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Getting INI file to load within MameWah
dax:
--- Quote ---I think your frustration lies with MAME not MAMEWAH. MAME has it's own mame.ini file. Have you created this file and put all your settings FOR MAME in it?
I'd suggest you read the folowing after you read the documentation:
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/
specifically
http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/mameguide/mameconfig.htm
BTW, I'd stop spewing theories and badmouthing things you don't know or assume.
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See this thread for more details:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=47895.0
I am well aware that Mame has it's own ini file. Why it is ignored from MameWah is what I don't know.
Let's get real here. I understand you all have the developer of Mamewah participating in this forum... that's great... but every single one of you also knows that MameWah leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to user-friendliness.... Hell, if you put any comments in the ini files, they're stripped out each time the program is run.. WTF? Hey Minwah... what's up with that? Are you intentionally trying to make your program even more difficult to configure? I just don't get it.. WHY would you do something like that?
I'm sorry if you think that is "bad-mouthing". I am just expressing an opinion. I TOTALLY APPRECIATE the guy for developing the program, and from what I see, it looks to be a great emulator, but I am not going to pretend that there aren't some issues that need to be addressed.
Obviously, I'm interested in using his program. Admittedly, I am making some of my replies a little more acerbic and comedic, but I've found it helps get people motivated to respond. Don't take it personally. We all have the same goals here. And if I can get this darn program running reliably, I'll be MinWah's greatest booster, but until then, I am confounded by some of the weird behavior of this program and am appealing to others to help.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: brophog on January 04, 2006, 11:18:25 am ---When you hire that novelist to do the documentation, Minwah, this needs to be in there. There is a lot of discrepancy in questions of late on what Mamewah does and what it doesn't.
It's a frontend. It points to things. Anything game related is the product of Mame or another emulator.
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As far as I'm concerned setting up MAME's inipath (& other settings) is related purely to MAME setup, and this should be one of the first things a MAME user does (regardless of FE).
I agree with what your saying (I should have this in some docs), but still if you use MAME you should know how to use it before even attempting to use a FE...anyone not confident with commandline MAME should take a look here: http://www.mameworld.net/easyemu/
Minwah:
--- Quote from: dax on January 04, 2006, 01:30:08 pm ---MameWah is really a mysterious, strange thing, kind of like Bigfoot. Some people have apparently seen it [work] and others think it's just a myth [that it can be properly configured]. I'm still waiting for my bigfoot sighting.
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Goodness me.
--- Quote ---I have Mame 0.69 DOS working perfectly now. I have Mame32 .102 working perfectly now. I have ArcadeOS running rock solid using 0.69. HOWEVER, running MameWah with 102 just does not work, and I've gone over the configs tons of times. I've started doing my own debugging traces to figure out what is going on and what weird things MameWah does.
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I think I mentioned this somewhere else but do you have Windows Commandline MAME? I do not recommend using DOS MAME or MAME32 with Mamewah so that would be a good thing to start with. I know your later reply says you are using 'commandline mame', but it is unclear to me which version you are using exactly.
--- Quote ---From what I can see, there isn't a command line parameter to tell Mame (102) where to look for the mame.ini file
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Why do you need to tell MAME where mame.ini is?? It should always be located in MAME's folder.
--- Quote ---and I am not sure what is the default path when MameWah spawns Mame.exe so I move the mame.ini file all around trying to find where it can be located so that when Mamewah spawns mame, it will be findable
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I have no idea what you mean by 'mamewah spawning mame.exe'. As above your (mame) mame.ini file should be within your MAME folder...when you do 'mame -cc' to create mame.ini this happens by default, so I'm not sure why you would place mame.ini anywhere else.
--- Quote --- (if Mamewah is not in the same directory as Mame.exe, it sure doesn't seem to look by default where the executable mame.exe is located).
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I think you are confused somehow...Mamewah *never* does *anything* with MAME's mame.ini file - MAME creates it, parses it, uses it - regardless of FE.
--- Quote ---In one configuration I could get it to find the .ini file HOWEVER MameWah shows every game in the same 800x600 resolution.
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This is a MAME configuration issue - nothing to do with Mamewah. Run MAME from a commandline until it works properly and then configure a afterwards.
--- Quote ---Every other instance and version of Mame works perfectly... except Mamewah and I have no idea why or how MameWah is causing Mame to ignore all the resolution and configuration information. Very frustrating.
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Mamewah isn't causing Mame to ignore the configuration - there must be a Mame configuration issue. My first guess would be an incorrectly named ini file...it should be named the same as your mame executable (bar extension of course). So for example for mame.exe you need mame.ini, mame102.exe needs mame102.ini etc. However, there used to be a bug/issue with MAME where you would need to call this mame.ini (regardless) - I'm not sure if this has been fixed, but the easy thing to do is just use mame.exe and mame.ini.
Minwah:
--- Quote from: dax on January 04, 2006, 02:30:15 pm ---Let's get real here. I understand you all have the developer of Mamewah participating in this forum... that's great... but every single one of you also knows that MameWah leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to user-friendliness.... Hell, if you put any comments in the ini files, they're stripped out each time the program is run.. WTF? Hey Minwah... what's up with that? Are you intentionally trying to make your program even more difficult to configure? I just don't get it.. WHY would you do something like that?
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I wrote the ini system based around MAME's own system (based on the ideal that users should be able to operate MAME properly). You will find if you comment in MAME's mame.ini file, and subsequently do a 'mame -cc' your comments dissapear since they are unrequired. I used the same principal for Mamewah. I don't see anything wrong with that frankly.
--- Quote ---I'm sorry if you think that is "bad-mouthing". I am just expressing an opinion. I TOTALLY APPRECIATE the guy for developing the program, and from what I see, it looks to be a great emulator, but I am not going to pretend that there aren't some issues that need to be addressed.
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Sure there's issues, there always will be - as with all free software really.
Oh, and it's a frontend, not an emulator ;)
--- Quote ---Obviously, I'm interested in using his program. Admittedly, I am making some of my replies a little more acerbic and comedic, but I've found it helps get people motivated to respond. Don't take it personally. We all have the same goals here. And if I can get this darn program running reliably, I'll be MinWah's greatest booster, but until then, I am confounded by some of the weird behavior of this program and am appealing to others to help.
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I usually respond to all Mamewah-related posts here, no matter how acerbic or comedic they are.
brophog:
--- Quote ---but still if you use MAME you should know how to use it before even attempting to use a FE
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;D
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