mala problems - stella and visual pinball

[hulkster]

stella problem - ive got stella working, and its in fullscreen with no problems.  my problem is that when i try to start a game in mala, it brings up the rom browser instead of just the game.  im sure its a config issue (i followed unclet's tutorial) that i messed up on as far as the command line stuff.  i read the documentation and it mentioned that if you start a game using the command line, the rom browser is disabled.  not so!...at least on mine.  what gives?

visual pinball - ive followed unclet's doc on how to setup visual pinball in mala.  im using howards wrapper (the newest one from the dragon king site) and its not working for me, so it may be a config issue on my part.  anyway, if i make the executable in mala to point to vpinball.exe, the tables start up fine without any problems.  the only  thing i cant do is exit vpinball once the game starts without clicking "quit to debug" and then exiting via mouse click.  i did some searching, and found the closemul.exe program, but i havent used that yet.  any suggestions?

[psychotech]

Just use Closemul, that little program works like a charm with Visual Pinball etc.

1. Copy the closemul.exe to the vpinball folder

2. Add something like C:\Games\vpinball\closemul.exe VPinball.exe 98 to MaLa executable line

3. Play pinball!

4. Exit pressing key B  (There's a list of the keycodes on closemul info, b=98)

Hope this helps 

psychotech

[SGT]

Yeah, I use closemul also.  I did not set anything in my closemul.ini and it closes with the ESC key by default.

[hulkster]

great!  worked like a charm for pinball!


any thoughts on my stella issue? 

[SGT]

I don't use Stella, but it sounds like its not getting the rom parameter passed to it from Mala.

In Mala is the command line for Stella:

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-fullscreen 1 -gl_fsmax 1 "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"

Is the Rom path correct?


Is the rom extenstion set to:

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bin

[hulkster]

I don't use Stella, but it sounds like its not getting the rom parameter passed to it from Mala.

In Mala is the command line for Stella:

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-fullscreen 1 -gl_fsmax 1 "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"

Is the Rom path correct?


Is the rom extenstion set to:

Code: [Select]

bin

yeah all thats set correctly.  if you dont use stella what do you use for your atari 2600 roms?  or do you not have any? 

anyway...other suggestions?

[hulkster]

bump 

[hulkster]

okay, so i thought it might be the stella install or ini file or something like that, so i completely uninstalled stella and reinstalled it.  i have the exact code in the command line part in mala that everyone talks about having.  ive got my roms set to bin.  ive got the roms path set correctly.  i can launch games from the stella interface, and exit out and all that, but i cant freakin go from mala to launch a game!!!!!!!!!     so frustrating.   

edit - i just typed in the command line stuff from the actual command line:

stella -fullscreen 1 -gl_fsmax 1 adventure.bin

and it goes directly to the browser.  my roms are named with goodtools, so when i look in my roms folder i have "Adventure (1978) (Atari)" as the name of the game.  whats the deal?

[hulkster]

still got a problem with stella.  anybody out there? 

[SGT]

You're probably not going to want to hear this, but the problem has to be in the other_emu configuration unless your gamelist is corrupted like it was in the example you sent me a few days ago.  Care to post screen shots of Mala's stella configuration?  You might also try going to Mala's stella main game list, right clicking a game and choose remove from game list.  Then refresh the main game list and try that same game again from the main game list (and not from any custom game lists you have created.)