Just a few standard questions...

[Isometric Bacon]

Hey, I recently decided to start building up a cabinet, and it looks like i'm going to use the fantastic MAMEWAH front-end due to it's ease of use and functionability.

There's just a few questions I have to ask in order to get it to run efficiently,

First of all, Is there anyway to disable the piracy warning screens that require you to type "OK" to start the game? I ask this because I do not want to wire up O and K buttons to my cabinet. The same can also be saidfor the "This ROM may not work correctly because blah blah" screens. Although you only have to push a button to bypass this, I'd rather not have it on there at all, as it \detracts from the smoothness of the whole thing.

Similarly, with DOS MAME, is there any way to skip the "sound card" selection at the beginning? I'd like it to default to Sound Blaster.

I also noticed that games will not work without enabling the "Show DOS Box" in options. If it is off it will just hang at the Mamewah "loading" screen. I'd rather not have this in MAMEWah, as it's ugly, and again detracts from the whole smoothness. Also when you quit MAME, it sticks to the command prompt and the average framerate DOS Window, rather than switching back to MAMEWah.

Thanks for that. There are a few other little questions I may add in later.

[meta87]

For the ok thing you can just go left then right on the joystick  

[RetroBorg]

Iso,

meta87 is right all you have to do is shake the joystick left and right but if you don't even want to do that there is another way that skips it all together and I think this is the command.

-[no]skip_disclaimer

        Forces MAME to skip displaying the disclaimer screen. The default is
        OFF (-noskip_disclaimer).

I'm sure if this is wrong someone will let me know.

[AlanS17]

That whole sound card thing sounds like you're using the DOS version of MAME. Try downloading the Windows command line version and do it again. This may solve some of those other problems you're having in Mamewah.

[GoldenBear]

Since you decided to use MameWah (Good Job), you must be running windows.  I would go with Mame32.  There is an option to disable all those "OK" crap popups, among other good things.

Just a thought

[Minwah]

As AlanS17 said, I would recommend using the Windows commandline MAME (NOT MAME32).

The thing whereby you need to set 'Show DOS Box' to 'Yes', is a problem with games which have bad/missing ROM dumps - I found that with MAME 0.70 it automatically skipped that part, but for previous versions, you need to compile your own MAME build to skip it (or just do not play games with bad dumps).

[Isometric Bacon]

O_o

*smashes head into desk*

God i'm an idiot. I completely forgot about the WINDOWS Command Line version of mame. I somehow fell under the automatic assumption that because it's windows it means that it's Mame32. Doh!

That solved all my problems Cheers!

Finally, a few more questions. Will the screenshots/marquee's sets etc that are available on the Mame32 site work with MAMEWah?

Also, which NES and SNES emulators would you reccomend that are FE friendly and will work in MAMEWAH?, also, how do I get MAMEWAH to recognise joystick inputs? (works in Mame32, not Mamewin)

Btw. MinWah I'll just take this oppurtunity to congratulate you on such a fantastic frontend

[boarderguy41]

how do you add the -[no]skip_disclaimer to the command line? I click properties on mamepp.exe to add the command but theres no place for me to put it in. With shortcuts there is, but mamewah wont let me use a shortcut to mamepp.exe. I also tried putting -[no]skip_disclaimer in the extra options in mamewah, but it did nothing.

[Howard_Casto]

lol
open a command prompt...
type mame.exe -cc in your mame directory

now edit the mame.ini it creates (or in this case mamepp.ini)