PC Game configuring in MaLa

[coinopman]

I Know yall have been asked many times about this. How do you configure Mala to load pc games. I have searched the site for answers and tried them to no avail. I want to use links. A point to a post or any help would be appreciated.
BTW shout outs to SGT for some of the help he hasven me. 

[SGT]

Shouldn't you be celebrating the new year?   


I don't have Mala in front of me, but as I recall you would create normal windows shortcuts to the games.  You then put all these shortcuts into a folder.  Specify the path to this folder as your rom path.  Set the rom extensions to LNK.  The executable would be left blank.  The command line would probably be %rom%.

Edit:
Found a better explanation by loadman here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68772.msg701550#msg701550

[pmc]

Here's another method by unclet that uses batch files instead.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69903.0

Neither works for me. I get an error with either method. I think it used to work with shortcuts, but one day it stopped working. I resolved today (new years resolution?) to get it working, so I tried it with batch files and it doesn't work. I'll keep messing with it.

-pmc

EDIT: I got it working. It took some experimentation, but I got it working. I used the batch file method. Because some of the apps need to be able to find local DLLs and what-not, I had to do three things: 1) specify the full path in Mala (i.e, %path%\%rom%.%ext%), 2) change the working directory and disk in the batch file, and 3) run the executable with a full path. So my batch files look something like this:

E:
CD "E:\Program Files\PC Games\"
"E:\Program Files\PC Games\AsteroidsGL.exe"

Gotta love Windows which requires all those quotes or it can't figure out "Program Files". 

[coinopman]

got some of the games to work using link but hunting unlimited 2008 wont work that way. I'll try with batch files

[pmc]

Try being very explicit with pathnames. I tested from the command line until I got it right and then just moved that stuff into a batch file.

For what it's worth, I'm not running 1.05 yet so things might be slightly different for you.

-pmc