mameWAH; help with sounds

[arzoo]

I was hoping my first post would not be a call for help, but...
I've got mamewah working pretty will with the mame and daphne emulators, but I can't seem to get the FE to play any sounds (game sounds work fine). My /layout folder has a group of .wav files (into.wav, navigate.wav, options.wav, etc.) and my mamewah.ini has enable_sounds 1. I've read through the layouts.txt file and I've searched the forums, but I just can't get and sounds to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[LJHalfbreed]

I ran into a weird issue where I had to basically put files directly into my emu folders... have you tried putting them there?

In other words, to get my mame artwork to show up, I had to put my 'mame theme' into my mame folder as art, art1, etc...

Perhaps this will help with you? Try putting it directly into your emu folder named generically (ie: no emuname bit)

Although I'm suddenly thinking you have to put it in a sounds folder somewhere.... *sigh*



Well, if that doesn't work... what version of mamewah are you using?

[arzoo]

I'm using version 1.6.1 and I used the new config tool for configuring the emulators.

[Farmboy90]

I just went through this exercise.  I have v1.61.  I don't remember specifics, but I believe that the navigate, etc sounds all need to go in your layout folder. 

If you want background music files to be played, create a new folder under mamewah called something like 'background' and put all your music files there.  Then edit the ini to edit the music location to the new folder.

Another thing to note is that I could not get mamewah to play background music unless they were mp3.  But the opposite is true for the sound effects.  I had to have them in wav format.

[arzoo]

Yes, all my background sound files are in the layout folder. I've also tried putting them in the _installed layout folder. Still no luck.

[Farmboy90]

Yes, all my background sound files are in the layout folder. I've also tried putting them in the _installed layout folder. Still no luck.

Your background music (which need to be mp3 format) need to go in a new folder.  Then you need to specifiy that location in the ini file.  Something like this:

### Audio Options ###
enable_sounds               1
sound_volume                100
music_path                  c:\mame\mamewah\music
enable_music                1
music_volume                100

Only your sound effects (navigate, gameexit, etc) need to go in the layout folder.  They need to be wav format as well.

[arzoo]

Your background music (which need to be mp3 format) need to go in a new folder.  Then you need to specifiy that location in the ini file.  Something like this:

### Audio Options ###
enable_sounds               1
sound_volume                100
music_path                  c:\mame\mamewah\music
enable_music                1
music_volume                100

Only your sound effects (navigate, gameexit, etc) need to go in the layout folder.  They need to be wav format as well.

I'm not using any background music. But I do recall that my sound_volume is set to 30. I wonder if the sounds are playing, but so softly that I don't hear them. If that's the case, then DOH! I'll have to check when I get home today.

[Farmboy90]

Try using background music just for the heck of it to see if you can get anything to work.

I set mine to volume level 100 and just use my volume control knob to control it.

[arzoo]

As I said before... DOH! Solved my problem by turning up the volume. Thanks for the help.