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Title: Mame0123: Disable internal game list?
Post by: StereotypeA on March 09, 2008, 03:20:48 am

Hi there. Long time lurker, first time poster...

Anyway, I was following along with the guides for setting up MameWah on here and in the Wiki with the Win32 command-line version of Mame version 0123...whichever the February 27th update was...

However, after I choose the game from within MameWah, it brings me to a little box with a list of 10 or so random games and it wants me to type in the name of the game...which kinda cramps my style in a cabinet that's supposed to be keyboard-less.

Does anyone know how to fix this? I checked all the documentation that came with Mame0123 and MameWah and was unable to find any answer.

Also, did they change -skip_disclaimer? Everytime I add it to my mame.ini, the games fail to load.

Thank you very much for any and all help!

Title: Re: Mame0123: Disable internal game list?
Post by: Minwah on March 10, 2008, 08:54:03 am

Quote from: StereotypeA on March 09, 2008, 03:20:48 am

However, after I choose the game from within MameWah, it brings me to a little box with a list of 10 or so random games and it wants me to type in the name of the game...which kinda cramps my style in a cabinet that's supposed to be keyboard-less.

Sounds like MAME doesn't recognise the romname it is receiving. Have a look in mamewah.log to see the commandline being run.

Also, what is your emulator_commandline (in your \mamewah\config\mame\mame.ini file)?

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Also, did they change -skip_disclaimer? Everytime I add it to my mame.ini, the games fail to load.

Did you try 'skip_disclaimer 1'? That may work, but I have a feeling all of the skip_ options may have been removed.

Title: Re: Mame0123: Disable internal game list?
Post by: StereotypeA on March 10, 2008, 01:45:38 pm

Quote from: Minwah on March 10, 2008, 08:54:03 am

Sounds like MAME doesn't recognise the romname it is receiving. Have a look in mamewah.log to see the commandline being run.

Also, what is your emulator_commandline (in your \mamewah\config\mame\mame.ini file)?

Did you try 'skip_disclaimer 1'? That may work, but I have a feeling all of the skip_ options may have been removed.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my question.

Currently my emulator_commandline looks like such:

C:\Documents and blah blah\mame\mame.exe -video ddraw -skip_gameinfo -mouse

And I fear you may be right about the skip_options being removed as nothing seems to work...

I wonder if it would just be better to "downgrade" to an earlier build.

Title: Re: Mame0123: Disable internal game list?
Post by: Minwah on March 10, 2008, 02:08:39 pm

Quote from: StereotypeA on March 10, 2008, 01:45:38 pm

Currently my emulator_commandline looks like such:

C:\Documents and blah blah\mame\mame.exe -video ddraw -skip_gameinfo -mouse

Change it to:

C:\Documents and blah blah\mame\mame.exe [name] -video ddraw -mouse

That should work. However I usually recommend you set any options in your \mame\mame.ini file, rather than using commandline parameters...so you wouldn't need the '-video ddraw -mouse' on the end.

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I wonder if it would just be better to "downgrade" to an earlier build.

Depends on a great many things! :)

Title: Re: Mame0123: Disable internal game list?
Post by: StereotypeA on March 10, 2008, 02:59:35 pm

Yes! That works beautifully! I knew it had to be something so simple...

Alright, thank you so so much!