MAMEWah -- very weird

[toasty]

OK, recently got a few full rom sets, and decided I would put everything on an external drive, get everything organized and updated, etc.  I started with MAME and haven't made it past that, because I've got some really odd stuff going on.

I'm running Windows XP SP2, with MAME and MAMEWah.  Before I had a full romset, I was running Mame .104 and MAMEWah 1.61 from my C drive.  Once the full set arrived, I began running MAME .105 with MAMEWah 1.61 and moved it to my external drive (F).  Everything worked great.

I was having trouble launching NES and SNES games from MAMEWah (using ZSNES and FCEU), so my thought was to start over from scratch with those, get everything updated, etc.  With that in mind, I downloaded MAMEWah 1.62, copied the 1.62 ini file for MAME from jcrouse's website, and thought I was off to the races.

Here's the weird thing.  No matter what I do, MAMEWah refuses to create the game list properly.  In fact, when it creates the list, the resulting list is the old list from when I was running MAME .104 and MAMEWah 1.61 on my C drive, but it won't actually launch any of those games because they're not there anymore.  In fact, I've gone back and deleted everything from the C drive, but it still acts like that stuff is there, and as if I've directed MAMEWah to generate the game list by looking to the now non-existent c:\mame\roms directory.

Here's the ini file:

### Mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            Mame

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  f:\mame\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           f:\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             f:\winipac\winipac.exe "f:\winipac\profiles\[emuname].ipc" /program
emulator_commandline                      f:\mame\mame.exe "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"{autodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
post_emulator_app_commandlines            f:\winipac\winipac.exe "f:\winipac\profiles\mamewah.ipc" /program
general_app_commandlines                  f:\cpvw\cpvw.exe -r=[name] -c=[cloneof];f:\controlsviewer\controlsviewer.exe mamewah;f:\histview\histview.exe -r=[name]

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       f:\mame\snap;c:\mame\marquees;c:\mame\control panels;c:\mame\titles;c:\mame\flyers
movie_preview_path                        f:\mame\videos
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                saver_commandline
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
saver_commandline                         f:\mamewah\screensaver\ms_pacman.scr /s

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              1

Can anyone help?  I'm at my wits end.

TIA

[Minwah]

Try deleting the contents of the \mamewah\files folder...or even better start fresh with Mamewah v1.62b10 in a new folder.  Then try generating a list...

Not related to generating the list, but I would recommend you also set:

emulator_commandline                      f:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}

(you may need to use {safelaunch} if the above doesn't work)

Also ensure your \mame\mame.ini is setup correctly poining to your rom path etc...

[toasty]

Try deleting the contents of the \mamewah\files folder...or even better start fresh with Mamewah v1.62b10 in a new folder.  Then try generating a list...

Thanks for the reply.  I've now tried this, and it did get rid of the old list of games, but now the list is empty, now matter how many times I try to generate it.  I may just end up wiping everything clean and starting over from scratch...

[Minwah]

Thanks for the reply.  I've now tried this, and it did get rid of the old list of games, but now the list is empty, now matter how many times I try to generate it.  I may just end up wiping everything clean and starting over from scratch...

Check in mamewah.log - it should tell you what is wrong.  My guess is a bad emulator or rom path, or something similar.

[KillerArcades]

I also had this problem, until I finally realized that when I copied PowerMame across I had accidentally nuked the rest of my MAME install/ZIP contents...

Anyways, my point is, I had accidentally nuked the xml2info.exe file that comes with MAME and is needed by MameWAH to generate the rom list, so double-check that you have that file located in the same directory as your MAME.exe file.

[toasty]

Figured it out -- turns out I'm just an idiot, but I thought I'd post this for the benefit of anyone else that has this problem.  Had the mame.ini in the wrong spot, and didn't realize that MAMEWah 1.62 came with an .ini file MAME which directed MAMEWah to look to my C drive where the original version of MAME and roms were located. 

That's what I get for ignoring the documentation and plunging right in.   

[Havok]

That's what I get for ignoring the documentation and plunging right in.   

What's wrong with that?