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loadman:

--- Quote from: Circo on July 14, 2006, 11:38:27 am ---I have been so busy on the emumovies project that I have not had any time to install any other front ends.  I do have one question about mala though.  I use a 4x40 lcd to display the different controls used for different games/emulators.   MameWAH uses .lcd files to send instructions to the display.  Does Mala do the same thing?  The reason why it is so important is that I have spent countless hours creating those .lcd files for the different systems/games and it is not something that I could or would want to start over on.

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You would have to do some work I would imagine.
Can you please send me your .lcd file for my own interest ?


--- Quote from: swindus on July 14, 2006, 04:18:19 pm ---MaLa sends the instructions/text on the fly to the lcd. You just have to create some line/screen templates with placeholder and MaLa will replace the placeholder for you when selecting/starting a game.

Here is the list of all placeholder (in german but I think you can understand) you can use:

Game values (Standard Mame Informationen):

- Buttons (~g_buttons): Anzahl der ben
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Circo:
I am attaching an .lcd file for your review.  I use textpad to edit and create because it supports the ascii control codes that the display uses.  Mamewah just reads the file information and sends it directly to the lcd.  I will admit that it is a severe pain to create all of the files but it works great.  I added the .txt extension so that I could attach it. 

Edit: I also am including the pdf of the manual, control codes are listed on page 3 if you are interested.

loadman:

--- Quote ---I added the .txt extension so that I could attach it. 
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No .txt file appears to be there.    :(

Circo:
Its the 3 ninja's kick back link right above the first picture

loadman:

--- Quote ---Its the 3 ninja's kick back link right above the first picture
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:banghead: I knew that. ......and thanks

You litterally have to make up the screen for every game do you?

Yeah MaLa is a bit more clever with the use of LCD. It's very similar to making a layout. You choose what 'fields' you want and where ,and then mala does the rest depending on what game you are playing or selected. Very quick and easy to set-up

I would say in your case... stay with what you have
1) Your LCD users a serial interface and MaLa uses parallel
2) "If it ain't broke don't fix it"

Thanks again for the info

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