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Title: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: MPTech on November 12, 2008, 06:45:19 pm

I was hoping this would be a simple upgrade, but it's not working out that way.

XP died (actually it got gorky and really sluggish) and since I have my 200g drive partitioned with only the OS (XP SP3) on the C Drive, I just reformatted that partition and re-installed XP. Got that stabilized and couldn't run MAMEWAH, so I re-downloaded the System Files and the latest MAMEWAH. I had been running 1.61, so I thought I would just install 1.63 and copy all of my old folders to my new MAMEWAH folder..................  Not so simple.
I was running out of time last night (it was almost 1am) and before I did something stupid, I thought I'd sleep on it and try it again tonite when I get home from work.

Can anyone explain to me how the folder structure changed and save me alot of work? (I think that's what happened, but as I said, I haven't dug into it yet). If it was only MAME, I go ahead and make the jump to MALA (I've been meaning to do it anyway and I've actually started), but I also have VPinball, Future Pinball, Sega, Atari, NES SNES, etc. and I'm not ready to invest all of that time yet.

Thanks! 

Title: Re: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: gonzo90017 on November 13, 2008, 12:40:54 pm

I made a package with most emulators using Mamewah 1.6213b. (I didn't find a reason to upgrade to 1.63).
Info here http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=74982.0
Project page here: http://www.marcianitos.org/foro/showthread.php?t=10321

But basically the folder structure change a lot.  Here's what it looks like:
(http://thumbnails9.imagebam.com/1824/a2c48d18231315.gif) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/a2c48d18231315)
(http://thumbnails6.imagebam.com/1824/b009c918231316.gif) (http://www.imagebam.com/image/b009c918231316)
As you can see. Every emulator now has it's own folder inside the config folder. And all of the emulator's files are inside that folder. Mamewah>config>emulator>all its files.

Title: Re: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on November 13, 2008, 02:02:25 pm

Better U360 support, for one.

Title: Re: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: MPTech on November 13, 2008, 03:18:40 pm

Gonzo, this is great!  You may have just answered my prayers!
 :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

I didn't get a chance to mess with it last night, but I'm hoping to do so tonite.

Thanks Again!

Title: Re: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: um3k on November 13, 2008, 09:05:33 pm

docs/config.txt also has some bare bones documentation of the new locations for config files, ini, layouts, etc.

Title: Re: MAMEWAH 1.63 vs 1.61, what changed?
Post by: liquid8 on November 15, 2008, 12:39:33 am

check out this wiki article: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mamewah_Beta

It hasn't been updated recently, but that will show you the big "changes" :)


-liquid8