MaLa v 1.74 Released

[loadman]

Hello Loadman
Me not the volume of sound functions well.  I under the volume and he rises himself!  

Sorry What does that mean. Can you please give more details as to what you are trying to do (and what method) and what is going wrong. I know English is not you first language so perhaps a picture/screenshot might help?

Neither the sound in the screensaver functions me well with videosnaps.  The first one videosnap that shows has sound, the remainder of videosnaps are mute.  
Greetings and thanks by your work

hmmm needs more work it seems  

I have overwritte the files with the new MaLa 1.74.
The volume of sound is very high (52), I have descended it to 10, I have returned to the Gamelist and the volume sound has been put again to 50  
Screensaver with videosnaps and sound:
MaLa 1.738 works fine in this, perhaps only failed Fade in - Fade out  

Hi,  I spent some time last night looking at this.

It does not appear to be a problem with my code. I spent a few hours trailing over it.

When I build it on my Main Development PC the volume issue is present. 

When I build it on my Backup Development Environment (My Laptop) the problem is gone. 

It 'smells' like a library mismatch. D'oh! 

I will figure it out eventually, a bit of pain.

I should point out that the simple short term workaround is set your 'video 1' volume level at the setting you want the main volume to be 

OK.

I spent a lot of time and pin pointed the problem.
It is in the Video Engine, there are no problems if you don't use videos.
And when I build mala using an earlier version of the video engine the problem does not appear.
I have sent a bug report

[Gray_Area]

Don't installers write to the registry?

They can , if required. Sorry what was your point?

I don't like things writing to the registry unless it's absolutely necessary.

As for keeping track of directories....this isn't the days of dos, where people have to keep in their heads where they placed all their toy cars....but you're the chief.

[loadman]

Hello Loadman
Me not the volume of sound functions well.  I under the volume and he rises himself!  

Sorry What does that mean. Can you please give more details as to what you are trying to do (and what method) and what is going wrong. I know English is not you first language so perhaps a picture/screenshot might help?

Neither the sound in the screensaver functions me well with videosnaps.  The first one videosnap that shows has sound, the remainder of videosnaps are mute.  
Greetings and thanks by your work

hmmm needs more work it seems  

I have overwritte the files with the new MaLa 1.74.
The volume of sound is very high (52), I have descended it to 10, I have returned to the Gamelist and the volume sound has been put again to 50  
Screensaver with videosnaps and sound:
MaLa 1.738 works fine in this, perhaps only failed Fade in - Fade out  

Hi,  I spent some time last night looking at this.

It does not appear to be a problem with my code. I spent a few hours trailing over it.

When I build it on my Main Development PC the volume issue is present. 

When I build it on my Backup Development Environment (My Laptop) the problem is gone. 

It 'smells' like a library mismatch. D'oh! 

I will figure it out eventually, a bit of pain.

OK, They fixed the Bug in the Video Driver that was causing the Audio Level change. 

 It will be in next version   

[garykagan]

Hello,

I am trying to get different emulators to work with 1.74.

I had Mess working before and now when i select a game, it just beeps and doesn't start.

it works in commandline:  D:\Emulators\Programs\mess>mess a7800 -cart "D:\Emulators\RomFiles\Atari7800\Dig Dug.zip"

using latest version of Mess 1.42

here is my mala setup that remained after the upgrade:

emulator
D:\EMULATORS\Programs\mess\mess.exe

rom path
D:\Emulators\RomFiles\Atari7800

extentions
zip

commandline
a7800 -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"

Is there someplace i can find an error log when i click on the game and it doesnt start?

more info - at next glance, it looks like all emulators are not working (except mame works fine).  When I
click on the player 1 button on my x-arcade it just refreshes the screen (looks like that is what happens)
maybe some global setting i need to change in 1.74?


thanks!

[loadman]

more info - at next glance, it looks like all emulators are not working (except mame works fine).  When I
click on the player 1 button on my x-arcade it just refreshes the screen (looks like that is what happens)
maybe some global setting i need to change in 1.74?
thanks!

I didn't do any changes in that area.

Yes logging can be enabled on the credits/logging tab

[loadman]

A new beta released 1.743 for download on the MaLa Website.

Mod: Now an option to allow opening of more than one mala at a time
Added logging to show command line used to open games and %rom% etc.. substitution
BugFix: Main volume no longer gets altered to Video volume when Video loaded.
BugFix: Fixed tracking of selected game in list (if it was the first game)

[drventure]

Cool.

One question though. Why would you want to open more than one Mala at a time? I'm just wondering what use that would be...

[loadman]

Cool.

One question though. Why would you want to open more than one Mala at a time? I'm just wondering what use that would be...

Some use it as a workaround....

refer here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=110466.msg1170468#msg1170468

[drventure]

Ah. Makes sense. I guess I've always just used the table names for vpin. I figured that's just how you were supposed to do it. Would be nice to have extra info available, but I'm not sure it'd be worth the work.

[darthpaul]

Hi, I just loaded 1.74 and everything seems to be working but I had one issue, MALA wouldn't load on Windows start-up even though the box was checked in the configuration. What I did was uncheck the box save it, go back in and check the box save it and now it works.
Just an FYI if anyone else has the same problem.

