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Title: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 04, 2005, 11:50:57 am: I was playing with Johnny5 yesterday, and I discovered that if I used an executable other than mame.exe, my buttons would not get labelled. I would still see the game full name, joystick type, maybe the details (I can't remember) but no button labels.
I tried it with mamepp.exe (v0.92 if it matters) and my own build of buddamame 0.92 (which I called mameatxp.exe because it's optimized for Athlon XP)
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on October 04, 2005, 12:02:24 pm: Did you change the name that Johnny5 is looking for by typing mameatxp.exe on the Options>Viewer form?
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 04, 2005, 12:04:47 pm: I manually edited the .cfg file, is that what the menu option you're talking about does?
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on October 04, 2005, 12:06:13 pm: Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 04, 2005, 12:04:47 pm
I manually edited the .cfg file, is that what the menu option you're talking about does?
Yep. . .
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am: Mame's ini file needs to be in place for the viewer to work as well. Mameatxp.exe should have a Mameatxp.ini What makes this more confusing is the fact that recently mame changed it's code so that it looks for both the default mame.ini and the exename.ini

I haven't checked my code (j5 is dormant again) but it's probablylooking for one and finding the other or vice versa or not finding either.

Quite honestly, I don't really test for that since I always rename a build to mame.exe as I test at the command prompt and mameatxp is too much to type. :)
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: papaschtroumpf on October 05, 2005, 10:44:59 am: Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am
Quite honestly, I don't really test for that since I always rename a build to mame.exe as I test at the command prompt and mameatxp is too much to type. :)

That's what the up key is for ;)

That's probably the problem, even though the exe is mameatxp.ini, the ini file is still mame.ini, because I can then use any build of mame with the same ini (the official mame jsut outputs a few warnings that some ofthe buddamame options are unknown)
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: Tiger-Heli on October 05, 2005, 10:50:41 am: Quote from: papaschtroumpf on October 05, 2005, 10:44:59 am
That's what the up key is for ;)
Zing!!! (Nice retort, although I'm sure Howard meant that he has to reopen the command prompt and retype).
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: u_rebelscum on October 06, 2005, 07:44:29 pm: Quote from: Howard_Casto on October 05, 2005, 12:32:47 am
... What makes this more confusing is the fact that recently mame changed it's code so that it looks for both the default mame.ini and the exename.ini ...

Recently? ;) Mame was reading both since version 0.61 (over three years ago).
Title: Re: Johnny5: MAME must be mame.exe?
Post by: Howard_Casto on October 06, 2005, 11:16:03 pm: Yeah, I know, but it all blurs together at this point. For me anything over 37b15 is recently. ;)