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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Chunce DeLeone on March 26, 2008, 03:36:33 pm

Title: Mala PPJOY and Virtua Tennis 3
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on March 26, 2008, 03:36:33 pm

I got Virtua Tennis 3 working on my cab.  Needed to create 3 virtual joys to have a 2pl VS Match.  I want to know if anyone has figured out how to get PPJOY to get started when I start Virua Tennis and stop PPJOY when I exit Virtua Tennis all within MALA.  ALso Do you think running Virtua Tennis with MALA in the Background is more of a draw on cpu than running Virtua Tennis on it own?

Title: Re: Mala PPJOY and Virtua Tennis 3
Post by: headkaze on March 27, 2008, 02:12:32 pm

When Mala launches a program is basically waits for it to finish. This waiting uses 0% CPU. You can hit CTRL-ALT-DEL after you've launched the game and look at the MaLa.exe process. It will be using 0% CPU.

Anyway this post from an old thread might help you

Quote from: headkaze on January 25, 2006, 07:45:33 am

You need 3 batch files... one to launch PPJoykey in the background and one to launch Virtua Tennis and one to launch them both. I place both the PPJoyKey.exe and the ini file for the settings into the Virtua Tennis folder.

--- vtennis.bat (the batch file you run from your FE) ---
@ECHO OFF
start ppjoykey.bat
start virtuatennis.bat
EXIT

--- ppjoykey.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
ppjoykey.exe .\vt.ini
EXIT

--- virtuatennis.bat ---
@ECHO OFF
VIRTUA_TENNIS_PC.exe
taskkill.exe /F /IM ppjoykey.exe
EXIT

Hope this helps

Title: Re: Mala PPJOY and Virtua Tennis 3
Post by: Chunce DeLeone on March 28, 2008, 01:03:29 pm

thank you that is exactly what i am looking for!!!!!!! :applaud: