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Hewskie:

mamewah can do it too.

Here's a link to the wiki article all about hiding windows: http://wiki.arcadecontrols.com/wiki/Hiding_Windows

Instant sheller is great, I've also used Quickshell (created by someone here on BYOAC, sorry I forget your name right now)

Good luck with your build

hewskie

wayne12:

Yesssss thats it, i wont it to look like the real thing for her

Do you want the machine to ONLY play final fight?

Do you want to hide windows completely and make it look like a real machine?

Thanks guys ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

bkenobi:

You guys are making this specific question too difficult.  Wayne12 want to boot a single rom so that it looks like the machine is the original game.  He will have nothing other than that one game on there.  SO, there is an easy answer that will work and another way that's more complicated depending on what hardware you go with.

Easy way:  If you use a joystick/button interface that works in DOS (keyboard encoders like IPAC and KeyWiz) and your video card has DOS supported drivers, you are golden.  Set up DOS as normal and then add the correct MAME command line to your autoexec.bat.

Harder way:  If you use an interface that requires drivers that are not available for DOS (USB devices like U360 or GP-Wiz for example), then you need to use a different OS.  You can go with Windows (WinXP is a very popular choice, but Win98SE or newer will work) or Linux.  If you go with Windows, there are guides to hide your OS almost completely both here and other forums around the web.  If you use Vista or older, check out InstantSheller.  It's an app that will do everything that you need.  If you go Linux, I'm sure you can get it working, but I have no advice since I've never set up a distro that wasn't stock.

Good luck and welcome!

wayne12:

Thank you bkenobi you hit the nail right on the head. just a smal question i'm use to using windows so this Dos thing i dont suppose you have a tut for it do you.

thanks

bkenobi:

If you don't have DOS, you could probably read up on one of the stripped down WinXP installations.  I've never used them for arcade stuff, so I really can't say which one is best for this purpose.  The last small install I used was NLite IIRC.  Perhaps someone else can recommend a better version if that one is inappropriate.

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