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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: Zobeid on September 28, 2009, 09:05:45 pm

Title: Running multiple MAME versions with a script. . .
Post by: Zobeid on September 28, 2009, 09:05:45 pm

I want to call an older version of MAME for a couple of games.  Somebody suggested having Mala call a .cmd script, which then would look at its arguments and call the appropriate version of MAME.  That sounded easy enough. . .

But Mala won't accept it!  When I try to point it to my script instead of a MAME executable, it complains that the file isn't valid and won't accept it.  It should be possible to do this, right?  What am I doing wrong?

Title: Re: Running multiple MAME versions with a script. . .
Post by: ivwshane on September 28, 2009, 10:10:31 pm

Did you see this thread:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81059.0

Title: Re: Running multiple MAME versions with a script. . .
Post by: SGT on September 28, 2009, 11:55:08 pm

As I mentioned in the other thread, and haven't heard your response on:

If you have "Hide extensions for known file types" checked in Windows, you may be unable to see that the batch file you created actually has a txt file extension instead of cmd like it should be.

Open a folder on your drive C, at the top click Tools, then Folder options.  Click the View tab at the top. Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".

If after doing this you see that the file is named mame.cmd.txt  rename it to mame.cmd.