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Title: Mala scan lines?
Post by: rdenis on October 07, 2007, 06:21:01 pm

I am having no luck trying to engage scan lines in Mala.  The options available under the Emu Configurations tabs in Mala have no resemblance to the PNG files I have in my Artwork folder.  (I have the PNG files from Mr. Do's website).

Anyone know how I can get Mala to recognize these files as scan line options?

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: loadman on October 08, 2007, 03:22:31 am

Quote from: 007 on October 07, 2007, 06:21:01 pm

I am having no luck trying to engage scan lines in Mala.  The options available under the Emu Configurations tabs in Mala have no resemblance to the PNG files I have in my Artwork folder.  (I have the PNG files from Mr. Do's website).

Anyone know how I can get Mala to recognize these files as scan line options?

??? Sorry for being ignorant. But I don't know what you mean

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: SGT on October 08, 2007, 08:21:41 am

If you mean you just want to enable PNG effects in Mame, you can modifiy the mame.ini file.  Add the png name of the effect you want to use on the EFFECT line in mame.ini.

Examples (only use one):

Effect          scanlines_ag

Effect          aperture1x2rb_ag

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: SGT on October 08, 2007, 08:43:37 am

Loadman,

Looks like the effects file names have changed somewhat.  They are found here:

http://www.mameworld.net/mrdo/mame_artwork_supp.html

I'm guessing the list of effects below are hard coded?

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: rdenis on October 08, 2007, 02:55:49 pm

SGT - exactly - it does appear the scan line names are hard coded in Mala which I would suppose means I could just change the filenames to make it work?

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: rdenis on October 08, 2007, 03:05:59 pm

Okay to partially answer my own question, I changed the actual file name in my Artwork folder and it worked.  But I would still like to have a way to get Mala to point to and recognize the other names in the Artwork folder.

Taking this one step further, it would be nice to be able to configure different scan line options for different games but not sure if this is even possible.

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: SGT on October 08, 2007, 03:18:22 pm

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this one step further, it would be nice to be able to configure different scan line options for different games but not sure if this is even possible
You can do this by creating an ini file with the same name as the rom in a subfolder under mame called INI.  Only one line would be necessary:

effect     scanlines_ag

Title: Re: Mala scan lines?
Post by: rdenis on October 08, 2007, 03:37:18 pm

Thanks Sgt!