Mamewah is not finding my roms

[jordya]

Hello,
I apologize if this has been asked many times before, but I've read and followed many posts and tutorials and I am still unable to locate my roms using mamewah. After setting up Mamewah, it comes up with No Games Available.

Some backround:
Mame.exe is installed in C:\mame
The roms are in C:\mame\roms

When I open mamewah, I press 2, click on Games List Options, then Generate List. It works for a second, but still nothing on the list. It even says "No Games Available."

I thought maybe the roms were bad, so I downloaded some official roms from mame.net. They are not listed as well.

I am assuming something is incorrect with the rom location setup in mame.ini. Here is the mame.ini settings:

rom_path c:\mame\roms
rom_extension zip
dat_file
nms_file
catver_ini_file
list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_listinfo
### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines
emulator_commandline c:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines
general_app_commandlines


Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. thank you again.
Jordy Anderson

[jordya]

Here is my full "mame.ini" in mamewah

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

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\mame\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      c:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       c:\mame\snap;c:\mame\marquees
movie_preview_path                        c:\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

[Minwah]

                 
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo

If you are using a version of Mame >0.83, then change this to:

list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

[Ginsu Victim]

Also, make sure the INI in the MAME program folder (not in MameWAH, but the actual MAME itself) is pointing at your roms.

[jordya]

Thanks for the fast reply.

I changed "rom_folder_vs_listinfo" to "rom_folder_vs_listxml"...it actually started to look for roms. Hooray!. However, now I get the following error:

Program Error!
An internal error has occured - see c:mamewah_1.62B13\mamewah.log for details

Here is the log file:
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM MAMEWAH v1.62 launched
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Cursor scheme: Windows default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Desktop colour: 0
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Wallpaper filename: C:\Documents and Settings\Jordy Anderson\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Desktop display mode: 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Decimal symbol: '.'
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:25:32 AM Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
4/18/2008 9:25:32 AM Layout selected: C:\MAMEWAH_1.62B13\config\mame\\layout.lay
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM No. joystick devices attached: 0
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Ctrlr file selected: C:\MAMEWAH_1.62B13\config\mamewah.cfg
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Keyboard enabled
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Mouse enabled
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:25:59 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:26:06 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:26:06 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:26:42 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:26:49 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:26:49 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:27:21 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:27:28 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:27:28 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:27:38 AM Mode 1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour selected after 1 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
4/18/2008 9:27:40 AM MAMEWAH quit

Also, I checked the .ini in the MAME program folder and it is pointing to my roms.

Thanks again for the assistance.

[Ginsu Victim]

forgive me if this is a stupid question, but you never know sometimes.

Your ROMs are still zipped, right?

[jordya]

yes they are still zipped.

[jordya]

Ok, I finally got it working. I had to change back to "rom_folder_vs_listinfo and then install Mame 0.82.

If I want to install a more current version of MAME, what should I do to get MameWah to work with it..."LISTXML" did not seem to work with any version of MAME I tried.

thanks again

[gonzo90017]

Download the dat file for the mame version you're using from here. Make sure you download the (cm) version. Unzip it inside your mame folder. Then change the list generation method to

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rom_folder_vs_dat_file. And point to the dat file.

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dat_file                                  C:\juegos\mame37\MAME v0.37b16.dat

[Minwah]

Download Mamewah v1.62final from mamewah.mameworld.net - there were some list generation problems with b13.

[jordya]

Download the dat file for the mame version you're using from here. Make sure you download the (cm) version. Unzip it inside your mame folder. Then change the list generation method to

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rom_folder_vs_dat_file. And point to the dat file.

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dat_file                                  C:\juegos\mame37\MAME v0.37b16.dat

Ok, I changed the mame.ini file to this:
dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84         
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_dat_file

I downloaded "MAME v0.84 (cm)" and unzipped into c:\mame\dat

started up Mamewah...no games will list.


So to summarize:
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml (works)
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_dat_file (does not work)
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo (does not work)

[jordya]

Download Mamewah v1.62final from mamewah.mameworld.net - there were some list generation problems with b13.

I tried the same thing with Mamewah v1.62...same results

[gonzo90017]

You forgot to put the extension for the dat file.

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dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84.dat

[jordya]

You forgot to put the extension for the dat file.

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dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84.dat

Hooray! It is working.  Thank you very much.