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unclet:
1) I doubt there is a way to instruct MameWah to get a favorite's list
from Mame32 since I believe MameWah is a free standing application
which is not linked/associated with any specific emulator.   Might need
to ask this in the MameWah forum (or wait to see if anyone else
chimes in on this post) to see if it can be done .... but I do know that
I have no idea how to do it.

I simply went through my favorite games in Mame32 and added them
individually in MameWah ..... took me about 15 minutes to add them all in ....
no big deal for me.

2) I "think" you might be able to create a DAT file which will list all the
specific stuff about each of your Mame games (including a nice "name"
for each game), then instruct MameWah to use this DAT file to generate
a game list (rather than instruct MameWah to generate a game list
using the ROM folder).

Try this ... no promises:

1) Go into you mame (not Mamewah) install directory (ie: where mame.exe is).

2) Perform the following command to create a DAT file for your mame games.
Note: This will create the "myMameDATfile.dat" file in your mame install
directory.  Just keep the file there...

    mame.exe -listxml|xml2info > myMameDATfile.dat

3) Now ...  edit your "...\MameWah\Config\Mame\mame.ini" file to point to the
DAT file you just create and instruct MameWah to use this DAT file when generating
a game list by the following:

    dat_file                               replace with mame directory path\myMameDATfile.dat

   list_generation_method      dat_file


see if that works .... if not, then you might need to ask this question in the MameWah
forums or wait for someone else to chime in here .....  although I think it should work

arcade-mad:
Hi
ive been looking on the forum (for around 3 hrs now  :dizzy:) about mamewah naming the roms insted of the proper game name quite a few people have had this problem  and found that if you alter you config ini to this
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml
mamewah should generate a list using proper game names but its not working for me.

think im gunna stick with mame32 as its much easier to use even if its not as nice to look at because my head is gunna explode  :banghead:

unclet:
Aww.... you have come this far ..... the only emulator I generated a DAT file for was
Mame ..... so this should be a one time thing .... try what I am suggesting since my
Mame game names are normal names rather than the rom file names ....

Give it a try .... you are so close ......

I am not sure whether going to MameWah for one emulator is worth it, however, since
I have kids who like a lot of video games, I needed a nice way to switch between
each of my 30+ emulators ....  MameWah works great for this ...

arcade-mad:
Hi unclet i dont understand when you say create a dat file in mame ??

please could you clear this up.
ill try again in the morning im going out to get drunk now as my head is a conker  :hissy:

unclet:
Ok, I forgot you were using Mame32 ..... I do not think the Mame32.exe allows
you to create a DAT file ... only the official "mame.exe" does.  Anyway, download
the official mame application which coincides with the version of Mame32 you
are using and unpack it into a dummy directory (lets call it C:\TmpMame\)

1) Open a command window (Start/Programs/Accessories/Command Prompt), then
change directories to go into your "TmpMame" install directory (ie: cd c:\TmpMame).

2) Execute the following command to create a DAT file:

    mame -listxml|xml2info > myDatfile.dat

3) Move the "myDatfile.dat" file out of the "TmpMame" directory and into some other
location (lets say you put it in your Mame32 install directory (ie: C:\Mame32\myDatfile.dat")

4) You can now delete the TmpMame directory and everything in it since this was
used just to create DAT file.

5) Now ...  edit your "...\MameWah\Config\Mame\mame.ini" file to point to the
DAT file you just created and instruct MameWah to use this DAT file when generating
a game list.  You do this by making the following two changes:

    dat_file                               C:\Mame32\myDatfile.dat

    list_generation_method      dat_file


6) Save the changes to the mame.ini file

7) Start MameWah and see if the game list looks any better.

I am pretty sure this should work ......

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