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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: drventure on August 25, 2012, 11:58:18 pm

Title: Possible new Mala Plugin?
Post by: drventure on August 25, 2012, 11:58:18 pm

I've been running into some issues with setting up Mala to work with multiple emulators from a single list, and that got me thinking.

Currently, the MAME mala command line only support %rom%, %path% and %ext% variables, and, as far as I can tell %path% and %ext% don't work. Obviously, there's lots more info that +could+ be inserted into a command line but Mala doesn't do it.

So the question is...

Would anyone else be interested in a plugin that would essentially intercept the command line execution and do its own, supporting lots more functionality?

Stuff like
1) Pre and post launch commands
2) Variables like %orientation%, %vertical%, %horizontal%, %year%, %numplayers%, etc etc.


My first go at it would mainly be to fix support for %path% and %ext%, but add some additional variables into the mix, for use by a launch script or batch file.

Thoughts or comments?

Title: Re: Possible new Mala Plugin?
Post by: Gray_Area on August 26, 2012, 05:38:07 pm

I'm sure some people would....although this brings to mind the idea that maybe you'd want to add to Mala development?

Title: Re: Possible new Mala Plugin?
Post by: drventure on August 26, 2012, 05:53:36 pm

I'd love to, but I believe the license situation, both with Swindus and with the Video libraries that Loadman is now using preclude that, unfortunately.

Title: Re: Possible new Mala Plugin?
Post by: Gray_Area on August 30, 2012, 02:00:44 pm

Quote from: drventure on August 26, 2012, 05:53:36 pm

I'd love to, but I believe the license situation, both with Swindus and with the Video libraries that Loadman is now using preclude that, unfortunately.

I dunno. Ask him.