mamewah 1.52 and verifyroms

[cheezeflap]

hi,
  I just upgraded from .97 to mamewah 1.52 and Im using AdvanceMAME 0.87 .   When I try to launch a game a get the error message "unknown commandline option -verifyroms".  If I hit OK then the game loads fine.   I dont think AdvanceMAME  supports this option, but I never had a problem with older versions of mamwah.   emulator is setup like so:

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.
rom_path                                  C:\EMU\MAME\ROM
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  c:\emu\mame\ADVMAME.DAT
nms_file                                  
catver_ini_file                           c:\emu\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_dat_file
emulator_executable                       c:\emu\mame\advmame.exe
send_rom_path                             0
send_rom_extension                        0
quotes_around_romnames                    0
long_filenames                            1
show_dos_box                              auto
default_options                          
extra_options_1                          
extra_options_2                          


Thanks

[Minwah]

show_dox_box auto will cause the -verifyroms switch to be used.  Switch it to 'no' and you won't have the problem...but games with bad dumps will cause MW to appear to hang.  'yes' will avoid this problem, but show the dos box always.

[cheezeflap]

show_dox_box auto will cause the -verifyroms switch to be used.  Switch it to 'no' and you won't have the problem...but games with bad dumps will cause MW to appear to hang.  'yes' will avoid this problem, but show the dos box always.

Thanks Minwah.   If I could make a feature request, maybe you can set an ini open if it should use the verifyroms switch for compatibity with AdvanceMame.  

[Minwah]

Thanks Minwah.   If I could make a feature request, maybe you can set an ini open if it should use the verifyroms switch for compatibity with AdvanceMame.  

I don't really understand why it doesn't work with AdvMAME - why have they altered it, or what have they altered it to?

[cheezeflap]

I don't really understand why it doesn't work with AdvMAME - why have they altered it, or what have they altered it to?

Its not AdvanceMame that has changed.   They never supported the -verifyroms option.   I just tested that again using an older version.   It seems that before 1.52 of Mamewah, mamewah never complained about the switch not working.

[Minwah]

Its not AdvanceMame that has changed.   They never supported the -verifyroms option.   I just tested that again using an older version.   It seems that before 1.52 of Mamewah, mamewah never complained about the switch not working.

What I meant was why have AdvMAME changed/removed if from the 'standard' MAME build?

Almost any emulator will not like it if an incorrect parameter is passed, so it's not MW's fault.  Set show_dos_box yes/no to get rid of the -verifyroms part...

[blueoakleyz]

With this verify roms things, is this what takes so long for games to load? and how do you eliminate that in dos mame? (win mame32 games start up right away)

[Minwah]

With this verify roms things, is this what takes so long for games to load? and how do you eliminate that in dos mame? (win mame32 games start up right away)

-verifyroms is something I use purely to indentify bad dumps, and show the DOS-style window if neccessary.  It does take a short time to complete but not usually very long...

You are probably thinking of the validity checks which were added in MAME v0.87.  This can be disabled in v0.88 in mame.ini for the Windows version, so I presume it can be disabled in mame.cfg of DOS MAME v0.88.

[papaschtroumpf]

yes, the setting that slows the satrt of the games is "skip_validitychecks". Setting it to 1 will launch your game much faster, especially on slower computers.