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Title: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 18, 2008, 01:45:41 am

Hello,
I apologize if this has been asked many times before, but I've read and followed many posts and tutorials and I am still unable to locate my roms using mamewah. After setting up Mamewah, it comes up with No Games Available.

Some backround:
Mame.exe is installed in C:\mame
The roms are in C:\mame\roms

When I open mamewah, I press 2, click on Games List Options, then Generate List. It works for a second, but still nothing on the list. It even says "No Games Available."

I thought maybe the roms were bad, so I downloaded some official roms from mame.net. They are not listed as well.

I am assuming something is incorrect with the rom location setup in mame.ini. Here is the mame.ini settings:

rom_path c:\mame\roms
rom_extension zip
dat_file
nms_file
catver_ini_file
list_generation_method rom_folder_vs_listinfo
### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines
emulator_commandline c:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines
general_app_commandlines


Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. thank you again.
Jordy Anderson

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 18, 2008, 02:02:07 am

Here is my full "mame.ini" in mamewah

### mame.ini (mamewah v1.62) ###

emulator_title                            M.A.M.E.

### List Generation Settings ###
rom_path                                  c:\mame\roms
rom_extension                             zip
dat_file                                 
nms_file                                 
catver_ini_file                           
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo

### Execution Settings ###
pre_emulator_app_commandlines             
emulator_commandline                      c:\mame\mame.exe [name]{nodosbox}
post_emulator_app_commandlines           
general_app_commandlines                 

### Artwork Settings ###
artwork_image_paths                       c:\mame\snap;c:\mame\marquees
movie_preview_path                        c:\mame\previews
movie_artwork_no                          1
enable_fuzzy_search                       0
history_dat_file                         
history_dat_artwork_no                    2

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

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

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

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: Minwah on April 18, 2008, 04:39:08 am

Quote from: jordya on April 18, 2008, 02:02:07 am

                 
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo

If you are using a version of Mame >0.83, then change this to:

list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 18, 2008, 08:16:02 am

Also, make sure the INI in the MAME program folder (not in MameWAH, but the actual MAME itself) is pointing at your roms.

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 18, 2008, 10:33:12 am

Thanks for the fast reply.

I changed "rom_folder_vs_listinfo" to "rom_folder_vs_listxml"...it actually started to look for roms. Hooray!. However, now I get the following error:

Program Error!
An internal error has occured - see c:mamewah_1.62B13\mamewah.log for details

Here is the log file:
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM MAMEWAH v1.62 launched
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Cursor scheme: Windows default, Arrow: (None), Wait: (None), AppStarting: (None)
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Desktop colour: 0
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Wallpaper filename: C:\Documents and Settings\Jordy Anderson\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Internet Explorer Wallpaper.bmp
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Desktop display mode: 1280x1024 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Decimal symbol: '.'
4/18/2008 9:25:30 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:25:32 AM Mode 800 x 600 @ 60Hz, 16bit colour selected after 2 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
4/18/2008 9:25:32 AM Layout selected: C:\MAMEWAH_1.62B13\config\mame\\layout.lay
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM No. joystick devices attached: 0
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Ctrlr file selected: C:\MAMEWAH_1.62B13\config\mamewah.cfg
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Keyboard enabled
4/18/2008 9:25:33 AM Mouse enabled
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:25:38 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:25:59 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:26:06 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:26:06 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:26:24 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:26:42 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:26:49 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:26:49 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM List generation started...
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM Current drive/directory selected: c:\mame
4/18/2008 9:27:03 AM Commandline run: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml {flags=81}
4/18/2008 9:27:21 AM Application quit: C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c c:\mame\mame.exe -listxml > C:\MAMEWA~2.62B\mame.xml
4/18/2008 9:27:28 AM Error: 70 Permission denied in GenerateList
4/18/2008 9:27:28 AM Games list read: mame-0.lst
4/18/2008 9:27:38 AM Mode 1280 x 1024 @ 60Hz, 32bit colour selected after 1 attempt(s) at 1/2 second intervals.
4/18/2008 9:27:40 AM MAMEWAH quit

Also, I checked the .ini in the MAME program folder and it is pointing to my roms.

Thanks again for the assistance.

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: Ginsu Victim on April 18, 2008, 10:42:29 am

forgive me if this is a stupid question, but you never know sometimes.

Your ROMs are still zipped, right?

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 18, 2008, 10:54:37 am

yes they are still zipped.

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 18, 2008, 06:04:49 pm

Ok, I finally got it working. I had to change back to "rom_folder_vs_listinfo and then install Mame 0.82.

If I want to install a more current version of MAME, what should I do to get MameWah to work with it..."LISTXML" did not seem to work with any version of MAME I tried.

thanks again

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: gonzo90017 on April 19, 2008, 12:26:41 pm

Download the dat file for the mame version you're using from here (http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/MAMEBeta/MAMEBetaHistory.php). Make sure you download the (cm) version. Unzip it inside your mame folder. Then change the list generation method to

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rom_folder_vs_dat_file. And point to the dat file.

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dat_file                                  C:\juegos\mame37\MAME v0.37b16.dat

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: Minwah on April 21, 2008, 04:23:03 am

Download Mamewah v1.62final from mamewah.mameworld.net - there were some list generation problems with b13.

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 23, 2008, 04:32:15 pm

Quote from: gonzo90017 on April 19, 2008, 12:26:41 pm

Download the dat file for the mame version you're using from here (http://www.logiqx.com/Dats/MAMEBeta/MAMEBetaHistory.php). Make sure you download the (cm) version. Unzip it inside your mame folder. Then change the list generation method to

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rom_folder_vs_dat_file. And point to the dat file.

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dat_file                                  C:\juegos\mame37\MAME v0.37b16.dat

Ok, I changed the mame.ini file to this:
dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84         
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_dat_file

I downloaded "MAME v0.84 (cm)" and unzipped into c:\mame\dat

started up Mamewah...no games will list.


So to summarize:
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listxml (works)
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_dat_file (does not work)
list_generation_method                    rom_folder_vs_listinfo (does not work)

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 23, 2008, 04:39:37 pm

Quote from: Minwah on April 21, 2008, 04:23:03 am

Download Mamewah v1.62final from mamewah.mameworld.net - there were some list generation problems with b13.

I tried the same thing with Mamewah v1.62...same results

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: gonzo90017 on April 23, 2008, 05:23:18 pm

You forgot to put the extension for the dat file.

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dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84.dat

Title: Re: Mamewah is not finding my roms
Post by: jordya on April 24, 2008, 09:04:43 am

Quote from: gonzo90017 on April 23, 2008, 05:23:18 pm

You forgot to put the extension for the dat file.

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dat_file                                  c:\mame\dat\MAME v0.84.dat

Hooray! It is working.  :cheers: Thank you very much.