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Title: MAME OK Removed
Post by: Trimoor on July 27, 2004, 07:02:37 pm
Can anyone tell me where to get a compiled version of DOS MAME with the stupid OK and game info screens removed?

I am currently unable to compile it myself.

Thanks!
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Wizard of DelRay on July 27, 2004, 07:24:26 pm
Edit your mame.ini and change the 0 on lines skip_disclaimer and skip_gameinfo to 1.  If you're looking to get past warnings and bad dumps though, use No Name.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: SirPoonga on July 27, 2004, 07:34:26 pm
Answerd in mame's faqs too.

Also you can get by OK screens by pressing the joystick left then right.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Minwah on July 27, 2004, 08:03:37 pm
Answerd in mame's faqs too.

Also you can get by OK screens by pressing the joystick left then right.

Tho I think this is buggy, ie it only works with cursors left/right, not neccessarily what you have mapped to P1 Left/Right...(the MAME FAQ explains this is how it should work).

Edit: I was wrong...or rather the MAME FAQ is wrong.  It is not the left/right 'joystick' inputs which skip OK, rather the UI_LEFT / UI_RIGHT inputs.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: SirPoonga on July 27, 2004, 09:19:46 pm
Well, if you want to be technical about it :)  how many people change their UI_LEFT and UI_RIGHT off of joystick left and right?
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Minwah on July 28, 2004, 07:18:10 am
Well, if you want to be technical about it :)  how many people change their UI_LEFT and UI_RIGHT off of joystick left and right?

Not many :)  I don't have anything mapped to UI_LEFT/RIGHT, because I never use them, but I will now...

My problem was that I have a control panel with no digital joysticks on it, so, for analog games I need to map JOYCODE_1_LEFT and JOYCODE_1_RIGHT instead of cursors.  I was having to find the damn keyboard when playing any analog games, which was a touch annoying!
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: rchadd on July 28, 2004, 12:18:41 pm
oops got me thinking now...

i'm going to have a CP with just spinner and buttons

and also another CP with trackball and buttons.

so how to workaround OK in that case?

Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Martoon on July 28, 2004, 12:37:39 pm
oops got me thinking now...

i'm going to have a CP with just spinner and buttons

and also another CP with trackball and buttons.

so how to workaround OK in that case?



This is a little hacky, but if you're using a programmable keyboard encoder (like the I-PAC), you can set the inputs for two of your buttons to be the "O" and "K" keys, then set those keys as player button defaults in MAME.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Minwah on July 29, 2004, 06:21:48 am
oops got me thinking now...

i'm going to have a CP with just spinner and buttons

and also another CP with trackball and buttons.

so how to workaround OK in that case?

Map a button to UI_LEFT and another to UI_RIGHT.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 30, 2004, 02:23:49 am
oops got me thinking now...

i'm going to have a CP with just spinner and buttons

and also another CP with trackball and buttons.

so how to workaround OK in that case?



This is a little hacky, but if you're using a programmable keyboard encoder (like the I-PAC), you can set the inputs for two of your buttons to be the "O" and "K" keys, then set those keys as player button defaults in MAME.


Hypothetically speaking... if a person were to do this I might, hypothetically pull a Jay and Silent Bob on them, fly to their house and beat the living crap out of them.  Everyone just went through this lengthy thread that basically spells out, word-for-word "o and k buttons are NOT needed to bypass ok" and that is your suggestion?  Try to keep up man, there isn't a special class in the school of mame.  ;)


For those of you not paying attention, you should never, ever, ever have to add extra buttons to your control panel to bypass ok.  As sirp said, you can simply turn off the screens in the mame.ini and as sirp said, this is covered in the mame faq.  And on top of that this question has been asked countless times on this very message board.

So in summary.... rtfm, rtfmb

Sorry but everyone was being far too nice, wasting their time on a question that shouldn't have to be asked anymore so I couldn't be quiet.   ;D
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: SirPeale on July 30, 2004, 04:20:20 pm
For those of you not paying attention, you should never, ever, ever have to add extra buttons to your control panel to bypass ok.  As sirp said, you can simply turn off the screens in the mame.ini and as sirp said, this is covered in the mame faq.  And on top of that this question has been asked countless times on this very message board.

He never said add extra buttons.  He said:

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This is a little hacky, but if you're using a programmable keyboard encoder (like the I-PAC), you can set the inputs for two of your buttons to be the "O" and "K" keys, then set those keys as player button defaults in MAME.

Nothing about adding more buttons, just changing the buttons that are already on the CP and changing the Mame defaults.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Witchboard on July 30, 2004, 04:41:59 pm
What's the INI edit to get rid of messages that state the ROMset has problems?  Like cocktail flipping?
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: SirPoonga on July 30, 2004, 05:03:42 pm
You can't in mame.  You need a hacked mame like no name mame to do that.
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Howard_Casto on July 30, 2004, 05:18:26 pm
For those of you not paying attention, you should never, ever, ever have to add extra buttons to your control panel to bypass ok.  As sirp said, you can simply turn off the screens in the mame.ini and as sirp said, this is covered in the mame faq.  And on top of that this question has been asked countless times on this very message board.

He never said add extra buttons.  He said:

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This is a little hacky, but if you're using a programmable keyboard encoder (like the I-PAC), you can set the inputs for two of your buttons to be the "O" and "K" keys, then set those keys as player button defaults in MAME.

Nothing about adding more buttons, just changing the buttons that are already on the CP and changing the Mame defaults.

Same difference
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: tenex2mg on July 31, 2004, 12:28:58 am
I was just killing time checking around the boards and came across this post, and just had to repond.

I nearly fell out of my char when the "RTFM" was envoked.  I just love that one....anyway sorry for the shameless bump.

-jeff-
Title: Re:MAME OK Removed
Post by: Witchboard on August 02, 2004, 09:00:58 am
You can't in mame.  You need a hacked mame like no name mame to do that.

Thanks. ^_^  Sorry it took so long to get back.