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Title: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: rlemmon on August 17, 2005, 03:18:03 am

Hi does anyone know of a way to block the known problem screens that pop up with some games ?

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: Franco on August 17, 2005, 04:27:18 am

Im not sure about other mame builds but im pretty sure you can block them if you use BuddaMAME.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: elvis on August 17, 2005, 04:44:19 am

Outside of using a custom build, the only way to get rid of those is to hunt down the error screen in the source and comment it out yourself.

I've done this in the past.  It's not entirely difficult to comment out a block of code and recompile via the detailed instructions over at mame.net.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: Tiger-Heli on August 17, 2005, 08:49:48 am

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,36217.msg318959.html#msg318959

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: rlemmon on August 17, 2005, 10:29:48 pm

thanks for tthe info guys :)

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: D5A1AC on August 18, 2005, 06:41:12 am

-skip_disclaimer
Disables the game disclaimer information before the game.

-skip_gameinfo
Disables misc game information before the game.

Is this any help?

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: Tiger-Heli on August 18, 2005, 07:49:23 am

Quote from: D5A1AC on August 18, 2005, 06:41:12 am

-skip_disclaimer
Disables the game disclaimer information before the game.

-skip_gameinfo
Disables misc game information before the game.

Is this any help?

Nope - he's looking for -skip_warnings from either NoNameMAME or BuddaMAME, but the link I posted has all the details.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: D5A1AC on August 18, 2005, 07:58:09 am

My bad  :(

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: Tiger-Heli on August 19, 2005, 08:10:24 am

Howard Casto just found that in MAME 0.79 or newer, you can bypass these by adding -ftr 1 after the game name.  I will be updating the link above to reflect this.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: rescue161 on August 20, 2005, 02:06:01 am

Quote from: Tiger-Heli on August 19, 2005, 08:10:24 am

Howard Casto just found that in MAME 0.79 or newer, you can bypass these by adding -ftr 1 after the game name.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: mccoy178 on August 20, 2005, 02:41:36 am

In the mame.ini in the mame folder, the line that says "Frames_To_Run", change the "0" on the right to "1".  Howard Casto is a mad genius.  I don't understand him, nor do I try, but the guy is damn smart.

Title: Re: Is there any way to block the "known problems" screen
Post by: rescue161 on August 20, 2005, 03:04:13 am

Or if you're not-so-smart like me, you can open up a command prompt at C:\mame and type:

"mame galaga -ftr 1 -cc"

and then it will save it for you.

Once again, thank you!