How do you remove that warning popup in MAME

[djll]

How do you remove that warning popup about owning the game in MAME when you launch a game for the first time?

[BobA]

In the mame ini set the following

skip_disclaimer         1
skip_gameinfo           1

Or set in the front end it it handles it as an option

BobA    

[TheGatesofBill]

And another plug, if you use my No Name MAME, you can also set:

skip_gamewarnings       1
skip_baddumps           1

Get it from the No Name topic if you want.

[tmasman]

RTFM

Sorry...
I'm feeling a little irritated lately...

[mpm32]

ok,  I couldn't find this in the docs.  but when running from a comand line mame\mame073b\mame.exe -sc  I can see the mame.ini.   I can see the options listed above.  How do I edit the .ini permanantly?  I am a dos novice.  Don't beat me up to badly.

[BigBri]

click file, then save

[mpm32]

forgive me for sounding stupid but if I'm trying to edit the ini file in dos how am I to click file save.  Is there another place I can edit the ini file?  In notepad? but I can't see the ini files in explorer.

[BigBri]

did you create an ini file?  if you did, then make sure the ini file is in your mame directory.  of course double-click that file and make any changes you want

[mpm32]

I did create it but it wasn't going to where I thought it was.  I found it, moved it to where it should be and modified it in notepad.  All is good now.


Thanks

[Player1start]

If you are using mamewah, under options, add

-skip_disclaimer -skip_gameinfo

you can also add this at the command line....

[Jakobud]

geez people dont read documentation at all.

[jakejake28]

geez people dont read documentation at all.

noticed a trend for companies not to include docs? thats why. kinda gets annoying. on topic, whasnt there a long thread about this around a month ago?

[Odonadon]

geez people dont read documentation at all.

noticed a trend for companies not to include docs? thats why. kinda gets annoying. on topic, whasnt there a long thread about this around a month ago?

Yes, and a month before that.  And a month before that.  And 3 weeks before that.  And a month before that....

Odonadon

[grafixmonkey]

did you create an ini file?  if you did, then make sure the ini file is in your mame directory.  of course double-click that file and make any changes you want

dude, read.  He's in dos!  (not windows!  no mouse to double click with!)

MPM32:   what you want is the Edit command.  "edit mame.ini".  It gives you a mouse if you have mouse drivers loaded.

[mpm32]

Hey thanks grafix.  I have it worked out.  I was creating the .ini file but it wasn't going to where I expected.  I found it, modified it and all is well now.  And, I do read the docs.  It's just if you havn't done something before, it's not always intuitive.  

Well, all is almost well.  I do have another issue that I am sure has been brought up before but since we are here;

Since updating to .73 some games have been running very poorly (skipping).  Smash TV and Mortal combat to name 2.  They were running fine prior to switching to .73.  I am sure there is a setting in the .ini file that I need to change to smooth things out.  I read the docs and I still can't figure out what setting I should change.

To get by this in the meantime, I am launching the poor perfomers from the old mame version.  

Any suggestions?

[grafixmonkey]

And, I do read the docs.  It's just if you havn't done something before, it's not always intuitive.  

No, I was talking to zell, because he kept responding without even reading enough to notice you were talking about dos.

[mpm32]

Yeah I knew that you weren't telling me to read. No misunderstanding here.  

I was just talking to the people that always say read the docs.  The docs do not tell you how to edit an .ini file.  They just tell you how to make one, so if you don't know how and it doesn't tell you, you go to the experts here for help.  

I am not a computer expert by any means, the wood working is my thing.  But boy have I learned and been helped alot by people here.  

And, I hate smilies it's just it's hard to convey tone in a written post.

[u_rebelscum]

Since updating to .73 some games have been running very poorly (skipping).  Smash TV and Mortal combat to name 2.  They were running fine prior to switching to .73.  I am sure there is a setting in the .ini file that I need to change to smooth things out.  I read the docs and I still can't figure out what setting I should change.

To get by this in the meantime, I am launching the poor perfomers from the old mame version.  

Any suggestions?

With .73, one of the speed hacks was removed to fix some bugs and make the emulation more accurate.  The cost was a speed slow down.

Best bet is to do what you're doing (use an older version of mame).

Some things you could try:
sleep 0
high_priority 1

autoframeskip 0
frameskip 0 (or increase the number)

audio_latency 5 (or sound 0 for no sound)

And if you aren't using a mouse, joystick, or lightgun, set it to zero.

[mpm32]

Thanks! u_rebel