Removing Green Instruction Screen (in Tecmo Games)

[DashRendar]

Working on my cab last night, I decided to test the game resolutions.

I went through firing up different games, and noticed the Tecmo games were all squished due to having a green instruction screen on the top half.

Is there a trick to hiding that annoying green instruction screen? 

It does this on Ninja Gaiden III, Rygar, and Goonies, as well as several others I'm sure.

[Dazz]

That's the Nintendo Playchoice system rom.  As far as I know you can't remove those screens since it's actually part of the system/rom.

[DashRendar]

Ah thanks, so I'm guessing I need to track down a non-Playchoice rom.

I was hoping it'd be something like a dipswitch setting.

[chillinwater]

You can Disable it using "tab" while in Mame. (tab is the default Options key)

(to get to the options menu)
select
\tab\
then from the main options screen
select
\video options\
and then select the screen you want

[Congui]

Actually, in the more recent versions of mame, you can select under TAB the video option; there, you can choose the screen to display, this way you can only display the game screen (0 I think).  The only problem with this is, that since PlayChoice games use a timer (which is in the instruction screen) you won't be able to see it how much time you have left, so you can't really tell how long before your time runs out.  Makes sense?  Not really sure if you can display the instruction screen in a secundary display.

[Dazz]

Ahh, thanks for the additional info guys...  I wonder if there is a way to make the instruction screen go down to my secondary 7" screen. 

[Ginsu Victim]

I know you can, but don't have the details. You can specify in the INI file which monitor to display which screen on.

[DashRendar]

Thanks for the advice everyone. 

[nexusmtz]

Ahh, thanks for the additional info guys...  I wonder if there is a way to make the instruction screen go down to my secondary 7" screen.  

For MAME v107 and up,

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mame -verbose -numscreens 2 -screen0 \\.\DISPLAY1 -screen1 \\.\DISPLAY2 -view0 "Screen 0 Standard" -view1 "Screen 1 Standard" pc_tbowlThat's the full command. Usually though, all you need is -numscreens 2 to put one game screen on each physical screen.