MS Pac on start up. (all is working :) )

[daywane]

I am setting up a MS PAC cab. Wife is being kinda anal about this one. 
If I could just figure out how to make it boot right to Ms PAC . I would be so happy.
all she wants is Ms PAC

I allmost tossed in a console but we want a vertical screen

I have never used Mame for dos. Never used dos before eather.
can I tell Mame to load MS PAC on start up?
can I tell Mame 32 to load Ms PAC on start up?

I do not care if the GUI shows up at first and then boots up MS PAC.

[youki]

If it is to play only ms pac man. The dos is the simpliest i think.

Install dos on your machine
Install your Dmame

[youki]

On window, you can say MAME32  or MAME to start on Pacman too.

There is lot of solution , one can be to do .BAT too.

I suppose your mame is in  C:\mame   and the .Exe is called mame32.exe

Open the nodepad.

Type :
C:
cd \
cd mame
mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip  -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo

Save the file and give the name :  Pacman.bat (for instance)

With windows explorer, select the file , right click, select copy.

Then right click on the "start" menu of windows. Select "Explore"  , find the folder called "Start up".

Right click,  select "Paste".

Now when you boot, you will be directly on Pacman.

[JoyMonkey]

You should consider using Vantage instead of Mame. You could fit Vantage and the mspacman rom on a bootable floppy disk; so you wouldn't even need a hard drive. The only tricky part would be setting up your sound card. If you want to try it out, I can email you a bootable floppy image (without the rom of course) that's set up to run Vantage immediatley on boot up; just let me know what kind of soundcard you'll be using.

[daywane]

Thanks guys.
Give me a few days to get the old crapy PC going and will give it a go.

[JLR2000]

Thanks guys.
Give me a few days to get the old crapy PC going and will give it a go.

FYI, I found this site very valuable when setting up my dos base Pole Position cab (boot directly to Pole Position):

http://www.mameworld.net/dosmame/

Lots of info no matter if you know DOS or not.....Good Luck.

[daywane]

On window, you can say MAME32  or MAME to start on Pacman too.

There is lot of solution , one can be to do .BAT too.

I suppose your Mame is in  C:\mame   and the .Exe is called mame32.exe

Open the nodepad.

Type :
C:
cd \
cd mame
mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip  -skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo

Save the file and give the name :  Pacman.bat (for instance)

With windows explorer, select the file , right click, select copy.

Then right click on the "start" menu of windows. Select "Explore"  , find the folder called "Start up".

Right click,  select "Paste".

Now when you boot, you will be directly on Pacman.

OK I did as above
I had to remove the "-skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo" part
I guess mame 56 can not do this
works if I have this in a .bat file in start up folder

C:
cd \
cd mame
mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip

only problem I have is
my monitor is on its left side.
pivot pro rotated to 270 deg.

Mame starts up fine , but the ROM will not rotate.

If I start Mame with out the .bat file , Mame 32 is rotated and I have the display properties rotated clockwise
every thing works fine

I do not mind the hit any button part. I really would like to have the .bat file to work with a rotate. Like I said above, I can live with the hit any button to start game.
i like how I can hit escape and the game menu is there, but Ms PAC starts up 1st thing for my wife

[youki]

HI,

I don't really know mame 0.56.

But may be you can try to put :

mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -ror    (or -rol)

or

mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -autoror    (or -autorol)

Or let your .bat as it is. create a INI directory , an a pacman.ini file with :

ror 1

(or rol , autoror, autorol)

[daywane]

HI,

I don't really know mame 0.56.

But may be you can try to put :

mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -ror    (or -rol)

or

mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -autoror    (or -autorol)

Or let your .bat as it is. create a INI directory , an a pacman.ini file with :

ror 1

(or rol , autoror, autorol)

I will try
mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -ror    (or -rol)

or

mame32.exe roms\pacman.zip -autoror    (or -autorol)
after work
Yawn only 3 hrs sleep 
if i end up doing a ini
do I just make a folder called ini?
put a text in it with note pad

ror 1

(or rol , autoror, autorol)
do i save it as mspac.ini ?
never worked with ini files (one of the reasons I never fooled that much with command line type mame

[youki]

Yes, just create a ini folder under the place where is your mame.exe

create the file called <romname>.ini  ,  if your rom is pacman.zip, the ini file must be pacman.ini

If your rom is mspacman.zip , the ini file must be mspacman.ini

And in the ini file just type with the notepad  :

Code: [Select]

ror 1

save and quit.

(be sure that the ini file is a .ini  , and not a  .ini.txt  (sometimes notepad can add the .txt))

[daywane]

well... adding -ror to my bat file worked!
but ( notice how there seems to always be a but )
I have no joystick support on Mspacman.
I bet I need to add joystick to my bat file

so I am turning mame32 into a command line type mame for this 1 game?
then if I hit escape , Mame 32 takes over?

[daywane]

Problem solved Thank Youki ever so much
made a batch file
C:
cd \
cd mame
mame32.exe roms\mspacman.zip -ror -joystick
put in startup folder

I have joy to mouse in startup
mame.exe shortcut in startup

on boot up pivot pro flips my screen ( I only have this for exiting windows)
any one know how I can get windows to shut down with a Microsoft sidewinder button?

joy to mouse lets me use my joystick as a mouse ( only needed to pick games in mame 56. ) ( mame 56 will not use game pick with joystick that I know of)

bat file takes over as mouse to joystick is setting up

ms pack finally starts.
works perfect
If I did not have the shortcut to mame .exe in start up , I would hit escape and be back to desktop
now with mame in start up after I hit escape ,I get Mame32's menu

I am going with gamepad hack because this PC is a real piece of crap
USB port will not work
PS2 keyboard port has the black plastic piece to the keyboard broke inside it.
I have the keyboard the broke off still plugged in . so I am stuck with this keyboard only
sidewinder hack seemed the best option for this PC