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Title: MAMEWah 1.61 and MAME 0.109 don't play nicely?
Post by: thebrownshow on November 01, 2006, 07:47:34 pm

Please forgive any attitude I may have here, but I've spent the last few days ripping my hair out and I think I just NOW realized what's going on...

Working on a new machine here, figured it'd be a good time to get everything up to date, roms, emulators, even good ol' MAMEWah.  After configuring all my other emulators, I left MAME for last, and have been having a hell of a time getting the game list to generate.  After searching and searching and searching, I think I've finally realized that the listxml method for MAME is different and needs a beta version of MAMEWah (1.62) that isn't available on http://mamewah.mameworld.net/downloads.htm where I downloaded the "latest" a few weeks ago.

Am I correct in this?

I also noticed, while configuring everything, that the ini files on http://www.emuchrist.org/cpviewer/downloads.htm weren't exactly matching up with MAMEWah 1.61... which now makes sense.  New version of MAME, new super-secret version of MAMEWah with all new config options as well. 

Can someone please explain what the heck is going on?  If I get the new version of MAMEWah from wherever, will I have to redo all of the other emulators that I already have set up?

 :timebomb:

Title: Re: MAMEWah 1.61 and MAME 0.109 don't play nicely?
Post by: Banacek on November 01, 2006, 10:06:32 pm

Go here for the beta, works much better:

http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=84904&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1&new=1162362372

Title: Re: MAMEWah 1.61 and MAME 0.109 don't play nicely?
Post by: thebrownshow on November 02, 2006, 08:24:13 am

I actually got it working using xml2info (http://mame.3feetunder.com/xml2info/) and using the rom_folder_vs_xml2info list generation method and everything seems to work just fine.

Just a quick suggestion for Minwah, and I'm really not trying to be an unappreciative ---tallywhacker--- or anything, but it'd be really nice if you could just throw a quick note up on your site about that issue.  I spent entirely too much time checking paths and other things while saying to myself that it *should* work.  :banghead:

Other than that, MAMEWah is, as the cool kids say, "da bomb".  :applaud: