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MPTech:
Got the screenshots working!   VERY COOL!!!  THANKS!

but I still haven't gotten the tables to launch.  it goes to the "Winners don't do drugs" screen and hangs.  then it is very difficult to exit out of and the desktop and cursor go "black".  (very hard to exit with the mouse, usually resort to tabbing my way thru the menus).

I copied the ini you provided (changing the paths, but no luck)

whatisk:
I have found when exiting tables it's best to hold ESC down until Mamewah comes back. Sometimes if you just tap ESC it doesn't quite get through the screens to exit and I have to press ESC again.

I'm guessing you've got the vp-launch4.exe in your tables folder. Ah, I see that it is definitely in your tables folder by looking at your ini above...  :-X Is there a subfolder in your tables folder called vplcfgs with just an ini file in it (I'm pretty sure it's to do with vp-launch also, though I have remnants of Jcrouse's wrapper in my tables folder also).

Bypassing Mamewah for a moment, if you run vp-launch4 directly from the tables folder and select a table from within there does it load okay?

I know that for me this was the most frustrating thing to get working (followed by daphne) as I tried both Howards vp-launch and the wrapper at Jcrouse's website. As I got Howards working okay, I stuck with that. It was one of those things that just suddenly started working. And once it was, I never touched that ini file again  :P

MPTech:
yep, I've got the vplcfgs file in the Tables folder with the vp-launch-4.

I tried executing the vp-launch-4 and a screen came up (kind of a config/settings screen).  I couldn't get VP to launch from there, was it supposed to?  maybe my problem is with the vp-launch-4. (I didn't know what it was supposed to do).  I can launch VPinball.exe and select and play a table.

Are other emu's this hard? (I've also got some Atari, NES, SNES, SEGA, etc ROMs I wanted to setup next).

I like the features of MAMWAH, but it's been a struggle to get anything to work.

whatisk:

--- Quote from: MPTech on May 27, 2006, 03:43:16 am ---I tried executing the vp-launch-4 and a screen came up (kind of a config/settings screen).  I couldn't get VP to launch from there, was it supposed to?  maybe my problem is with the vp-launch-4. (I didn't know what it was supposed to do).  I can launch VPinball.exe and select and play a table.

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Yep, should look like a config/settings screen and at the bottom should be a list of your tables in a scrollable list. If you double click on one, the table should launch (get the FBI screen and then the table appear after a bit). As I said, when initially seeing if it was working I found it beneficial to time how long the table took to load directly through VP and then give it an extra couple of seconds when trying through the wrapper. That way I had more of an idea if it was working or not. I found that things seemed to go quicker when you could see the loading progress bar that VP displays compared to staring at a static screen.


--- Quote ---Are other emu's this hard? (I've also got some Atari, NES, SNES, SEGA, etc ROMs I wanted to setup next).
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Not sure on that one. In my cab I only have Mame, VP, Daphne and SKJukebox.


--- Quote ---I like the features of MAMWAH, but it's been a struggle to get anything to work.

--- End quote ---
Mamewah was definitely a steep learning curve for me, but I'm glad I persevered and managed to get it all working okay  :)

unclet:
I would recommend to use the MALA frontend ..... does everything MameWah does (and much more) and it offers a very easy GUI setup.  You can also use the same MameWah layouts in it as well ......

Anyway, to answer your question ....  most of all emulators are pretty straightforward to set up .... the ones which could take a bit to configure are as follows:

Commodore Amiga: (using headKaze's UAEConfiguration tool to create all the UAE files makes this a breeze, however, I have concluded that I should have skipped this emulator since there are not that many games which I could actually get working..... which are cabinet-friendly) 
 
Daphne:  I was told some people have a hard time with this one...

Sega Dreamcast: Using headKaze's Chankast wrapper makes this a breeze .. it just took me a long time to figure out it existed.  (Note: This is not the same wrapper from the CPViewer site).  Although, I eventually found out that since I was using onboard video, then the game display does not work properly for me ..... after all my work, I can not really play any games.   I was told that the games should display somewhat nicely (ie: playable) is you use a good video card instead.

Sony Playstation: I have not tried to configure this emulator, but I heard it could be challenging as well


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