Mamewah 1.62 & Mame 108 ini file

[Santo8742]

My ini file for Mame 108u4 for Mamewah 1.62 is shown below. Everything is working fine except for the list generation method. I can't get it to display the game names instead of the rom filenames (e.g. mspacman instead of Ms. Pacman). Does anyone know how to get the names displayed correctly? I've read something about creating a dat file, but I don't know how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.

### 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_dat_file

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\Emulators\Mame_v.108u4\mame.exe [name]{dosbox}{nosafelaunch}
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

[Santo8742]

I still haven't figured it out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Zeosstud]

You can create a .xml file (which has basically replace the .dat file in the newer version of Mame) by opening a dos prompt, changing to your mame directory and running this command

mame -listxml > mame.xml

after 10 or so seconds (your milage may vary) you will return to the dos prompt.

Then edit your Mamewah mame.ini file in such a way so the dat_file  is left blank and the
list_generation_method is rom_folder_vs_xml2info

****  I have been testing this to make sure my instructions are correct, they are :-)  however it appears that the creation of the mame.xml file really isnt necessary.  If I have NO mame.xml (or mame.dat file for that matter) but my mame.ini file located in my mamewah directory has nothing listed for the mame.dat and the list_generation_method is  rom_folder_vs_xml2info  Mamewah will create the game list for you..  So what I guess I am saying is the  List Generation Method line is the key to this for the newer Mame versions.

Zeosstud

[Banacek]

I have:

list_generation_method                    auto:rom_folder_vs_listxml

so try that instead. I'm using the latest beta.

[Zeosstud]

I can confirm, without quesiton, the instruction in my post work.  And on a positive note maybe Banacek instructions do too.

Zeosstd

[Santo8742]

I tried both of your suggestions. rom_folder_vs_xml2info didn't work but rom_folder_vs_listxml did work. I could have sworn I already tried both of those before. Oh well, it works now. Thanks to both of you for the help.

[Zeosstud]

Hey,
         Thats great news that you have a good list now.  I just realized that I have mame .109 and you were using .108 I wonder if that has something to do with why different list_generation_methods seem to act differently...  The good news is your up, now you can work on something else, I suggest Global Warming...

Zeosstud

[Minwah]

Just to clarify, with the latest Mamewah beta and recent Mame's (definately v0.107+), you should ideally use:

list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

The alternative, list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_xml2info will work, but only if accompanied with a suitably updated xml2info.exe in your Mame folder.  ie Krick's modified xml2info