Mala and PC games...

[Hitek]

Is there any way to launch PC games with Mala? I have looked through the forums and the wiki, but didn't find anything. I even tried setting up notepad.exe as an emulator, as a test. It complained that there were no games in the list, then that I hadn't set up the path or extension properly.

Then I did something REALLY stupid (i assume). I set the path, then set "exe" as the rom extension. As soon as I did that, Mala wigged out and apparently did something to my vid settings which my plasma didn't like. To get everything back to "normal", I had to hook up a monitor, switch the resolution down to 800x600, rehook up the plasma and reset it to 1366x768. The weird part is the windows display settings didn't appear to change at all, but every time I rebooted, all I got was a floating "Invalid Format" across the screen.

So, long story aside, is there a way to launch a regular PC game from Mala? I'm asking because I want to install SF4 when it comes out, but I want it to launch from within Mala, so the interface is seamless, ie. I don't want to have to quit Mala, drag out the mouse and double click a desktop icon to launch the game.

I'm inclined to try setting up cmd.exe as an emulator, setting the path and setting the extension to exe, but I don't want the display to freak out on me again.

Any ideas?

[EDIT] I found in the wiki how to set up shortcuts to PC games, and it launches, but mala throws an error before the game launches. The error box says "Unexpected error. Mala will now terminate." (which it doesn't)

The mala log shows this:
2009/06/19  00:07:44.20   Error: Object Class: TTimer, Object Function: Starte, Exception Class: EZeroDivide, Exception Message: Floating point division by zero

After that, the game launches. I'm running Mala version 1.0.5.8

[Henrik68000]

you need to make a batch file.  it's a text file with the extention .bat.

In this you list the way to the game, like:

C:
cd..
cd..
cd games
cd sp4
sp4.exe

or what ever the folders you have.

Try out the batch file now before entering it in mala. Dont put '(' and ')' in the bat name. It wont run then. Use []. made with alt gr +( or ).

There's another way to make a batch file but the result is the same. Just be shure that all lines are spelled right.


Then you leave the executionfield in mala emty  and poitnh the rom directory to the batch files you've made.

I've sometimes found that some old dos games only works by making a shortcut to the game (instead of a batch-file).
It's no problem having shortcuts and bat files in the same folder regarding Mala. It wil display both types on the list. Just rememeber to leave the executionfield in mala emty  and poith the rom directory to the batch files / shortcuts you've made.

[fallacy]

Here’s the link. They made it easy to launch PC games. The hardest part is finding a crack so you don’t need a CD in the drive to launch the game.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68772.msg701550#msg701550

[SGT]

Personally I use Windows shortcut files (LNK files).  Since Windows makes them for you, its easier than having to create and maintain a batch file.  I have used a ton of them WITHOUT a problem.  However, to each his own.