The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: solderguy1 on June 03, 2008, 08:01:44 pm
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Hi Gamers,
I've been struggling with adding Daphne into Mala the last week and was finally successful
today. Thought I'd share my mistakes and fixes while they're fresh in my head. Hope it helps
someone, sorry I'm so Wiki dysfunctional.
1. When you first run Daphne, it needs an internet connection for updates and whatnot. I was
keeping my arcade PC virgin-pure (no internet or virus protection) and was getting torrent
message lockups. After the first run, it's OK to disconnect.
2. Hopefully, you can now doubleclick daphneloader.exe and get a GUI menu that plays games
correctly. It's nice to get a couple errors along the way because Princess Daphne looks kinda
hot in the popup :)
3. Next step is to get a batch file going for a single game as described in Uncle T's wonderful Mala
How-To document.
4. I broke up the long line in my bat file with a carriage return which screwed me up for
awhile, don't be stupid like me.
5. Finally got the bat file working, but it ran very slow, just crawling compared to a start
from the GUI window.
6. I then opened daphne_log.txt and saw the command line options that the GUI was running.
Cut and pasted those into the batch file and they work great. Try your batch file both ways,
REM is used to comment out a line.
7. Next, create clean shortcuts to the batch files, I renamed the first shortcut to simply
"Dragons Lair".
8. Add Daphne to Mala Emu Config menu as
Name: Daphne
Executable:
Rom Path: (directory shortcuts are in)
Rom Extension: lnk
I always forget and try to add batch files directly, once again, be smarter than me.
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7. Next, create clean shortcuts to the batch files, I renamed the first shortcut to simply "Dragons Lair".
Batch files work fine directly in mala's rompath.
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I'm waiting for this to be a non-issue. Set your paths and off you go. It's possible. Works for VP.
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I've got SGT's swell guide to multiple emus in the same MaLa gamelist bookmarked--I learned tons setting this up based on SGT's teachings:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68419.0;all
-J