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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: Taborious on December 28, 2007, 08:52:56 pm
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I have an arcade and everything runs fine with mamewah (version 1.61) as the frontend, all roms, no filtered lists.
I built a new mini-arcade for nephews for xmas and I only have a 10gb drive in the new system and of course, only want certain games for the kids. So I copied over my mame and mamewah folder from the working system to the new system, it worked ok, BUT, once I deleted ALL the roms in the roms folder and just copied in the roms i want to be played I can't get a list of JUST those new roms. I looked in mame32.ini and at the bottom i see a list of ALL roms not just mine and if i delete it just recreates the ini file. I followed the directions in the mamewah FAQ for generating a list, start mamewah > 2 > 1 > 1 (generate list) but nothing. I deleted all the ini files in /mamewah/ini/0000.ini & 0000-0.ini and recreated them empty and tried to generate the mamewah list again from mamewah but it still show no available games..... HELP
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Maybe the files are set to read only? Use this tool to remove it and try again. Remove Read Only.zip (http://www.divshare.com/download/3266367-74a)
Also, did you make sure you had the correct rom paths in mamewah's ini files.
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Path is correct, because if i generate the list from the mamewah config utility; forget the name, it generates a list of ALL the mame games and if i select one i know exists out of the list it works, but I just can't get the list to generate JUST the games in the roms folder.
I ran the read only app but it made no changes, the app showed there was nothing changed and i went and checked and there were no read only files.
One thing that I found weird is, im using mame32, whwn i run mame32 and audit the games it finds only the new games. From the command line when i run mame32 -listxml or -listinfo or -list or -listgames, i get nothing.
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I guess they didn't get their christmas present? :badmood:
Anyways you could also try changing the list generation method to rom_folder_vs_dat_file.
You can download the dat file for your mame version here. (http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/MAMEBeta/MAMEBetaHistory.php) Then just modify your ini file to point to the dat file.
### mame.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###
emulator_title mame
### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path E:\videogames\mame37\roms
rom_extension zip
dat_file E:\videogames\mame37\mame37.dat
nms_file
catver_ini_file
list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_dat_file
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Well, I can generate a Full game list, it's generating the psuedo filtered on. I cleaned out the roms forlder and only have the .zip files there that i want the kids to be able to play. Now with that setup I can not generate a game list. For some reason it doesn't look in the roms folder to generate the list, not sure where it is looking.
This is from the mamewah log:
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM MAMEWAH launched
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Cursor scheme: Windows Default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Desktop colour: 0
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Wallpaper filename:
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Display mode: 1680x1050 @ 60Hz, 16 bit colour
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Decimal symbol: '.'
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Games list read: mame-0.lst
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Layout selected: D:\Mamewah\layouts\Classic 640x480\layout.lay
1/3/2008 12:15:49 PM Ctrlr file selected: D:\Mamewah\ctrlr\default.ini
1/3/2008 12:15:52 PM Commandline run: CMD.EXE /c D:\mame32\mame32.exe -listinfo > D:\Mamewah\mame.dat {flags=17}
1/3/2008 12:15:52 PM Games list read: mame-0.lst
1/3/2008 12:15:55 PM MAMEWAH quit
So it has a game list set for read, mame-0.lst, but that file does not exist. and I dont know how to create that file for mamewah to read. All the mame command line options don't generate any output. mame32.exe -list show nothing...
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I donwloaded mame instead of mame32 and for whatever reason that seemed to work...