how to get rid of the disclaimer in mame 102

[GMZombie]

how do i do that. i looked in the mame config file and it only had the option of not displaying the game info? i thought they got rid of the press ok to continue but i maybe was wrong?

[Buddabing]

They have a couple of warnings you can't disable without changing the code.

[GMZombie]

oh ok...does anybody know how to do that? eh its not that big of a deal i just wanted to upgrade my other machine and that didnt have them in it? didnt they used to have skip disclaimer in there..

[SirPeale]

It only displays once.  Then never again.

Except for game warnings; those still display no matter what.

[MikeQ]

oh ok...does anybody know how to do that? eh its not that big of a deal i just wanted to upgrade my other machine and that didnt have them in it? didnt they used to have skip disclaimer in there..

In these functions just do a  "return 0" after the local variable declarations.

int ui_display_copyright(mame_bitmap *bitmap)
int ui_display_game_warnings(mame_bitmap *bitmap)
int ui_display_game_info(mame_bitmap *bitmap)

[headkaze]

Or change to these lines in mame.c

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/* if we didn't find a settings file, show the disclaimer */
if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || 1)
{
/* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
if (options.skip_warnings || 1)
{
/* show info about the game */
if (options.skip_gameinfo || 1)

[electricd]

Just found this thread and used headkaze's method for disabling.  After I compile, do I have to turn on any switches to make this happen, or did the lines I changed automatically take care of business for me?  Thanks!

[Farmboy90]

Just found this thread and used headkaze's method for disabling.  After I compile, do I have to turn on any switches to make this happen, or did the lines I changed automatically take care of business for me?  Thanks!

If you used his method then no, nothing else is needed.  Just compile and things will be fine for you.

[electricd]

OK just re-compiled MAME with the changes, but still seeing the "OK" screen.  If I set the "skip_gameinfo" to 0 I still see the game info as well.  I changed these lines in Mame.c

Original:
   if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || ui_display_copyright(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
   {
      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
      if (options.skip_warnings || ui_display_game_warnings(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
      {
         /* show info about the game */
         if (options.skip_gameinfo || ui_display_game_info(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)

Changed:
   if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || 1)
   {
      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
      if (options.skip_warnings || 1)
      {
         /* show info about the game */
         if (options.skip_gameinfo || 1)

Not sure what gives?  Can anyone help?

[Farmboy90]

OK just re-compiled MAME with the changes, but still seeing the "OK" screen.  If I set the "skip_gameinfo" to 0 I still see the game info as well.  I changed these lines in Mame.c

Original:
   if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || ui_display_copyright(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
   {
      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
      if (options.skip_warnings || ui_display_game_warnings(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)
      {
         /* show info about the game */
         if (options.skip_gameinfo || ui_display_game_info(artwork_get_ui_bitmap()) == 0)

Changed:
   if (settingsloaded || options.skip_disclaimer || 1)
   {
      /* show info about incorrect behaviour (wrong colors etc.) */
      if (options.skip_warnings || 1)
      {
         /* show info about the game */
         if (options.skip_gameinfo || 1)

Not sure what gives?  Can anyone help?

Hummm, you sure you are using the newly compiled version?   

I would just open usrintrf.c and and modify the methods themselves.

Use MikeQ's method, that will do the trick:
In these functions just do a  "return 0" after the local variable declarations.

int ui_display_copyright(mame_bitmap *bitmap)
int ui_display_game_warnings(mame_bitmap *bitmap)
int ui_display_game_info(mame_bitmap *bitmap)

[BuZz880]

Hmmm... not to interrupt your technical discussion because I am glad this is being documented somewhere but for many like myself that find compiling each version of mame cumbersome, here's an alternative.

I just ran a game at random then took the cfg that was generated and copied it to ..\cfg\<romname>.cfg for every rom I had using a bat file.

If you have any custom settings in a couple of your cfgs then make sure you do not over-write those particular games.

[eightbit]

Hmmm... not to interrupt your technical discussion because I am glad this is being documented somewhere but for many like myself that find compiling each version of mame cumbersome, here's an alternative.

I just ran a game at random then took the cfg that was generated and copied it to ..\cfg\<romname>.cfg for every rom I had using a bat file.

If you have any custom settings in a couple of your cfgs then make sure you do not over-write those particular games.

What was your batch file? What did you use to generate the list of roms?