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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: pharoah007 on December 07, 2008, 03:58:00 pm

Title: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 07, 2008, 03:58:00 pm
So I am setting up a few emulators in MALA and learning as I go. I have 3 or 4 working now with there respective layouts switching to the emulator selected.

My SNES (SNES9X) emulator seems to have some problems tho. When I set up mu SNES emulator, The art sections and the game list sections are blank. The bottom of the screen still says 1 or 933 roms (or whatever the number is of roms that I have) and I can scroll throughout the roms list and hear sound effects of next rom being selected and the number will change to 2 of, 3 of ,4 of ect. So the roms are there but there names are not showing up on the list.

When I do launch a rom "blind" the Emulator starts but says failed to load rom. The emulator stays open and if I go to "file" "open Rom" I can open the rom and play no problem.

Anyone have some insight on my problem?

TIA
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: Sardu on December 07, 2008, 09:15:59 pm
When you refresh your games list, what happens?

I ask because the emulator behavior sounds like what happens when the command line contains the wrong rom name or non-existent rom.

Did you move the rom directory or rename roms AFTER you setup MALA?
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 08, 2008, 08:46:26 am
When you refresh your games list, what happens?

I ask because the emulator behavior sounds like what happens when the command line contains the wrong rom name or non-existent rom.

Did you move the rom directory or rename roms AFTER you setup MALA?

how does one refresh the game list?

yes I set up this emu and directories after I had MALA running for a while.
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: Sardu on December 08, 2008, 11:36:43 am
When you refresh your games list, what happens?

I ask because the emulator behavior sounds like what happens when the command line contains the wrong rom name or non-existent rom.

Did you move the rom directory or rename roms AFTER you setup MALA?

how does one refresh the game list?

yes I set up this emu and directories after I had MALA running for a while.


I'm not sure if this is the solution but it doesn't hurt to try.


With MALA running(SNES), right click anywhere and select  "Refresh Main Game List" from the pop-up menu.   MALA will populate the list with Roms it finds in the folder YOU set in the setup menus.
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 08, 2008, 06:02:24 pm
Thanks for the help man. I tried refreshing the list and it seem to pick up the roms, compiles a list with a total number and I can scroll thru the numbers,,,,but there is no "text" where the list needs to be.

Could I be missing a "font"?`
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: Sardu on December 08, 2008, 07:17:12 pm
I think by default, Mala uses ARIAL font.

You can change what font is used using the malalayout application.  Make sure the list is set to "text" instead of image.
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 12, 2008, 08:49:51 pm
Hummm no Joy there either. Frustrating for sure.
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: loadman on December 12, 2008, 09:46:47 pm
What do you see when you open that gamelist in the gamelist editor?
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 13, 2008, 10:07:34 pm
What do you see when you open that gamelist in the gamelist editor?

Not sure how to run the game list editor. I will do some research into how and get back to you when I figure it out.

Thank you.
Title: Re: Setting up multipule emus in MLA and have come across a proble with SNES
Post by: pharoah007 on December 14, 2008, 02:45:31 pm
What do you see when you open that gamelist in the gamelist editor?

So I have been playing around to no avail.

I got this window (pic) up and it says that I have 757 games, however, none show up on this list either.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y145/pharoah007/sneslist.jpg

am I on the right track?