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MAMEWAH Config 1.61.1 - Finally!
tumult:
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ditto.
APFelon:
[qoute] Eh? Network support? Why don't you just map a drive?
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Because I totally forgot that I could. :-[
APf
Invader_Stu:
Hi,
To those of us that have never heard of Mamewah Config before, can you give us a brief description of what it does etc?
Many people here have their cabs setup 'pretty much' how they want them, so what benefits are there to installing Mamewah Config? Or is it more for people setting up their Mame Box from scratch?
I just wondered for those of us who have already configured most of the stuff we want, why would we want a config program?
Dont get me wrong, its sounds like a heap of work you've done, no doubt of which is l337 and useful, I just dont know anything about it -sorry if this is the first noob post! :D
papaschtroumpf:
The mamewah config file can be a little cryptic and confusing for some users. I think they're not that bad and have been configuring mamewah by hand ever since I started using it.
Also creating filtered game lists from within mamewah is not the most user friendly, although I think it's perfectly acceptable.
mamewah config is basically a GUI that allows you to edit the config files and list files by just clicking chekboxes, browsing to where the paths are, etc... making it more user friendly.
- First of all you only want this is you run mamewah as your front end.
- If your cab is "done" and you don't think you're going to mess with mamewah anymore, it's toolate to use mamewahconfig (but I, for example, am continuously tinkering with my cab setup"
- if you're really familiar with the mamewah config files, you may still like to edit them directly rather than learning the idiosyncaracies of a new application. There are also a few things that are not yet implemented in mamewah config
The best I can tell you is give it a try, but make sure you backup youe mamewah.ini and the "files" folder in the mamewah folder
screaming:
--- Quote from: Invader_Stu on March 09, 2005, 08:11:05 am ---To those of us that have never heard of Mamewah Config before, can you give us a brief description of what it does etc?
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MAMEWAH Config is a program that helps you configure MAMEWAH (obviously), and much more. MAMEWAH Config has a ton of features already:
* Easy, user-friendly editting of all of MAMEWAH's config files, including game lists and controllers.
* A Layout Browser that will let you pick and choose a layout from the internet and it will download and install it for you. The list of available layouts is dynamic and will be updated automatically to the latest list every time you use it.
* You can re-arrange emulators and emulator lists through a drag-and-drop Explorer-like tree.
* When you add a new emulator, MAMEWAH Config will take you through step-by-step through a nice wizard interface that will guide you along the way.
* When you add a new emualtor you can pick from a list of emulator templates (thanks to JCrouse!, also dynamically updated, that will help you configugure your emulator with a known setup. Imagine trying to set up Dahpne in MAMEWAH, choosing the Daphne template, then choosing the correct path to the EXE and ROMs and you're done!
* MAMEWAH Config is viewable with a 800x600 resolution, for those people that have low-res TVs. Once I finish working out the kinks I'll add other resolutions like 640x480, 480x640, 1024x768, etc.
* Commandline builder that will let you build your commandline and commandline options using only your mouse. This also makes use the emulator templates.
* A handy controller editor for customizing MAMEWAH inputs to your control panel. Eventually this will include a panel designer to make it more intuitive. The plan is to add support for JCrouse's CPViewer and Buddabing's CPMaker. Right now the Controller Editor only supports global controller files though. In the future you will be able to create/edit controller files specific to each emulator layout.
* A basic game list editor that you can use to upgrade your list of ROMs. You can pick and choose which ROMs to add to each list and filter in/out the ones you want/don't want. You can also import from an older MAMEWAH .LST file, a MAME-style .XML file and a plain ol' .DAT file.
* When you're editting the game list you can also edit the command line specific for that ROM. This will allow you complete control over how your ROM is ran. ("Rom is ran" sound weird for some reason..)
I'm sure there's more features that I'm forgetting...
Anyway, most people will find MAMEWAH Config useful only if they've never set up the new MAMEWAH 1.61 before. Dave Butler's MAMEWAH Setup program only works for older pre-1.0 version of MAMEWAH, so since Minwah upgraded MAMEWAH there hasn't been an interface for configuring it.
If you're already up to the latest and greatest version of MAMEWAH then you will benefit from MAMEWAH Config when you upgrade MAME (or any other emulator) because you can be picky about which games you add to your gamelists. You can also rename the description of the ROM (what MAMEWAH shows in the gamelist for each ROM) to anything you want. Don't like that "(set 2)" or "(japanese version)" at the end of all your ROMs in your gamelist? Edit them out!
Also, using the Controller Editor, you can re-map your controls when you add a new joystick, or re-flash your IPAC because the ALTs and CTRL keys are getting in the way.
Uhm. My fingers are pooped :) If I think of anything more I'll update this list...
-Steve
Edit: Added the ability to edit game-specific commandline options to the feature list. I forgot about that one!
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