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Brad:

--- Quote from: Minwah on January 16, 2006, 05:33:11 am ---
--- Quote from: Comp1demon on January 15, 2006, 08:12:07 am ---Doing the front end configuration and wamewah just sucks.

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What's wamewah?  ::)

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Thats Elmer Fudd's version!

Brad

Extreme8:

--- Quote from: Comp1demon on January 15, 2006, 08:12:07 am ---Doing the front end configuration and wamewah just sucks.

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There is a big difference between an application sucking and a user that's not bright enough to figure out how to configure it.

Mamewah does have a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it figured out it's remarkably powerful and flexible.
If you want to take advantage of all of Mamewahs features you're going to have to invest the time to learn how all of the ini files work, and how they work together. John's site has all the ini's you could possibly need if you want to look and see how they're constructed.

If you don't want to take the time to figure it out just drop back to the 1.61. version and use the configurator listed above.

Besides, the documentation that Mini provides with his program is thorough and complete and - OK, I gotta stop now, I'm cracking myself up.

So I'm kidding abou the documentation, but the rest of the post holds true; The info is out there if you're willing to look for it.
There' s no secret handshake, no private password. Everyone else who runs Mamewah has figured it out.
Put in your time and you'll have your "Ah-Ha" moment where it all just clicks.

I'm sure many of us have muttered your same Mamewah sentiments under our breath while setting it up but we have enough appreciation for the free program and it's obviously intoxicated author to request help in a more respectful manner.

divemaster127:
Mamewah is a great program i just wish setup was a little user friendly, & i would be more than glad to pay for such a awesome frontend
thanks
divemaster

Comp1demon:
WOW, Comment taken out of context.  I ment it sucks becuase I am not bright enough to figure it out.  If i can't get something it sucks.  If I say something sucks and don't use it then it really does SUCK.  I want to use MAMEWAH so obviosly i don't think it SUCKS but it sucks since i cannot figure it out.  Anyway hope i didn't confuse anyone. Long story short Even if i cannot get it to work no disrespect to MAMEWAH.  It was frustration talking.

 As you will all see in a few days, I have been doing mad amount of research and work on my cabinet.  I have a full work log and page ready to go soon and will be posted on the announcements page.  I know from reading and reseach that Mamewah is the Prefered Front end.  I got slightly confised by the naming scheme from 1.61 to .97.  Since his latest news says people keep requestion .97 I thought it was newer or something then after more reading I realized that 1.61 is the newest.

I have done lots of reading and tring to figure it out and I could not.  So I decided to nicely ask for help.  I will get it eventuially.  I was hoping there was someone who could just throw me a nicely configured file and then i could figure it out from there and play with it.  I also found the 1.61 config tool and will try that too.  RIght now Im working on the webpage and the rest of the hardware so I will get back to it eventually (week or so).  I was still hoping some nice tidbits of help can still be thrown myway.

Thanks,
C1D

Minwah:
What confuses me a little bit with people having trouble configuring is that Mamewah (v1.61)  already comes with an example setup (see the mame.ini file?)  All you need to do is alter the following lines accordingly (it could be different for everyone):

rom_path                                  c:\mame\roms
emulator_executable                       c:\mame\mame.exe
artwork_1_image_path                      c:\mame\snap

That should be enough for a working (albeit basic) setup.  The only other point to note is the list_generation_method - this should be OK but for old versions of MAME (before 0.84 IIRC) it will need to be set to 'rom_folder_vs_listinfo'.  I suppose I should get my arse in gear and release the latest version officially, since this adds some 'auto' features so you don't really need to know this.

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