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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: theCoder on July 22, 2006, 02:23:21 am

Title: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: theCoder on July 22, 2006, 02:23:21 am

Yesterday I went through turning off many services on my machine, carving a lot of time off the boot cycle.  Now, some of my games won't launch.  I have a mixed group of pinball files in a directory of type .bat and .lnk.  I have the rom extensions set to lnk, bat  and the Command Line set at "%path%\%rom%.%ext%".  This worked fine before I went in and shut down approximately 19 services.  I have another emulator in another directory that is filled only with .lnk files with the Command Line set to "%rom%".  The files in this directory still launch fine. 

So...I shut down some service that is needed to get Mala to work with a .lnk file with the command line set at "%path%\%rom%.%ext%".  Any ideas?

Title: Re: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: loadman on July 22, 2006, 05:16:31 am

If you are sure everything worked well before started turning bits of XP off then..

Should you consider backing up you gaming directories (like Mame/mala/pinball etc) as you should do that anyway

Then possibly do a .....................
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After that you could take notes of what services you want to shutdown and ask SWINDUS if that will affect MaLa?

Title: Re: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: unclet on July 22, 2006, 08:20:25 am

I am assuming the BAT and LNK games can still be executed via the command line with no problem?

Title: Re: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: theCoder on July 22, 2006, 11:44:34 am

Quote from: unclet on July 22, 2006, 08:20:25 am

I am assuming the BAT and LNK games can still be executed via the command line with no problem?

Yes.  They both still work from the command line.  Also, if I have no bat files it will launch lnk files with "%rom%".  It is though the file association is messed up somehow if both bat and lnk are involved.

Title: Re: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: theCoder on July 22, 2006, 08:32:34 pm

I didn't get it fixed so it can use mixed file types, but I did figure out a work around.  Instead of using .lnk files, I made bat files that did a cd to the directory then launched the exe.  Among other pinball, I'm using Microsoft Pinball and the wrapper (I forget who wrote it) that allows you to launch individual tables.  Anyway, they use bat files, so all my pinball games are now referenced with .bat files.  In Mala, you have the option to launch "hidden".  This hides the black dos screen when the .bat file is launching.

Not a fix, but a work around.

Title: Re: Mala problem with .lnk files
Post by: loadman on July 22, 2006, 08:39:39 pm

 ;D  Cool