I'm including my setup list here since it could help someone starting up, i'm all for helping out beginners. I doo remember when I started out and got silly spotty remarks over my questions (from a few people I wont mention here) I have included unfinished projects in the hope that I might get some advise. Also I'm gonna include some more info to the more special setups (*) at a later date. All the 47 first setups run perfect with standart buttons and Esc to close the games, and fullscreen without Windows to be seen. My setup is based around vintage gaming consoles and arcade machines. I have stayed away from computer consoles.
Setup name - (emu) - (execution in Mala)
Mame Arcade (Mame)
Classic Games Collection (Mix list of classic games on different emulator's done with batch files).)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" ).
Donkey Kong Arcade (All the important variations of D.K. in mame).("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" ).
Neo Geo Arcade (Mame)(Done with bats, executed in Mame).)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" ).
Laserdisc Arcade ((Mame/Daphne) Mame laserdisc games + Daphne games. Done with batch files).("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" ).
Vectrex (Mess)(vectrex -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Atari 2600 (Mess)(a2600 -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Atari 5200 (Mess)(a5200 -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Atari 7800 (Mess)(a7800 -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Atari Lynx (Handy hack)(-g="%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -d=2 -z=2)
Colecovision (Mess)(coleco -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Bally Astrocade (Mess)(astrocde -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Intellivision (Mess)(intv -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nec PC Engine & Turbograf-X (Magic Engine)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nec Turbo Duo (Magic Engine) (-cd:L)(Pre command & post command)*
Sega Dreamcast(Chankast)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -autostart -fullscreen) (Pre command & post command)*
NeoGeo CD (NeoGeoCD/SLD)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" neocd) (Pre command & post command)*/**
Nec PC Engine CD (Magic Engine) (-cd:L)(Pre command & post command)*
NeoGeo Nemo32 (Nemo32)(%rom%)
Arcadia (Mess)(arcadia -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nec SuperGraf-X (Magic engine)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
NeoGeo Pocket (Neopop-win32)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo Nes (Mess) (nes -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo Famicom Disc System (Mess) (famicom -flop "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Super Nintendo (Mess)(snespal -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo Gameboy Color (VisualBoyAdvance)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo Gameboy Monocrome (VisualBoyAdvance)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo Advance (VisualBoyAdvance)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Nintendo 64 (Project 64)(%path%\%rom%.%ext%)
Philips G-7000 Video Pac (o2em hack)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -fullscreen -scanlines -s1=up,down,left,right,space -s2=r,f,d,g,a)
Fairchild Channel F (Mess)(channelf -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Sega Game-1000 (Fusion)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -sms -auto -fullscreen)
Sega Master System (Mess)(sms -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Sega Gamegear (Mess)(gamegear -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Sega Genesis & Mega System (Fusion)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -gen -auto -auto -fullscreen)
Sega 32X (Fusion)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -32x -fullscreen)
Sega Mega CD (Fusion )("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -scd -auto -fullscreen)
Sega Pico (Fusion)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -pico -fullscreen)
3DO (Freedo + Closemul done with bats)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" ).***
Watara Supervision (Mess)(svision -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
MSX (BlueMSX)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
MSX 2 (BlueMSX)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Pacman Arcade Variations (Pacman game variations - Mame misfit pacman special emu).(misui32pacmanspecial)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Magnavox Odyssey 2 (o2em hack)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -fullscreen -scanlines -s1=up,down,left,right,space -s2=r,f,d,g,a)
Misfit Mame (misui32)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")
Atari Pong 1973 (Dice emu with bat)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")****
Texas Instruments Ti-99 (Mess)(Bat)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")*****
The next two setups are finished with some problems to be solved:
Action Max (Jaeger Tech. emu + Daphne emu, done with bats)("%path%\%rom%.%ext%")(This emulator clutters my layout when games are closed. BIG PROBLEM).******
Vector Games Arcade (AAE emu)(%rom%)(This emulator clutters my layout when games are closed. BIG PROBLEM).******
The next setups are 'in the making' (Hopefully!) I need help. If you have one of them running, I would like some advise!
Nintendo Virtual Boy (Can't get it running ?! What a time waster. I think I do something wrong). If you have this one running in Mala I would like advise!
V-Tech Creativisions (Emu?)
Nintendo Pokemon (Emu?)
Hartung Gamemaster (Emu?)
Sega Saturn (Emu? Setup parameters?)
Nintendo Game & Watch (Emu? None i think. Would be nice).
Nuon Arcade (?! Strange emu indeed).
Commodore Amiga (Should be straight forward but making all the snapshots turn me off. If you know were to get them i would like to know)(Emu?)
Commodore 64 (Should be straight forward but making all the snapshots turn me off. If you know were to get them i would like to know)(Emu?)
3D Shooters (Will be classic 3-D shooters like Doom). All setup's close games by ESC. I will put info into the list regarding using Mala Hotkey. All setups go to fullscreen at gamestart except NeoGeo CD that needs an extra press on key '1'. A few emulators needs settings done outside Mala the first time they run. I will come back to this later.
*Daemon program needs install in order to read discs files. Precommand: "C:\xxxx\xxxx\daemon.exe" -unmount 0 -mount 0,"%path%\%rom%.%ext%". Post Command: "c:\xxxx\xxxx\daemon.exe -unmount 0". xxxx=your folders name
**Needs install of program 'Auto Hot Key'. see post:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=101649.0*** (Done with bats since otherwise layout clutters when games are closed. This is setup specific. Other pc setups might not need this).
**** Bats each read 'dice pong' / 'dice rebound' / 'dice gotcha'. There must be nomore than this in the bat file.(3 games, but important as they seem to be the very first arcade machines with a monitor). The Dice emu has fixed key controles. Can be changed by using Autohotkey program.
****** The clutter problem is down to two setups with games that have no real value stil I hope that the problems will be solved later somehow. I have made a solution: having autoHotKey automatically swapping layout one place forward and then back to the chosen layout (very fast) when a game is closed by escape key. But this is visible.Not the best solution. I'm not shure i wan't this. The ActionMax emu is mouse driven! No control right now. I need a solution for this.[/color]How to make ActionMax movies for frontend easily: Use a program like Prism Video Converter (very good!). Open original .m2v actionmax files in Prism (look at the name) and choose convert to mpeg4. Then convert. Now there's a movie for Mala, just rename. There's only 5 games so it takes very little time.
I've used Prism Video Converter to tune all my game video's. It's a small but good program. Be online when converting. Then Prism will get the right codings if they are special.