Mala with multiple Mame's

[southpaw13]

So I read the posts above, and I looked into Multimame, but I still cannnot find a good solution to run two versions of Mame.  I would love to be able to change emulators and run all the Misfit Mame roms.  I can get it to run off of the Mame roms, but then I do not have a good gamelist to choose from.  Would Mala Tree work or am I just asking for a feature request?

Thanks,
Southpaw

[SGT]

You can set any number of mames in the other emu configuration.   Not sure what kind of problem you're having with that.

If you want the misfit games to be in the same game lists as regular mame, this thread describes how:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68419.0

You'll need to post specific problems for more specific answers.

[southpaw13]

I didn't want them mixed with the main game list.  I want to select it as a different emulator.  The other emu's section won't let you use XML for the naming so the gamelist only shows the actual rom names.....

Am I doing something wrong?
Southpaw

[Ummon]

Oh, right. Yeah, I've just been 'dealing' with that, too. Off the top of my head, I guess you could use multimame or whatever and just have a different game list. Since misfitmame is arcade-related, it wouldn't be a stretch. You'd know they were in there and then you just scroll to that list, called misfitmame or whatever.

[TheShanMan]

Yeah, you'd only want to use multimame if you want mala to see 2 version of mame as just a single emulator. For instance, if you're running a stable version of mame that you generally like but one particular game doesn't work in it, you can use multimame to run a separate version of mame for that one game, but mala doesn't even realize that you're using 2 versions of mame.

As to what you're trying to accomplish, I'm curious why you want them to be seen as separate emulators? Is it for the type of scenario Ummon describes, running a variant like misfitmame? Personally I like all arcade games seen as one emulator. I combine mame and daphne, so if I were to run a variant like misfitmame I'd include it in there too.

[SGT]

To kind of just mirror/echo what the others have said:

You could just create a custom game list with just the misfit roms and your regular mame roms in other separate game lists.  I know that's not exactly what you are asking for, but you could combine the regular mame xml file and the misfit xml with something like:

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copy mame.xml+misfit.xml combined.xml
Then set Mala to use combined.xml.  Then you would have to create a custom game list to pull out the misfit roms.  This could probably be done with nop's utility, romlister, that creates Mala game lists.  I am assuming his utility could read the misfit xml to create the game list.  This would at least allow you to have all the info from the xml and separate the misfit roms from the regular roms.

If I'm not mistaken, that's the only way (other than multimame which is a similiar concept) you're going to be able to use two xml files since the other emu configuration doesn't support reading xmls.  Most people have the huge main game list turned off anyway since it is too large to navigate sensibly.

[southpaw13]

I did not know that i could merge XML files.  That's a good option.  I personally prefer to have separate lists for my emulators.  Just a personal choice.  So what i am looking for would be a feature request.

Thanks,
Southpaw