Mamewah setup question..groan !!

[viva799]

 

I've been trying to set up mamewah for a few days now without success.  As far as i can tell, i thought i had mamewah setup correctly (i must have as it worked fine with just one rom file placed in the rom folder).

Basically after generating a new list containing all my roms (all appear to be listed correctly) i activate a game. The dosbox appears for a few seconds, closes & then leaves me at the FE again).

Because the dosbox doesn't appear for very long, i choose to load a larger game (Tekken & Virtua Fighter). This time the dosbox is displayed for about 3 secs just enough to read the text. By the name of each rom file it displays - NOT FOUND. Fair enough, i thought, my ROM files are corrupt, missing etc. But why do they work using the command line only mame 0.89 /0.90. They also work fine with Mame32 & Gameex. My preferance is mamewah though becuase of the multi layout system.

Any ideas.

Viva799

p.s Tried the above on mulitple roms from older to newer releases with out success - H.E.L.P !!!

[viva799]

 
Finally....fixed the problem !!

Bit of an odd ball really unless it's just me being an idiot (would love to hear your comments though).

o.k. here we go

I was having a look in the mamewah log file & noted the command that mamewah was sending to the mame.exe so I cut/pasted this into a run command & nothing happened apart from the dos box flashed for a few seconds. I then thought, hold on a minute it's trying to open a rom file in mame(dos versions) default & NOT the folder that i have configured the mamewah mame.ini to look in.  The reason i chose an alternative rom pathname was becuase i've been using mame32 (which obvously has it's own rom folder) & that's were all my roms lived .

So....i copied x1 rom from the mame32 rom folder to the mame (dos version) rom folder & guess what....it all works. As i still like to use mame32 (for rom browsing speed) i'm hoping that i can point mame32 to the mame (dos versions) rom folder becuase i really don't was x5000 roms sitting in duplicate folders eating up my HDD. 

The above only seems to effect the rom folder i.e Artwork, Cabinets etc can live anywere.

I'd love to hear your thoughs on this especially if there's an easier quick fix .ini file amendment that i could do instead.

[Minwah]

I'd love to hear your thoughs on this especially if there's an easier quick fix .ini file amendment that i could do instead.

Do you really mean DOS version, or Windows commandline version?  If you do mean DOS, then stop using that and grab the Win commandline version from www.mame.net .  Then...

You should set 'rompath' accordingly in your *MAME* mame.ini, eg c:\mame\mame.ini:

rompath c:\mame32\roms

If you don't have a mame.ini then type 'mame -cc' from a command prompt.