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Title: Mamewah Game Lists
Post by: ponyboy32 on July 18, 2005, 06:38:43 pm

I have a bunch of roms for mame and I plan on using Mamewah for my cabinet. The zip files of my roms have shortened names, ie. bbros.zip; bstars2.zip; etc.

I want the full game name to show up in the list in Mamewah so I know which game it acutally is. Is there a way to generate a list of complete names even though I have the files with shortened names? My lists always end having the same name as the .zip files.

Title: Re: Mamewah Game Lists
Post by: giza on July 20, 2005, 08:34:05 pm

I'll try to answer this the best I can.  Find the latest version of catver.ini from http://www.catver.com/downloads.html.  Put the catver.ini in the root of your mame folder.  The catver will allow you to filter by category.  To get the complete file name, you will have to generate a .dat file of the roms you have.  I think the command to generate a .dat file is mame -listinfo|xml2dat > mame.dat. 

Once you have the .dat file, use mamewah config to generate your lists.  Sorry not too much detail, but hopefully this will get you in the right direction.

Title: Re: Mamewah Game Lists
Post by: Minwah on July 21, 2005, 06:09:52 am

Quote from: ponyboy32 on July 18, 2005, 06:38:43 pm

I want the full game name to show up in the list in Mamewah so I know which game it acutally is. Is there a way to generate a list of complete names even though I have the files with shortened names? My lists always end having the same name as the .zip files.

Use the default settings in \mamewah\ini\mame.ini .  You must have changed the list_generation_method to rom_folder in order to get your shortnames to appear - everyone has short romnames for MAME so I purposely set the correct list_gen_method ;)

Title: Re: Mamewah Game Lists
Post by: Minwah on July 21, 2005, 06:12:03 am

Quote from: giza on July 20, 2005, 08:34:05 pm

I'll try to answer this the best I can.  Find the latest version of catver.ini from http://www.catver.com/downloads.html.  Put the catver.ini in the root of your mame folder.  The catver will allow you to filter by category.

Correct, but this is not required to generate a games list.

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  To get the complete file name, you will have to generate a .dat file of the roms you have.  I think the command to generate a .dat file is mame -listinfo|xml2dat > mame.dat. 

Part right...you can do this and use a dat_file list_generation_method.  However the default (listxml_vs_rom_folder IIRC) is easier as you don't need to create a dat file yourself.

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Once you have the .dat file, use mamewah config to generate your lists.  Sorry not too much detail, but hopefully this will get you in the right direction.

It is probably easier to just hit Games List Options > Generate List in Mamewah.  Unless you are already using Mamewah Config that is.