Daphne on MAMEWAH

[Breaker]

Hi all,

I've done a few searches but was unable to dig up the info I'm looking for....can anyone point me to a BYOAC post which explains how to configure Daphne to run in Mamewah? Or is it as simple as grabbing the command line options from Daphne and dumping them into a Mamewah INI file?

Thanks.

[Apollo]

He he "Daphne simple" that's an oxymoron surely. Sorry I couldn't help.

[Space Fractal]

It take some time to work with Mamewah, but try to look in this document:

http://www.mamewah-setup.co.uk/html/info_settings.html#Daphne

[Apollo]

Holy crap! Thanks for the help but my brain exploded after about 10 seconds. I guess anyone who is a bit of a PC noob will never play DL on their cab. I wish I couls it's one of my all time favs. What we need is step by step action by action instructions. Hopefully someone will do it one day. Oh well.

[lucindrea]

hehe well that is mostly step by step ..

the whole frame file thing is confusing at first , but their is a much much more detailed explation of making one on daphies site
http://www.daphne-emu.com/disc2mpeg.php
but odds are , if you can play the game with just daphne's launcher , then the frame file is allready setup and working ..

as for launching daphne it's ( for dragons lair )

daphne vldp -fullscreen -framefile lair.txt -x 1024 -y 768 -nohwaccel

just changing the lair.txt to whatever game you have ( ace.txt for space ace etc ) ... how to get this in mamewa i have no idea as i use dk

[Minwah]

Try this: http://home.comcast.net/~cpviewer/downloads/07daphne.ini

[EvilNuff]

Create a bat file (daphne.bat in the example minwah linked) that has the contents of the command line with the file name replaced by %1

ex:
daphne vldp -fullscreen -framefile %1 -x 1024 -y 768 -nohwaccel

Then like in the ini file set mamewah to run the bat file and it will put in the parameter where the file name goes.

[Breaker]

Hi all,

Thank for all the help folks!
I'll take a look at the links and give it a try this weekend/week (depending on time)and report back.

I can understand the comments about Daphne not being easy...it took me a bit of time to get things going but it was definitely worth it to see DL come to life again!
The Dapne /docs are a little sparce, and can be confusing for a newb (which I am), but aside from some odd trouble getting daphenloader to work, I can't say I had any issues with conversion, framefiles, etc. I used Digital Leisure's 20th Anniversary Edition DVD-Video and used dav2daph to convert - took about 3 hours but worked perfectly - I would really recommend this route to anyone who's thinking of using Daphne.

Cheers,
Breaker.
 

[lucindrea]

their are more than a few games that you do need to know how to make the frame files ( Thayers , Badlands , etc ) non of these are offered by DL mainly because they have been unable to get the rights , so if you happen to *cough* find *cough* the mpegs for these games you will need to go that route , but for dragons lair and space ace the dvd2daph works like a charm.

one thing of note , DL does sell the sequal to Thayers , Kindom of ..err .. shadon?  .. if you go through all their products you can find it , it's acctully the ONLY place i have seen that one ( this includes some shady dist's who sell dvd's with roms and mame togher even they dont have that one ) ...

heh it's just me , but i'm one of those who needs to know how everything works , even if their is a tool out their to do it for me  

[Scoobie]

I have been trying to get Daphne running in MW for the last couple hours.  I can get the emu to run from Daphne Loader, but not MW.  I created the .bat and .nms files and placed them in my Daphne folder.  I then tried to make a .ini file in MW for Daphne.  This didn't work, so I used the .ini from jcrouse's site.  This didn't either.  I'm sure I just have some setting wrong...

I have been able to generate a game list in MW for Daphne, just not launch the games from MW.

I've attached the error message I'm getting from MW.

Thanks for any help you guys can provide!

[Minwah]

You should be able to read mamewah.log to see the commandline used and troubleshoot from there...

[jcrouse]

Well, the simple fact that you say your using a bat file tells me your using an older version of MameWAH, probably 1.52. The INI files on my website are for the latest MameWAH which is 1.6b7. I would highly recommed upgrading the the latest version of MameWAH if your not there yet. If you are, you don't need a batch file. It's all done in your daphne.ini file in MameWAH.

John

[Scoobie]

I believe I'm running MW 1.6b3.  I'll have a look and report back.

Thanks for replies.