mamewah and zsnes roms

[nightwulfe]

Can Someone please help me with this i cant seem to get mamewah to read any of my snes roms no matter what i try
Q:do my snes roms need to have a .sms or something behind them for mamewah to read them because the emulator reads them just fine.

[Minwah]

The rom extension doesn't matter, so long as you state it correctly in your \mamewah\config\zsnes\zsnes.ini file.  I use zipped roms personally.

Make sure you are using 'list_generation_method rom_folder', unless of course you are trying to generate the list using a dat file...

[nightwulfe]

how do you make a dat file?

[Minwah]

how do you make a dat file?

There are apps that can help you do it, or you can download them.

But as you are just trying to get a list of roms, I wouldn't bother.

[nightwulfe]

ok thanks i'll go and zip all my roms

[Minwah]

ok thanks i'll go and zip all my roms

You don't have to zip them all...just tell Mamewah what extension your roms are!  If you have multiple types you can seperate them with ;'s...eg:

rom_extension zip;smc

[nightwulfe]

none of them have an extension but all play in snes emulator mamewah just wont see them of let me play

[Minwah]

none of them have an extension but all play in snes emulator mamewah just wont see them of let me play

Have you tried leaving the rom_extension setting blank?  If that doesn't work, try 'rom_extension *', and don't use [romext] in your emulator_commandline.

[massive88]

none of them have an extension but all play in snes emulator mamewah just wont see them of let me play

I had a set like this as well.

I think I ended up doing:

copy c:\snesroms\*. c:\test\*.smc

from a command prompt to get them all to have their right extension.  Theres really no benefit to leaving them without an extension.

Take a few files and test if that command works right, its been a loooooooooong time since I tried it.

[gonzo90017]

What do you mean they don't have an extension? Right click on the file then properties. That should tell you what extension they are.

[massive88]

If its similar to what I had, they seriously have no extension, or its blank or filled with spaces or whatever.  To explorer or the command prompt, there is no extension.  There are sets out there that are:

Super Metroid.smc
Mario 3.
Mario 2.
Mario 1.smc


And ZNes reads them no problem with any of them, but it causes funkiness when you try to do other stuff, like what hes experiencing with mamewah.

[Minwah]

Theres really no benefit to leaving them without an extension.

I would recommend using extensions as well. There is no reason why any rom file should not have an extension.

[nightwulfe]

ok thanks i have that part working, buuuut no games will play

[Ginsu Victim]

Do you have ZSNES pointing to your rom directory? Check your zsnesw.cfg