Other emulators in MAMEWAH

[pointdablame]

I've been trying to get other emus to work in MAMEWAH, and I am having no luck at all. I was following the stuff on stuzza's site for settings, and I know my paths are correct. I've tried with FCE Ultra and VBA so far, and they both come up with an error when I try to refresh the game list. Something like "trouble opening -listinfo" or some such.  

Can someone please help me? I have no idea what I'm doing and would really love to get my other emus running through MAMEWAH (ideally NES, SNES, Genesis, Atari2600, GBA)  I know people can do it, so if you wouldn't mind helping me out, I'd appreciate it.

[Cave]

have you made sure that the "list generation method" is set to rom folder only, you can change this when mamewah is running if you go through the menus.

[pointdablame]

I'm not sure if I did that or not. I'll have to check when I get out of work. Thanks for your help.

Any other settings I could be forgetting?

And while I'm at it, will any of the following emulators just NOT work well with MAMEWAH. If not, I could prolly save myself some frustration and just find another emu.

zSNES
FCE Ultra
Visual Boy Advance
Gens
z26

Thanks for any help you can give me.

[stuzza]

I run all of those emulators through Mamewah without a problem.  As Cave said, it sounds like your list generation method is wrong.  Also ensure you have show dos box set to yes - this seems to solve a lot of issues

[Minwah]

I run all of those emulators through Mamewah without a problem.  As Cave said, it sounds like your list generation method is wrong.  Also ensure you have show dos box set to yes - this seems to solve a lot of issues

Correct

Although you do not need to 'Show DOS Box' for (Windows) MAME, or ZSNES.  Gens requires it, I'm not sure about the others mentioned...

[Isometric Bacon]

For some reason I get an odd error with Visual Boy Advance too.

When I try to load a game, it comes up with a message saying that it is an unsupported filetype... even though it works perfectly through Visual boy itself... I would say it because it isn't sending the file extension... (it says unsupported rom e.g. C:\GBA\ROMS\SONIC without the .gba extention..)  but i've filled with the Mamewah settings and I have "send file extension" and everything else set to yes.

Any help?  

[Minwah]

For some reason I get an odd error with Visual Boy Advance too.

When I try to load a game, it comes up with a message saying that it is an unsupported filetype... even though it works perfectly through Visual boy itself... I would say it because it isn't sending the file extension... (it says unsupported rom e.g. C:\GBA\ROMS\SONIC without the .gba extention..)  but i've filled with the Mamewah settings and I have "send file extension" and everything else set to yes.

Any help?  

Open the file 'debug.log' inside the MAMEWAH folder to see what MAMEWAH is doing (after running a game)...

Try running the emu from a commandline also, you can then try to 'match up' what you did with what MAMEWAH does.

[Isometric Bacon]

For some reason I get an odd error with Visual Boy Advance too.

When I try to load a game, it comes up with a message saying that it is an unsupported filetype... even though it works perfectly through Visual boy itself... I would say it because it isn't sending the file extension... (it says unsupported rom e.g. C:\GBA\ROMS\SONIC without the .gba extention..)  but i've filled with the Mamewah settings and I have "send file extension" and everything else set to yes.

Any help?  

Open the file 'debug.log' inside the MAMEWAH folder to see what MAMEWAH is doing (after running a game)...

Try running the emu from a commandline also, you can then try to 'match up' what you did with what MAMEWAH does.

Thanks for the help. According to the log it "seems" to be doing everything okay... but it still has the problem.

"C:\MAMEWAH\GBA\VISUAL~1.EXE C:\MAMEWAH\GBA\ROMS\SONIC ADVANCE.GBA
" Is what comes up in the log.

Also, how do you mean running it via command line? I understand what a command line is, (e,g. Mame.exe -noborder) or something along those lines, but I don't understand what you mean in this context...

Do you mean make a batch file? or somehow put an extra command line on the end of the emulator executable?

[stuzza]

Are you running Windows 98??  If so, try setting "Use Long filenames" to No (False in the cfg file).

From your line:

"C:\MAMEWAH\GBA\VISUAL~1.EXE C:\MAMEWAH\GBA\ROMS\SONIC ADVANCE.GBA
" Is what comes up in the log.

It looks like you are using long filenames ie, the "SONIC ADVANCE.GBA" is in long format, not dos 8.3 style.

[Minwah]

Also, how do you mean running it via command line? I understand what a command line is, (e,g. Mame.exe -noborder) or something along those lines, but I don't understand what you mean in this context...

Do you mean make a batch file? or somehow put an extra command line on the end of the emulator executable?

What I meant was, go into MS-DOS Prompt (Win98) or Command Prompt (2k/XP).  It is usually within Start > Programs > Accessories.

You need to run the emulator directly, from a commandline rather than MAMEWAH...

I won't bother to explain further because I think in this case Stuzza is right - set 'Use Long Filenames' to 'No'.  I just looked back at your earlier post and you said VBA was saying 'C:\GBA\ROMS\SONIC' not a valid rom or whatever - it is cutting off the part after the space.

[Isometric Bacon]

Okay, that worked a treat. Thankyou very much I really appreciate all the stuff you guys do for the community.

Also, is there anyway I can remove the file bar on Visual boy Advance, and also allow it to escape on pushing exit? I've heard of wrappers, where could I find one of these?

Thanks for your time.

[Spaced Invader]

Okay, that worked a treat. Thankyou very much I really appreciate all the stuff you guys do for the community.

Also, is there anyway I can remove the file bar on Visual boy Advance, and also allow it to escape on pushing exit? I've heard of wrappers, where could I find one of these?

Thanks for your time.

Have you tried Girder? I think it can be used for what you want...and much more. Find it here:

http://www.girder.nl/

Hope this helps!