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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: mentat on September 25, 2011, 02:30:52 pm

Title: Gamelist with absolute path but without drive
Post by: mentat on September 25, 2011, 02:30:52 pm

Hello.

I will try to use Mala in a portable way. I Have setup all the things like this :
On my harddrive :
\bin\mala
\bin\mame
\bin\mess
\roms\sega\sms
\roms\sega\genesis
...

In mala roms path, I put \roms\sega\sms for example (notice WITHOUT drive), but mala build gamelist WITH drive. And if I mount my harddrive in another PC, the drive can change, and the roms are not found... IS it possible to make this or change mala to accept this ? Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Gamelist with absolute path but without drive
Post by: Gray_Area on October 02, 2011, 12:05:05 am

Yeah, I don't think so. I don't anything works that way. The drive letter is the beginning of the 'address'.

Title: Re: Gamelist with absolute path but without drive
Post by: mentat on October 02, 2011, 03:04:49 pm

Ok, I've made a launcher in python to drop the drive from the rom section before to pass it to emulator.
It works great. I can connect my external hard drive to any machine and launch directly mala from it.
I have a portable mala and emulators !!

I've use it to correct another small problem :
In mess, for the megadrive, we have 3 machines (genesis, megadriv and megadrij) for 3 zones (usa, europe, japan).
I have one list for the three machines and my launcher choose the good machine to launch in mess.

Thank you for your answer.