Mamewah v1.62b12 ini files

[Santo8742]

Can anyone help me with my ini files for Mamewah 1.62. I just upgraded from 1.61 which I had working great and now I'm having trouble generating rom lists. Here is my ini file for mame v0.108u4:

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

emulator_title                            MAME 0.108u4

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\Emulators\Mame_v.108u4\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           C:\Emulators\Mame_v.108u4\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\Emulators\Mame_v.108u4\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}{safelaunch}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       C:\Emulators\Mame_v.108u4\cabinets
movie_preview_path                       
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0


Mamewah says it is scanning the rom folder, but then returns no games. Any input would be appreciated.

[rampy]

hey santos,

I was able to get mame to work with the included mame.ini (after slight path mods)

Did you put the beta in a clean / fresh folder or did you plop it ontop an older mamewah version/folder?

I can't remmeber which list generation method I used off hand and am away from the cabinet... and I can't find the thread that helped me figure it out

rampy

[rampy]

in the mamewah forum someone pointed me to this:

http://www.cpviewer.emuchrist.org/mamewahinifiles.htm

*shrug*

rampy

[Santo8742]

I installed 1.62 in a brand new folder with all new files. I made sure to install the system files incase something happened to them when I removed 1.61. I've also been to that cpviewer website, their ini files have a lot of extra junk in them that I'm not currently using. I tried setting up a different emulator (fceu) thinking maybe I compiled the mame file wrong as I wasn't sure what I was doing with it, I just followed some instructions, but it did the same thing with fceu so I'm pretty sure I'm either doing something wrong or have something set up wrong in mamewah. Any more input would be appreciated.

[thatguy_247]

im having the same problem.  i installed the system files and mamewah for the first time today.  after reading the wiki and getting the emulator and rom paths in the ini file still no games.  its says 'generating list' for about 2 seconds then returns nothing....   

[Breaker]

Hi all,

I had some issues with list generation as well, Minwah suggested changing the 'list_generation_method ' from 'rom_folder_vs_listxml'  TO  'rom_folder_vs_xml2info'

This was early in the beta version of 162.12b so I'm not sure it still applies - but it's worth a try It worked fro me). This is dependant upon which version of MAME you're using. I think Minwah said that if you're using up to Mame v0.106, to use 'rom_folder_vs_xml2info method' since xml2info.exe is supplied with Mame versions up to this version.

What does your log file say?

Cheers,
Breaker.

[rampy]

This is what worked for me santaro

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

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.

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

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      g:\EMU\mame108\mamepp.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       g:\mamerom\snap
movie_preview_path                        c:\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               1
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                gamelist_slideshow
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                0
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                                G:\mp3\80s
lcd_display_file_path                     

### Settings used by MAMEWAH ###
current_list                              0

[Santo8742]

I got fce ultra to work and I also got mame to generate a list with the 'list_generation_method' set at 'rom_folder'. For some reason mame doesn't want to compare the rom folder names to the real names I've tried 'rom_folder_vs_dat_file' 'rom_folder_vs_listxml' and 'rom_folder_vs_xml2info'. Also, I think there is something wrong with my mame compile. When I launch a game the screen pops up with several small screens of the game and they are all bouncing. I probably did something wrong. I took v0.108 and added u1,u2,u3,u4,and hi score (from MKChamp) and recompiled it using the instructions found here: http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/compile.html. Any ideas or help with the compiling?

[Santo8742]

Well it seems that the games do the same thing on the ordinary MAME v.0108 binary as well as my own compile of u4. When I updated my roms from 108 to 108u4 i ran it through cmpro and then torrent zip,could I have messed something up with the roms when I did this?