I'm currently setting up a MAME cabinet using a vertically-mounted arcade monitor and have decided to use MaLa as the frontend to launch games from. I've never used it before so have a few questions regarding the way the game list is displayed:
1. I am trying to create a menu screen that resembles a high score table, with the games being the 'scores'. I'd like to always have 5 games displayed in the list, with the highlighted game always being the middle one in the list of 5 unless you're at the very top or bottom 2 rows of the list. In other words if you start at the top, the highlight is at the top until you move to the third game, then the highlight stays where it is as you move through the list until your reach the bottom 2 games. Is this possible and if so how can it be achieved? Alternatively I wouldn't mind if the list 'wrapped' so that when you get to the last game, the first one shows next in the list and the middle item in the list of 5 is always the highlighted one.
2. This one's probably easy to do. At the moment my gamelist shows all the junk about the rom version (e.g. 'Pac-Man (Midway)') but I would like to just show the game names (e.g. just 'Pac-Man') - how/where do I edit the game list to achieve this?
3. Finally is it possible to left-justify the game list rather than have it centred?
Any help would be appreciated!