ASUS motherboard and MyLogo boot screen feature

[krick]

Is there anyone out there in that uses an ASUS motherboard in their MAME cabinet and has added a custom "boot logo" screen with MyLogo or MyLogo2?

Basically my ASUS P4S533 motherboard can use any 640x480 x 16-color bitmap as a custom boot screen  (newer ASUS boards with MyLogo2 support 256 color images).  I'd like to come up with something to hide all the bios stuff in my cabinet until windows starts booting.

Currently, I'm leaning toward a plain black screen but I was wondering if anyone had a better idea.

Hmmm... how about a grid, white lines on a black background, or maybe one of the random video memory initialization patterns that old games used.

[paigeoliver]

Neo Geo


MAX 330 MEGA PRO GEAR SPEC

[darktemp]

A high score table with your initials for all the scores.

[Sephroth57]

you could just put the name of your arcade machine, or make it a graphic that says "Loading...". too bad you cant make it a animated gif you could put like

"Initializing sound.....
Checking ROMS....
"
etc, like a real arcade machine

[Crazy Cooter]

... maybe one of the random video memory initialization patterns that old games used.

Is there anywhere that has one of these for download?

[crashwg]

load a game up in mame and hit the snapshot button or prt scrn on your keyboard.  the picture will be in either your mame folder/snap or you have to paste into M$paint respectively.

[dweebs0r]

Instead of MS Paint (yuck) why not use the Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/).
Great open-source paint proggie.  No comparison with ms paint but more a comparison with Photoshop (not quite up to photoshops level but its free and not hundreds of dollars like PS) .  You wont be disappointed.

--Dweebs

[crashwg]

I doubt you'll realy need more than paint when it comes to 640x480 in 16 colors!

[GodSend25]

How about using a screen capture of the graphical board layout that is shown when first booting NBAJAM (and I think the Mortal Kombat series) as well.