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Title: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 10, 2005, 04:49:29 am
As we know, it was discovered that if you set  frames_to_run 1 set in mame.ini , you could skip warning screens etc..

Is this still reccomended? Has anyone had any side effects, particularly with Mamewah?

Why are people still recompiling Mame if simple ini setting can achieve the same thing?

Im running mame .89 by the way
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Minwah on November 10, 2005, 05:54:59 am
Is this still reccomended? Has anyone had any side effects, particularly with Mamewah?

Yes there is a side effect with Mamewah which for some reason makes the video not show up (just a black screen) - sound can be heard in the background.

I have no idea if this is MAME or Mamewah's 'fault', but obviously I don't recommend doing it!
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Tiger-Heli on November 10, 2005, 07:08:13 am
It was also removed somewhere around MAME 0.100 and not included in very early versions of MAME.

EDIT: 0.79 to 0.99 should be able to use this.  From the original thread: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=41771.0
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 10, 2005, 09:07:49 am
Is this still reccomended? Has anyone had any side effects, particularly with Mamewah?

Yes there is a side effect with Mamewah which for some reason makes the video not show up (just a black screen) - sound can be heard in the background.

I have no idea if this is MAME or Mamewah's 'fault', but obviously I don't recommend doing it!

I've tried this with my setup and I cannot reproduce the error you have mentioned. In other words, Mamewah seems to operate as usual.
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Minwah on November 10, 2005, 09:21:25 am
I've tried this with my setup and I cannot reproduce the error you have mentioned. In other words, Mamewah seems to operate as usual.

Great, but if it happens occasionally, then you know why...
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Tiger-Heli on November 10, 2005, 09:27:45 am
I've tried this with my setup and I cannot reproduce the error you have mentioned. In other words, Mamewah seems to operate as usual.

Great, but if it happens occasionally, then you know why...
Depending on how you look at it, it seems there are only a handful of games that give the blank screen in MAMEwah, and only a handful of games that have the "No good dump", etc. errror msg.

So if you either only enabled FTR 1 for the games that display the error msg, or only disabled it for the games that gave the blank screen in MAMEwah, you would avoid most of the problems.
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 10, 2005, 10:27:10 am
I've tried this with my setup and I cannot reproduce the error you have mentioned. In other words, Mamewah seems to operate as usual.

Great, but if it happens occasionally, then you know why...
Depending on how you look at it, it seems there are only a handful of games that give the blank screen in MAMEwah, and only a handful of games that have the "No good dump", etc. errror msg.

So if you either only enabled FTR 1 for the games that display the error msg, or only disabled it for the games that gave the blank screen in MAMEwah, you would avoid most of the problems.

Is there a quick way of doing that rather than going through my ROMs one by one?...
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 10, 2005, 10:29:37 am
Is this still reccomended? Has anyone had any side effects, particularly with Mamewah?

Yes there is a side effect with Mamewah which for some reason makes the video not show up (just a black screen) - sound can be heard in the background.

I have no idea if this is MAME or Mamewah's 'fault', but obviously I don't recommend doing it!

Minwah, can you give us the name of specific games/ROMS that replicate this problem and I will test..

Im so damn sick of those warning screens...
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Tiger-Heli on November 10, 2005, 10:31:33 am
Is there a quick way of doing that rather than going through my ROMs one by one?...
Only if you know which games don't work in MAMEwah, or which ones have the warnings.  I don't have that info.
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Scoobie on November 10, 2005, 02:18:56 pm
I've had this issue that Minwah mentioned.
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: loadman on November 10, 2005, 03:38:02 pm
I've been using this with mame .79 with no issues.  However I'm using another FE

I love it especially as I have a couple of variations of Galaga, which it is a very popular game in our household.


Good Luck

Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 11, 2005, 05:14:30 am
Once again - can anyone list a specific game the ini setting causes error in launching from mamewah?
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Minwah on November 14, 2005, 04:52:22 am
Once again - can anyone list a specific game the ini setting causes error in launching from mamewah?

No, it seems random (it is not related to bad dumps).
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: darthbane2k on November 14, 2005, 06:26:45 am
Once again - can anyone list a specific game the ini setting causes error in launching from mamewah?

No, it seems random (it is not related to bad dumps).

Ahh okay.

I will keep a watchful eye open then..


DB.
Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Lilwolf on November 14, 2005, 08:32:48 am
btw, mame isn't so bad with the ok anymore.  since they added the OK for ALL initial errors (removed the command prompt errors that cause havok in frontends). 

And it only comes up once.

My trouble is my trackball control panel doesn't have a joystick for left/right.  So I had to setup the UI left and UI right to be mouse button 1 and 2. 

Title: Re: frames_to_run 1
Post by: Minwah on November 14, 2005, 11:39:53 am
My trouble is my trackball control panel doesn't have a joystick for left/right.  So I had to setup the UI left and UI right to be mouse button 1 and 2. 

I'm glad this is possible tho (as opposed to left/right being hardcoded in MAME).