Good game, long startup

[ericball]

I've been playing through a mostly complete ROMset trying to determine which games to include on my future cabinet.  Some games are ready to play after a few seconds, others seem to take forever going through checksums and diagnostics.  Are there any games which you would love to play, except they take forever to boot?

[SpamMe]

Don Pachi, robotron, a few others but not any more!

Compiled .86 using these scripts: http://home.earthlink.net/~alank2/mame/custommame.htm
Google Cache: Link

Of note:

fsf_ssf.scr - adds -fast_startup_frames (-fsf) and -skip_startup_frames (-ssf) command.  This will allow you to specify the number of startup frames to run fast or skip while running a game.  If you use -fast_startup_frames 1000, it will run the first 1000 frames with no throttling, but they will be displayed.  If you use -skip_startup_frames 1000, it will run the first 1000 frames with no throttling, but they will not be displayed.  Galaga used to take 16 seconds to start, but you can have it ready and started in under 2 seconds by using -ssf 870 to skip the first 870 frames.  The game specific INI is very useful here in that you can create a galaga.ini containing the skip_startup_frames 870 command.

The zip file with the scripts doesn't seem to be available, so (until it is) if anybody wants it, shoot me a pm.

[Tiger-Heli]

The zip file with the scripts doesn't seem to be available, so (until it is) if anybody wants it, shoot me a pm.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alank2/mame/mametweaks.zip

[Hoagie_one]

too awesome