Midway Arcade Treasures Deluxe: Launch individual games fullscreen?

[BadMouth]

Just got a copy of MAT 3 Deluxe cheap so I could compare the driving games to other ports.
The games launch fullscreen from the menu, but if I bypass the front-end and click the exe for individual games, they launch windowed.
Anyone messed around with this and get them to launch fullscreen?

The best I've come up with so far is to create a shortcut and set the properties to run it maximized.  I could make an autohotkey script that launches it from the shortcut and blacks out the frame, but thought there's probably an easier way since the included front-end gets them to launch fullscreen.

Also, am I stuck with the low resolution?  (I know the originals were even lower, but I'd like them to look as nice as possible)

[headkaze]

Most likely the launcher is sending the exe command line options. Something like -fullscreen. If you can open the launcher in a hex editor you might be able to see what it is.

[BadMouth]

Most likely the launcher is sending the exe command line options. Something like -fullscreen. If you can open the launcher in a hex editor you might be able to see what it is.

Thanks.  Oddly enough, I tried a few command lines, but didn't stumble upon anything that worked.
I have no programming knowledge, but that won't stop me from trying.  This hobby is always forcing me to learn things.  

(& the low resolution actually looks fine on the driving cab since it's just S-Video)

[headkaze]

Actually there is a nice an easy way to figure out if it is a command line option.

Download Process Explorer and run it

Run the game from the launcher and then alt tab to Process Explorer. Double click on the game's process and under the "Image" tab you should see an entry called "Command line". If it was launched with a command line option it will be there.

[BadMouth]

Found it with the hex editor I downloaded. (interesting stuff)

It's just -f

I should have lucked into that one when I was trying random stuff.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

EDIT: For anyone who is thinking about buying this, a couple points:

1. There is a patch to fix the lack of music in the games that most reviewers complain about.

2. MAT Deluxe is just MAT 2&3 packaged together.  
    The games that are part of MAT 3 do not support analogue control.
    (Hydro Thunder, Offroad Thunder, SF Rush the Rock, basically all the games I bought it for.....)
    It will let you map steering wheel movements for left and right, but it has the same effect as pressing the left or right arrow.
    There is no analogue control.  Oddly enough, it supports rumble, but no analogue input.

    The ones that are part of MAT 2 however do support analogue input.
    How they could have Hard Drivin' with analogue controls on one disc,
    and Race Drivin' on the other disc without them is beyond me.

    But then again, we're talking about a company that shipped it without the music working in most of the games.

[headkaze]

I should have lucked into that one when I was trying random stuff.

That would have been an obvious one to try 

[Howard_Casto]

Process Explorer is great, and I highly reccomend it, but for determining command line options I have a much easier solution. 

I also just wrote a exe that prints out any command line options sent to it.  You then rename the exe you are wanting to find info on and let the parent launcher launch this bogus exe. 

Its how I wrote my m$ pinball arcade wrappers.  I can whip up a exe if anybody's interested.