Emulator setup questions

[cmorris283]

Hello,
I have some newbie questions here.
Question 1)
When setting up your main mame emulator in the options, is there a way of using the command line with quotations? I was first setting up with mame32 as my main mame as opposed to the command line mame.exe. The reason is that for some reason it would work with more roms that the other. The command line only works if it has the quotations on it. However, every time I shut down mala and reopen it resorts back to the non-quoted command line.

Question 2)
Can I setup the "other emulators to display only working games (like you can with the main mame)? Mame in the other emulator position displays the names incorrectly and shows all my bios as well.

Thank you

[BadMouth]

Hello,
I have some newbie questions here.
Question 1)
When setting up your main mame emulator in the options, is there a way of using the command line with quotations? I was first setting up with mame32 as my main mame as opposed to the command line mame.exe. The reason is that for some reason it would work with more roms that the other. The command line only works if it has the quotations on it. However, every time I shut down mala and reopen it resorts back to the non-quoted command line.

Not sure about the quotation marks thing, but if your roms aren't working with the plain mame.exe, then they are probably meant for a different revision.
i.e. you have v.137 roms, v.137 mame32.exe, but v.146 mame.exe

If you know what version of mame32 you are running, you can download the matching version of the plain mame.exe from the mamedev website.
http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html
Look at the window title or under the "about" tab (if there is one) in mame32 for the version number.

Question 2)
Can I setup the "other emulators to display only working games (like you can with the main mame)? Mame in the other emulator position displays the names incorrectly and shows all my bios as well.

Nope, Mala gets the working/nonworking info from the mame.xml file.  No such file exists for the other emulators, so there is no way to know which ones work.
It will only display roms that are found though, so if you delete non-working ones and refresh the main gamelist, they will be gone.
What other emulator do you have non-working games for?

You can manually delete the bios from the gamelist. 

What do you mean it displays the names incorrectly?  It just displays whatever the rom file is named as far as I remember. 
(It's been a while since I used the "other emulators" part)

[cmorris283]

Thanks for the answer. What you told me for my first question should fix the issue. What I did was set up mame.exe as my mame and mame32 as one of the other emulators. I did this because some of the games did not work with the mame.exe. The names showed up different, For example Teenage mutant ninja turtles would show up as TMNT. Metal slug shows as Mslug. I will check my version on the mame emulator. I realize that I should just have one mame emulator. Thanks for the answer.