Mamewah- Mame loads game then exits? FIXED

[Stormy151]

I am having a problem with Mamewah.  I select a game, get the game loading screen and sound, the game loads (I hear the harddrive churning away) then the loading screen disappears, and I get the "exit game" sound, as if I've just hit the ESC key to quit Mame.

This all happens in the span of about 3 seconds.  I never see Mame.  The screen doesn't even flicker.  I don't get any errors.

I am having the same problem with ZSNESW.  FCEUltra works fine.

I am running Mamewah 1.61 and using Mamewah Config (which is great BTW) 

Thanks in advance! 

EDIT:  I got ZSNESW to work.  The rom format in the config file was .zip instead of .smc.  I still CANNOT figure out why MAME doesn't work, though... GRRRRR....

[Bill Mote]

Check the mamewah log in the mamewah directory.  It keeps track of everything.  The error messages are often less than helpful, but search here for whatever it says and you'll likely find your problem.  Best part is; you're not likely to be the first to experience whatever is going wrong!  Good luck and make sure you update this post if you find the answer.

dot

[Stormy151]

Thanks for the reply, Dot.  I found the log file earlier, but it doesn't show any errors (that I can see, anyway)  I just started it up and tried to run two games, Asteroids and Assault- and here is what the log generated:

7/13/2005 5:16:11 PM Desktop colour: 10841658
7/13/2005 5:16:11 PM Wallpaper filename: (None)
7/13/2005 5:16:11 PM Display mode: 1024x768 @ 60Hz, 32 bit colour
7/13/2005 5:16:11 PM Decimal symbol: '.'
7/13/2005 5:16:11 PM Games list read: 0000-7.lst
7/13/2005 5:16:12 PM Layout selected: C:\mamewah\layouts\_installed layouts\0000.lay
7/13/2005 5:16:13 PM Ctrlr file selected: C:\mamewah\ctrlr\pats\ctrlr.ini
7/13/2005 5:16:18 PM Commandline run: CMD.EXE /c D:\ArcadeFX\mame.exe ASTEROID -verifyroms > C:\mamewah\files\verify {flags=17}
7/13/2005 5:16:21 PM Commandline run: D:\ArcadeFX\mame.exe "D:\ArcadeFX\roms\ASTEROID.zip" {flags=12}
7/13/2005 5:16:28 PM Commandline run: CMD.EXE /c D:\ArcadeFX\mame.exe ASSAULT -verifyroms > C:\mamewah\files\verify {flags=17}
7/13/2005 5:16:29 PM Commandline run: D:\ArcadeFX\mame.exe "D:\ArcadeFX\roms\ASSAULT.zip" {flags=12}
7/13/2005 5:16:33 PM MAMEWAH quit

Anyone see anything wrong?

[Bill Mote]

From a DOS prompt can you go to the mame directory and type:

Code: [Select]

mame assault
What happens?  You did create an .ini file, right?  That's something like:

Code: [Select]

mame createini
or some such nonsense ...

dot

[Stormy151]

I figured it out.  Something was wrong with my mame.exe file. 

I tried running it from a command line (as you suggested) and the same thing basically happened, so that pointed me in the "not Mamewah's fault" direction.  I replaced the .exe file and now it works.

So thanks!