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Title: MAMEWAH problems. Can anyone lend a hand?
Post by: Nikodemz on May 01, 2003, 11:14:08 am
Ok so here's my problem. I've got mamewah set up in what I think is the proper fashion but no matter game I try to start I get a "Runtime error 5, invalid argument" something or other. Now, I've heard good things about mamewah and I know the author "minwah" I believe frequents these boards so I'm hoping that someone has a solution for me. I've been using advanceMenu for a little while, with no problems but I like the idea of hiding the windows environment.

I've cleaned up all my roms with clrmamepro, and I can start all my roms through either a command line or with advanceMenu.

What am I missing in mamewah? Even the few snapshots I have are displaying correctly in mamewah I just can't get any of the games started. I use split rom sets, so I unchecked the "merged sets" in mamewah, but that didn't seem to have any effect.

Any suggestions or input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Will ???
Title: Re:MAMEWAH problems. Can anyone lend a hand?
Post by: Bill_S on May 01, 2003, 12:40:02 pm
What version of MAMEWAH are you running?
Title: Re:MAMEWAH problems. Can anyone lend a hand?
Post by: Nikodemz on May 01, 2003, 03:27:28 pm
The most recent download off the mamewah site v.90 I think, and I run Windows XP.

I just seems so strange that it isn't working. The game list displays just fine. It can distinquish clones and removes them when I check that option, it displays my screenshots from the snap directory. I looked through the cfg file (didn't change anything) to see if there was some significant that I was missing and everything looked in order. I just don't understand.

I'm some experience dinking around in the guts of programs these things, and it just seems that mamewah is so simple, and yet I can't get it working.

Thanks for the reply.

-Will
Title: Re:MAMEWAH problems. Can anyone lend a hand?
Post by: Minwah on May 02, 2003, 08:38:50 am
I haven't heard of this problem before, usually a problem in the config file will cause it to crash straight away, not letting you do anything.  Nikodemz, could you email me the 'MAMEWAH.CFG' file to minwah1959@hotmail.com for me to check out just in case ?

Cheers