MAMEw not creating .INI file?

[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

Ok guys, I'm probably doing something plonk-worthy here, but when I
run MAMEw v37b15 from the command line it doesn't create the .INI file
the docs state it should - Here's what I type to run and the result:

C:\Games\Retro\MAMEw>mame -createconfig
M.A.M.E. v0.37 BETA 15 (May 24 2001) - Multiple Arcade Machine
Emulator
Copyright (C) 1997-2001 by Nicola Salmoria and the MAME Team

MAME is an emulator: it reproduces, more or less faithfully, the
behaviour of several arcade machines. But hardware is useless without
software, so an image of the ROMs which run on that hardware is
required. Such ROMs, like any other commercial software, are
copyrighted material and it is therefore illegal to use them if you
don't own the original arcade machine. Needless to say, ROMs are not
distributed together with MAME. Distribution of MAME together with ROM
images is a violation of copyright law and should be promptly reported
to the authors so that appropriate legal action can be taken.

Usage: MAME gamename [options]

MAME -list for a brief list of supported games
MAME -listfull for a full list of supported games

See readme.txt for a complete list of options.

C:\Games\Retro\MAMEw>

I've tried MAME -createconfig and also MAME -cc to no avail

Heyyyyyyyyllllllllp! =)

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[WMBA]

try mamew -createconfig

Took me all night to figure it out (cause I never, and I mean never, use dos.
Or the dos prompt.

I'm strictly a dumb windows user.

[Alex K. Krcek]

Sir_LANs-a-lot wrote :

> Ok guys, I'm probably doing something plonk-worthy here, but when I
> run MAMEw v37b15 from the command line it doesn't create the .INI file
> the docs state it should - Here's what I type to run and the result:

[snip]

> I've tried MAME -createconfig and also MAME -cc to no avail

First time I tried it, I just opened a DOS prompt and typed
c:\mame\mamew.exe -createconfig

It didn't seem to work. Actually it worked, but the config file was not
created in the right directory.

You have to cd to the MAME directory first.

HTH
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On Fri, 25 May 2001 12:50:24 GMT, ya...@yaddayadda.com
(Sir_LANs-a-lot) wrote the following........

>I've tried MAME -createconfig and also MAME -cc to no avail

MameW -createconfig
unless you have renamed the mameW.exe to mame.exe

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[Sir_LANs-a-lot]

On Fri, 25 May 2001 12:50:24 GMT, ya...@yaddayadda.com

(Sir_LANs-a-lot) wrote:

---Snip!
Aha! - Ok, I'm used to downloading the DOS version of MAME so I
downloaded that one - Downloaded the other one and everythings groovy
=)

Heh.. sorry...it's been a long week ;)