[Gray_Area]

Ah. Makes sense. I guess I've always just used the table names for vpin. I figured that's just how you were supposed to do it. Would be nice to have extra info available, but I'm not sure it'd be worth the work.

It's for any 'other' emulator. With VP, the problem is often the table names have underscores between words, I guess for CMD reasons. Unsavory. With alternate MAMEs, it's worse because you're forced to use rom names. I think Maximus Arcade was set up to read all the emus it supported and give game names. But the author did *a lot* of work in the form of special ini files and such. The option to support info files is enough, though. Something I'm looking forward to.

[garykagan]

Hello again,

I have another weird thing happening, and i think maybe it had to do with running mame32UI to fix my trackball issue.  In Mala, when i look at my MAME Arcade list of games, they are all grouped now (Controls, Genre, Manufacturer, Players, Year).  Within each of these groups there are more, and I can drill down to the games and they work.  I am wondering what the heck i did to get it to go from a list of individual games to this group list in Mala.  Anyone see this?

[garykagan]

more info - at next glance, it looks like all emulators are not working (except mame works fine).  When I
click on the player 1 button on my x-arcade it just refreshes the screen (looks like that is what happens)
maybe some global setting i need to change in 1.74?
thanks!

I didn't do any changes in that area.

Yes logging can be enabled on the credits/logging tab

Loadman, I turned on logging to try and find the issue here.  I click on my Colecovision folder (or any emulator) and select a game and click the "1" on the keyboard.  I have the video playing for each game as it is selected.  When I select "1" to start, it just restarts the video.  This is not emulator specific, so it is not the setup.  I took the tankstick out of the equation and went back to the keyboard and had the same issue.  I rolled back to Mala 1.05 and had the same issue, so it must be some global setting?

Anyway, where do i find the log file and will it show what actually is happening when I click '1' to start a game and nothing happens?

[loadman]

This is not emulator specific, so it is not the setup.  I took the tankstick out of the equation and went back to the keyboard and had the same issue.  I rolled back to Mala 1.05 and had the same issue, so it must be some global setting?
Anyway, where do i find the log file and will it show what actually is happening when I click '!' to start a game and nothing happens?

If you have enabled logging then a mala.exe.log file will be in the same folder as MaLa.
But please use the latest beta version of MaLa for the logging as 1.05 logs may not tell you much.

[garykagan]

I logged with 1.74 - I thought I attached the log.  I will attach again...

[loadman]

I logged with 1.74 - I thought I attached the log.  I will attach again...

You may have to zip it as this forum may only allow certain file types

[kako121]

A new beta released 1.743 for download on the MaLa Website.

Mod: Now an option to allow opening of more than one mala at a time
Added logging to show command line used to open games and %rom% etc.. substitution
BugFix: Main volume no longer gets altered to Video volume when Video loaded.
BugFix: Fixed tracking of selected game in list (if it was the first game)

I have not tested 1.743, only I have seen to discharge 1.742, I have tested it and seems that the problems of sound volume and of Screensaver with videosnap without sound they have been resolved.

Thanks

[garykagan]

I logged with 1.74 - I thought I attached the log.  I will attach again...

You may have to zip it as this forum may only allow certain file types

i have attached the log file.  Hopefully this will help determine why nothing other than MAME will launch a game within mala.  All command line testing outside of mala works.  Everything was working until in upgraded/and got my tankstick operational.

I will add this as well as I just saw it - when i look at the other emulator list, i see Daphne (for example), then many blank spaces, then Coleco, then blanks, etc.  It's like they are hidden or disappeared.  When I look at the emulator_presets.ini file, they are all there, so the problem is not the file.  Maybe this is part of the bigger problem? 

Thanks all,

Gary

[loadman]

I logged with 1.74 - I thought I attached the log.  I will attach again...

You may have to zip it as this forum may only allow certain file types

i have attached the log file.  Hopefully this will help determine why nothing other than MAME will launch a game within mala.  All command line testing outside of mala works.  Everything was working until in upgraded/and got my tankstick operational.

I will add this as well as I just saw it - when i look at the other emulator list, i see Daphne (for example), then many blank spaces, then Coleco, then blanks, etc.  It's like they are hidden or disappeared.  When I look at the emulator_presets.ini file, they are all there, so the problem is not the file.  Maybe this is part of the bigger problem? 

Thanks all,

Gary

Refer here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=111366.msg1181422#msg1181422

[Yadrax]

Hi Loadman
I really like your read my problem that I have expressed in this post recently:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=111917.0

I have thought to try an earlier version of the program but can not find older versions to 1.73
Can you help me? Do you think that has a solution?
Thank you very much for everything

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What happened to 1.743 for download?

[loadman]

What happened to 1.743 for download?

I have not written such a version........ yet   

[loadman]

Sorry for my english  

When mala (1.74) restart after hibernation appear splash screen image
In  version 1.73 beta  when mala restart after hibernation appear :
"MALA restarting after hibernation or restarting"
Is possible use it instead of splash screen image?
And is possible rename it with only "MALA STARTING"
Or change the image splash screen in next version?
Thanks!!!

Done.

Download the latest Beta

[Gray_Area]

What happened to 1.743 for download?

I have not written such a version........ yet   

According to a post half-way up the page, you did, and you posted the files.