Mamewah and Mame32 v.106+

Well, after reloading my Mame computer I found that Mame32 and Mamewah 1.61 don't work together like they used to, plus I found some things that I needed to document for Mamewah to make my skin work. I forgot to backup my config files before I reloaded my computer, so I had to recreate some stuff. So here it is, hopefully this will help anyone having problems setting up Mamewah.

Apparently, somewhere around Mame v.106 the xml2info.exe was removed from the distribution. Mamewah relies on this file to generate the game list. I tried using an older version that came with Mame(v.102) but this caused Mamewah to spit out errors because I was running Mame v.110. There must be some sort of incompatibility with xml2info.exe and new Mame versions. So I found this link for a new version of Xml2info. Simply extract the files to your Mame directory, that's it. When you start Mamewah, go to the Game List options and then Generate List.

In my next post I'll document what i had to do to get my custom skin working in Mamewah.