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Front End Support => MaLa Frontend => Topic started by: danfman on February 27, 2009, 10:32:18 pm

Title: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: danfman on February 27, 2009, 10:32:18 pm

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?

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: dungbeetle46 on February 28, 2009, 07:58:12 am

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

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: danfman on March 04, 2009, 11:33:42 am

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?

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: nimbo on March 04, 2009, 12:08:50 pm

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.

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: danfman on March 04, 2009, 01:56:43 pm

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

Thanks

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: ivwshane on March 04, 2009, 04:37:02 pm

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

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: dungbeetle46 on March 05, 2009, 01:07:12 am

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

Title: Re: Removing info screen before a game loads
Post by: nimbo on March 05, 2009, 04:16:42 pm

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.  :(