Zebra Layout Installation and Configuration Problem

[SlainbytheBrain]

I have spent the past few days trying to configure all of my emulators and place them into MALA for a nice streamlined home arcade experience. I am very new to this process and have no real computer background. I have had many problems and many successes, but I still have many questions.

I am running MALA 1.74 on a 32 bit Windows XP machine.

1.) Perhaps the most pertinent question is with regard to making effective use of layouts. I located some sleek looking layouts for my tree here: http://www.webwonderland.net/arcade/zebra_layouts.php

I downloaded the “everything” file and placed them into my layouts directory which I assigned as such in the MALA tree editor. I chose these layouts for their respective places in the tree I had created (e.g. “Atari_menu” was assigned to my Atari submenu).

What I got were several menus that looked like the dark image below.

I then found out that I needed to change the directory structure listed in each layout file. I did this using UltraEdit to change the file path listed in the .dll files from “D:\front_end\mala\layouts” to my file path: “F:\Emulation\FrontEnd\Layouts.

This did not help and my menus stayed the same. I seem to be missing some integral part of this process. Any ideas?

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2.) On a side note, I have noticed that when using a layout other than the standard, the time between menus goes from instantaneous to a slow 3-second fade in and out – Is there some way to alter this time delay? Is my system just slow?

Any assistance would be appreciated! Thanks much!

[frotter]

Have you been able to find a solution to this issue?

I am having exactly the same problem and am not sure how to fix it. I used a text editor to go through all the files and change the directory locations to match what is on my computer, but am still having exactly the same issues as you are.

Thanks.

[SlainbytheBrain]

Have you been able to find a solution to this issue?

I am having exactly the same problem and am not sure how to fix it. I used a text editor to go through all the files and change the directory locations to match what is on my computer, but am still having exactly the same issues as you are.

Thanks.

No, I ended up switching to a front end with more user friendly theme options (Hyperspin)

[frotter]

Hey Mate,

THanks for the feedback - I've just done exactly the same thing and moved to a different front end. I chose MaLa first because it just seemed simpler and easier to configure and get on my arcade, but in the end I found it quite difficult (and I work in the IT industry!). SO now going with Hyperspin as well.

[Celsius]

No IT knowledge at all, and it works perfect here...every emulator has a different layout and even every genre 

[philharris]

I'm working through this as well - the issue could be that the mala.mlt file (the tree file) is not where mala thinks it should be. I don't have access to my set up at the moment but a quick fix would be to copy the mala.mlt file into both the main mala directory and the layouts directory - then it'll have to be in the right place...