at the AOS/Mamewah board...don't ask me as I'm not big on batch files!

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Now if I can just get the layouts to switch when switching emus....  more reading to do, lol.

Yeah, see layouts.txt - it's all in the naming of your .lay and .jpg (or whatever background image format) files.

Title: Re: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: jcroach on July 18, 2005, 05:24:22 pm

I've been thinking about trying to do this for a while.  You may have inspired me.

Quote from: DaemonCollector on July 18, 2005, 10:23:02 am

There is no actuall support for this built into MameWah, but there are ways to get it to work. You can make the list and create a folder of batch files for that list. Set Mamewah to read .bat as the rom extension and make each bat call the emulator it needs to for the game.

Title: Re: Cross-Platform Custom List in MameWAH ?
Post by: DaemonCollector on July 18, 2005, 10:02:56 pm

I have that effect on people