Removing info screen before a game loads

[danfman]

After I select a game a monochrome screen appears listing info such as,

Game Title

CPU:

Sound:

Video:


Is there a way to prevent the screen from coming up?

[dungbeetle46]

not sure if you mean the dos screen, if so

under options
mame config you will see where you can choose dos state normal minimized or hidden
choose hidden

[danfman]

Didn't find anything under

MAME CONFIG - OPTIONS

but I believe you might be referring to

MAME CONFIG - BASIC - WINDOWS STATE - normal, minimize, hidden

I changed it to hidden but it made no change.  Does anyone have any other ideas?

[nimbo]

Under Options --> Mame --> Basic --> Command line (at the bottom), you need to add -skip_gameinfo somehow, though I'm not sure how the syntax works, as I can't get it to work either.

Others may know, but you could just edit mame.ini directly. Open your Mame folder and edit your mame.ini file. Scroll all the way down until you see the "core misc options" section. Set skip_gameinfo to 1 instead of 0. Save the file.

[danfman]

May not have worked for you but -skip_gameinfo worked for me.

Thanks

[ivwshane]

I believe this only works on older versions of mame (unless you compile your own version).

[dungbeetle46]

now i see what your after
I compiled my own with the diff from this post
now I get nothing when starting a game except the game, no cpu, no type ok, no decoding, nothing.
works great

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0

[nimbo]

Hehe, I'm runnin 0.74, maybe that's why it doesn't work for me within Mala for some reason.

Thanks for the link, Dungbeetle. Those are some tasty diffs. Unfortunately I have no chance of using those in 0.74.