MAMEWAH v1.51

posted in Frontend News by mfc on Sep 21st, 2004

MAMEWAH, a frontend for MAME mainly suited for homebuilt cabinets, has been updated recently. Here is what's new:

Bugs Fixed:

'keep_movie_preview_aspect 0' would not work
Run Time Error 52 may occur for various reasons
Run Time Error 91 may occur for various reasons
If the blank screen saver was launched by fault (eg if a scr screensaver was not found) then it would be un-exitable
If the blank screen saver was launched by fault and 'enable_music_in_screensaver 0', music would incorrectly continue
Screen saver would sometimes launch right after a game was quit
'show_dos_box auto' would not work with certain list_generation_method's (fixed)
Emulator-specific music would not work
Clone info would not be removed from games added to a list with 'display_clone_info 0' set
Games may not have been correctly added to most_played / longest_played custom lists
Preview movie may not have played after switching emulators
Main form would disappear leaving options menu visible when exiting via menu
Closing options menu (if above a movie preview) would cause part of movie to be cut off
Holding up/down at top/bottom of list would cause image(s) not to update (but movie does)
Screensaver may have attempted to kick in while or after 'exit' sound was playing
controls_dat_viewer_options would be added twice to commandline
Big font / crashing problem (Run Time Error 13) with regional settings which use ',' as decimal seperator or non-English language setting (fixed at last!)
Un-neccessary refreshment of current game images/text when activating (non-used) input

Improvements:

Made Options menu disappear after generating custom lists, as per previous versions
Adjusted initialisation sequence for a 'cleaner' look
Ctrlr files now accept regular pipe '|' as well as 'Â¦'
Hiphens (-) may now be used in 'emuname's
Changed screensaver delay unit to seconds for increased accuracy (UPDATE YOUR MAMEWAH.INI FILE!!)
DirectSound is now fully released when launching a game/scr saver/wrapper in order to prevent problems with DOS apps
Settings in ini files (excl. ctrlr) are no longer case-sensitive
Improved 'show_dos_box auto' to show box if roms have bad checksums
Improved keep_movie_preview_aspect to allow for correct game aspect ratio (nb dependant on movie_artwork_no and keep_image_aspect, thanks Howard_C :) )
Removed 'Select Emulator' option from menu when 0-1 emulators exist
Removed 'Select Games List' option from menu when 0-1 games lists exist
Removed 'Find Game' and 'Select Random Game' options from menu when 0-1 games exist
Removed (Games List Options > ) 'Add Game to List' and 'Remove Game from List' options from menu when no games exist

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