Old Mame on mamewah + I'm daft newbie

[Bucky]

Dear All,
I have a full set of MAME Roms built for Mame 0.53 -  some 3000+ games. I have now finshed my cocktail table and wish to sort the software. I'm using Mamewah and windows MAME.53
I have a few problems,
 1st  I can't sort the games, I'd like to divide them into Vertical and horizontal games. I've seen the custom filters on Mamewah but i can't get them to work. Do I need some kind of dat file?

 Also some games are too small on screen and I'd like to change the resolution. How can I do this?

I'd like to delete non working roms is there some backwardly compatible file I could run to delete them?

Also just interested - can you manually alter the individual "arcaderom".cfg files?

Thanks for your time responding to my probably daft questions?

Chris

[Minwah]

Dear All,
I have a full set of MAME Roms built for Mame 0.53 -  some 3000+ games. I have now finshed my cocktail table and wish to sort the software. I'm using Mamewah and windows MAME.53
I have a few problems,

1)  1st  I can't sort the games, I'd like to divide them into Vertical and horizontal games. I've seen the custom filters on Mamewah but i can't get them to work. Do I need some kind of dat file?

2) Also some games are too small on screen and I'd like to change the resolution. How can I do this?

3) I'd like to delete non working roms is there some backwardly compatible file I could run to delete them?

4) Also just interested - can you manually alter the individual "arcaderom".cfg files?

Thanks for your time responding to my probably daft questions?

1) No dat file required, just set your List Generation Method to 'ROM Folder vs Listinfo (MAME)'.  Then refresh the list, select a custom list and filter it (all within Games List Options).

2) Do 'mame -cc' at a command prompt to generate a default mame.ini file.  Create further gamename.ini files with eg 'resolution ?x?' to force specific resolutions.

3) The easiest way is just to filter them out (you might want to keep them for when/if they do work).  Use the General Status filter.

4) I think you can only do this from within MAME itself, since they are binary files.

[Bucky]

Thanks for the reply.
To my question
2) Also some games are too small on screen and I'd like to change the resolution. How can I do this?
2) Do 'mame -cc' at a command prompt to generate a default mame.ini file.  Create further gamename.ini files with eg 'resolution ?x?' to force specific resolutions.

So let me get this right if I create a mame default .ini file and what ?rename it to the rom I want to change the resolution on. Then when I run mame it will automatically use that gamename.ini instead of the default?
And If that's the case. Is there a program that will automatically read my roms and produce gamename.ini's for all my rotated games, etc
Or have I got this a wrong

[crkoa]

I just found a trick that may help you in what you are looking for. If you go to the configuration in mamewah under Emulator Settings > Execution Settings > Default Options and type in -resolution 1024x768 (or whatever resolution you run your desktop at) the games will take up as much of the screen as possible. You can also add the -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo there as well to eliminate the nag screens.

Hope this helps

[Minwah]

Thanks for the reply.
To my question
2) Also some games are too small on screen and I'd like to change the resolution. How can I do this?
2) Do 'mame -cc' at a command prompt to generate a default mame.ini file.  Create further gamename.ini files with eg 'resolution ?x?' to force specific resolutions.

So let me get this right if I create a mame default .ini file and what ?rename it to the rom I want to change the resolution on. Then when I run mame it will automatically use that gamename.ini instead of the default?
And If that's the case. Is there a program that will automatically read my roms and produce gamename.ini's for all my rotated games, etc
Or have I got this a wrong

Well you don't really NEED to do mame -cc...I guess that is just a recommendation.  This will produce the INI file which will hold all of your *default* settings - having the INI makes it easy to adjust things.

Then just create a blank textfile containing eg 'resolution 640x480' and any other stuff you need (refer to your default INI file for syntax), and save for each individual game which differs from the default.

AFAIK There is no program to automatically make the INI's for you, but remember you can use driver names, and parent rom INI's will apply to clones too.

Hope that makes sense...