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Title: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: loadman on August 11, 2007, 06:33:59 am

This could be of use to some Mame cocktail table owners.  like 'squirrellydw'  ;)

You can get MaLa to rotate after a game based on a rom list.

See included read-me for details  ;D

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: youki on August 11, 2007, 10:54:33 am

This feature was not already standard in mala?  I thought you could rotate mala acording to the game?

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: loadman on August 11, 2007, 06:22:10 pm

Quote from: youki on August 11, 2007, 10:54:33 am

This feature was not already standard in mala?  I thought you could rotate mala acording to the game?

You can, this is to overide mame.xml. EG rotate it back just for some games.

This is just of use to a 'few' cocktail owners who for example:

Quote from: squirrellydw on June 15, 2007, 05:47:17 pm

I have a 3 sided cocktail table and most games work great but I only have a trackball and spinner on the 3rd CP.  Some games like Centipede I have set to play vertically on the horizontal screen side.  When I exit the game it rotates the MaLa game list menu like it is set up to do ..................................BUT I don't want it to rotate after that game.  Anyway can I change this so it doesn't rotate?

Thanks

Maybe squirrellydw will be the only one who uses it. I dunno.  :dunno I just made the plug-in as it was the first time I had made an object from scratch using Delphi (as the plug-in runs in the background and waits a sec before it takes action) and it also uses the new 'MaLa messages' API to control MaLa externaly. 

So in a nutshell it was a request that was not worth putting into MaLa itself. Hence I made the Plug-in

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: squirrellydw on August 11, 2007, 06:27:50 pm

thanks, I will test this out soon

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: loadman on August 25, 2007, 11:46:50 pm

Quote from: squirrellydw on August 11, 2007, 06:27:50 pm

thanks, I will test this out soon

Not trying to rush you but any idea when you might test this for me please  ;D

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: headkaze on August 26, 2007, 02:51:25 am

Again loadman comes through with the goods! Great work my man  :applaud:

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: squirrellydw on August 26, 2007, 01:23:49 pm

sorry, yes it works.  I have added a couple games to it and no problems so far.  Nice job and thank you

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: loadman on August 26, 2007, 07:30:11 pm

Quote from: squirrellydw on August 26, 2007, 01:23:49 pm

sorry, yes it works.  I have added a couple games to it and no problems so far.  Nice job and thank you

:cheers: :cheers:

Title: Re: Plug-In - 'Rotate' MaLa - V1.0 Beta A
Post by: philby85 on August 26, 2007, 07:58:18 pm

Great work as always Loadman!

You should be the first Mala Legend! annoited by Sir Swindus himself!

Good on ya mate.

philby