Main Restorations Software Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Everything Else Buy/Sell/Trade
Project Announcements Monitor/Video GroovyMAME Merit/JVL Touchscreen Meet Up Retail Vendors
Driving & Racing Woodworking Software Support Forums Consoles Project Arcade Reviews
Automated Projects Artwork Frontend Support Forums Pinball Forum Discussion Old Boards
Raspberry Pi & Dev Board controls.dat Linux Miscellaneous Arcade Wiki Discussion Old Archives
Lightguns Arcade1Up Try the site in https mode Site News

Unread posts | New Replies | Recent posts | Rules | Chatroom | Wiki | File Repository | RSS | Submit news

  

Author Topic: Way to remove the ROM nag screen?  (Read 4218 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Rick

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2787
  • Last login:May 19, 2025, 11:21:11 am
  • Bartop, Cocktail and Pinball Arcade Cabinets
    • Gameroom Designs Canada
Way to remove the ROM nag screen?
« on: August 11, 2010, 03:53:30 pm »
When I play any game on MAMEUI 0.139 through Maximus Arcade (thought I'd mention both, although I figure the issue is with one of them) I receive a nag screen confirming the legality of playing said game.  Basically, it says, "Key in OK or use your joystick to go left then right" and sometimes, it also confirms video and/or audio issues, with another "OK/leftyrighty" screen.  Is there any way of turning these off?  It's a major bummer to have them there.

Thanks, in advance!

Rick

jimmy2x2x

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1215
  • Last login:December 19, 2018, 01:29:48 am
Re: Way to remove the ROM nag screen?
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 04:02:22 pm »
have a look here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0

Basically you need to compile a new version of mame, it looks complex but isnt really

Just follow the steps carefully

This has the added advantage of saving hiscores for lots of games as well as removing the nag screens


Rick

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2787
  • Last login:May 19, 2025, 11:21:11 am
  • Bartop, Cocktail and Pinball Arcade Cabinets
    • Gameroom Designs Canada
Re: Way to remove the ROM nag screen?
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2010, 04:09:48 pm »
have a look here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=64298.0  Basically you need to compile a new version of mame, it looks complex but isnt really

Asked, and answered.  Thank you so much!

Rick

Rick

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2787
  • Last login:May 19, 2025, 11:21:11 am
  • Bartop, Cocktail and Pinball Arcade Cabinets
    • Gameroom Designs Canada
Re: Way to remove the ROM nag screen?
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2010, 02:02:20 pm »
Just wanted to pop back in here and confirm that everything worked perfectly.

I downloaded the .TXT file for MAME 0.139 from the link, renamed it to .DIFF, downloaded the Headsoft MAME Compiler program, applied the DIFF Update, compiled my own version of MAME, ran it with -cc to configure the MAME.INI file, and finally edited the MAME.INI file to add the three lines required to remove the nag screens.

Yes, it's a run-on sentence, but it makes the point.  It was easy, and I thank you for the help!