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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: raungst on June 13, 2010, 01:15:52 am

Title: Autogenerating mala game lists
Post by: raungst on June 13, 2010, 01:15:52 am

I have a plan to use the Hyperspin XML files to generate game lists for each genre for the many consoles I have on my cab. It looks like I can use MalaGamelist to create the lists, and use name list files as the input (this is one of the menu items). I would parse the Hyperspin XML files to generate the name list files.

My question is: is there any command line arguments or anyway to automate MalaGamelist? I would want to be able to input a name list file, a list name, and an output filename. Is anything like this possible, or do I need to use the menus in MalaGamelist to generate these many lists?

Thanks for any help.

Title: Re: Autogenerating mala game lists
Post by: loadman on June 13, 2010, 02:13:27 am

Quote from: raungst on June 13, 2010, 01:15:52 am

I have a plan to use the Hyperspin XML files to generate game lists for each genre for the many consoles I have on my cab. It looks like I can use MalaGamelist to create the lists, and use name list files as the input (this is one of the menu items). I would parse the Hyperspin XML files to generate the name list files.

My question is: is there any command line arguments or anyway to automate MalaGamelist? I would want to be able to input a name list file, a list name, and an output filename. Is anything like this possible, or do I need to use the menus in MalaGamelist to generate these many lists?

Thanks for any help.

I would chat to the author of this thread.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=101104.msg1069272#msg1069272 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=101104.msg1069272#msg1069272)

Title: Re: Autogenerating mala game lists
Post by: raungst on June 14, 2010, 11:18:53 am

That worked perfectly. Thanks for the point in the right direction!