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loadman:

--- Quote from: Circo on December 20, 2006, 10:43:24 pm ---

--- Quote ---Well it also has the same problems with .lcd files
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I understand the .lnk problem to launch PC games
Sorry... I'm a bit slow today. What exactly are you doing with the .lcd files?

the .lcd files are like an instruction sheet for the game.

Just like i did with mame, I would like to do with the different pc games. Mostly I have pinball, casino, and reflexive arcade/popcap games. They take up a large portion of the play time and it is weird that they are the only ones that mala seems to have a problem with. It loads the games just fine but will not call up Led-wiz, or LCD displays. It's really weird as I haven't had that problem with any other kind of file. If I use a bat file everything works great, but that is a huge pain for 200 games. I just wonder if there is some setting or workaround for this?

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Sorry Circo, As soon as I got in the car to go to work I 'clicked' to what you meant.... :banghead:

Yes I will have a look. ;)

The Plug-in relies on Mala passing the ROM name over. Then the Led-wiz Plug-in can load the LEds or Serial display can load the .lcd file

I guess MalA is not passing names of .lnk files as 'pseudo' rom names to the plug-ins... (best guess)

I will check tomorrow

swindus:
Loadman is right. MaLa extracts the executable and the working dir from the lnk file. So the rom name passed by MaLa is the name of the executable of the lnk file. You can also enable and watch the MaLa log file to get more information about the used rom name when starting a game.

Circo:

--- Quote from: swindus on December 21, 2006, 08:49:47 am ---Loadman is right. MaLa extracts the executable and the working dir from the lnk file. So the rom name passed by MaLa is the name of the executable of the lnk file. You can also enable and watch the MaLa log file to get more information about the used rom name when starting a game.

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Ok so as long as I name the .lcd file or led-wiz config as the actual executable then all should work, will give it a go and report back. Thanks guys!

Circo:
Well the .lnk files that I was testing with have the same exact file name as the .exe files. Tried turning on the log, but for the life of me can't find the log file. (Stupid me probably just need to do some research) Anyway I will keep trying to figure this one out and report back.

Secondly, spoke to Sam's Club Corporate today and they are going to overnight me a new beta brite prism. Since it is coming I cracked open the software and I am not sure if this is accurate but it gave me a message "Sign not connected com 255" It's usb but does that mean it's going to use com port 255? Like I said before I will have more info when that sign actually gets here.

loadman:

--- Quote ---Well the .lnk files that I was testing with have the same exact file name as the .exe files. Tried turning on the log, but for the life of me can't find the log file. (Stupid me probably just need to do some research) Anyway I will keep trying to figure this one out and report back
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Circo:
You can see what LCD file my Plug-in is looking for by enabling 'Enable directory messages' on the set-up prog

--- Quote ---Loadman is right. MaLa extracts the executable and the working dir from the lnk file. So the rom name passed by MaLa is the name of the executable of the lnk file. You can also enable and watch the MaLa log file to get more information about the used rom name when starting a game.
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Ah Ha.. It is indeed.
Thanks SWINDUS :cheers:
The other games just pass the name of the rom to the plug-in, but when .lnk are launched MaLa passes a full path as well'
eg:
Rom name: C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Pinball\PINBALL.EXE
which ideally should be
Rom name: PINBALL
.. like the others.

My Plug-in looks for a LCD file in the specified directory or a sub directory (with the same name as the emulator) so I don't really need or want this full path

Swindus, Can this be altered in MaLa or do you know Delphi method to strip the other data from this string? :dunno

I guess as a 'workaround' I could use the 'Game Name' rather than the rom name when .lks extensions are used.... What you think?

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