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Title: mala layouts
Post by: glyndawn on November 08, 2008, 04:46:19 pm

i can not get the layouts to change with different emus ive read all topics but wont work ive named mame layout mame.mll and my playstation 1 layout playstation 1.mll ive ticked the tab in gui options emulator am i missing something ?   :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :dizzy: :dizzy: :dizzy:

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: dungbeetle46 on November 08, 2008, 05:50:28 pm

tick use layout names for directory names

make sure you have playstation 1.mll in your mala folder

have your playstation 1 background in mala/playstation 1 folder

and the same for any other layouts and it should work

cheers

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: glyndawn on November 09, 2008, 04:24:56 am

right ive started again i converted my mamewah layouts with mala layout convertor and saved them in the mala folder mame.mll and playstation 1.mll goin into mala

options
gui
layout folder C:\emulators\mala

auto layout switch ticked emulator
use layout names in directory names ticked

available layouts
mame playstion 1
standard

clicked out

but layouts arnt showing just black screen with games list and snap pic

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: loadman on November 09, 2008, 05:22:08 am

The converter does not copy the required graphics.

You need to put the grahics in the MaLa folder (or sub folder depending on how you are arranged)

http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mala_Layout#F.A.Q. (http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Mala_Layout#F.A.Q.)

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: glyndawn on November 09, 2008, 05:53:35 am

ok

i unzip mame layout to mala it creates a mame folder inside this is main pic and layout.lay
i unzip playstation to mala it creates a playstion folder inside this is main pic and layout.lay

i go in to mame folder copy the files to mala and convert layout.lay with mala layoutconvertor and name it mame.mll

i go in to playstastion folder and copy the files to mala but it wont copy as it say overwrite existing files do i need to rename them before i copy them over

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: dungbeetle46 on November 09, 2008, 07:37:26 am

make sure the mame.mll and playstation 1.mll are in the mala folder.
make sure your background image is in mala/mame amd mala/playstation 1 folders.
make sure your folders are the exact same name as you named your emulator
otherwise mala wont know which layout to pick
ie:  background pic should be in folder named mame
 playstation 1 background should be in folder named playstation 1 and your emulator under gui/other emus should be named playstation 1
(it has to be the same)
other emu = playstation 1
mll in mala folder = playstation 1.mll
playstation 1 folder = playstation 1 and is inside mala folder and has background image inside




if you do this you shouldnt have a problem. :dunno

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: glyndawn on November 09, 2008, 09:21:35 am

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet got it working where can i get a jukebox layout from

Title: Re: mala layouts
Post by: dungbeetle46 on November 09, 2008, 06:10:02 pm

just made this if interested