mamewah list error

[btoddkelley]

I updated mame to 81 (using anlog mame and mamwah) and when i try to generate a new list i get runtime error 62. This only happens when using rom folder vs list info. Works fine when using rom folder only.(but you don't get the full names) I deleted all of the files in mamewahs file folder, started over and it still happens. (I did put the cfgs back after i figured out that it still wouldn't work).
Any thoughts?

Thanks
Todd

[screaming]

I updated mame to 81 (using anlog mame and mamwah) and when i try to generate a new list i get runtime error 62. This only happens when using rom folder vs list info. Works fine when using rom folder only.(but you don't get the full names) I deleted all of the files in mamewahs file folder, started over and it still happens. (I did put the cfgs back after i figured out that it still wouldn't work).
Any thoughts?

Thanks
Todd

Are you sure the path and filename of your mame executable is set correctly in your EMU*.cfg file?

/steve

[btoddkelley]

I can play games from the list. I just cannot generate a list with the full names of the games. (rom folder vs list info). Generate the list fine with "rom folder only".


Thanks
todd

[btoddkelley]

The problem is with analog mame. When I use regular mame it works fine. Any thoughts on why software guru's?


Todd

[moloch]

I have tried to use Mamewah on two separate machines and I keep getting the same error:

Run-time error

[Minwah]

BTodd: are you running Win98?

I wonder if this is a '98 specific problem, possibly related to another error (usually Run Time 75)...I posted a fix for that one which might work...hold on while I try to find it...

[Minwah]

OK try this:

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

c:
cd\mame
mame > temp
exit

Then run the batch file *before* MAMEWAH for the first time after boot-up.

If it doesn't work 1st time, delete the contents of the \Files folder, reboot and try again.  Please let me know how it goes...

[btoddkelley]

I am using XP. I concluded it was a problem with  analog mame in my case. Once i switched to regular mame it worked fine. When a new Analog mame is released I will try it again.


Todd

[Minwah]

I am using XP. I concluded it was a problem with  analog mame in my case. Once i switched to regular mame it worked fine. When a new Analog mame is released I will try it again.

That's pretty odd.  I take it Analog MAME's -listinfo (& other 'standard' switches) work the same as regular MAME?

[moloch]

I was just going to edit my autoexec.bat to start mamewah. I do not know how to just make a batch file. I am guessing that I just make a ".bat" file out of notepad with your instructions and have autoexec.bat call it during boot.

I saw mamewah running on an old machine at my work and I now know what it should look like, and I never got it to run on either of the two machines that I have tried. I just got a blank white screen.

[Minwah]

I was just going to edit my autoexec.bat to start mamewah. I do not know how to just make a batch file. I am guessing that I just make a ".bat" file out of notepad with your instructions and have autoexec.bat call it during boot.

I saw mamewah running on an old machine at my work and I now know what it should look like, and I never got it to run on either of the two machines that I have tried. I just got a blank white screen.

Yes a batch file is just a text file with .bat as the extension.  If you're using Windows to make it make sure it doesn't do that stupid hide the extension thing - you could end up with mamewah.bat.txt...

Don't call it in autoexec.bat, unless I am mistaken I think that only works until Windows boots.  Add the batch file to your Windows Startup folder instead.

[btoddkelley]

I am using XP. I concluded it was a problem with  analog mame in my case. Once i switched to regular mame it worked fine. When a new Analog mame is released I will try it again.

That's pretty odd.  I take it Analog MAME's -listinfo (& other 'standard' switches) work the same as regular MAME?

I don't know if they do or not. I had only used analog mame a couple times before. It worked in .79. Before mamewah I was (I hate to admit) a Mame32 guy.

Todd

[moloch]

I finally had time to work on my mame machine last night. I got Mamewah to work by deleting all of the files in the files directory. I did not try the batch file trick, because I finally got it to work.