recording problems with wolf143

[simpsons99]

I'm having problems with this verson of mame and a couple others..

It quicky shows the black screen and then does'nt go to the list of games.

I can click on Mame and lists the games fine and plays then.

But nothing is being recorded.. Yes i have made the Inp folder.

[mahlemiut]

How are you running MAME? ie: what commandline parameters are you giving it?

[simpsons99]

I'm using Ie I've never had too set any commandlines before on the others .

I got another questions about the fourms here ..

recently when i'm looking through posts i get this message that comes up and it says i have somekind of program running. It changes too another page and starts doing a scan looking for some Torgan virus.

I allways quickly cancel out of this scan.

does this site scan for virus's or is something we should be worryed about here?

[mahlemiut]

Yep, cancelling is a good idea. BeeJay has already complained about the issue in another post, hopefully seymour can sort something out soon. In the meantime, try using something that isn't IE to browse the forums.

[simpsons99]

I came here earlyer tonight and it tolk me too a youtube page..

BTW I still need help with 143 and why it's not working when i goto record.

[Chad]

you'll have to open up a command window.

Go to start->Run

then type in "cmd" and press ok.

type "cd c:\mame" or use the second word in your command line to be the directory where mame and wolf143 is stored (you should if you haven't install wolfmame to the mame folder). If your mame is on a different hard drive like "cd d:\mamedir" then you will also have to type "d:" and then enter.

when your prompt says c:\mame (or the correct directory), then type "record pacman"

this should start a pacman game and start recording it (and remove the nvram file for you)

If any of these steps don't work (they probably won't if i've made a mistake) then post your command line output errors. You can select text on the cmd window by right clicking the bar and clicking Edit->Mark.

[mahlemiut]

Don't forget the last parameter that I mentioned earlier, since it determines the INP filename, don't want any more files named ".inp"

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record <game shortname> <INP filename>

[simpsons99]

You guys really don'nt like anything i do . *It's really not that hard*

[simpsons99]

O.k. i named the inp file i was saving? When i goto record the next game It does'nt show a new inp file being made.

It's only showing the inp file from the last game and it stays the same amount.

[simpsons99]

oh shoot! I did'nt see it was making a different inp file at the bottem of my imp folder.... My score might not be as reported..

Dang that inp got recorded over .

[simpsons99]

all my recent versons of Mame dO Not start recording an imp,

The black window quickly comes up and disappears then nothing happens.

[The TJT]

all my recent versons of Mame dO Not start recording an imp,

The black window quickly comes up and disappears then nothing happens.

In that case you have to use command prompt or frontend to run mame, me thinks.

[Chad]

Sorry if it sounds like we are telling you too much about what to do. When you learn/teach something someone has to tell the other something to do.

all my recent versons of Mame dO Not start recording an imp,

The black window quickly comes up and disappears then nothing happens.

If you see a black window coming up and disappearing, this sounds like mame isn't actually installed correctly and can't find the roms path. I will assume you installed mame to c:/mame. Are all of your game roms installed in c:/mame/roms or are they located somewhere else? If they are located somewhere else you need to tell mame in c:/mame/mame.ini where they are. A line like this should be in your mame.ini file

rompath roms;D:/folder/roms

Before you can use record.bat you need to make sure that the wolfmame.exe (that record runs) works. If mame.exe exists in your c:\mame directory, try to run it from the cmd window after you'd navigated (used cd) to the c:\mame folder.

Type "mame.exe pacman" in the cmd window.

Do you get pacman to run or does it do the black window popup/popdown thing? If it did the later it should spit out the error that might be happening, could you forward that to us?