Suggested MALA theme box sizes?

[t3design]

Just getting started on the software end of my MAME project and was wondering what the recommended sizes for the various boxes in a MALA theme are. All themes have a game list window that is just text it appears, but what about screen shots, marquees, flyers or posters, CPs etc?

[drventure]

You can make em just about whatever you want. Mala will scale images to fit.

The game list can be anything from huge fonts down to 6 pt type if you wanted it. Just depends on the visual you're after. Mine has about 8 games in the list and it stretches from the top of the screen to the bottom. but there are lots of layouts that have 25 or so games listed on screen at once, and take up less than 1/3 the screen to leave room for cp and cab images, and videos.

You might search around here and on the wiki for Mala layouts to get an idea of what's possible/typical.

My suggestion is mock up what you want in photoshop, fireworks or some other vector drawing tool, then clip the relevant portions out to create all the jpgs for mala to use.

[Comtek]

some of the layouts available on the web have the original files included that were used to create the layouts i found a nice way to learn was to poke around in some of those also open up the layout .mll files using mala layout editor found in the mala dir very easy to use also as suggested the wiki has alot of information