Mala other emulators

[jdiggy]

I have mala running with mame fine.  I am trying to add NES emulator.  I followed the steps in unclet's .doc using the same emulator as he suggested.  After right clicking to select the NES emulator and refreshing the game list all of the NES roms appear.  But nothing happens when I select a game.  My execution is setup the same as his describes.  In windows, if I drag a .nes rom over the .exe file, it launches the emulator and plays the game.  So I know the emulator and roms work.  Also this will only work if not using a tree.  If I try to set up a tree, I click to add node but NES does not show up as emulator; mame and jukebox only.

Why will it not let me launch the nes games and why does it not let me select nes when building a tree?

Thanks in advance.

[loadman]

What does it say in the log when you try and launch a game?

[jdiggy]

How do I access the log?  Also, I can now get the roms to load but only by right clicking mouse to change emulator.  All I did was change the GUI layout.  However I still can't add the nes emulator to the mala tree.  It will not show up as a selection; mame and jukebox only.

Any ideas?

And thanks for the help.

[dungbeetle46]

make sure under malatree you set the directory to your mala folder

[jdiggy]

but what if my nes emulator and roms are not located in the mala folder?  Does the emulator need to be there?

Thanks,

[SGT]

but what if my nes emulator and roms are not located in the mala folder?  Does the emulator need to be there?

No, the emulators and roms DO NOT need to be and SHOULD NOT be in the Mala folder.

[jdiggy]

Ok. I have the tree working now but it still will not launch an nes rom when selected through the tree. There is no action when I select a game. When not using the tree, they will launch. Any ideas. And thanks for helping me get this far. I feel like I am beginning to learn the program.

[SGT]

That's very strange.  The type of layout should not impact whether a game launches or not.  Have you tried refreshing the main game list?  If you go to the game list editor, does an individual NES rom show the correct path to your NES roms?  Below is an example of where to go look in the game list editor (except you'll pick your NES emulator instead of the Mame game list in the example).   If that path is correct, you probably need to list your nes emulator settings that are in Mala's configuration.  If it is incorrect, you'll need to refresh your main game list and check your NES settings in Mala.

[jdiggy]

Ok, now I can't get any emulators to work except for mame.  My other emulator settings for nes are
executable        E:\Arcade\nes\fceu.exe
rom path           E:\Arcade\nes\roms
command line    "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"

path in gamelist for individual game   E:\Arcade\nes\roms

Windows installed on C partition, all program files installed and stored on E partition

[Henrik68000]

Mess runs nes really well. try it out. You will find that Mess can do many of your rom collections.

Commandline : nes -cart "%path%\%rom%.%ext%"
Executable: C:\101\mess\mess.exe (or what ever your path to mess are.
Install Mess and all the roms (system roms for mess not the nes roms) in one folder. In the mess folder there is a folder called roms. Here you need the system roms. One for each system you want to run. Get the whole collection compatible with the mess version you get hold of.
Rom extention is 'nes' in my setup. Dont know if 'zip' works. Otherwise unzip your nes collection.

For SNES i use snes9x since it can quit by esc button and runs all games. and it can be fully custoized for buttons and have a nice video quality option with plenty of filers to select from. I recomend it.

Executable: C:\101\snes9x-1.51-win32\snes9x.exe (edit to your path)
Commandline "%path%\%rom%.%ext%" -esc  (i dont remember if you need to edit the snes9x ini file to get it to respond to 'esc' button, or if the line in commandline does the trick.

Try it out and find all the systems that mess emulator can run for you. Colecovision, intellivison, atari 2600/5200/7800 and some sega's and more..



Good luck, Henrik