Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Endprodukt on June 14, 2013, 07:20:21 am
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I'm going to build a Neo Geo Bartop and I want a little display for Neo Geo instruction cards. What's the way to go with Mala?
Thanks in advance,
Olli
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I'm going to build a Neo Geo Bartop and I want a little display for Neo Geo instruction cards. What's the way to go with Mala?
Thanks in advance,
Olli
As far as I know, Mala can't do that on its own (but I could be wrong). I think you'd need to use MameHooker or something else.
Mala can pass the variable of the rom name to a compiled autohotkey script. You may be able to use that and the splashimage command in ahk to pull it off without much hassle. I don't know how to tell it to put the splash image on a 2nd monitor, but with ahk there always seems to be a way.
If you post asking for ahk help in the software forum, Nitz usually has a solution.
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There are several programs that can do that. cpwizard, jhony5 etc.
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With Mala you can display several graphic elements like marquees and snaps.
I cant see any reason why you could not design a layout with a section for marquees, point mala to your mini marquees and they would display as you scroll your list.
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Mike, it's a second display, that's the problem.
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Bug griffindodd/maximuz for his Mamehooker scripts. This is exactly the type of thing he has setup on his dual monitor revolution cab.
He's running Hyperspin, but it should still be useful.
sent from my phone while driving
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Another way to do what you want would be to put the two monitors in extended desktop mode and create a layout with the resolution of both monitors combined, and the layout you place the marquees in the area corresponding to the monitor where you want to show you the marquees
Google translation ;) :D
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I used to run a dual monitor setup with mala just the way Antolin suggested. Worked out real well, but I really didnt have the graphics card to run two displays so I stopped. When the card didnt choke though, I loved it. Seemed like the easiest way to do it at the time.
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I will be using Mame Hooker. It's dead easy and works just fine. Background for the marquee monitor will be the Neo Geo logo. After exiting a game, it will just show the background. Works great! I'll post a video once it's working. I decided to switch to Hyperspin though.