A couple of problems...

[Jigenjuke]

  Well I have followed the MALA Setup, it's Easy!! And even tried a few others.  I am having a couple of problems.  I was able to creat my gamelist with game list editor.  I pointed MALA to the snaps folder and marquee folder (these were taken from my MAME32 Folder and moved to my MALA folder)  I downloaded the command line of MAME and pointed MALA to that.  It loads a list of the games that I want listed, but shows no screen shot of the game in the bacckground or Marquee for that matter.  That  I figured that you guys would be able to help me with no problem, but when I push the 1 button to load the rom that I chose, it loads a dos box but then it goes back to MALA, it doesn't load the game for play.  How do I fix this.  Thanks ahead of time for help.

[loadman]

Sounds like you need to learn the basics of mame. 

The wiki is a good starting point.

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com

* You need to use a layout with a snap and/or marquee window to see them

* the dos box that flashes up would be indicating a 'MAME' error. You need to try loading that game manually in a command prompt to see ehat the error was.  (it will be probably be something like he game version of rom does to match your mame version)

[NOP]

* the dos box that flashes up would be indicating a 'MAME' error. You need to try loading that game manually in a command prompt to see ehat the error was.  (it will be probably be something like he game version of rom does to match your mame version)

speaking of that, is there any way you can detect what errorlevel MAME exited with (I assume it exits with some code if there was an error in loading vs. normal exit gameplay) and freeze that DOS box when there is an error?  That would be pretty handy for debugging why a game won't load instead of having to go launch a separate dos window and running it by hand...

I can do that in my batch file that I use to launch mame, but it seems like this would be a nice option for mala to have too.

[retrometro]

start it from the command line and post a screenshot of the error.  while you're at it, tell us the version of mame and then list the contents of your zip file.

[Ummon]

Something else possible here: FE's like image files unzipped into the main folder respective to them - ie: snap, unzip images to snap; etc, etc.....

[loadman]

speaking of that, is there any way you can detect what errorlevel MAME exited with (I assume it exits with some code if there was an error in loading vs. normal exit gameplay) and freeze that DOS box when there is an error?  That would be pretty handy for debugging why a game won't load instead of having to go launch a separate dos window and running it by hand...

Hmm Sounds like a good idea in theory.

I will put it on my list of things to check