No Screens Attached

[harveybirdman]

this comes up on a few games.... what gives?  help a newb out?


no screens attached by harveybirdman1, on Flickr

[harveybirdman]

Any thoughts on this?  The game i am experiencing this with is Title Fight but I know I've run into it before.  tfight has dual screens, but I am running Ninja Warriors and Darius I and II just fine on one screen. So why should tfight be any different?

the numscreens command at the the command line seems to have no effect, I've tried values of 1 and 2 and added the -w command as well just to see if windowed would make a difference.  So far no love.

mame tfight -numscreens 1
and
mame tfight -numscreens 2

I'm I doing something completely wrong here?  Resolution issue? what do you guys this is causing this error.

This seems to be the code that's returning the message, what's it for? ideas?  Is there something that needs to be set in mame config to run tfight and other games that might run into this?

http://mamedev.org/source/src/emu/layout/noscreens.lay.html

 1  <?xml version="1.0"?>
    2  <mamelayout version="2">
    3      <element name="background">
    4          <rect>
    5              <bounds left="0" top="0" right="1" bottom="1" />
    6              <color red="0.0" green="0.0" blue="0.0" />
    7          </rect>
    8      </element>
    9      <element name="warning">
   10          <text string="No screens attached to the system">
   11              <color red="1.0" green="0.5" blue="0.5" />
   12          </text>
   13      </element>
   14      <view name="No screens attached">
   15          <bezel element="background">
   16              <bounds left="0" top="0" right="280" bottom="150" />
   17          </bezel>
   18          <bezel name="warning_txt" element="warning">
   19              <bounds left="50" right="230" top="50" bottom="65" />
   20          </bezel>
   21      </view>
   22  </mamelayout>
   

[Yenome]

in the mame video options with mame running should be a list of the screens go in there and try to pick the other screen. i had to do this with the vs nintendo games as they was dual screen

[harveybirdman]

doesn't seem to be that option in tfight or smb as you can see below....


no screens video menu by harveybirdman1, on Flickr

anyone got anything on this?  reading up on all the video options in the mame config and I got nothing.

[Tafoid]

The "tfight" is another game with the name "Title Fight", ironically, a pinball game from Gottlieb.  Pinball games have no screen persay, so that is why that message comes up as no screens attached.  The game information should show you exactly what you are attempting to run unless you are one of the many who decide to shut off all screens or patched "no-nag" when running?

The actual setname for the the Sega dual screen game is "titlef" which is what you were expecting.  Everything is working as expected on my end.

[Yenome]

oh yea i didnt think it would be a pinball game that he was running. now that i think bout it ive done that before my self lol

[harveybirdman]

Geez I fell like an idiot.  Thanks Tafoid.  I was trying to open Mario pinball. In addition to the title fight pinball you mentioned.

Not sorry I turned off those nag screens though.