right cracked it been a busy man today. have cloned the 10gb hard drive to a 60gb hard by taking the hard drive off the motherboard installing it in my xp machine.

Then using selfimage software made a image of the 10gb drive to my 250gb backup drive i then removed the original hard drive and installed a spare 60gb maxstor cloned the drive from the image. I then using partition magic have resized C: to a 40gb partition so i can add lots more roms and even diffrent emulators to the system still got 17gb spare if i run out of space.

Have customized my menu back ground buy editing

D:\filebak\english\main.bmp (menu background file)



Then have customised layout so the on screen colours are not so bright on the eyes
by renaming the myskin.ski file to myskin.lay then using mamewah layout designer to change the colours of the menu from green to white the selected game colour to green , the games list counter to brite green and the list title to white saved the file then changed it back to .ski

the c:\emu folder brakes down like this.

There are a number of emulators being used to provide the games:
emu\game1 Mame 0.96
emu\game2 Mame 0.106
emu\game7 Final Burn Alpha 0.2.94.98
emu\game9 ZiNc 1.1
emu\game11 Nebula 2.25
emu\mult1 Mame 0.96u3
emu\mult2 Mame 0.106
emu\mult7 Final Burn Alpha 0.2.94.98
emu\mult11 Nebula 2.25

to add older roms to the system get your self a nice script editor as you need to do some additions to some files to get the system working.

what i have been doing is runing mame32 on my other pc finding the roms i want to add playing the rom once which genorates the .cfg file and the .nv nvram file then copying them over to c:\emu\game2 there folders cfg and nvram and to  D: \filebak\cfgbak\game2\ same files the system reads off this partition. After that i have copied over the rom to c:\game_roms\roms\ the snap file in C:\emu\snap seems to have most of the sreen shots already installed.

now for the editing.

files of intrest

D:\filebak\cfgbak\batch\game.ini (game delay launch file)
Scroll to the bottom of the file add new line with romname=delay as shown on next line
rom-name=1

 C:\emu\batch\game.bat (pointer file tells the system which emulator to use to launch game)

scroll down till you get to the end of the games list will see something like this
if%1==rampage goto emu2 make a new line copy and past the last line change rampage to rom name then save

do the same to multi.bat in the same folder not sure if this is needed but did it all the same.

Then its back to drive d:


D:\filebak\english\lstbak\files\game.fav scroll to the end of file and add the following.
romname
rom menu title
1
0
i not sure what it does exsactly but thought i would add it as was used earlyer in the post.

last file to edit the one which is important if you dont space this right it wont work properly as i found out earlyer.

D:\filebak\english\lstbak\files \game-0.lst
 
the way i did it was to copy the first discription and the 11 spaces after then paste it at the end of the file then edit it first line is rom name second line is menu rom title eg.

gng
Ghosts 'n Goblins

   
I did exactly everything that is shown, with puyo puyo sun game STV on my 3000 in 1 (The Bios STV is already on the card). I have the game that appears in the list but it does not start. What can I Do?