mamewah layouts and getting mouse to work!

[Davros01]

Hello to the Group!

I am in the middle of building my first cabinet and like the KNIEVEL KUSTOM work in mamewah and his cabinet. I have my own ideas but am having problems with mameWAH and wonder if anyone can help me.

I am sorry if these topics have already been covered elsewhere and perhaps you could point me in the right direction if they have?

Anyhoo, I would like to know how to use the mame WAH layout designer and to get the layouts working in mamewah. I have done a good backdrop, moved and configured the  games and artwork lists etc and saved it as a layout.
But everytime I try to use it in mamewah, even if i use mamewah config, I just get a blank screen. It refuses to use it, and either crashes or does the blank screen thing. What am I doing wrong? If I leave mamewah with the default layouts and all as standard it works, as long as mamewah is installed on the C: drive and all is left alone, I can get it to read the roms if they are on the d: drive by editing the config file and thats ok. But as I change anything in the layouts section, I cant get it to work. HELP!!!! lol.

Also what do you have to modify or change to get the mouse to work in the games you are running? Is that in an INI file? I would like to get the mouse to work for op wolf and starwars etc. Its easy to config stuff in mame32 under winxp but not this way!!! Any help would be great.

I will keep you posted on the cabinet builds and have a website of my own with my custom pc work on it if anyone wants a look. This is where I am going to put up the pics of the cabinet as I build it -

http://www.ravenpcs.co.uk/

Thanks for the help!!

[Fat_Trucker]

Mamewah - Put your .lay file and the artwork that goes with it into a folder. Call the folder mame1 for easy reference.

Presuming you are using this for mame then in your mamewah ini folder you should have a file called mame.ini

You want to call your layout mame.lay and the background art mame-main.jpg

Now go into your mamewah config file and where it asks for the layout name type mame1 to tell it to look in the folder you are storing your layout in.

Now when you select mame in mamewah it will show your new layout.

Basically the layout and artwork must have the same name as the ini file for the emulator they are going to be used for in order for mamewah to know when you want to use them.

Hope that made sense.

The other thing with a mouse in mame, just open your mame folder and look for the mame.ini (not the one in mamewah). Open the mame.ini with notepad and in the section called Input Device Options, change mouse to 1 and a little further down where it says lightgun device change it to mouse. (see example below)

### Input device options ###
mouse                   1
joystick                  1
lightgun                 0
dual_lightgun         0
offscreen_reload    0
steadykey              0
keyboard_leds       1
led_mode               ps/2
a2d_deadzone       0.300000
# ctrlr                    <NULL> (not set)
paddle_device        mouse
adstick_device        keyboard
pedal_device          keyboard
dial_device             mouse
trackball_device      mouse
lightgun_device      mouse
digital                     none

[Davros01]

 

Thanks for the reply! I have been away this weekend but working on the cabinet today.

Ok I checked for a mame.ini file. There was not one in the mame folder, despite having run mame from there! So I downloaded one , changed it like you said and THE MOUSE WORKS NOW!!

Thanks!!  And with MameWah too...thats great.

BUT

I still cant get the layout I want to display to come up. All I get is the blank screen with games list!??

This is my mamewah ini file below. I have made my own cosmic layout and its in a folder in the "layouts" folder. I have everything in a folder called mame on my C: drive. Mamewah is in their  along with mame , then there are other folders with the roms and layouts - eg   c:\mame\layouts\cosmic

thats the file and directory structure I am trying to get mamewah to use as a layout. All the files are named as you said with the artwork and everything in the cosmic folder, and still no luck on getting it to display.

Here is the ini file


Anyone got any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks!!!



 mamewah.ini (mamewah v1.61) ###

### (Global) Screen-Saver Options ###
delay                       300
slide_duration              3

### Audio Options ###
enable_sounds               1
sound_volume                100
music_path                 
enable_music                1
music_volume                100

### Movie Options ###
intro_movie_file           
exit_movie_file             
keep_movie_preview_aspect   game_aspect
delay_before_movie_preview  2
music_movie_mix             mute_movies
movie_volume                100

### Misc Options ###
layout                      cosmic
ctrlr                       
wrap_list                   0
remember_current_game       1
keep_image_aspect           1
refresh_images              0
correct_orientations        horizontal
safe_mode                   0
show_cursor                 0
keyboard_led_states         -,-,-
winipac_file               
mamewah_ipc_file           
lcd_com_port                1
lcd_settings               
exit_action                 choice
app_to_run_on_exit         

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_emulator            0000
locked                      0

[SlyDog]

I have had the same problem.. Well i think... When you are editing your layout are you "adding" the background image?  If so that was my problem kept getting the black screen after i added the image.  DON'T ...  just edit everything else in your layout and use photoshop or a paint program to edit the background image.   then keep the pic in the same folder as your *.lay---  for some reason when you manually select the background image in the mamewah layout config it covers with a black screen.   if you look closely you can see the yellow lines outlining where the background is so that may help you in your layout editing.