More Mamewah Setup Problems

[sham69]

Hi,
Finally got my mamewah layouts sorted but am having another small problem.
When I click the mamewah.exe it opens mameui32.exe (which is the exe I have the .ini pointing to.
If I change it to point to a command line mame.exe the same thing happens.
How do I get it to open the game without seeing the mame screen?
I thought the point of the FE is to hide the mame screens.
I reckon I have something wrong in my .ini file.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Sham.

[Ginsu Victim]

What do you mean "mame" screens?

If you mean the "Type OK to play" or the "This game has problems" screen, you can't without a hacked version.

[sham69]

Sorry i am new to this so probably didnt explain very well.

When I select a game from the Mamewah menu and press 1 it loads another menu from the command line version of mame (or the ui32 depending which one I am pointing at). I am then face with the same list of games again but in the mame menu so I have to scroll to the game I want and press return for it to work.
So I am having to choose the game twice, once in the mamewah screen and then the actual mame screen.
I am pretty sure it my emulator_commandline in the .ini file but I am not sure what to do?
I hope this is a bit clearer.
Sorry and thanks for the reply.

[unclet]

I do not believe command-line MAME has a built in menu system so selecting a game from MameWah which should start command-line Mame really should not bring up a menu.    It sounds like you are always started Mame32 instead .... perhaps?

Anyway, I have not used MameWah in a very very long time (since I switched to MALA since it was quite easy to get configured compared to MameWah) but I would assume to have someone answer your question you might want to post your INI file.

[northerngames]

not sure why it is doing that but the screen is called a GUI you could look in the ini and change it to 0 instead of 1 if it is even in there that is.

as unclet said post your ini. along with your folder name and location for mame.

[gonzo90017]

Post your mame.ini to see if your command line is correct.

[sham69]

This is the version of the command line mame I am using, I got it from here.
http://mamedev.org/downloader.php?&file=mame0127b.exe
and here is my .ini file, it has been changed a few times so its a bit of a mess.
I just know its something really stupid I am doing wrong.
Thanks for the replies.

### mame.ini (mamewah v1.63) ###

emulator_title                            Mame

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  C:\emulators\mamewah\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                  c:\mame\mame.dat
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           c:\mame\catver.ini
list_generation_method                    rom_folder

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      C:\emulators\Programs\mame\mame.exe
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       C:\emulators\Programs\mame\snap; C:\emulators\Programs\mame\layouts
movie_preview_path                        c:\artwork\videos\[emuname]
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                          auto
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

### Screen-Saver Settings ###
enable_music_in_screensaver               0
select_random_game                        0
saver_type                                saver_commandline
movie_path                               
movie_fullscreen                          1
quit_delay                                30
saver_commandline                         

### Additional Settings ###
music_path                               
lcd_display_file_path                     
description_display                       [description]{scroll}

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

[sham69]

got it sorted by adding this "[rompath]\[name].[romext]"
I tried this lots of times without the quotes but it didnt work.
Working fine now?
Thanks for all the replies.

[Minwah]

You just need this:

emulator_commandline                      C:\emulators\Programs\mame\mame.exe [name]

The [rompath] etc. parts are not required for Mame, as long as your *Mame* mame.ini file is setup properly.

PS using the default ini files supplied with Mamewah is a good start

[sham69]

Thanks Minwah.
It has taken me 3 weeks plus to get this working the way I want it mainly because of my own stupidity.
I can't wait to get home to try it out, hopefully it will look better than the MameUI32 I have running at the moment, that doesnt look great on a TV, I was told that Mamewah is the way to go when outputting to a TV.
Thanks for the help.