Sure this is a stupid Mamewah question...

[Alcathiax]

Is there some graphical way to switch the game lists.

Here is how I envision it:
Select Arcade->
      Sports
      Fighter
      Shooter
      etc...

When you select Sports...you then see the list of Sports games.

Is this just a layout change or is this even possible?

Also....I have done some searching around...I have to say the best Mamewah documentation I have found is in the Wiki here...

[Congui]

Hi there.

I'm using 1.61 and I've found two ways to work around this (for this you must have the latest catver.ini:  catver_ini_file    d:\mame\catver.ini).

1. Make several emulator.ini.  Then generate the all-games list; and finally generate the Filtered game list with the category you want.  With  this method you swith from platform to platform (fighter to maze to shooters, etc).
2. Make several game lists ini: mame.ini, mame-1.ini, mame-2.ini, mame-  3.ini, mame-4.ini, etc. Once you generate the main list (all-games) you just start generating each game list with the category you want.  This way you switch from game list to game list.

I personally like the first option cause I can have a differente layout for each mame category.  For example, I made a fighter's layout for my fighting games, a stock racing layout for my driving games, a shooting gallery layout for the shooting games, etc.  All you need is time.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Congui

[Alcathiax]

Oh nice...I like that idea....thank you. I'm finally making serious headway on this Mamewah stuff

[Congui]

No problem. 

 
Congui

[liquid8]

Once you have setup your lists, there is a key for selecting the list you want, by default it is 'z', or you can use '3' and '5' for prev/next list.

Check here for some of those keys.