Ootake from Mala anyone?

[harveybirdman]

Anyone launching Ootake from Mala?  rCadegaming has me hooked on some PC engine games and I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.  If anyone is using this emulator with Mala I'm interested in knowing how your mounting CD roms, or getting around that hurdle.

[Le Chuck]

Mala will run whatever you point it at pretty easily.  I run Frets on Fire and a lot of SCUMMVM games as well as other regular windows games from the FE w/out issue. 

[chopperthedog]

Anyone launching Ootake from Mala?  rCadegaming has me hooked on some PC engine games and I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.  If anyone is using this emulator with Mala I'm interested in knowing how your mounting CD roms, or getting around that hurdle.

In the past I used Alcohol120% to create virtual cd/dvd drives and mounted images to their own drives.


good day.

[harveybirdman]

yes but how do I mount a different disc each time a game is selected?  Can Mala do this with a pre-command or must this be done by bat file?

[chopperthedog]

I'm not educated to the specifics of the emu you're using. But I used Alc120% on an old cab that I put the EA collection (Baseball, NHL, Madden, Nascar and Woods. also had 3 pc games) on and created new emulators/single screen layouts for each game. So I basically had 8 virtual rom drives that had the specific disc images mounted to them and had a shift key to scroll through the so called emu's in mala to launch those cd/dvd games. Never looked into trying to make it into just one list.


good day.

[harveybirdman]

I found some code that will accomplish mount and un-mount stuff for the CD's, but let's shelve that for a minute.

I'm having issues with the basic Hu-Card games.  If I launch one in Mala, only the music plays, screen is black regardless of adjustments to video settings.

So I figure, it's some syntax in the command line.

So I'm working in the command like to launch Ootake, and I can't get it to launch straight to the game.  I can get it to launch Ootake's GUI green screen, where you can select to either launch a Hu-Card or CD ROM.  But when I try to add a ROM argument to the launch command it gives me a "Can't launch %rom%" then "MainBoard Init Error"

I can't find anything online regarding launching Hu-Cards, all of the issues documented seem to be regarding the CD-ROMS and I need to walk before I run.  Any ideas?  It's gotta be something that makes the choice on that GUI.

[harveybirdman]

set the emulator to default settings and it fixed the issue with the screen, though I'm still battling some lag at higher resolution.  Oh well at least it's working now.

[harveybirdman]

Changed setting to direct draw and I'm good, now on to PC engine CD Rom games...

I have sucessfully been able to mount and unmount CD images via DAEMON Tools and the Command line using the following syntax:

DTlite -mount dt, 0, <path>

and

DTlite -umount_all

So I figure I can use Pre Command and Post Command functionality in MALA to accomplish this.  However I'm having trouble getting it to work.

How can I make the <path> in the pre command dependant on the game selection within Mala?

Can any of you batch wizards help me with this?

[harveybirdman]

Okay so I've managed to use the %path% and %rom% tags to get the command prompt accomplish what I'm doing outside of Mala but I'm still getting

Failed to execute program: "DTLite -mount dt, 0, "C:\Emulation\Programs\Ootake\cd image\Gate_of_Thunder_(NTSC-J)_[HCD2025].CUE"". Error Code 2

[harveybirdman]

Getting closer  note Dameon tools executable is in the Ootake folder, I know this isn't clean but work with me.


cmd.exe /C "C:\Emulation\Programs\Ootake\DTLite -mount dt, 0, "%path%\%rom%.%ext%""

The only reason I'm thinking this isn't working is because it doesn't like quotes within quotes.

Syntax help anyone?

[harveybirdman]

added a /S!  now it's working


cmd.exe /S /C "C:\Emulation\Programs\Ootake\DTLite -mount dt, 0, "%path%\%rom%.%ext%""

There is still something wonky in the emulator though I have to remap to the virtual drive even though that drive is already set to as the default, still playing with it.

[harveybirdman]

Okay homestretch, so Mala is launching Ootake very quickly after it executes my pre-command to mount the CUE file for the selected game, and therefore I have to tell Ootake to check for a CD using it's GUI instead of it just knowing one is there.

Can someone help me with a solution?

[harveybirdman]

Freaking SWEET 

I figured it out! 

Since the pre and post commands mount the image, I can just use Ootake's /cd command!

Sweet! 

Time to go steal some games from the interwebz!