MAMEWAH newbie questions

[kgibbons]

Hello all,

I'm just starting to learn MAMEWAH, and I have some questions  Sorry if these have been asked a zillion times before.  A little preliminary stuff first... I'm using Win98 SE, and mame071b (windows command line version).

Ok.. onto the newbie questions:

1. I seem to be having some troubles getting MAMEWAH to find my roms.  It does find them, and builds the two MAME rom list files... but I've had trouble where it found the roms but then listed "No Games Available"   At which point, I deleted the list file and let it rebuild again... same outcome.  I then even went so far as to uninstall MAMEWAH, then let it scan again... and at this time it found and is now listing my roms.

It almost seems that it's an issue because it brings up the MAME useage info text file each and every time.  If you choose YES, to open the file... it messes with the ROM search.  But if you choose NO, the search seems to work just fine.  

2. Unlike MAME32, the windows command line version only has an "artwork" folder -- no snaps, cpanel, etc.. folder.  At least not right out of the zip.  So where exactly do you put the files so that MAMEWAH shows these files through its GUI?

3. How to set MAMEWAH as the shell?  Do you simply modify system.ini to "shell=path\to\mamewah.exe"  ??

4. How do I run my mame through MAMEWAH with the -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo switches?

5. On a similar topic as #2 -- with regards to artwork files.  All my artwork files are in zips -- which came right off my burned set.

When I run command line mame for win with the artwork folder empty, it runs just fine.  But if I add the artwork zip files, and then try a simple game like "mame pacman" -- I get no video.  But as soon as I delete the artwork zips, good old pac works like a champ.  I've tried this with many roms, not just a pacman issue.

I also tried unzipping all the artwork zip files, using the zip filename as the output directory name.  Still the same situation with no video.

Many thanks for any help guys, as always it's greatly appreciated!

KG

[Syxx]

ok im tired but i'll try to answer, but might not be in the right order.

first off you have to unzip your snaps, marquees, etc etc..you can place them anywhere but i recomend making a folder in mame dir called snap, and so on. then you point to that directory in mamewah under the excution settings/misc then for artwork #1 if you wanna display your snaps point to that directory like c:\Mame\Snap same for all other emus and picture types.

as for the roms, check the directory and make sure its right, can you run them from mame fine? if so then its gotta be a directory problem. also for list type [or whatever its called] pick roms dir vs list. and then go refresh the games list.

to skip the disclamer stuff go to you mame directory and open mame.ini there should be a spot near the bottom of it that says:
skip_disclaimer         0
skip_gameinfo          0

change the 0's to 1's

as for the rest im to tired to go on heh. but i hope that helps you out.

[Minwah]

Hi,

1. I seem to be having some troubles getting MAMEWAH to find my roms.  It does find them, and builds the two MAME rom list files... but I've had trouble where it found the roms but then listed "No Games Available"   At which point, I deleted the list file and let it rebuild again... same outcome.  I then even went so far as to uninstall MAMEWAH, then let it scan again... and at this time it found and is now listing my roms.

Which version of MAMEWAH are you running?  I'm guessing but it sounds like v0.90 - if so, I would now suggest changing to v0.954b.

2. Unlike MAME32, the windows command line version only has an "artwork" folder -- no snaps, cpanel, etc.. folder.  At least not right out of the zip.  So where exactly do you put the files so that MAMEWAH shows these files through its GUI?

Snapshots go into the \MAME\SNAP folder, the artwork folder is for in-game artwork (bezels, overlays and backgrounds).

3. How to set MAMEWAH as the shell?  Do you simply modify system.ini to "shell=path\to\mamewah.exe"  ??

I think so, anyone confirm?

4. How do I run my mame through MAMEWAH with the -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo switches?

Create an ini file using 'mame -cc' - see www.mameworld.net/easyemu for help.

5. On a similar topic as #2 -- with regards to artwork files.  All my artwork files are in zips -- which came right off my burned set.

When I run command line mame for win with the artwork folder empty, it runs just fine.  But if I add the artwork zip files, and then try a simple game like "mame pacman" -- I get no video.  But as soon as I delete the artwork zips, good old pac works like a champ.  I've tried this with many roms, not just a pacman issue.

I also tried unzipping all the artwork zip files, using the zip filename as the output directory name.  Still the same situation with no video.

See Q2.

Many thanks for any help guys, as always it's greatly appreciated!

No probs, hope that helps...

[MrSaLTy]

4. How do I run my mame through MAMEWAH with the -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo switches?

Create an ini file using 'mame -cc' - see www.mameworld.net/easyemu for help.

You can also just add -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo under 'options' under the emulator page. I have tried that and it seems to work no problem.

[Minwah]

4. How do I run my mame through MAMEWAH with the -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo switches?

Create an ini file using 'mame -cc' - see www.mameworld.net/easyemu for help.

You can also just add -skip_disclaimer and -skip_gameinfo under 'options' under the emulator page. I have tried that and it seems to work no problem.

That's right.  I'd still recommend making an INI though.  1 thing it saves a bit of config in MAMEWAH, and 2 it's useful for setting up other MAME default settings...