how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?

[allroy1975]

here's the deal.  I built my Mame Config on the M: drive (a portable drive so I could bring it back and forth to work ...but I wouldn't mess around like that on work time..so...I just liked it to be close to me) anyway, I'm done.  I changed all the ini files to point to c:\ but all the stuff in the gamelist files (ml1, ml2, ml3s etc) still point to M and for the life of me I can't figure out how to change them.


those are hex files, so I can't just go in and do a replace m:\ with c:\ like I could with the ini files.

anyone know?

[loadman]

I just tested it moving stuff around to my D:\ drive.  It seems MaLa is set to look for the gamelists in the same drive/dir that MaLa is Launched.

They are small files, could you not just copy them to both drives?

[NOP]

a decent hex editor should allow you to do search/replace of a binary file.

winhex is one of them, although I'm not sure if there are restrictions in the unregistered version.

http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/allfeatures.html

As long as you're only changing m:\ to c:\ and not adding any additional text, it should work just fine.  Just make sure have a backup just in case!

-jeff!

[allroy1975]

thanks guys.

in the mean time, I just added the line:
subst m: c:\
so when it looks to M it's really looking at the C drive.  kinda a hobo's fix, but it's working.

[loadman]

thanks guys.

in the mean time, I just added the line:
subst m: c:\
so when it looks to M it's really looking at the C drive.  kinda a hobo's fix, but it's working.