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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: allroy1975 on September 07, 2007, 12:21:57 am

Title: how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?
Post by: allroy1975 on September 07, 2007, 12:21:57 am

here's the deal.  I built my Mame Config on the M: drive (a portable drive so I could bring it back and forth to work ...but I wouldn't mess around like that on work time..so...I just liked it to be close to me) anyway, I'm done.  I changed all the ini files to point to c:\ but all the stuff in the gamelist files (ml1, ml2, ml3s etc) still point to M and for the life of me I can't figure out how to change them.


those are hex files, so I can't just go in and do a replace m:\ with c:\ like I could with the ini files.

anyone know?

Title: Re: how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?
Post by: loadman on September 07, 2007, 01:04:45 am

I just tested it moving stuff around to my D:\ drive.  It seems MaLa is set to look for the gamelists in the same drive/dir that MaLa is Launched.

They are small files, could you not just copy them to both drives?

Title: Re: how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?
Post by: NOP on September 07, 2007, 09:51:35 am

a decent hex editor should allow you to do search/replace of a binary file.

winhex is one of them, although I'm not sure if there are restrictions in the unregistered version.

http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/allfeatures.html

As long as you're only changing m:\ to c:\ and not adding any additional text, it should work just fine.  Just make sure have a backup just in case!

-jeff!

Title: Re: how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?
Post by: allroy1975 on September 07, 2007, 10:28:01 am

thanks guys.

in the mean time, I just added the line:
subst m: c:\
so when it looks to M it's really looking at the C drive.  kinda a hobo's fix, but it's working. :dunno

Title: Re: how do I change the directories in the game lists in mala?
Post by: loadman on September 07, 2007, 06:31:18 pm

Quote from: allroy1975 on September 07, 2007, 10:28:01 am

thanks guys.

in the mean time, I just added the line:
subst m: c:\
so when it looks to M it's really looking at the C drive.  kinda a hobo's fix, but it's working. :dunno

:applaud: