mame with MameWah scanlines help

[ablizno]

How do i use scanlines in MameWah i've been searching online and in the forums. I understand that i have to do something along the lines of :

mame -effect scanlines

but i have no idea what this means.

[creatine28]

Just went through the same issue when I was setting up Mamewah.   

In the your mame directory(Not mamewah) just edit the mame.ini and enter the words         scanlines           next to the option for effects.   

Effects                  scanlines


#
# WINDOWS VIDEO OPTIONS
# use d3d or ddraw
video                          d3d
numscreens                1
window                       0
maximize                    1
keepaspect                1
prescale                     1
effect                          scanlines
waitvsync                  0
syncrefresh                0

[ablizno]

Actually that didnt work... that whole section is missing from my mame.ini this is what mine looks like:

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

emulator_title                            Arcade

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

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\mamewah\config\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}{nosafelaunch}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       C:\mamewah\config\mame\snap
movie_preview_path                        C:\mamewah\config\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### 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                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

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

[ablizno]

nobody knows?

[Ginsu Victim]

I know one thing...
You can't follow directions.

In the your mame directory(Not mamewah)

This means the program M.A.M.E., not the mame folder in mamewah.

[ablizno]

since i extracted mame into my mamewah directroy there is only one mame.ini, i will start from scratch and do something different and see if i can figure it out.

[ablizno]

Upon extracting mame to its own directory i see no file titled "mame.ini"

[Ginsu Victim]

try running it first. It will make one.

[ablizno]

i ran it and it said it cant find roms and it crated the cfg folder. inside of that folder is default.cfg and empty.cfg the documentation said to type "-createconfig /-cc" to create the mame.ini file but when do i type that, this is really confusing.

[Ginsu Victim]

So there's no INI file of any sort in your root Mame folder?

[ablizno]

there is no ini file anywhere

[Ginsu Victim]

I'm not at home, so I don't have it in front of me to help.
What version / build of MAME are you running?

[ablizno]

I am using .124a

[Onji]

just goto dos, goto your mame directory and type

mame -cc

and hit enter

that should create the mame.ini for you

[ablizno]

Ok do to a sound problem i switched to fastmame 84 and it works wonderful. But here is the problem i have both a fastmame.ini and mame.ini i set both of them to scanlines 1 and it still didnt display scanlines. Yes there is the scanlines file in the artwork folder.