Win98 MAME splash screen?

[kgibbons]

Hello all,

I'm sure this has probably been brought up numerous times before, but searching the board didn't produce any results.  So I'll ask anyway

For those that are using Win98 systems for their dedicated mame cabinets, what are you doing about the "splash" startup and shutdown screens?

I know you can disable the splash screen altogether, which is pretty simple.  But the shutdown screen will always be there.

Now going back to my tinkering around with Win95 days, I remembered that you could change the startup and shutdown splash screen to whatever you wanted, but creating a 320x400 256 color bitmap file, and placing it in the correct directory.

I'm no graphics guy by any means, so I was wondering if anybody has done this for their MAME machines, and cares to share?

Here's a good newsgroup post telling exactly how to go about changing the screens:

http://tinyurl.com/jdq1

Any help, as always is greatly appreciated!  

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Been done before:

http://www.dragonslairii.com/arcade/MAMEv1/Download.asp

[kgibbons]

Awesome... I figured this had to be already done somewhere, I just didn't know where

Many thanks!