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hsr:
Looking for some help please.

I have Mala and Mame096 setup and working properly on my home computer (XP Pro).  Made a reduced list of 52 games to install on a cabinet.  Mala does display ONLY those 52 games, have launched each one and they seem to play fine on home computer.  There are no sound or display issues.

I made a CD of the Mala and Mame directories and installed them on cabinet machine running optimized Win98SE.

Initially, Mala would not launch at all.  I deleted the contents of the Mala directory and unzipped the full download again.  Upon doing so, Mala opened the initial dialog box and I went through the basic setup (setting paths, etc).  Once Mala launched, it was displaying 0/0 of my games.  I went into “options” and selected “only working games” so it would refresh my game list.  The refresh game list started, and then stopped with an error message that Mala was terminating, check the Mala.exe.log for info.

I tried this several times with no luck.

Attached is the log file.  Can anyone decipher?

Second issue.

Mame is now displaying my games very small.  Only about 2/3 of the screen, low to the left.  None of the Mame files were modified after I copied them off the home computer.  Bezels are shut off.

Also attached is my Mame.ini  Anyone see problem(s)?

Please note, on both files, I added .TXT to the end so I could upload.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

leapinlew:
When I copy data off a cd, sometimes I have to turn off the read only attribute. Open a dos prompt, and navigate to those folders. Do a

attrib -r -a -s -h *.*

Do that command for both the MAME and MALA directory. Now, I didn't think it actually wrote to the files and would need more than read only access, but give it a try.

Another option is to reinstall both MAME and MALA on the new machine. You can copy the favorite games list from your older computer to your new computer to restore your list of 52 games.

Did that help?

hsr:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 06, 2007, 09:40:47 pm ---When I copy data off a cd, sometimes I have to turn off the read only attribute. Open a dos prompt, and navigate to those folders. Do a

attrib -r -a -s -h *.*

Do that command for both the MAME and MALA directory. Now, I didn't think it actually wrote to the files and would need more than read only access, but give it a try.

Another option is to reinstall both MAME and MALA on the new machine. You can copy the favorite games list from your older computer to your new computer to restore your list of 52 games.

Did that help?

--- End quote ---

Lew,

Thanks for the reply.  Your comments make sense and I will try the suggested when I get home this evening.

I did re-install Mala from the zip file last night.  It would only display all games.  If I selected any of the 52, they would launch.  It's when I tried to refresh the game list that when the problems listed above occured.

My understanding of what you are saying is the attributes are not correct for Mala to read what rom files I have and is looking at the xml or other to display all games.

Will re-install Mame as well from the zip file.

Any thoughts on the display issue I'm having in Mame?  It happened through Mala and from the command prompt.  Windows and Mala display just fine.

Thanks again,

hsr:
Lew,

It didn't help.  Still having the exact same issues as originally posted. 

This is after re-installing newly downloaded versions of both Mame and Mala.  Unzipped/Installed them into new directories off my USB stick this time.

Any other ideas?

hsr:
Okay, loaded the same files to another Win98 machine using the CD I created last night.  Changed the attributes before doing anything.  Launched Mala and it fired right up displaying only the 52 games as expected.

I am still having the display issue though.  It is only once in a game.  Windows and Mala display just fine.

Depending on what game I am in, it is either too small, off the sreeen to the left, to the right, etc.  If I adjust the monitor for a specific game, it throws off the other games even worse, but has no apparent effect on Windows or Mala.

Any thoughts for this?

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