MaLa and MESS/UME software lists

[cools]

The Problem
You want to use MESS/UME with MaLa, and maintain your ROMs using clrmamepro and the software list generated from the MESS/UME executable. MaLa is happy to set up each console/system as a separate "emulator" with a specific command line, but the game list is just a horrible list of ROM names.

Fortunately, MaLa's Game List editor will let you load and save name lists. These are simple text files that list the ROM name and the display name. But you don't really want to be typing out display names for thousands of ROMs...

The Solution
You need MAME xml2info (or indeed another program that can apply XML stylesheets to an XML file and produce an output file), and this XML stylesheet I made earlier.

Unzip all the above into your MESS/UME folder, rename the xml2info.xsl to xml2infoxsl.bak, and rename mess2mala.xsl to xml2info.xsl

Open a command prompt, cd to your MESS/UME folder, and run the following command (UME and Sega Master System - sms - is being used in the example):

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ume.exe sms -listsoftware | xml2info > "Sega Master System.mln"

Or for SNES:

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ume.exe snes -listsoftware | xml2info > "Super Nintendo Entertainment System.mln"

This will create MaLa name lists that you can load into the Game List editor by choosing your emulator and game list, then using the Gamelist menu and selecting "Load names".

[joeblade]

Tidy little explanation cools...kinda wish i'd gone with groovyume now instead of groovymame...

Mind you playing more at the mo now it's just arcade!

[baddy]

ctrl+d

[cools]

Yeah, so I gave up worrying about text lists and made one I liked...

[joeblade]

Yeah, so I gave up worrying about text lists and made one I liked...

Nice, i've used that as my desktop image as I thought it would be too busy!! Like the idea of grey though...

So your using mala happily with UME? Any issues...is the list arcade only then?

[cools]

It's working for arcade and half a dozen console systems within UME.