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Title: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: emopants92 on August 04, 2008, 08:48:42 pm

Ok I am using mamewah fe with mame commandline. And everytime I click the rom on the mamewah screen it goes to the select a game screen on mame. How do I get the game to run not the menu screen in mame?

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: Minwah on August 05, 2008, 03:58:34 pm

Sounds like it is not running the correct commandline (or romname) for some reason.  Have a look in mamewah.log and see what is going on...post it here if you need a hand.

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: emopants92 on August 05, 2008, 11:49:49 pm

I have bolded what I think is the part thats having some kind of error sending me to my mame menu.

8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM MAMEWAH v1.63 launched
8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM Cursor scheme: Windows default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM Desktop colour: 9981440
8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM Wallpaper filename:
8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM Desktop display mode: 800x600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour
8/5/2008 3:53:30 PM Decimal symbol: '.'
8/5/2008 3:53:31 PM Games list read: mame-0.lst
8/5/2008 3:53:33 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/5/2008 3:53:33 PM Layout selected: C:\Documents and Settings\ArcadeCabinet\Desktop\MameWah\config\mame\\layout.lay
8/5/2008 3:53:34 PM No. joystick devices attached: 0
8/5/2008 3:53:34 PM Ctrlr file selected: C:\Documents and Settings\ArcadeCabinet\Desktop\MameWah\config\mamewah.cfg
8/5/2008 3:53:34 PM Keyboard enabled
8/5/2008 3:53:36 PM Current drive/directory selected: C:\Arcade\Mame
8/5/2008 3:53:36 PM Commandline run: C:\Arcade\Mame\mame.exe {flags=210}
8/5/2008 3:54:13 PM Application quit: C:\Arcade\Mame\mame.exe
8/5/2008 3:54:13 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/5/2008 3:54:14 PM Mode 640 x 480 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/5/2008 3:54:18 PM Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 1 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
8/5/2008 3:54:24 PM MAMEWAH quit

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: Minwah on August 06, 2008, 07:26:30 am

Quote from: emopants92 on August 05, 2008, 11:49:49 pm

8/5/2008 3:53:36 PM Commandline run: C:\Arcade\Mame\mame.exe {flags=210}

You are right, this line indicates no rom name is being sent.

The default \config\mame\mame.ini file is preset to an extend, but the relevant line should look as follows:

emulator_commandline                      c:\arcade\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: emopants92 on August 06, 2008, 11:48:28 am

YEAH! I found out that I had {noodoslaunch} so I fixed the extra O part and everything is ok! OH one quick question I have a very old computer that orignally had windows me on it. It has 64 mb of ram and a Nvidia TNT 2 graphics card. And noticed that on some games like Donkey Kong, The sound has a skipping and echo effect. How do I fix that, Is it because my ram is to low and its having trouble with the frame rate because I was conisidering puting in 512 mb more into the ram?

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: gonzo90017 on August 06, 2008, 12:46:04 pm

Might be your processor. Try using an older version of Mame. Like mame 0.55.

Title: Re: MameWah help. When go to a game it goes to mame menu screen?
Post by: emopants92 on August 07, 2008, 04:08:58 pm

Yes that fixed thanks, i tried .55 but couldnt get it to work with mamewah. So I tried mame.103 and it works thanks.