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Introducing New (Enhanced) MaLa Game List Editor
Eddie_Brock:
I installed this app recently on my home PC (win7 32bit), since my arcade box doesn't have .net framework. Anyways, I copied over my malagamelist.mlg file, and mame.xml, however I am unable to get the game list to open up. :banghead:
My first step was to use the command line and export it to a .ini... the screen scrolled through the entire list, and eventually got to the end. No ini. Then I opened up the GUI, it imported my .XML fine, and displayed ALL of my games that I have in the list on the left. When the GUI tried to load the .mlg, again the DOS window came up, scrolled through my list, and eventually closed, with no result.
It seems regardless of what I try, I can't get my .mlg to populate in the right-hand column. Suggestions? :dizzy:
thund3rstruck:
--- Quote from: Eddie_Brock on March 21, 2010, 12:27:01 pm ---I installed this app recently on my home PC (win7 32bit), since my arcade box doesn't have .net framework. Anyways, I copied over my malagamelist.mlg file, and mame.xml, however I am unable to get the game list to open up. :banghead:
My first step was to use the command line and export it to a .ini... the screen scrolled through the entire list, and eventually got to the end. No ini. Then I opened up the GUI, it imported my .XML fine, and displayed ALL of my games that I have in the list on the left. When the GUI tried to load the .mlg, again the DOS window came up, scrolled through my list, and eventually closed, with no result.
It seems regardless of what I try, I can't get my .mlg to populate in the right-hand column. Suggestions? :dizzy:
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Send me a copy of your mlg file and I'll tell you exactly what's going on.
Cheers!
BadMouth:
Did exactly what I needed and saved me a bunch of time. :applaud:
The only issue I had with it was when trying save a previously created list after making a few changes.
I get an error message if I try to re-use the original game list name.
Easy enough to workaround, but it would be nice to replace the original list in one shot.
thund3rstruck:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on March 21, 2010, 09:16:21 pm ---The only issue I had with it was when trying save a previously created list after making a few changes.
I get an error message if I try to re-use the original game list name.
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Thanks for the positive feedback. That's easy enough to change. I'll add that into the ToDo list.
thund3rstruck:
--- Quote from: thund3rstruck on March 21, 2010, 12:35:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Eddie_Brock on March 21, 2010, 12:27:01 pm ---It seems regardless of what I try, I can't get my .mlg to populate in the right-hand column. Suggestions? :dizzy:
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Send me a copy of your mlg file and I'll tell you exactly what's going on.
Cheers!
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Eddie,
I got your mlg file and man is it huge (2,235 games)! Ok so here's your problem. When you created your game list you named it 'Games' in the mala game list editor (the editor that comes with Mala) but you saved the file as trim.mlg. So when you selected it from the GUI program it exported properly, but it was exported as 'Games.ini' since the command line converter names the file based on the internal mala list title.
To get it to load in the GUI program, just rename the exported Games.ini file to trim.ini and viola! It loads right up and you can edit it, add to it, or remove items from it.
In the GUI program, the exported INI file and the MLG file need to have the same name. That's not a problem if you use the GUI to create and manage all your lists, but if you use a 'legacy' list, (in other words, a list created with the default MaLa list editor tool) you need to make sure the Title of the list and the file name are the same.
BTW, if you don't want to have to reconvert your list again, here's the exported INI (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mteb5otjzmi). Just unzip and drop it into your MalaGameListEditor.exe working directory and you're good to go!
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
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