Disabling the MAME starting windows?

[cowguy]

How could I disable the starting screens in mame that say initializing decoding and the one that says about the game and it CPU.

[Apollo]

you need to code a subroutine that sends an 'O' signal followed by a 'K' signal when mame starts a new game

or try putting these lines in your mame config file

skip_warnings 1
skip_disclaimer 1
skip_validitychecks 1
skip_gameinfo 1
skip_usingbyoacsearchfunctionbecauseitsjusttoohard 1

[shorthair]

Ha, what a goofball. People don't necessarily know these things. I had to learn some of them from using Mame32 and looking in the ini's. None of the mame mother ---smurfs--- have written a tutorial on these sorts of things (though I make wiki entries and such with the little I know), so this is some of the spoils.

[SGT]

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you need to code a subroutine that sends an 'O' signal followed by a 'K' signal
That does not get rid of the "decoding" message.

You can comment out a couple of lines in the Mame code and recompile.  There was a thread recently in the software forum on exactly how to do this.  It is not hard to recompile as other threads in the software forum explain how along with Mr. Do's site.

[cowguy]

Alright thanks for the help, I'll look for that topic.