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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: coinopman on December 31, 2008, 11:07:41 pm
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I Know yall have been asked many times about this. How do you configure Mala to load pc games. I have searched the site for answers and tried them to no avail. I want to use links. A point to a post or any help would be appreciated.
BTW shout outs to SGT for some of the help he hasven me. :applaud: ;D
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Shouldn't you be celebrating the new year? :laugh2:
I don't have Mala in front of me, but as I recall you would create normal windows shortcuts to the games. You then put all these shortcuts into a folder. Specify the path to this folder as your rom path. Set the rom extensions to LNK. The executable would be left blank. The command line would probably be %rom%.
Edit:
Found a better explanation by loadman here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=68772.msg701550#msg701550
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Here's another method by unclet that uses batch files instead.
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=69903.0
Neither works for me. I get an error with either method. I think it used to work with shortcuts, but one day it stopped working. I resolved today (new years resolution?) to get it working, so I tried it with batch files and it doesn't work. I'll keep messing with it.
-pmc
EDIT: I got it working. It took some experimentation, but I got it working. I used the batch file method. Because some of the apps need to be able to find local DLLs and what-not, I had to do three things: 1) specify the full path in Mala (i.e, %path%\%rom%.%ext%), 2) change the working directory and disk in the batch file, and 3) run the executable with a full path. So my batch files look something like this:
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CD "E:\Program Files\PC Games\"
"E:\Program Files\PC Games\AsteroidsGL.exe"
Gotta love Windows which requires all those quotes or it can't figure out "Program Files". ;)
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got some of the games to work using link but hunting unlimited 2008 wont work that way. I'll try with batch files
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Try being very explicit with pathnames. I tested from the command line until I got it right and then just moved that stuff into a batch file.
For what it's worth, I'm not running 1.05 yet so things might be slightly different for you.
-pmc