Mala

MaLa Screenshot

MaLa Hardware

MaLa is a multi emulator frontend designed for all 32bit Windows operating systems. It supports the Windows command line version of MAME with XML ROM info (> 0.84), PC Games and all command line based emulators.

MaLa features include:

• Rotatable in any direction (0, 90, 180, 270) on the fly for horizontal and vertical screens
• Controllable by arcade controllers with configurable controller settings for all front end functions
• Controller detection: rotate and load gamelist depending on the controls that were touched (cocktail tables)
• On the fly programming of keyboard encoders
• Mouse support for trackballs, spinner and dials
• Virtual shift key, full control with less controls
• Keyboard hook and hotkeys (no need for wrappers or specialized emulator versions)
• Parallel LCD¹ Support: Displays various information (games, gamelists, mp3) on LC Displays up to 4x40 characters
• LED¹ Support: Lights up buttons with up to 64 leds controlled by game information
• LED¹ Attract mode
• Comprehensive game list filter options and memorized filter sets
• Start game on mala start (selected, random or last played game)
• Edit game names in gamelists
• Plugins - including support for hardware like LedWiz, Serial LCD's & Ultrastick (you can make your own if you can code in C++ or Delphi)
• No ini file editing

1) with additional MaLa Hardware

The MaLa home page is at http://mala.arcadezentrum.com/

Mala Setup Guides

• How to install & setup Mala
• How to create your own Layout in Mala
• Info on Mala Plugins
• The Official MaLa Forum

Additional Info

• MaLa "How to" guide (install and configure emulators, plus Visual Pinball) (BYOAC Forum Link)
• MaLa LED Attract Mode How To (BYOAC Forum Link)

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