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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Necro on September 06, 2008, 05:14:41 pm

Title: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: Necro on September 06, 2008, 05:14:41 pm
For some reason, the masters only checkbox doesn't seem to be working.  I check it, exit the screen, and the setting doesn't take.  Any ideas?
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: Necro on September 06, 2008, 05:34:39 pm
Also, my videos are coming out looking like when you try to use a PAL source on an NTSC tv...they play fine in the MALA video previewer app thing, but are all screwed up when played in Mala 1.04 or 1.05b
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: SGT on September 06, 2008, 11:43:20 pm
For some reason, the masters only checkbox doesn't seem to be working.  I check it, exit the screen, and the setting doesn't take.  Any ideas?


Known bug.  Just close out of Mala, then edit Mala.ini.  Change master=0 to master=1.  After restarting Mala, refresh the main game list.  The checkbox will still not be checked, but it should trim the list to masters only.
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: loadman on September 07, 2008, 07:43:30 am
For some reason, the masters only checkbox doesn't seem to be working.  I check it, exit the screen, and the setting doesn't take.  Any ideas?


Known bug.  Just close out of Mala, then edit Mala.ini.  Change master=0 to master=1.  After restarting Mala, refresh the main game list.  The checkbox will still not be checked, but it should trim the list to masters only.

This has now been done fixed   ;)

It will be in the next release.
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: NOP on September 07, 2008, 09:22:40 am
Also, my videos are coming out looking like when you try to use a PAL source on an NTSC tv...they play fine in the MALA video previewer app thing, but are all screwed up when played in Mala 1.04 or 1.05b

this may be due to the rescaling done if the display box of your layout isn't an exact multiple of the original .avi resolution.
I ended up fixing that by finding a video that did work just fine, and then did a batch resizing job in virtualDub on all of the videos that didn't work correctly.  I mean it probably should be fixed in mala, but if you're under the gun and want it to work, virtualDub will fix them.
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: Necro on September 07, 2008, 02:47:16 pm
Great, thanks for the info on the master setting in the ini.

Regarding the video, thanks NOP.  I had a feeling that was what it was looking like...Loadman, any idea if this will be fixed in mala soon?
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: loadman on September 07, 2008, 10:48:29 pm
Great, thanks for the info on the master setting in the ini.

Regarding the video, thanks NOP.  I had a feeling that was what it was looking like...Loadman, any idea if this will be fixed in mala soon?

Nope  :(  Unless you can suggest a better video engine under Delphi..

Refer here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=82577.msg878004#msg878004 (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=82577.msg878004#msg878004)
Title: Re: No MAME Clones? Checkbox not working.
Post by: Necro on September 08, 2008, 09:17:35 am
OK, yeah, in searching for the problem I read how you were restricted due to Delphi on the video engine.  Just wondering if it was actually the engine or something else.  Thanks for the info.