HELP PLEASE ! ! !

[reggietye]

I am using Mamewah with command line Mame (both the latest releases) on a newly formatted Win98 machine (trying to use Mamewah is probably more accurate).  Before you ask, I have everything configured properly.

Here is the problem I am having:

Start Mamewah the first time.  Verify the ROMs and start playing games.  Everything works great.  Shutdown or reboot the computer.  Now try to run Mamewah and launch a rom and get error 75 (Invalid Path or something).  Click 'OK' and Mamewah exits ungracefully.  I say ungracefully because when trying to load the ROM it created a verify file, had some sort of problem with it, and then exited (without releasing the lock on the verify file).  So, now I have to reboot.  Reboot and then delete the verify file.  Start Mamewah again with the same results.  It creates the verify file again when trying to load a ROM.  Reboot once more.  This time (after rebooting) delete the verify file along with an .lst file which was generated for emulator 1.  Now start up Mamewah.  No ROMS are visible because I deleted the lst file.  So I regenerate the list and play the ROMS just fine.  Close Mamewah. Start Mamewah again and try to play a ROM.  Works great.  No verify file is created.  Now Reboot the computer and start Mamewah again.  Try to execute a ROM.  You guessed it, Mamewah gives the error 75 and crashes (after creating the verify file).  What can I do to solve this issue?

[Minwah]

You're right, this isn't your fault - it is a somewhat known problem which affects *some* Win98 users.  Give this workaround a try:

Make a batch file which does something like (substitute your mame path etc.):

c:
cd\mame
mame > temp
exit

Then try running this batch file before MAMEWAH for the first time after boot-up.

I believe this cured the problem for those who had it up to now - please post back either way.

PS Welcome to the board

[reggietye]

Thanks for the speedy reply.  I will try this evening after work and let you know what happens.

[reggietye]

Your suggestion did work for me.  I wanted to Shell Mamewah but I didn't think it was going to work because of the requirement to run the batch file before running Mamewah.  So what I did is this:

Added the line run=c:\mamewah.bat (where mamewah.bat contains the code you sent me) to win.ini file.  Then added shortcut to mamewah to my startup folder.  

This works great.  It is the closest I could get to shelling.  Do you have any suggestions for me to truly Shell Mamewah and still run this batch file prior?

Thanks

[Minwah]

Your suggestion did work for me.  I wanted to Shell Mamewah but I didn't think it was going to work because of the requirement to run the batch file before running Mamewah.  So what I did is this:

Added the line run=c:\mamewah.bat (where mamewah.bat contains the code you sent me) to win.ini file.  Then added shortcut to mamewah to my startup folder.  

This works great.  It is the closest I could get to shelling.  Do you have any suggestions for me to truly Shell Mamewah and still run this batch file prior?

I'm not too familiar with how things load up (the order), so you know more than me...as you say you just need to make certain the batch file is run before MW...sorry I can't be any more help