How do I get Nebula working with Mala?

[Doom bucket]

I was never able to get mame to work with the neo-geo or CPS games, so I'm giving Nebula a shot. I downloaded the command line wrap tool but I'm getting nothing but errors. How am I supposed to do this?

[loadman]

I was never able to get mame to work with the neo-geo or CPS games, so I'm giving Nebula a shot. I downloaded the command line wrap tool but I'm getting nothing but errors. How am I supposed to do this?

Have you tried UncleT's MaLa Guide ?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56010.0

[Doom bucket]

yes, although nebula is mentioned in the document, there is no tutorial for configuring it with mala

[loadman]

yes, although nebula is mentioned in the document, there is no tutorial for configuring it with mala

Ohh I saw it in the index and just assumed.. Sorry

When you find out how.. do share 

[Doom bucket]

 

[unclet]

Sorry about that    .... I documented the website but never had interest in installing that emulator.   I am not much into the CPS1/2 and NeoGeo games.  I think a lot of them are in Mame, although I hear Nebula does a better job (?)

[Doom bucket]

well, if I could get Neo Geo and CPS roms working with MAME, I'd be ok with that, but I'm having all sorts of problems in THAT error.

for a while CPS games worked but then when I changed my mala layout they stopped working, and I haven't been able to fix them since. and I've never gotten neo geo games to work.

[Timoe]

If you specifically cant get any neo geo games to work it is is because:

You need the neogeo.bios  files

you need to put the bios files in your roms folder and mame will find them automatically and ALL your neo geo games will work.


same basic thing with CPS2 games.

[Doom bucket]

Am I supposed to leave the files zipped? Am I supposed to put them in a certain sub-folder?

[Timoe]

Am I supposed to leave the files zipped? Am I supposed to put them in a certain sub-folder?

Leave them zipped and DO NOT put them in a sub folder (unless the "whats new" in the latest mame build changed something)

[Doom bucket]

Ok, CPS games are working, Neo Geo games aren't. I'm ok with that for now.

I'd still like to figure out a few other things with mala. For one, how do I launch external applications from mala? Stuff like PC games and what not... And how do I configure mala to start automattically on windows launch? I clicked the box but it didn't seem to change anything...

other features, such as jukebox capability and layouts, are features that I think mala has but I haven't been able to figure out how to activate them/use them. 

[unclet]

I wrote this to help people like you get started:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=56010.0


It details how I configured all my emulators a while back.   You should understand how to associated layout files with emulators pretty easily by going to the correct section and reading quickly about it.

As for my PC games (which are not described in that document), I simply created a BAT file for each of my installed PC games. I then placed all of these BAT files into a "PC Games" directory.   Finally, I configured MALA with a new "PC Games" emulator and pointed it to the "PC Games" directory and set MALA up to use only "BAT" file extensions for this new emulator.   What this does is tell MALA that a new "PC Games" emulator exists and to treat all files ending in "BAT" to be the game names.  Once you start MALA, you should be able to scroll through the BAT file names and select one, which will result in the BAT file executing, thus starting your PC game.

It has been a long time ago since I set all of this up, but it was pretty straightforward and worked well.    I would suggest you open up another forum post regarding how to set up MALA for PC games and here what other people recommend as well ..... but what I told you should get you going ....

[loadman]

I'd still like to figure out a few other things with mala. For one, how do I launch external applications from mala? Stuff like PC games and what not... And how do I configure mala to start automattically on windows launch? I clicked the box but it didn't seem to change anything...

other features, such as jukebox capability and layouts, are features that I think mala has but I haven't been able to figure out how to activate them/use them. 

how do I launch external applications from mala?

options-controler-keyboard-external apps

Stuff like PC games and what not

You can make a folder full of PC game short-cuts too...
lokk here: http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/emuconfig.html

And how do I configure mala to start automattically on windows launch? I clicked the box but it didn't seem to change anything...

Weird.. Try putting a shortcut to mala in you windows start-up folder

other features, such as jukebox capability and layouts, are features that I think mala has but I haven't been able to figure out how to activate them/use them.

MaLa is quite intuative so you should be able to eork it out. Some info is in the WiKi... Feel free to add more info (using your forum login/password) when you work it out  Thanks   
http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mala_Wiki

[Doom bucket]

How does one make bat files?

[unclet]

If you open a command window you can type commands at the prompt (ex: cd, dir, etc...).    A file with a BAT extension is a file in which has command window commands inside of it.  You then simply execute the BAT file, which will in turn execute all the commands (one by one) for you automatically so there is no need to manually type them in anymore.

Check this post out for an example of a BAT file:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66412.0

I would also recommend you make a reply into that post as well if you need any further information regarding BAT files ......